REASONS PEOPLE ATTEMPT SUICIDE
People Attempt Suicide |
The living human being on one extreme and we see the stone or the fire on the other [Applause] now our 19th century mythologists wants to describe this limit in terms of this one he wants to say that consciousness is nothing but a very complicated form of minerals why can't you go the other way and just as easily say minerals a very simple form of consciousness that works doesn't it I mean after all cares this mineral I knock it and it says that to me this is a rudimentary form of consciousness this thing inside is not making a noise to itself because that requires ears but in some way this thing is going y'know into itself it's shaking like that and that's it's consciousness it's response it's resonance it isn't totally unconscious but it's consciousness is extremely simple now you may think I'm spinning fairy stories but is that any more of a fairy story than to say that your consciousness is nothing but chemistry I mean you think you're conscious and that you have this high-and-mighty state of affairs but actually of course if we look at this very realistically all this is just colloidal substances bubbling around see both that that story and the other story can be made to seem equally fanciful but the question is this if I say about the Gong look my friend I respect you because you are a little bit conscious see you relate to me you're you're kind of a younger brother and you know then there's something endearing and warm about this attitude to things whereas if I say you're just a piece of metal and as a matter of fact I'm just a piece of metal - that's the kind of insult now the people who believe that are really suicidal mainly they want to put themselves down they are against their own life and they take a great pride in being that way and they call it being realistic and it's I'm only saying it's a better gamble to take it the other way and say the best thing you can say about it if this is a living being but not so much of a living being as a snail or something that actually wanders the law and Wiggles so you see the pressure upon us of the whole mythology of the 19th century the whole attitude of putting down the universe because the previous myth had been to uncomfortably alive is simply a way of looking at things let me give another illustration of the same thing okay if you study the various forms of life from the standpoint of natural selection you may come up with a rationalization for everything somebody wants to know why do butterflies have eyes on their wings some butterflies well somebody scratches his head and says oh well there must be an explanation for that there's an explanation for everything why is there an explanation for everything because the universe is really a tight engineering job so why does some butterflies have eyes well it so happened that some fluke of a butterfly once got an eye on its wing and birds would avoid it because that I looked at them and it was just too much so those butterflies that had eyes on their wings bred whereas the butterflies that didn't have eyes got eaten up more easily although some of them had other alternatives they've because of not having eyes they were invisible and the birds couldn't see them and so more of that kind survived although those were the terrifying eyes survived and so they didn't get eaten up either so those it tended to multiply so is this a perfectly easy simple explanation of why butterflies have eyes on their wings as other things some birds with extraordinary plumages which look so obvious that anybody could capsule many cat any hunter no they survived because they were so attractive to their females and so they bred very well as a matter of fact this isn't true they didn't and you know but any explanation will do provided it seems to explain how that is one way of looking at things...
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