Merlyn Blaize <mblaize@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Like actors watching one another from backstage, our true selves watch
>each other as we submerge ourselves into this world and then back out
>again. To our true selves, these lives are but fancies made to pass
>the time, to give us a sense of "happening" which our knowledge has
>made virtually impossible. That means we've learned so much at that
>stage of the game, that our only choice to keeping the "newness" of
>our lives is to forget who we are and to sink into this world and to
>live without any of the knowledge we've obtained over there.
I'm not entirely sure that's true, but it's an idea I wouldn't dismiss.
>It's very depressing when something goes wrong and you remember
>everything.
I have remembered _some_ things, and found it very uplifting and
enlightening.
>Most of those who remember everything end up killing
>themselves so they can start again in a body that is once more
>ignorant of its origins. It's one of the most difficult things to
>remain in this life, in this world, when you remember what it really
>is.
Some very intelligent people engage in a slow form of killing themselves
with
mind-numbing substances because they can't take the general level humanity
operates on. The most intelligent, IMO, learn to work around the
limitations
of society. I would think that if one truly remembers everything, one
would
know enough to function beautifully in the current lifetime.
>Yet even that, worthless as it is, is a test which we force ourselves
>to endure. All in the name of existing...
If we chose our current incarnation, as your opening paragraph says, the
misery implied in your conclusion must be a choice as well. Therefore, one
can
choose to not be miserable about it.
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