(C) "Libertarianism, and the escaping of hurt"

Whoa...how did you get into this mess?  Stop, backup.  No, no, don't turn back, just slowly backup all the way.

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[WillOTheWisp]

Hmmm....curious.

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I probably had had as much to say, and some more, some time back. These days there isn't much to ...

You end up with questions like - to whom, for what, why? Does it make a difference? Does it make a difference if it makes a difference?

And that's when one lets go.

To ask a slightly more personal question - how much of a subscriber are you - to some or the other belief?

[Crazyfinger]

"To ask a slightly more personal question - how much of a subscriber are you - to some or the other belief?"

Fortunately I haven't had the time nor interest to deliberate on beliefs, weigh them and then proceeding to subscribe to them. The manner in which discussions take place among India-based bloggers on beliefs - political/economic etc. - are very bookish. It feels like they approach these beliefs as if they are making a choice whether to go towards "engineering," or "medicine," or "arts," while at school. Ideologies are subscribed to as if they are a career decision they made early on, and after that it's all sticking to one's guns, getting better at it, finding a place among the fellow subscribers, forming groups, joining clubs, etc. Naturally their world yields to them in the terms of their own preferences, and they view the morality of it, and express it using the only language they know, of their own ideology. It's all, I repeat, very bookish, straightjacket. All this is either because these men and women confused scientific method for real-life, or because they are suffering from the absence of experience and instead, borrowing terminology and coded words from other people's experiences and intellectually assimilating them, thereby blurring that precious distinction between knowledge and experience. Hey, don't get me started...

My belief, having said all that, is when you do stuff, stuff happens to you. My life-blood lies in that change. In conquering one's own emotional fear, i.e., fear of engagement, fear of acknowledgement, fear of actually doing something, the fear of success and the fear of failure. You find something you like to do - do as in move things, create things, anything that goes in the direction of changing the environment that you live in - and busy yourself in being better at it. Believe that, and work with that mindset, a lot of good stuff will start happening.

Regards,
Crazyfinger