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REASONS PEOPLE ATTEMPT SUICIDE

People Attempt Suicide

The one hand you see you're always in tension against it do you remember I pointed out to you in the Latin this morning that the person is anxious constantly anxious is the person who is resisting the flip-flop ability of things life is vibrating is going blood all the time the anxious person says victim to that you know you might do it too much like this makes me feel nervous so yes he puts his weight on this blood like this you see it gets dripping so instead of it can sing come on let's blow let's go and do this thing so in exactly the same way the person who wants to say well you are nothing but you're nothing but some kind of chemicals and they're just a lot of you're a bag of pus and blood basically with a few bones inside and that person is doing the same thing as the person is putting pressure on the flip-flop ability of things and said he gets anxious and the person who does this he wants to say he's always look well what I think about your friends and the people who are philosophical and enthusiastic materialists they're always going to pose themselves as a certain kind of hero after all you're just a dreamer but I face facts see I'm a hard-headed realist and I I'm I as a matter of fact I'm an intellectual porcupine I have my prickles out all over the place because I'm the kind of person who in the academic world at any rate is full of rigor I ask what precisely is the evidence about this and I'm analytical and I'm believing III don't like woolly and vague thinking I like it clear-cut and you can see that porcupines bristle going right through like that see well this is the personality type who who wants to play that role whose message in saying all this jazz is I'm the kind of person who is all dry as a bone but I believe that that is strength and that's reality okay another kind of person says to him oh you are intolerable yes they're dry is there down you raffle you don't have any juice in you and what we need is juice and we need flow we need lilt and rhythm and gaiety you see so that's an opposed mythology and that's another character part you're gonna play so we've got to consider these are games you see as I tried to show you earlier mm-hmm and that the kind of roles we play the kind of games we play so but the question is that which is the optimal game certainly we can't do without some prickly people because life is prickles and goo and it's basically gooey prickles and prickly goo but the gooey people are always trying to make out that it's only goo and the prickly people always trying to make out it's only prickles now we do need both see but the question is fundamentally which game works better the game that resists the vibration the flip flop or the game that goes with it obviously the game that goes with it that cooperates with the general scene will be a longer game and a more amusing game than one that totally resists it although now I don't want it I said totally advisedly because it's great fun to resist it at times see it's just like when somebody massages you know and they're really expert and those fingers are just vibrating like this on your back you can give and just floof but it's also fun sometimes to tighten yourself your muscles against it so as to feel the full impact of this thing but what I want to the real point I want to get across is that what seems to us the hard-boiled common-sense of a mechanistic view of the universe is nothing other than a myth you don't have to be taken in by this because there is no more solid argument that that is the way things are than any other argument about any other way things might be now it goes like this you see again think of the idea of limits and we would take different limits this time we'll take one limit on the right-hand here as consciousness extreme lively sensitivity now on the other hand we'll take the opposite limit which is geological the stone the blind energy the electrical force without any consciousness whatsoever these are observable things we see

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...