Because of our innate human tendencies to accept things as they are, and we precariously conceive of our reality represented accordingly and the obvious difficulties concerning which and the immensity of the world in it’s innumerable aspects presenting so much to grasp, the possibilities accruing to it’s interpretations, and they are at least at the ‘surfaces’ of things and events vast and overwhelming, are beyond our immediate ability to discern, and even, vigorously approached from the opposite polarity, and their had been avidly studied in accessible detail are damn nigh incomprehensible.
Does this observation go some way towards it’s offering an acceptable explanation of the phenomenon, ‘cause it appears to be that, of today’s ‘thinkers’ or those (of us!) at any rate who’s ordinary contemplations when once they are extended tends towards intelligent, and on occasion indulgent considerations of the universal sphere of ‘things’ we may unwittingly presume to inhabit a realm which we may be forgiven for our interpreting through our invariable seclusion as solely our own.
It seems that i’m familiar enough with the milieu in which i grew up (in reality, that’s a project the mature part of which enthusiastically awaits the conviction owing my firm commitment!) and retrospect promises to provide the effects one may wish to associate with a panacea, that i experience no difficulty in recalling, that i’d heard through it’s lavish use, and it’s on occasion smarting in my ears when i, and had ‘select others’ been admonished ‘not to think too much’, while never had been, in my case, susceptible of my been guilty thereof and thus convicted.
Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it flow the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23. English Standard Edition.
I took the advice so much to heart1, much like an avid and hard pressed lawyer had discovered a self serving loophole, that it’s substance soon developed it’s own aura about me, and hung in the auspices of ‘a pall’ about my shoulders and vehemently clung to me for slightly longer than i care to admit.
Stupidity retaining it’s fidelity while simultaneously advancing and it’s goin out on a limb!
Through it’s adoption i bred carelessness into me literally, and a sense of recklessnes naturally follows as if it’s performing it’s beholden duty. Ungainly circumstances are at pains to accommodate such moods and attitudes of indifferences through their making available various characters of unfortunate and ludicrous experiences, and daresay invites ‘incidents’ the haphazard natures of which otherwise ought to had been happily negotiated under their normal and overt courses of events!
Life Conspires
Splendid, isn’t it, how ‘life’ conspires to reflect in it’s distinctly casual manner, and on occasion more obstreporously, one’s brief and unintentional, however then, at their time, impelling impetus, the inadequacies conveyed through one’s lack of critical approach.
T’is not a bad thing at all when thankfully the all round damage and potential carnages are limited to it’s absolute minimum, and one survives those rather hair raising escapades, while one’s sense of enthusiasm is no less blunted and consequently sharpened to a degree concommitant to those prospects endured through their hazardous experience. I’m strictly ascribing to such occurrences as they befall one, their origin in the human inspired realm of stupidity!
And in fact, ‘The Three Stooges’ thankfully hadn’t appeared to had tried very hard! “Omne trium perfectum”…meaning everything that is three is perfect, an undeniable example, when mishaps came in threes.
Perhaps one must flirt with the possibilities of such exigencies and self acquaint with their domain before one may truly begin to even suspect that there may exist, and however unobtainable, it’s opposite, in terms of ‘genius’. Believe me however, the less appealing realm is not discovered wanting in that it exhibits it’s felicitous facility and displays an appreciable fraternity in accordance with it’s nature, and imminently threatens to reproduce through the individual embodiments of it’s assiduous and industrious adherents, ‘at will’ demonstrations of it’s own irreducible and unforgiving artistry that may illustrate a peculiar and doubtless eccentric form of genius.
I imbibed very temporarily at it’s irresistible fount (but not without establishing conspicuous and forgettable success!) until i regained my positive distaste and recoil from such is it’s realm and ostensible source of notoriety. Had i allowed certain circumstances dictate, so that, apparently i had to and must visit there?
Realignment
At the very least, i discovered it an eminently sociable realm in that it returned my affections with something considerably in excess of abandon and hadn’t spurned my advances, though on occasion i had been made acquainted with it’s reticence and reluctance. We hadn’t so much as consumated our relations but our romance, while we never embraced through it’s various impinging overtures had been ‘keenly contested’!
The Return of the Prodigal Son, based on the parable elaborated in Luke 15:32. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum St Petersburg.
Had then, prior to such had been my indulgences even, and it’s immanently possible, my abundant and exhilaratingly intimate acquaintance with or inkling of the existence of ‘wisdom’, and my familiarity with the ordinary courtesy of my unremarkable intelligence and it’s concommitant responsibility, felt a tad oppressive and demanding, and thus in my adopting an alternative route forced my hand as it were, and my entry upon a realm whence thankfully we discovered our mutual incompatibility. Let’s celebrate that it is just so!
I won’t delve any deeper here into such a superficial layer, it’s insipid status and it’s havoc impacting our existences than it has been necessary to resume in the foregoing our interest and concern in such assumed phenomena as pervades that field and it’s apparently associated impulses owing inextricably ‘causes and effects’.
Compensation, Karma, Universal Justice, our Hearts Desires or whichever one may wish to partake of.
We reap the exacting equivalent and sometimes it proves exciting of that which we sow, and consider us fortunate when we do, that we do not weep! Though, on exceptional occasion our lament may prove manna to one’s soul, and expedite our vital expurge of insidious horrors that lurk beyond our ordinary nature’s ability to rationally dispel.
Our weeping enjoins us to our heart’s infinite resources, many of which are unseen and transcend the domains of merely human possibilities and may serve to reprove and simultaneously prove it’s effect in facilitating our release.
Useful Avenues of Approach
The above may present their useful avenues of approach towards our confronting, though it however, be none of our business perhaps, and based on an assumption, that, and it’s a starkly broad assumption that very many folk seem to be observedly imbued with a capacity that unhesitatingly enables their brazenly avoid their broaching any questionable area, and eschew it’s eminently important connotations in respect of our surrounding and pervading ‘reality’ and the calibre of our circumscribing circumstances and blatantly discourage, as if it offended their sterile consciences the prospects of anyone in their immediate environments likely to endeavor to do so.
Jesus reprimands the Pharisees and the Sadduccees
Does their attitude fulfill at least in part the scripture which however relevant at the time of it’s uttered, may be perceived through it’s connotations assimilating to the the auspices of a prophesy: ‘Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand’. (Matthew 13:13, American Standard Version)
It’s not far fetched to reasonably assume that in our world today such folk don’t ‘wish’ to. Does that excuse them their renunciation of what may be rightly or wrongly construed as their responsibility to do so, that is to at least so far as one might feel at liberty to expect their exert an effort in such pertinent matters.
When Prerogative may be Specious
Surely such concerns revolve about they assimilating to entirely their prerogative. It’s arguable that it’s unfair to hold them accountable to a Biblical standard the tenets of which they may not subscribe to.
I don't! It is not within my remit, nor does it subscribe to an effloresence of expectation in response to any inherent impulse of my holding them to a measure of any standard whereby i might incriminate them and i justify my vilifying them. I experience enough difficulties comprehending any such moral imperatives that solemnly yearn to attain the dignity of virtues which i may aspire to uphold and demonstrate that they are indeed, literally personal property and are attributes that i may reasonably ascertain and realize are within my own possession, rather, i submit my concern devoid of any regard to religions, philosophical or otherwise may be contrived means, other than commit my surprise to my being absorbed by the degree to which they seem to register little if any curiosity in regard to so many unprecedented developments the duration of our watch, as had recently emerged.
Specifically, the recent virus that supposedly swept the length and breadth of the globe, and the increasing levels of migrations and their impacts which threaten at the very least to obscure formerly western civilizations and of course the farce at the basis of ostensibly ‘climate change’. Those are but the tip of a dangerously floating iceberg and it’s potential to create havoc is unimaginable.
The Blessed Domain of and ‘Incorporating’ Soul!
The refrain conveyed though it’s scriptural verse endures, in that it’s repercussions are not limited by, and transcend ‘time and place’. ‘Seeing’ and ‘hearing’ very much reflect an attitude, and their faculties real imports, while their immediate impressions may be meanly applied to and do impact the physical senses, nevertheless reside in the soul and are meaningful attributes their consequences which appreciably reverberate in that blessed domain.
They encompass concepts, principles and imply interpretation. Their effective use requires efforts made on our personal behalf. Everything is relative and extends to whichever degree expresses one’s personal circumstances, however, i may easily imagine that it is a facile exercise, and hardly demands our conscious exertion of those of us who having use of our ordinary senses enabling our ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ indulge them without a conscious thought of their miraculous dimension and correlated experiences in our physical realm and it’s ubiquitous materialism. (apologies if their are errors or inconsistencies in the narrative, admittedly i’m posting rather hurriedly this evenin!)
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/spirituality-special-interest-group-publications-professor-mohamed-omar-salem-the-heart-mind-and-spirit.pdf?sfvrsn=47fea910_2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31728781/
https://brendycaldwell.com/2013/03/19/on-craic-im-telling-you-there-is-no-word-for-yes-or-no-in-irish/