Following out
Implications
Alot of people think that
philosophy is useless and not applicable to everyday life because it only talks
about abstract concepts. This is because
people do not follow out the implications: there is the “Why” and the “How” and
even the “What if” answered, but if you do not look at the answers in your life
then everything is going to stay the same.
Here is an example of how people
fail to follow out the implications from philosophical conclusions and
therefore calling it useless.
The example is a simplified
analogy, simplified to the point that the lack of philosophical logic from
person 1 and 2, seems ridiculous. This
is to show what is going on in another level of awareness.
Person 1 wants a cupcake, he tells
me about her problem and I philosophize a way to solve it. So I tell her, “well lucky you, this here
Person 2 wants to give a cupcake”. I
tell her the answer, he says, “thats interesting Jimmy but I really want a
cupcake right now.” As you can see,
Person 1 is failing to follow out the implications of what I told him, he
failed to see what this all means in his everyday life. So I tell him, “Im telling you person 2 wants
to give a cupcake, because he has one.”
And she says, “are you listening to me? Or are you too busy keeping
track of people with cupcakes?”
Me: I am trying to help you out with your cupcake
problem, cant you see?
People 1: By doing what?
Me: Im telling you that Person 2 has a cupcake that he
wants to give away.
People 1: I dont follow
Me: So you can go up to him and ask him for it and he
will give it to you, and you will have a cupcake.
People 1: why are you telling me to do this? How is any
of this useful?
Me: well you want a cupcake right?
People 1: Yes
Me: what do you want to do about this desire?
People 1: well I would like to satisfy it of course.
Me: How do you want to go about doing that?
Person 1: I guess having a cupcake would be nice.
Me: if you want to have a cupcake, you can go up to
person 2, ask for it, and he will give you one... and then you will have one to
satisfy your desire for a cupcake.
Person 1: How is that going to help?
I go up to person 2 and tell him
that I could help him with his desire to give away his cupcake... and he asks
me how... After arguing a bit with him,
I finally get the cupcake, and give it to person 1. “thanks” she says, “I really wanted a
cupcake.” But she still does not
understand my actions and reasoning, the implications that followed from my
first answer.
If she understood the process
she would be able to do this on her own without me, but since she does not
fully understand what is going on in the process, she is always going to depend
on me to work out the cupcake ordeal for her.
And if I am not around she will not be able to obtain the cupcake. And she will believe it is impossible to get
a cupcake without me. So lets
practice. This implies: it is a
reflection of all the things that we think are impossible because we do not fully
understand them. Some people think it is
impossible to be happy without money; some think its impossible to become
educated without going to school, some think its impossible to survive or
escape from a desert island some think its impossible to live without a
cellphone, some even think its impossible to live without television. But the same concept applies, since you dont
understand it, you do not see a way.
Well, have you ever thought, something was impossible, then you were
proven wrong? It all goes back to that
age old philosophy, “you just never know.”
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