Saturday, April 11, 2009

Mad world and Insanity vs. normality

The anthropic principle is most likely well known by anyone reading this.  It is a theory that states that the universe exists because humans exist to examine it.  It works in a long series of circular logic patterns and can be extended over a lot of matters.  If this is the case then why is the world messed up? I find it hard to believe that the anthropic principle isn't true in some manner because without awareness of the world there would be no real "world" but instead just a habitat for a series of hairless ape-like creatures.  A lot of the theory can be extended into philosophical inferences and the aspect of how I think it is meant to work is best quoted by Death in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather when asked if the death of the hogfather would really keep the sun from rising.  The line goes along the patter of, "If the hogfather died the sun would not rise the next day, instead a ball of burning gas would rise."  It makes sense since the actual phenomenon of the sun would not cease but all meaning would cease to exist, it would exist without existence so to say.

Continuing along this line of thought it comes to mind to question why the world continues along the line of violent events that it does.  All meaning to any event is caused by the belief of what the meaning is but instead of seeking peace like we supposedly all do it seems that the real belief everyone holds is just to cause further bloodshed.  The purpose of religion was originally to unite people together for a common cause and to allow a union between men but there is now such a divide between the religions, that doesn't necessarily even equate to much, that instead of uniting man it has divided them into various factions.  Going over the basis of most religions you will find that they typically have the same tenants but believe in different prophets and gods.  The gods are not even necessarily different from one another but for name which seems to be the cause of most of the strife in the world.

This disruption of unity extends beyond religion though, it extends into society where in america at least the children will divide themselves from each other and have a sort of hostility to others who have allegiance to a different group.  There is a trait to avoid those who do not fit into these clicks even more than those who are from a different group.  There is very little intermingling of these groups and it causes a closed world view.  This comes to the matter of normality, anyone who is not of their group is not normal and anyone who is not any of the groups is insane.  There are people in each group that do not enjoy what they are doing at all but do not wish to be alone so they continue the actions they have been doing.  I am not a real member of any group, I had my selection of friends but I also would speak to anyone who would interact with me in a positive manner.  I function on a basis of eye for an eye and will retaliate to attacks against me or positive actions in a manner that suits me.  

I was referred to as insane a good number of times but insane is not a medical term or it would more likely apply to me.  Insanity is a mathematical and legal term, in the mathematical sense insanity is to repeat the actions over and over expecting different results, this can be related to the "normal" people who are unhappy with themselves but do not wish to be alone.  They believe that a form of popularity and acceptance will bring happiness and continue to try the same manner hoping it will make them happy.  The legal sense of insanity is to not understand the difference between right and wrong.  This could be placed over what everyone else is doing by separating themselves from the rest of the world besides their little group.  There can be a good number of people that they have ignored and abused at times who otherwise might have been a good friend but they do not realize the horrible nature of their acts and ignore the fact that they are not good but instead bad.  These people are "normal" but they fit the definitions of insanity far better than I.  In my last post I spoke of masks and that is what is my case.  I understand when I am being horrible to a person and typically its because I mean to be, I also am constantly changing how I act which would defy the mathematical definition.  So what does this mean about insanity and normality?  Is my statement made several times before correct?  The statement that , "I am normal but everyone else is insane" seems to be a lot more plausible once you consider the overall condition.

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