EE! Re: "The Wisdom of Insecurity"

A rather late response to Prof. Anton on "the Wisdom of Insecurity" and giving advice.

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• Insecurity
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• Belief
• Alan Watts
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[Metanoeia]

Well said, thanks.

[EmergingEmergency]

thanks for watching :)

[craigrgill]

The thing is, in my experience, we as humans tend to find it difficult to stay in the insecure state. I think this may be because, as I think you elude to, the insecure state maybe part of the search for a more secure state. As I commented on the original video (using poor semantics I realise now) I reason that we may be most secure when we are thinking that we are insecure!

[EmergingEmergency]

There might be a difference to be noted between "being secure" and "feeling secure" here though. You can live in a pretty insecure circumstance, but still feel secure and confident inside for instance. This might be worth striving for more than some form of absolute security in life, which doesn't exist (unless you lock your door and never leave the confines of your house perhaps. which wouldn't be "living" anymore.)

[EmergingEmergency]

interesting that you should bring up genealogy, has that research done anything for your sense of security personally, or granted any insight that was helpful? Or was that unrelated to the main topic?

As for the strangeness of being alive, I would have to say it is both strange, and yet at the same time, perfectly normal. I think we can make it seem very strange, as long as we imagine that our questions are well-placed, when they in fact, may not be!

[craigrgill]

Yeah, thats how I see it at the moment too... We can choose to influence our environment so it's sort of somewhat circular (",)

[katerinabonvora]

yes, I do get what your trying to point at. for me its all about the context in which you choose to operate in. context is such a an elusive term mostly because we don't really see that this is what shapes our general opinions/perceptions. it all goes back to the way we think that determines how we are, how we feel (though some people believe that feelings "just happen") then again we forget that even our own belief systems are things that we learn from the environment, our family, etc. =)

[EmergingEmergency]

I think that it's very easy to fall into a "anything goes" kind of relativity, where nothing is "more right" or "more wrong" than anything else. I think there's definitely something like forward development of a view (or evolution, where things become "better", or more "complex"), i.e there can be a more informed/viable way to view something. Dogma comes from only considering ONE perspective, while ignoring the rest. Keep your mind open, and you are not being dogmatic.

[craigrgill]

Just watched it! thanks! I think an understanding of the concept of relativistic individualism may sometimes be useful and sometimes not. Do you think being "dogmatic" anything can be an obstical to anyone wanting to come to their own decisions? but maybe it's sometimes useful to someone that needs clear guidance? I think those that find it insecure to question or be questioned also tend to be "dogmatic". Do you think saying anything "is" something else could be concidered "dogmatic"?

[craigrgill]

Yes I am trying to do a similar thing. There is a concept in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) that I learned from a guy called Chris Howard. It explores and divides motivation into "towards" or "away" ie. do you tend to do things because you are trying to avoid "negative" experiences or because you want to experience "positive" things.