curiosity

[stae]

So i have been without a computer for the last week or so due to a momentary stint of curiosity of pondering the nature of a switch. Anyways a flash and a session of flagellation later and it is working again

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[our_lies]

Dont cut my feet off if i get this wrong. I'll have to disagree with your common characters theory. I believe that particular mannerisms etc are ones that you dont possess, or ones that you despise or love. They are something that stays within your sub-concious and as you meet new people you start to see some of those characteristics in them. Sometimes even when they dont possess them...they were just such an integral part of your life that you find ways of twisting that person into the same role.Because its known...kind of like a safety net....even if its bad its just 'known' and can be dealt with. Does that make sense? I've gone off on a tangent, havent i?

[stae]

In some ways i agree with you, but at the same time the stresses and motivators of society tend as far i have seen to create a variation of personality types within a fairly limited spectrum. So lets say that even if the common elements are just brought about by my predisposition of noticing these traits, wouldn't the awareness of these traits as an overriding aspect of character potentially lead to a predicticability of behaviour? Or if someone had some mannerisms that were common to someone else, if the common mannerisms are more numerous than the foreign ones then in that sense i think one could make an allusion to a person seeming like someone else....

[_pseudonym_]

The brain's natural function is to detect patterns, find relationships and make connections as quickly as possible in order to adapt. Adaptability depends on the brain's ability to make meaning of experience. Natural learning involves the brain's ability to integrate isolated facts with experience and to resist fragmentation of information. I suppose you already know this. On a spiritual level maybe these 'common characters' return to you because their purpose in your journey havnt yet been realised. Its all a matter of perspevtive.

I read this beautiful story once and it said that when you die your being/soul and everything you have experienced in life is weighed against a feather. Almost always the feather wieghed more than the soul.

[stae]

Well yes in some ways the common characters do come back and i have accomplished what i have previously neglected to do with some of them. still i find it curious.

what was the point of weighing one's soul against a feather?

[_pseudonym_]

i dunno, when i read your post i just felt like putting the story out there.

[heidikat]

I added you to my friends list as I have been looking around journals of people in Brisbane who have something interesting to say..

On the topic of having a spiritual view and how that affects your life..I think we all have a spiritual view and if we aren't conscious of it we may go against our instincts. when we do something that contradicts our view we can come up against who we have become and some essence of ourselves may come through if we survive it.

a few months ago my life kind of fell to pieces (in a major way, which involved death of someone I cared about) but now I feel more real than before. everything had to fall apart for all the rubbish to fall away.

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[stae]

:) you deleted your post, i find that quite amusing, that point where you think that you aren't quite satisfied with what you wrote and wondering whether to just leave it....

Its funny though about how things can make sense after tragedy, or misfortune or what have you. That somehow through suffering everything earns its place. Which makes me wonder as to whether unhappiness and the like is completely and utterly necessary that the self destruction is something that gives me more balance....

Hi

[heidikat]

i can't remember. i think i added something that sounded inane so i was going to edit it...which required deleting and reposting it. but yes, that is a funny point in a life. to write or not to write. if something is created momentarily and deleted did it really exist?

i think part of the power of tragedy is to realise that death is real and that everything is real. life isn't just some story you tell yourself. or if it is it is a very vivid one. it just makes me not care about things and see things more clearly. i think maybe that thinking everything is alright is so false a view that the realisation that it isn't does provide some balance. that reality is separate from opinions.

i used to wish that great things could come from pure happiness, but i don't know now.

i like how you pose questions in your journal.

[stae]

If something was created and then destroyed then it depends on the value that was attributed to it as to whether it really exists.

I just like the idea and concept that happiness isn't all there is to pursue, happiness isn't always the answer, and to constantly sacrifice everything in the pursuit of something that can't be maintained is foolish.

i sometimes ask questions, sometimes people answer sometimes they don't *shrug* i will get to having a look at your journal at some stage.