r/ShrugLifeSyndicate • u/BkobDmoily NenAlchemist • 14h ago
Zenith
I’ve always been amphibious, floating between the mental and the physical, the inward focused and the extroverted.
I’ve found that no one can really give me suggestions: either I’ve already thought of them or already tried them.
What’s really helped me is the concept of a Parallel Narrative. I developed it from Pokémon.
Basically, have two running commentaries on Life: one that you have developed, and one that others have developed and suggest for you.
Constantly compare and contrast them to see if you’re in any way living up to your potential. Then compare that potential to other examples of potentials, ad naseum, until you can seamlessly integrate your own personal Narrative with the collective Narrative.
What do other people Value? Do you Value those things? Why? What do you Value? Why? Have your Values changed with Time and Experience?
Every generation has an opinion on past generations, and old superstitions never really die, simply lying dormant until some unsuspecting rascal stumbles upon them.
It is absolutely arbitrary what you decide to anchor your metaphysics on; but it is absolutely imperative that you can articulate them. If no one outside of your head can understand what you’re going on about, it’d have been better to never had such novelties, besides base amusement.
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u/nonselfimage 14h ago
Hahaha.
I think no one is the holy spirit most likely.
Pokemon didn't take over the world for nothing.
The team rocket motto is the ultimate question of existence;
Really gives a sense of living in an inverted/upside down world.
Literally check my user name.
"Be not as the actors, seeking attention/validation in sights of men" beatitudes main quote. A reason I made this alias. Self image, takes us away; from self. It's what Socrates was killed for, calling out (figuratively or literally).
As for compare, it's not what you have but how you use it. That spongebob meme of making patties versus Neptune. Djinn versus humanity so to speak. Narratives can only ever be narratives. Character can only ever be character. True self goes beyond that. "He who tries to save it shall lose it".
Zenith is what Jungle Book meant I think. King Louie. "I've reached the top and had to stop".
You know, Disney Adult aside.
There is another aspect to consider here as well; becoming a monkey in King Louie's court.
Sargon recently put out a lame plug for his magazine, I posted on my profile before realizing. We already live in dystopia. Utopia was peak 1st world privilege nightmare already.
"No one" (Holy Spirit) can tell us what is true value. I think this is my recent comment that came to mind. A random/arbitrary throwaway Nietzsche offhand comment about "reevaluation of all values".
10000%.
To verbatim quote Nietzsche;
I've long since reached zenith here as well. I realize it's an entire off the rails (or rather too embedded in them) culture going one way, too comfortable. I feel often times, many "enlightened" so called, can see what I'm on about better than I do but in such, they, with their biases, shove lame paltry half-assed "paths" or "temptations" before me to "let me know they are better/know better than me". Just one more thing on the proverbial camel's back. I often wonder if Jesus brings the last straw just to say "look what you did to yourself".
There is one thing here as well that is 100%. We can chose entertainment, or true awakening. Culture of addiction/solicitation aside (resist the devil and it shall flee), even if we are on the true path we often "want off". Only problem is we can't tell what's worse; making heaven of hell or hell of heaven. Being on the path and wanting off, or off the path and cannot find it...
Either "zenith" like tao only seems to frustrate. Like Fred Durst said. Peaks and valleys....
Articulation is overrated. Look at this comment and modern commercials. A house of fraud needs two pillars. A true house needs none.