A reason to Live, a reason to blog....
Decided to start this after reading from "Straw Dogs" page 68 (from Schopenhauer):
"It is assumed that the identity of the person rests on consciousness. If however we understand by this merely the conscious recollection of the course of life, then it is not enough. We know something more of the course of our life than of a novel we have read, yet very little indeed. The principal events, the interesting scenes have been impressed on us; for the rest, a thousand events are forgotten for one that has been retained. The older we become, the more does everything pass us by without a trace"
And
"The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this inexistent thing. In our normal awareness of the present moment the sensation of selfhood is unshakeable. This is the primordial human error, in virtue of which we pass our lives as if in a dream".
Not in an attempt to refute the above statements, but in order to partially get to grips with them, and to hopefully decide whether they are valid: I want to shore up a mountain of interesting "events", not as in a diary filled with mundane and localized data, that has no relevance outside of its scope, but in the form of a Blog, where I will record an interesting thought (or thoughts), or a picture (or pictures), or an event (or events), a day; also the circumstances and thoughts surrounding these: to try to record these "events" which seem to me to stand out from the mundane in that day, to mark it as different from the days surrounding it. To accumulate a wealth of things that impress upon me in my daily life, a wealth of moments, so that I may know myself, and others know me, so that I may recall more than "One in a Thousand" moments by the act of recording them and tying them to a specific day in the blog: and the more Blog there is, perhaps the closer to the Blogger we can approach. This may all serve as an aid to understanding a self, as an education in what/who (if anything/anyone) "I AM" is.
I don't pretend that a lot of this will be interesting to anyone other than myself, and the people and places are only known to me and those that know me. Maybe I'll reveal things I shouldn't but that must be done to show me as I am. That is my theme: I. IThinkThereforeIAmIThink.
"It is assumed that the identity of the person rests on consciousness. If however we understand by this merely the conscious recollection of the course of life, then it is not enough. We know something more of the course of our life than of a novel we have read, yet very little indeed. The principal events, the interesting scenes have been impressed on us; for the rest, a thousand events are forgotten for one that has been retained. The older we become, the more does everything pass us by without a trace"
And
"The I is a thing of the moment, and yet our lives are ruled by it. We cannot rid ourselves of this inexistent thing. In our normal awareness of the present moment the sensation of selfhood is unshakeable. This is the primordial human error, in virtue of which we pass our lives as if in a dream".
Not in an attempt to refute the above statements, but in order to partially get to grips with them, and to hopefully decide whether they are valid: I want to shore up a mountain of interesting "events", not as in a diary filled with mundane and localized data, that has no relevance outside of its scope, but in the form of a Blog, where I will record an interesting thought (or thoughts), or a picture (or pictures), or an event (or events), a day; also the circumstances and thoughts surrounding these: to try to record these "events" which seem to me to stand out from the mundane in that day, to mark it as different from the days surrounding it. To accumulate a wealth of things that impress upon me in my daily life, a wealth of moments, so that I may know myself, and others know me, so that I may recall more than "One in a Thousand" moments by the act of recording them and tying them to a specific day in the blog: and the more Blog there is, perhaps the closer to the Blogger we can approach. This may all serve as an aid to understanding a self, as an education in what/who (if anything/anyone) "I AM" is.
I don't pretend that a lot of this will be interesting to anyone other than myself, and the people and places are only known to me and those that know me. Maybe I'll reveal things I shouldn't but that must be done to show me as I am. That is my theme: I. IThinkThereforeIAmIThink.
posted by John Doran-Armstrong at 9:28 AM
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