Why do you do what you do?

Kchoo

At Peace.
So this is an explorative question isn’t it?

It does not apply to any I one thing. It is not specific.

But how do we answer it?

We try to find a context for it.

We try to understand why the question is asked.

We try to make sense of a broad question.

We decide to apply it to a context, or we apply it to a deeper overall meaning of life contemplation.

But it really is a good question.

Probably the best question I was ever asked.

Probably the question we should always ask ourselves before we do anything.

Anyway. I share it as a rhetorical question.

Don’t answer here, just enjoy the self exploration of that one question internally.
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Shadowprophet

Truthiness
I felt an answer was necessary, I do what I do Because I've seen people who have has the same issues as me and do much better with handling them. I want to be a person who never becomes angry. I've learned over the years that Anger is an emotion that I personally could do without. I want to completely abolish self-anger and truly be an enlightened person.

The kind of person, that always has a level headed solution to any problem. I've seen people like that, So I know it's possible. That's what I strive for, That's why I walk the path I do.
 

pepe

Celestial
Deeper sense carries no meaning as we don't understand why.

I think I'm right in assuming this question is about humanity and understanding the principle reasons why we follow a code.

Then again i'm shot to fuck which does have the added advantage of being able to maybe give an answer.

The biggest ever divide that there ever was, the real us and them. We do what we do because otherwise we would be no better than them.

The imprint of the devil I think comes from our own behaviour as the animal and God is the path away to humanity.

A thread.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I caught part of X-Files Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose the other night.

The killer asks Peter Boyle why he does what he does and he replies something like "because you're a homicidal maniac my boy" Oh, I see. That clarifies things.
 

Kchoo

At Peace.
I suppose we could meet someone with the name Semjase, and some of us may have... but that name probably should not be confused with Semjaze, for they may not be the same.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
And, Are tulpas fiction?

Shooting from the hip, the origin has something to do with being locked away in isolation for long periods of time. Like in a Tibetan monastery. A Friar Tuck like entity. Personally, I'd be conjuring up very different entities if I were in that situation ......

This is also pulling at a thread of memory I'll have to track down. American POWs in Vietnam, one of which was attempting to keep himself wired together by trying to mentally influence his captors in very subtle ways. That might be from The Men Who Stare at Goats (the book). Might also be from John B Alexander - he also has an interest in communication and physical influence in cases where there is no direct contact. His Reality Denied isn't exactly a page turner and it'll take a lot more than some of the evidence he presented to convince me of much of anything, but he's an interesting guy and the book was a quick read.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Does that apply to tulpas?

Yes indeed when a 'gap' forms between the creator and the created...Typically something most undesirable will take advantage of that gap...

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nivek

As Above So Below
Can you just set it free?

One would have to 'be' in order to 'do' that, otherwise it will become the servant of another who saw the situation and decided to take advantage of that, typically someone with treacherous intent...

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Kchoo

At Peace.
One would have to 'be' in order to 'do' that, otherwise it will become the servant of another who saw the situation and decided to take advantage of that, typically someone with treacherous intent...

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What should be done... can it just be ignored?
 
See, this is why I stayed the heck away from tulpamancy when I was on my winding path through life to where I am now. Even in my most fevered mania I knew that stuff was a terrible idea. Fracturing pieces of your mind like that? Shit the bed, man. You can't run from a piece of yourself you broke on purpose, Kchoo. It isn't that easy.
 
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