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MISERY AND ECSTACY
In the search for a meaningful and worthwhile purpose for 'being
here', it occurs to me that there are basically two different kinds of
goals in the world.
I have taken to calling these goals, IS GOALS and CHANGE GOALS.
An Is Goal is the goal to be here to experience something as it
is.
A Change Goal is the goal to be here to change something from
what it is to something else.
Usually a change goal would be to change something that one was
NOT interested in experiencing it as it is to something that one was
interested in experiencing it as it is.
For example, when you go to the Louvre to view the Mona Lisa, you
don't go there to change the picture, or make it better, you go there
to experience it as it is. That's an is-goal.
However when you go to the inner city and see lots of crime and
drugs and drive by shootings, you want to change this to something
better and fast. That's a change goal.
There 3 kinds of change goals.
There is the goal to change nothing into something. This is
basic creation, the act of an artist. To put something desirable
where there was nothing.
There is the goal to change something into nothing. This is
basic destruction. To put nothing where there is something
undesirable. For example you want to kill off all the cockroaches in
your kitchen.
There is the goal to change something into another something.
This is sort of a combination of the first two, like when you want to
change the present hell on Earth to a heaven on Earth.
The search for a meaningful and worthwhile purpose to be here
then would have to encompass the above 4 types of goals.
The basic Adorian E/P of any process is "Able and Willing to Be
Here."
That's a big win if you can attain it but it has some problems
attached to it.
First of all let's say that the being has nothing but Is Goals.
That means his total purpose for being here is to experience things as
they are. Clearly he has no motivation to change anything, so
basically he won't DO anything all day long except take in the sights.
You would have to be REAL OT to maintain this kind of existence in
this world.
So if you are going to get into action you are going to have to
have some change goals too.
Let's first look at the extreme. Say you have ONLY change goals.
That means you are totally dissatisfied with things as they are, there
is NOTHING you wish to experience as it is. This puts you into a
total state of action trying to bring things about that you are
willing to experience as they are. It would be pretty hard to call
this a state of happiness right? There would be no rest, except maybe
sleep and no experience at all.
So from this I would have to conclude that change goals alone
will not do, and that happiness involves a balance of is goals and
change goals.
The purpose of a change goal is to produce an is goal after all,
so if one is winning there should be at least SOME is goals around,
even if there weren't when you started.
There is however another problem with change goals. A change
goal involves two things, it involves the desired end state that you
are trying to bring around, and it involves the PROCESS of getting
there, the game in other words.
The being may highly desire the end state he is trying to attain,
but resent the hell out of the process necessary to get there. For
example we may want the raiding hoards off our soil, but we don't want
to go to war and get tortured to death to attain it.
This too is not a state of happiness even if you win.
Winning a change goal where the process of attainment was
resented leaves a bad after taste that lingers forever.
So from this I must conclude that to attain 'able and willing to
be here', the being must have a balance of is goals and change goals,
and also have change goals which demand a process of attainment that
the being enjoys indulging in.
Now that would be pretty magical wouldn't it?
One way to audit this is to mockup being way outside the Earth,
like coming into the Solar System and seeing the Earth in the
distance. From this point of view you can mockup the present state of
Earth, and all the games and things to do that you might find here.
From there you can ask yourself "What is goals and change goals
would make it worthwhile and meaningful to come to Earth for?" "What
could I do here that would make me want to come here for a while?"
Now from that point of view some things come to mind that are not
so pleasant to behold.
Earth is filled with people who have to eat to survive, they have
to kill to live, even if its only plants.
Life on Earth is filled with constant pressure and hurry, because
time is passing and hunger grows and only extreme affluence will
guarantee your survival through the rough times.
Until the sun goes super nova that is.
So in the long run, everything you build on Earth, or in this
universe in fact, will one day be dust in the wind as the universe
itself is its own bull dozer in the end.
Worse the penalties for failure here are extraordinary, really
unconfrontable. Try starving to death sometime just to see if you can
do it. Or spending your life in jail because you said something
politically incorrect. Or eating anthrax because the local yokels
don't like your religion.
Given this point of view what possible meaningful and worthwhile
goal could there ever be on this Planet except to get the hell out of
it and never come back?
If the good Lord were to give you a ticket to leave would you
take it? I would. I would demand a ticket for Jane too, but then we
would be out a here in a second.
Now worse all these things that I just listed above are really
totally foreign to a native state thetan. Hurry, pressure, having to
kill to survive, having to win present games in order to even have
future games are all totally opposed to what a thetan really is. What
kind of being could have an affinity for such a state of enslavement?
Then you come to Earth and you find that EVERYONE not only is in
this state, they have hammered themselves into nothing until they
consider it NORMAL and LIFE IS GOOD.
They have taken TOTAL PSYCHOSIS and made it into "THINGS ARE JUST
FINE, THANKYOU."
These people are so far gone they are no longer able to compute a
way in. They just can't figure out how or why a native state
sovereign thetan would ever or could ever create the present mess they
find themselves in. It just totally breaks their mind and sense of
repsonsibility to even try to think about it.
Because they can't compute a way in, they can't compute a way out
either, because the way in is the only way out.
So they are stuck and don't know it any more. They have totally
gone to sleep from pain and are living a delerium tremens called
normal 9 to 5 life.
Then you have to take a look at the fact that 99.9 percent of any
game you choose to play here will be directly or indirectly influenced
by the crazy psychotic games being played by these people who can't
wait to get out of here but who can't admit they feel that way.
Yes they keep the GNP going, yes they milk the cows and bring the
bread home, but its usually to fatten you up so you can go die in some
foreign war or another.
What looks like civilization on one hand turns out to be a death
camp designed for slaughter on the other.
Now you are going to come into this place and find a worthwhile
and meaningful game to play? You are going to run some process that
gives you "Able and Willing to Be Here?"
You have your work cut out for you.
Homer
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