The Pointless Rantings of Somebody Insignifcant

One of the greatest philosophical exchanges facebook has ever provided me with, and it was on my MLP fan page.

Paige AlseptDiscord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic)I want to hear some of your philosophies.

• • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) Hmm, well Paige; my first thought is that Like Pages should have a constantly refreshing notification system, instead of a manual one. 
    
    Now, my next thought… 
    What can I preach about today? A topic of your choosing maybe?
  • Paige Alsept Life, ego, acceptance, denial, whatever you want Discord! Maybe I can learn something from you. ;)  1 person
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) Hmm, well here’s a bit of reality: Everything that you and I know and ever will know will take place in the time it takes for Neptune to orbit the Sun once. Maybe 1.1-3 orbit(s) if we’re lucky. It’s just a funny concept to me that a man can be the greatest intellect and the strongest body on Earth yet still be a baby on Neptune. 1 person
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) I have plenty more of these little mind-lets stashed up over years of my own pondering of reality. Of course, I don’t post them on here. This page is intended for fun and socializing and my ideas tend to be a bit pessimistic and depressing..
  • Paige Alsept Ideas are meant to be expressed! I wouldn’t mind hearing them at all, no matter how dark. I love seeing how others perceive certain concepts and ideas. They’re rather interesting to write about.
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) You’ve always stood out to me as a follower of this page, Paige. Ever since you asked for a bit of mind blow not one week ago, you showed me that you had a spark about you.
    
    I think I’ll go ahead and tell you the rule I live by and the line I tell people when they ask me why I’m the way I am when it comes to talking about the future and reacting to the present.
    
    “I would rather keep my thoughts about existence than have to block out my thoughts to exist.” 
    
    What I basically mean by that is that although life has it’s meanings and promises, they’re nothing compared to the speculations one can dream up with the idea of infinity. However, although that’s the meaning, that wasn’t what I was thinking when I wrote it down. It was inspired by my thoughts about our inevitable reality as a race and how we’re doomed to die out due to over population and a lack of resources over the next 500-1000 years. I was thinking, “I could live a selfish, fruitless life or I could explore human comprehension while me and my race are still here.” *inhale* 
    
    A pretty rough and shortened explanation, but I doubt you want to wait all night for the rantings of an old goat.  1 person
  • Paige Alsept That is not at all dark or depressing, it’s just merely reality. This made me smile, actually, because we have a similar thought process! I understand this concept very well, that no matter what, as a race, either united or against each other, we will meet our end in some way or another. 
    
    Yet even with this knowledge, I am neither depressed or saddened. Instead of simply existing, I choose to live. And the best why to live is to stretch the limits of one’s mind. We were given human comprehension, why not use it?  1 person
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) Unfortunately, reality is depressing to a lot of people. The majority of people choose to ignore it and live a happy life in blissful ignorance. Then, there are people like you and me! Although, I will say that we may differ at one point. Aye, we do have the same thought process. Comprehension is an exciting thing to us both; but I let it run my life and I will do in the future. A happy family home and then death after a life that had one significance (my contribution to the gene pool) - is not something I desire, if I can help getting dragged into ‘life’ as it were. 
    
    What are your plans, dear Paige? I’m curious now. Are you willing to renounce a conventional life in order to pursue infinity like this insignificant little nutcase? Or do you want a family and such?
    
    I love meeting people like you!
     1 person
  •  Insignificantly significant or significantly insignificant? Honestly, I’ve never really had any interest in having a family of my own. I’m a bit of a loner, always have been, mostly because I enjoy the quiet. It really does help with grasping ideas in your head. 
    
    I like to think everyone wears a blindfold. Every blindfold has the same word printed on it: Ignorance. However, only when people, like you and I, are aware of this ignorance, can the blindfold be removed. But like you said, most people live their whole lives in this ignorance. That is completely true and that is what is truly saddening to me. Such potential, and it’s wasted.
    
    That’s why I would rather live my life searching for nirvana, true enlightenment. Although I probably won’t reach it at the end of my life, at least I tried.
    
    You are amazing! ♥ ;)
    
    
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) I wish there was a literal definition for true enlightenment. A definition that comes from experience; but there isn’t. Simply because nobody can be happy with the deduction they make of infinity, because it’s infinity. Enlightenment comes with finding peace and peace often comes with an acknowledgement of the fact that we are here and there’s nothing we can do about it. But, here’s what I think is the fun part of enlightenment: One would be able to unshakeably define what is around them through a crystal clear mentality that has been through years of conditioning and practise in the art of rationality. When one comprehends life in more than one million areas, I would call that enlightenment - if peace finally flutters down upon that person’s psyche. 
    
    I want to aim for peace of mind. But I want to experience understanding a lot more. It’s a pity that true understanding and rationality often only come from experience itself. Most call it wisdom… 
    
    That blindfold metaphor is something I’m stealing from you by the way. When the time comes again for me to describe an average human being to somebody, I’m using it to explain to them what it is they see.
    
    All I really feel it’s necessary to say to you at this point dear Paige is that, although you’re a loner now, don’t completely close off the option of raising a family. Although it may just be adding to humanities problems, it’s still allowing other human beings to share in your ideals and to live a life without that blindfold of ignorance. I myself haven’t completely dismissed the idea of having a family. As I approach my testing era in School, I find that thoughts of what my future life ‘should’ be keep cropping up. Although, so do thoughts of what my life ‘Shouldn’t’ be. I just feel that if I want to live my life in such a way that I can actually gain wisdom, then I can’t be plonked behind a desk, losing 10 hours of my day for the sake of pointless productivity.
    
    If you can raise a kid with the mentality that they should always strive to understand and to think then, they will grow up to be a remarkable individual. Maybe something even more…
    
    You have restored a little of my faith in humanity tonight, dear Paige. Thank you.
  • Discord Damn.
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) You’re the me with the monocle, this should be you.  1 person
  • Paige Alsept Wow. I am completely speechless. I’ve been staring at your post for about 10 minutes trying to come up with a response, but all I draw are blanks. I guess you blew my mind. 
    
    Again. ;)
  • Discord The Philosopher (Friendship Is Magic) I don’t need a full blown response Paige! I’d just love to know whether or not you understand the message I was trying to give you. It was a bit fragmented in my opinion. 
    
    By the way, it was a lot harder to blow your mind this time than last. ;) 
    
    A riddle regarding Chipmunk type creatures < Philosophical debate.