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I wonder why you addressed the following question to.. the normies in this site who are way less qualified to judge and advise you
i didn’t address it to normies, i address it in the hope of finding a none normie person that can agree with me, agree on my logic
So anyone who challenges your thinking must disagrees with it, (all or nothing), and disagreeing is a normie to be dismissed? If you are certain in your reasonings why reach out? Why the need to find someone exactly like minded?
i believe in the here and now, the past is already gone, and whatever has been produce from such past, can’t live here
That’s why you say you’re “created in a way that guarantees misery” i say this because of the combination of my past and current needs and desire and beliefs and values and goals
If the past can’t exist in the now, why should it influence the present, why not choose your present as you will? Viktor Frankl argued (and Science backs up) that “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” He talks only of the possibility. His observation in the concentration camps shows that most will not choose but instead summit to fate. Either way end was the same for those that choose to respond with ‘grace’ or those that gave didn’t. Only the inner experience of the moment was different.
It is true that the ability to choose and what is chosen in a moment may be determined by the cards a person one has been dealt. The choice a illusion of fate. Still the process between stimulus and response exists and so the fate of the possibility of picking new cards. The past is gone, the end determined, yet their is space between that fate allows us to play with. Why not play? The past is gone, their is no requirement that we hold on to all the cards we were given, especially the ones that only exist as memory. A duality and paradox, Fate and choice existing in the same moment?
In the space between stimulus and response we filter the present moment though the filters of our fears, hopes, expectations desire… almost all of which are based on memory of the past and memory is a trickster.