Real or Imaginary

Real or Imaginary

The separation of beliefs and facts is not something I ever really thought about. In this age of trump, the individual, it has become necessary to really have a good look at this. Truth, that elusive concept, has become critical to identify and explore a bit more. Are our beliefs just imaginary? Like money, perhaps.

Beliefs and opinions on one side, and facts, knowledge, perhaps history on the other; two separate heaps of concepts, those mental objects. 

So what we do to occupy our time is not to important in the overall scheme of things. Less than 50% of the population are actively involved in the production of real things, the remainder of us, well we play around in a non real world, which some has value, and some has less value. Some has no value to anyone beside ourselves. It is just time burned. We may gain understanding of things, or we may gain wrong understanding of things. We just do not know. It does not matter, when we are dead, all our thoughts are also gone. The only way to avoid the thoughts not be totally gone is to publish, and then perhaps they will survive, if they are worth surviving. 

So the impermanence of it all comes home to roost. Yet each thought that I consider worth saving was not original, but can be traced back to something I read, did, a situation, a decision, an understanding of something. It is not about what is, but, what I think about what is. Some things just do not fit, as the immigrant who wants to hold onto traditions or behaviors of their homeland. Hell, hold onto thoughts, concepts, behaviors of "before computer times". Impermanence must be at the forefront in the mind, at least up there. It does not matter, as the value of the thought cannot be lost, as Buddha said, someone will thing of it again if it is lost and was of value.