Salt the slug,
just make sure you life isn't a fine example of lipstick on a pig.
Be fiercely honest.
Love ya, Jed.
My life? I'd say it is lipstick on a pig, but that depends on whether if the lipstick goes well with the pig.
Before I go into how my life is a sham (would life be worth it if it wasn't?), I want to talk about some thoughts from S/A (let's call it slug-salting!):
1. All that is, is.
2. Reality is real.
3. I know that I don't know.
4. It really doesn't matter what happens.
5. I think therefore I am.
6. We are not meant to be happy.
1. All that is, is. That statement is a tautology. It's true by being linguistically impossible to be false. That which exists must persist further. That is how 'Maya' works. The concept of 'is' is no more than a linguistic construct for convenience, just like anything else (especially on this forum, which is only words).
2. Reality is real. Existence exists. What I mean is that this is it. Nothing outside of one's reality is real. What I perceive to be objective reality is my subjective reality, and therefore creates the illusion of 'real,' therefore it is real. Anything outside of it is unreal.
Ironically, to go further, I have to go to the unreal. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Also note, all reality is subjective since all objective reality to be real must be viewed by a perspective; even if there is some 'God' who views from all perspectives at once all the time, he doesn't have the ability of the truly limited perspective, therefore misses on objective reality and only approaches it asymptotically.
3. I know that I don't know. Anything that can be known is unknowable. All knowledge is predicated by a proposition. This proposition must point to an aspect objective reality, and if it does so, we can call it a 'fact.' Each fact only shows a slice of objective reality, and if it is a good fact, you will know its creator's meaning quickly. A fact is a finger, and the real is the moon. A fact can be true if it points in the right direction and is verifiable, but a fact cannot be true just as no matter how long my finger points to the moon, it will not become the moon. True prose is not the Truth. The point of the gate is for it to not exist. Therefore, the attempt at knowing something instantly destroys the original thing, modifies it, and then creates a concept that gets in the way of knowing the Truth. Each concept created can be a fact, but each fact fails to be the Truth of the matter. The irony of this is before we attempt to know the state of things as they are, we know the state of things as they are. If I attempt to know something, I do not know it. I can only know that I know nothing. There is no end to ignorance, since knowledge's purpose is to create ignorance, and ignorance's purpose is to create knowledge.
Knowing that I do not know, that is the only piece of knowledge that is not ignorance for I know ignorance, which is all that can be known. (Thanks Socrates)
4. It really doesn't matter what happens. It really doesn't, it's all a good show.
5. I think therefore I am a thinking thing. I might have touched on this before. My thinking generates me. It is the chicken and the egg, it is the Red Queen (All the running you can take just to stay in the same place). I think so I continue to exist. Thought, logic, and emotion all exist to reinforce an I, and in turn to reinforce themselves. All of these structures only exist to run as fast as they can to stay in the same place. (Thanks Descartes)
6. We are not meant to be happy. Happy is a relative term. Our happiness is not important to us. Or at least it is not as important to us as we think. Humanity has cognitive dissonance, we wish to be happy, but it goes against their desire for Truth, so we must compromise and get neither. Seek Truth, and happiness will chase after you. Seek happiness, and Truth will drive you insane until all you want is Truth (my predicament
).
If those logical arguments aren't lipstick on a pig, then I don't know what is.
Ok then. Is my life a sham? Well yes, I don't really work, or do anything, or go anywhere, but I pretend to do so. The worst part is that I have a hard time believing my own acting anymore thanks to S/A.
Ok, on to further. I guess this whole slug-salting business is just to get the slime out of the way so I can see the Truth. I'm tired of dealing with slime, but it is all slime.
I took a little thought experiment the other day and thought: "If the Red Queen (Maya) is the creator of reality, the master of illusion, and the queen of all that is, was, and ever will be, the queen of both yin and yang, duality, and all the manifold that comes from duality. Then who is the Black King?" (Keep in mind I have no desire to create a new pantheon based on Alice in Wonderland or decks of cards, but it's an interesting thought experiment). I thought: "The Black King would have to be the king of the world that never was. The Red Queen would always be winning, but never win. She'd be incredibly fair, but he would be merciful. His non-existence would counteract her existence, and his non-dual nature would counteract her duality, creating another duality above duality, therefore the Red Queen would always be winning, but the Black King's nature would be meant to escape her duality, so she can never win." The irony of this god/goddess combo would be that the more you believe in the Black King, the more powerful the Red Queen is, and the more you believe the Red Queen, the more she weakens with no effect to the Black King. The more you see the illusion, the less powerful it gets, and the Truth is not effected by the un-truthes. Just an interesting thought I had.
Further is beyond my reality. Let's go
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