psychonautfromatlantis
my mind hosts a supermassive black hole...
...but then its just the "human condition".
Human self-awareness leads us to recognize three core paradoxes or absurd features of the human condition:
(1) The human imagination has no physical boundaries, but bodies do. In the mind, humans can instantly travel to the ends of the universe, the center of the earth, even the center of the sun. People can use a mental microscope to visualize germs, viruses, atoms, quarks. As soon as they detect something with any instrument, they can make images of it in their minds. Humans can travel effortlessly in thought. The boundless production of fiction literature is evidence of the creative powers of the imagination. However, humans exist on one relatively small planet, and due to the speed limit of the universe (speed of light), it appears that we are bound to a small neighborhood around this planet for the foreseeable future. This frustration forms the physical paradox of the human condition.
(2) Human spirits can motivate selfless and noble acts, the most altruistic actions, and the most beneficial generosities. The same minds can also produce atrocities and violence against countless people, possibly destroying themselves. The human will can thus be seen as mercurial, untamed by moral law or conscience. On a grander scale, charismatic leaders can sway large populations to do things — benevolent or malevolent — that individuals may have never contemplated on their own. How can these two extremes coexist in the same individual and yet be nonexistent amongst other animals? Moral conflicts are exclusive to the human condition.
(3) Human actions and lives are motivated by hope, the idea that an individual can effect mass change, and a drive to improve the self and the environment. However, these drives are tempered by the knowledge of the human's own finite existence. Another paradox emerges, as a vision of the future perseveres amid the realization that the human may not live to see it. Thus, by extension, hope exists regarding eternal life beyond the grave — God, heaven, paradise. Even some atheists, although not hoping for literal eternal life, seek to leave an impact on the world that persists after their death. These aspirations for hope, meaning, significance, purpose, identity, peace, happiness, and love, even in the face of certain death, form the spiritual aspect of the human condition.
These paradoxes present universal, inescapable questions about life. Whenever any people lift their thoughts from daily routines, they may ponder these questions. Attempts to explain or resolve these paradoxes are the domain of religion and philosophy. The human condition is the central subject of all literature, drama and art.
-Wikipedia-
my mind hosts a supermassive black hole...
...but then its just the "human condition".
Human self-awareness leads us to recognize three core paradoxes or absurd features of the human condition:
(1) The human imagination has no physical boundaries, but bodies do. In the mind, humans can instantly travel to the ends of the universe, the center of the earth, even the center of the sun. People can use a mental microscope to visualize germs, viruses, atoms, quarks. As soon as they detect something with any instrument, they can make images of it in their minds. Humans can travel effortlessly in thought. The boundless production of fiction literature is evidence of the creative powers of the imagination. However, humans exist on one relatively small planet, and due to the speed limit of the universe (speed of light), it appears that we are bound to a small neighborhood around this planet for the foreseeable future. This frustration forms the physical paradox of the human condition.
(2) Human spirits can motivate selfless and noble acts, the most altruistic actions, and the most beneficial generosities. The same minds can also produce atrocities and violence against countless people, possibly destroying themselves. The human will can thus be seen as mercurial, untamed by moral law or conscience. On a grander scale, charismatic leaders can sway large populations to do things — benevolent or malevolent — that individuals may have never contemplated on their own. How can these two extremes coexist in the same individual and yet be nonexistent amongst other animals? Moral conflicts are exclusive to the human condition.
(3) Human actions and lives are motivated by hope, the idea that an individual can effect mass change, and a drive to improve the self and the environment. However, these drives are tempered by the knowledge of the human's own finite existence. Another paradox emerges, as a vision of the future perseveres amid the realization that the human may not live to see it. Thus, by extension, hope exists regarding eternal life beyond the grave — God, heaven, paradise. Even some atheists, although not hoping for literal eternal life, seek to leave an impact on the world that persists after their death. These aspirations for hope, meaning, significance, purpose, identity, peace, happiness, and love, even in the face of certain death, form the spiritual aspect of the human condition.
These paradoxes present universal, inescapable questions about life. Whenever any people lift their thoughts from daily routines, they may ponder these questions. Attempts to explain or resolve these paradoxes are the domain of religion and philosophy. The human condition is the central subject of all literature, drama and art.
-Wikipedia-