Enlight Fragments
Dear readers. Welcome to this page you've just happened to land on. These ideas are something to be sunlight in the darkness of mind. To provide guidance in unthinkable, incomprehensible and eternal.
About Human
We aspire to perfection, which we have drawn for ourselves. We are a perfect idea, privileged to think that we are able to look inside ourselves from the outside perspective. We draw every path we can imagine. We get sucked into life-long competition, from start to finish. That’s when we lose sight of who we are, and the importance of our will. We choose to create our egos and identify with them. Then we inflate it as high as we can.
This makes it much harder to harness our will. It makes us ask “What should I do to make progress?” instead of “What do I want?”.
It becomes much clearer when you understand your own intentions, covert motives, that’s when you truly start to think.
Take a look at what you see every day and ask yourself: What is it all about? What intention does it serve? Does it conform with your intentions? Then life won’t be so boring.
Act of Creation
Whatever there is, this is the construction I’ve created. It lets myself out of my self and into whatever else which is way beyond me.
Being wrong
Let’s say there is a judgement which you think is wrong. What is it - an invisible force which makes you think so?
Crisis
Humans are the same “consumer goods” as the product being consumed. It’s hard to imagine there’s anything else left in humans.
Feeling devastated is common in the surroundings we’ve created for ourselves. We create content, we consume content. We enjoy blissful ignorance, packed into consumable form for us.
We give simple answers to difficult questions. Professional consumers teach us how to live. Digitally wasted with stories created by others.
No point in one’s own story left.
Evil
There’s no such thing as evil if you think about it. All the “evil” action are good intentions gone wrong at some point. That’s why good intentions should be regarded carefully.
Taking that into consideration, there’s no reason not to love all human kind.
Explanations
Theories are all around us. When a chain of conclusions takes place, we pretend that we understand. Considering ourselves rational, we’re obliged to provide a chain of explanations.
Limits reached
Frustration, despair, fear, … and now we’ve witnessed everything we could and have to find something never witnessed before.
Mirror
Art is like a mirror - whatever you see in it is a reflection of something in you.
The location of mind
Noone knows where conscience dwells.
The most expensive stuff
Exchange yourself for shiny things. But I’ll keep it with me, my most precious self.
Truth
How can you agree with someone when you not even listening to yourself first? You gave up on truth right from the beginning. You don’t need it. Anything is what you’re willing to accept as truth. Being no more than a passive observer in the theater of major forces, where reality is forged for you.
Blind acceptance bypasses intuition, rendering you indifferent to your own conclusions.
Theory of Everything
Theory of everything wouldn’t leave any question unanswered, that’s for sure.
Stay the same
We’re all the same identity at birth, but not for long. By now you are a completely different person, and the other one was completely forgotten. Unable to stay the same, and faced with a misleading road ahead, there’s a desire to memorise oneself in order to not get lost. And get back when you feel like you are lost.
Chosen
We have a mission. The need to feel chosen will never fade. The choice is ours.
Control
The only thing that can make human be controlled is this simple thought.
The only cage restraining you is the one you’ve built yourself.
You either know what you want, or surrender your will and let others lead you.
Who would dare to tell you what you want is your decision.
Depth
The universe was not created by Big Bang, but the question. Now we’re going somewhere, when the thought has been induced.
Start asking questions. It will provoke division, at least in matters of “Yes” or “No”.
And this is how the depth is created. That one thing you can change.
Depth is a foundation for everything perceivable.
Memory
Given words. Meaning assigned to each one. We have no use for symbols. It is the meaning, the surrounding, the soul of a symbol we remember.
Other
The existence of others can’t be proven with certainty. Considering them to be figments of your imagination, you’re alone in the whole universe. This might lead you to the point of feeling either frightened - because no one will help you, or calm - because no one will bother you.
Realized in contrast
The universe would not be cold if no warmth existed.
Victim of abstraction
There’s no such thing as time or death. These exist only in the borders of your mind, in this holy chemical reaction you’re a victim of abstraction.
Words
These are the only creatures which will last forever. That’s all we have - that’s all we are.
Reality
There are two options: either create your reality or allow others to shape it for you. The second one is likely to be a product of poor imagination.
Death
It’s ridiculous to spend your life thinking about it.
When you live - you think about it, when you die - you experience it.
Distractions
Attention shifts take place when you seek distractions from the picture right in front of you. This picture reflects the most terrifying entity, which is self. There’s no focus, it gets blurry, it fades away. The self which is like never existed. It calms you, but living like this is like you’re already dead.
Life
It won’t always go the way you planned, but will find its own way. It will be as interesting as you are interested in it. It won’t find its meaning, but will let you define it.
October
Fresh. Bright. Inspiring. The best time for intensive thinking.
Elite
There are no intentions of those people to let us live long and happy. All they really want is us paying taxes until we die. The core of this machine is our hope for a better life, plans of retirement as an illusion. We teach wealthiest among us how to live by subduing the rest of us. Where could the world possibly go like this?
Love
We build love out of selfishness. Saying a lot, doing anything but what we say. Consuming each other’s services. Match is a myth. Love is not about matching, but willing to accept the existence of another human being equally to yourself. Everything else is a shell.
Surplus
Overflowed, drown and blown away. You can’t be satisfied with what you had too much.
The Device
Signals out of reach of sensory perception, that unite all people. The device which picks up those frequencies.
Chemicals
Human tends to antropomorphize relationships in any known concept, because it helps to understand.
But sometimes the process goes the other way around.
Molecules have no reason - they are depersonified - and so we are.
The world has represented itself to us as chemicals. All that’s left for us is to do the same.
And just like that, the lethal mistake was made once again. Fool plays the role.
Ignorance
And everything you say is a reflection of your ignorance.
Reproduction
We have a short lifespan, and seems like all we can do is accept the simples joys of life, make another life for a reason no one knows, and die.
We are forced to have our own experiences, and then it has to start again.
Common vibe
The intention they have is to make you retarded. Lead you to the path of regrets. Keep you away from knowledge. Strap you to the ground, so that you won’t be able to achieve anything. I catch this common vibe.
Concrete
There are always concrete things to talk about. Otherwise, there’s not much to talk about.
Hardship
We need it to expose our best qualities. There’s just no easy way. Frustrated. You should be. This is trigger for action.
Competition
It’s not you vs them, it’s you vs boredom, because it is incredibly boring to be average.
Conversations about life
Talking about how much you traded your life for is not that interesting of a conversation. Let’s cut to the chase: how close did you get to where you wanted to be?
Fragility of the Individual
We don’t need guns. Life will always find a way, but it’s the individual who is fragile. In one moment, the whole world ceases to exist.
Independent thinking
Independent thinking is truly a superpower, especially when most people borrow their views and beliefs from someone else.
Life Path
Better not to fixate on what you have now, but rather focus on who you will be and where you are going.
Thinking process
The thinking process is abstract. Think about anything. Now you understand why it is so great. Unlike concrete tasks, it can’t be completed. It liberates.
Choice
There are N types of choices you could make, and you are bound to one of them. Don’t bother to answer which one, it might lead you astray.
Blame
It’s far more difficult to look in the mirror.
Childhood
Everyone has been a child, forced to act like an adult.
Failure
If it’s not something you can fail at, then it’s not worth doing.
Tattoos
In a world where mind is ostracized, we are left with only body. It becomes the sole target for our vain efforts to support mortal image.
Uniqueness in the extreme
Did you ever thought you are a part of 0% ?
Genuine fear
Wake up and understand that you don’t understand anything at all. What you’re surrounded by are definitions to ease the perils of the unknown you’ve discovered yourself in. This is genuine fear.
Ownership
You will be born anyway, regardless of your desires. It wasn’t your decision in the first place. Your body isn’t really yours, your soul isn’t really in your head, your life does not really belong to you. All your property isn’t really yours either. Ownership is nothing but a safeguard for the things which are not yours. It creates misconception, which leads to frustration, since it makes you expect more than there really is.
Free will
Absence of free will would be way too optimistic. There would be literally nothing to worry about if so. When it’s too good to be true, you just know it.
Join the flow
But it goes on, everlasting, meaningless void. Join the flow with us. We will guide you to your inevitable defeat, just like it was meant to be. We’ll make you forget who you are, you will lose yourself, and follow the road to the place we’ve reserved just for you. You just have to obey. To be obedient among the rest.
Caution
Be careful to say what you think about them, because in fact you reveal a lot about youself.
Freedom
Freedom is a state of mind.
Void
The universe consists mostly of void. It leaves us face to face with nothing. Some day we will talk to death as if we were best buddies.
Artificial Intelligence
Many problems were solved with the help of technology. This path has lead us into the world, where machines are seen as gods by those who lack understanding. It’s easy to convince yourself that there’s no problem machines can not resolve for us. That could be true, but we should speak their language - the formal language of routines, translated into the format of processors. This language is fundamentally different from what humans use in the sense that it is limited by what math can afford. Learning, however, is not a routine. It does not conform to formal rules. It’s about transcending beyond current boundaries. That’s why machine will never be able to learn in an original sense. Algorithmic approximation of learning is all we can get here - and perhaps find a useful applications for it.
Inspiration
Moved not by desire to live, but desire to comprehend life. Drawing maps of the human mind. Questioning why and how the mental image of the world came to be as it is?
- self
- ownership
- time
- kins
- enemies
- memory
- future
- past
- energy
- personality
- numbers
- universe
- birth
- death
- …
Happiness
Happy human is as good as dead. It’s wonderful to feel unhappy, because it feels real.
Preppers
Living as if it makes a difference if you’ll survive some extra time. Is it really worth bothering?
Things that don't matter
It’s up to you, but for all the others it doesn’t matter what brand of your car is, who you voted for or what you had for lunch. They just pretend it does - just like you do - and ultimately, you couldn’t care less.
Selfishness
It’s not easy to admit, but selfishness is what moves us. It’s all about what your self consists of.
Intentions
Not every art has meaning, but it sure has intention.
Manipulation
This is a common strategy for gaining control:
First - make someone believe they’re unhappy.
Second - suggest a solution for how to fix it, tailored to whatever you want them to do.
Oversimplification
Nothing is just a thing.
Courage
It requires courage to have an authentic personality, to shape it in alignment with your intentions.
Being a man
Given all the definitions, is it even possible to be a man and remain human?
Knowledge
The more we know, the less sense it makes.
Times of uncertainty
Sometimes it’s best to do nothing.
Science
The ultimate purpose of science isn’t necessarily to explain, but rather to improve lives. Without practical application, religion would take it over.
Lucky to be alive
Chances of you existing are negligibly small. Every other chance when you not existing does not exist.
Essence of Novelty
Take something that has been known for centuries and present it as something novel to the ignorant.
Sadness
The ability to feel sad is a more useful gift than it seems, because it’s still more than indifference.
Smartness
Being smart has no use until you’ve learned how to think for yourself.
Tales
A beautiful tale is easier to believe in.
Back to Everyday Life
In the clamor of outer voices colliding the inner voice has no chance to be heard. Desperate to return, back to misconception, into the soothing illusion. To be confident and wrong. To be pulled under the ocean of unnecessary troubles. And worry about little things.
Consumption
We’ve learned how to produce. We don’t know why we consume. With all the means at our disposal, we find ourselves not making thoughtful decisions, but instead perpetuating an endless cycle of consumption.
Observer
Refraining from participation gives a chance to notice ignored details.
Rules of perception
Events do not change so much. On the other hand, interpretation, however, is like plasma. Light brings deception.
Education
It’s disheartening to acknowledge that significant efforts have been made to discourage children from thinking critically. The public request is not to raise individuals but a generic crowd.
Indifference
When silence tells more than words could ever say.
Reading activity
Who cares what you’ve read. What do you think about what you’ve read?
Veganism
At the point when a human became a product and the value of life have been lost, there’s no reason to suffer in order to sustain it. We have been defined by what we eat - and that’s it.
Self
How is it even possible for you not to be yourself?
Deficit
Human needs everything. Given everything, human needs more. Thus, there will always be a demand for lack.
Chills
Here in the jungles of concrete and stainless steel we practice torture of our enemies. Watching their ghosts on wide LCD screens we get immersed fully. They haunt our minds.
Common mistake
Cause and effect can be easily mixed up, especially when in reality there might not even be a direct cause-and-effect connection at all, but instead, a bidirectional relationship.
Presupposition of Freedom
Even when empty space is given, and making laws is all allowed, we are not free because we were put into an environment that enforces empty space, obliges us to perform certain task, and any law we’ll come up with should not contradict to empty space and all the laws it will have.
The Paradox of Creation
If God created everything, who created God then?
The hardest problem
It’s impossible to solve a problem which doesn’t exist.
Worldview
Worldview is unavoidable. It tells you who you are, where you are and what you are meant to do. It creates all the necessary meanings to live a grounded life. Without it, mental paralysis can take hold.
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, beautiful or ugly. What matters is knowing who you are and where you stand - otherwise, you risk living in an incomprehensible world, where nothing is certain, and every judgment falters when tested against itself.
Mythology
A sign is a way of manifesting unreachable signified through a signifier. The context of a sign is implicit, thus we may not notice how it gets substituted. Inside new context sign acquires new meaning, but gets legitimization by original context.
Incompleteness
Even incomplete world is still complete in its incompleteness.
Suicide
Worldview may play a cruel joke, representing life as if it is worse than nothing.
Apocalypse
Sitting still, waiting for the apocalypse will only make it inevitable.
Exploited
We are content in being exploited. This way, at least we know who we are, where we are, and what we have to do.
Exploitation is merely a way of looking at interhuman relationships.
Naturality of Natural Numbers
There’s no point in the existence of natural numbers if there’s nothing to count. Being able to perceive something as one, and something else as an entity of the same kind lays the foundation for numbers.
On the Other Side
Is it something other than it looks? How can it be so? Why am I even able to suspect something like this? Why it is so unclear? When you think you understand something, it turns the other side.
The State of Living Dead
Human should be in a state of harmony. Calm, content, and happy. Not worrying, not thinking, not asking. Being inanimate.
All the Meanings
Judgement, when placed within context, gives meaning. All possible contexts shape all possible meanings, and yet the same judgement makes sense in each context. Isn’t this fascinating?
Cashback
Rich is the one who can afford not to think about money.
Concept of Worldview
Any attempt to understand something in its full is doomed to fail. But being forced into the world of making viable decisions, our choices have to be based on something.
Fatality
“Nothing happens” is when everything goes according to plan.
Mechanics
We think via mechanics, but never notice it.
Mechanics of ownership: “Every thing has a connection to someone, who we call the owner. The owner posesses the right to make decisions about how to use the object of ownership.”
Mechanics of questions: “A question is a phrase that implies a response should be given in a form that clarifies the subject of the question. It also assumes that the answer is unknown to the one who asks.”
Mechanics of problems: “A problem is an entity that prevents us from living the life we desire. Every problem implies that it has some kind of solution, which is a sequence of actions intended to resolve the problem.”
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Despite how obvious these mechanics are, they often go unnoticed. But when declared explicitly, is raises questions about whether the foundation of human thought can be something more than just adaptation to survive.
Lets continue.
Adaptation is also one of the mechanics: “Adaptation is a process of keeping an organism from being degraded in changing conditions in order to sustain its ability to live. This implies that the environment and the individual are separate entities, and individual is the one who adapts to changing environment.”
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These mechanics are key elements of the thinking process. When we examine them explicitly, we can begin to question if they are reasonable.
“There is self and everything else, which is the world. These are separate entities.”
“There is view, which is a representation of an entity for an individual.”
“There is body and there is soul. Body is mortal. Soul is immortal. Soul resides somewhere in your head.”
“There is theory. It gets shaped in books, which can be read. This is how theory meterializes by residing in minds.”
“There is act of creation. Raw material gets shaped into something it never was before. Of course, there is master, because it won’t get shaped by itself.”
“There is an organism. It consists of lots of different parts which work together.”
Somehow all these make sense.
Mechanics are not necessarily about objective knowledge, but rather about understanding, something that encompasses both rational and irrational, as well as subjective aspects.
Perspectives
Smart people say we should blame someone else. That’s why we are doomed as for now.
Prisoned Freedom
Freedom means something. But meaning itself puts a limit on it. So the owner of freedom is a prisoner of their own representation of freedom.
This is why absence of meaning becomes the manifestation of freedom.
Desires
Desires visit vessel which is human. This is how we explain our irrational behavior.
Spirits did not disappear, but changed the name.
Beauty
The function of beauty is to deceive. To make the representation of reality differ from reality. If it weren’t for beauty, life would stand still.
Being Dead
Being dead to someone is only possible. Or, maybe, being perceived as live by someone, is what makes you alive.
Creating Meanings
In a perfectly meaningless life, there is space to create meaning. To envision how things work and never be sure.
Autoresolving Meaning
The sequence of symbols you are looking at right now just asks you to find out what it means.
Determinism
Determinism makes too much sense. It assumes that every act can be explained through one of the known mechanics.
Hypothetical Revolver
How smart is it to put a bullet in one of the six slots, roll the cylinder, put it against your head, and pull the trigger? Now imagine there are 10,000 slots. Would you take that chance? When the numbers are adjusted, this action becomes equivalent to what we do with our lives every day.
Opposition
Opposition lies in denying a position. Thus, it can not exist without one.
Social Mind
Society did not emerge from nothing. It’s not a physical entity. It exists as a sign that we choose to associate ourselves with. Signification makes it possible to manipulate this phantom. When we express what society thinks, we influence those who associate themselves with the collective to align their thoughts accordingly. It happens because humans do not tolerate contradiction very well. “If I am a part of society, and society thinks [A], then I think [A]”. The conclusion is usually implicit.
The Real World
Kill each other, buy expensive stuff, pay taxes, and die.
Flying Elephants
When a “mosquito” is repeatedly referred to as a “small elephant”, we enter a surrealistic realm where elephants can fly.
The Definition of Life
Machine is dead, because we fully understand its mechanics. Human is mostly dead, because we pretty much understand its mechanics too. But shadow of the doubt has always followed us, keeping us alive.
Normalization
Fear is an effective tool for controlling masses. What masses fear the most is their own nonexistence. Essentially, people ask to define “normal”, so that they know what they should strive for in order to exist.
It feels good to be regarded as a part of the “normal” group. It almost feels as though major forces accept your existence. While the majority opts for the easy path by aligning themselves with a definition of “normality”, those regarded “abnormal” are doomed to feel the whole pressure.
Actions and Reason
It’s impossible for you to perform an action that makes no sense to you. Even when trying very hard, to prove that you can.
Dangers of Confidence
Critical thinking brings doubt.
Opposition to it would be fanatical thinking, when you are 100% sure.
Your actions are inevitable, you are a machine. Confident, predictable, dead.
Sacrificed Author
What we understand are mechanics. That’s why an author should be reduced to a machine in the eyes of a reader to be fully understood.
Questioning Essence
The answer to the question “What does it mean?” is predefined. It expects us to provide the correct signified for a specified signifier based on ever-present code.
A more thought-provoking question would be “What is it?”. This challenges us to question essence, making doubt inevitable, as essence has multiple sides.
This form of a question encourages critical thinking.
The Definition of Real
Reality is reality - a tautology, self-evident truth. It holds unshakably, beyond doubt.
When a concept can be defined if only by referencing itself, and you are content with it, then it’s as real as it gets.
The Ritual of Counting Taxes
It’s not about the total amount. Institutions can handle it for you.
The process ensures that money is your reality, that you are psychologically invested in the world of responsibilities, and your imagination doesn’t seek the way out of it.
Haunted House
Haunted house is a perfect property for those who are afraid of being alone.
It’s comforting for them to live in an eternal company, and always have someone to talk with.