Life, the universe, time, space, fate, folly, and everything else..

A couple of bits....

Many years ago, my bride was diagnosed bipolar. As it turns out, that condition was brought on by the drugs she was taking to treat fibromyalgia. Adjusting her meds, diet, and exercise habits brought her back to the real world, more or less.

Of course, we are both a bit loopy by nature. We met at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting :)

Concerning person A and person B...

I work part time for a major retailer as a cashier. I interact with a huge variety of the human race and there are some things that tweak me quite a bit. The most recent was while operating the "10 items or less" isle.

Two women approached my register with an overflowing cart. I'm not allowed to turn them away, or even mention that they have way too many items. Both were well dressed. One was talking on her cell phone, while the younger one was texting. I tried to be friendly, which is a job requirement, and received a "who the hell are you to bother me" glare.

I figured they were upper middle class snobs (person A) that wanted nothing to do with a lowly cashier (person B) and continued in silence.

They payed with a government benefits card.

I could have bit a steel beam in two.

I work my butt off and hold down two jobs just so I can feed my family. I don't have a cell phone. I don't waste my money on fancy clothes, and MY TAXES are providing these things for jerks that act like I'm below them and don't give a rosy red rats rear end about everyone in line behind them who actually read the 10 item sign. They are too damn important for such things.

The rudeness of the rich without the money.

I'm gonna' go cry...

On the other side of the coin was a guy wearing distressed cut off jeans and a tee shirt who bought some store brand snacks. I recognized him, and we talked for a bit. He is a retired engineer.

Back in the C band satellite days, he developed and marketed equipment that produced enough loot for him to be comfortable for the rest of his life.

The contrast is striking.

"The contrast is striking" - w0ttm

Yeah, it is!

You are accutely aware that something is "wrong" - there is "injustice" and "unfairness" - to you, to the retired engineer, and to many other good people.

And this upsets you, because you expect things to be fair..

And you are "right" to expect things to be "fair"..

What I am saying is that this idea of "fairness" is an illusion based on a delusion - strip away the primary delusion and the resulting delusions and illusions will dissapear.

We wont feel "wronged" by "injustice" anymore - But we probably wont feel anything we now recognise as "normal"..

Cannot actually go into this in depth without "publishing" part 2, LOL ;-) .. I think I have found a way to "balance" the "truth" against the "reality" - For me, it gives an "understanding" of why things are as they are, on a day-to-day basis .. It changes the focus of my anger - I am not angry with people anymore - no matter how awful they are to me or others.. I get angry at ideas and fictions - but there is a different "quality" to this kind of anger.

I cannot "see" most of the causitive elements, but I know they must be there.. the " upper middle class snobs that wanted nothing to do with a lowly cashier " (and these are NOT a "person A" "person B" classified as in my previous - If anything, in this case, the "lowly cashier" was "person A" and the "middle class snobs" were "person B") had THEIR matrix determining their behaviour - they (given their lives and influences) were just behaving in the way that they were destined to behave - What they did was "written" at the start of time - just as your "I could have bit a steel beam in two" was written before our sun was formed..

And knowing this takes the 'edge' off ones anger at least - We are all just actors playing out our roles.

Fred.

Added ->

" I'm not allowed to turn them away, or even mention that they have way too many items."

This, IMO, is one of the ways that the "system" undermines itself - In order for the "causitive matrix" to operate effectively, there needs to be corrective feedback - By being too "soft" and by "disempowering" people from giving "corrective feedback" the individuals suffer no adverse concequences for their actions - so they will not correct their behaviour (and others, seeing that there are no concequences for this sort of behaviour, are more likely to emulate it). If we are to live with the delusory mechanisms which "govern" our dealings with each other, then we need to be as consistant as possible .. failure to observe / implement this makes the flawed mechanisms even more unworkable.

"We met at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting"

LOL ;-)

Great stuff! - Wonderful how the matrix works..... ;-)

And now you are at TW, and own a theremin..... ;-) Man - Fiction certainly is stranger than reality at times ..

I sometimes think about the "what if .. we are some dispersed "entity" which "split up" just to experience our fantasies in "multiplexed" mode.. LOL  .. And I go "nah - the plot is just too ridiculous to have been thought up by anything with any kind of brain....."