| USELESS INFORMATION AND THE BRAIN Life in this body of flesh is short. From birth to death one seeks out answers. One should not wait till the end of life to answer all questions. For one thing there will not be time, and one knows not when that time will be. The answers to the questions should be the guidelines of how you live your life. If you wait till the end of your life, the answers will be the guidelines of how you should have lived your life. This life has no guaranteed number of years or physical condition. To some life is too wonderful to waste time with difficult questions. To others life is such a struggle, there is no time for difficult questions. The truth is, that life is questions and questions is life, for life is decisions without end . The more difficult the question the more rewarding the answer. To answer only easy or simple questions, is to live weak as a child. To those too busy for difficult questions, you should seek a more simple lifestyle as religion and philosophy suggest. Perhaps your busy lifestyle is but a mask to evade difficult questions you feel are too complicated . The truth is, most people create this hectic or busy lifestyle to avoid facing the questions, for the answers require sacrifice. Why face sacrifices and lifestyle changes when you can just plead ignorance ,or say it’s all too complicated, I just don‘t have the time. We all have the same brain capacity , yet most will fill theirs with useless information, as to compete with others who store useless information. Like their friends or peers, as to prove they are smarter by knowing more useless information than someone else. Useless information such as… Musical bands, their names, their songs, their likes, their dislikes, movies, movie stars, who they date, producers, directors, styles, fashion, designer names, athletes , teams, games, scores, ect…. These interest are not without talent but they are here today and gone tomorrow . There is no greatness in these things. There is no answers. There is nothing to take past this life of flesh, only memories of things that won’t exist. What a waste , the mind thirst for answers, so you tell it to concern itself with the same useless questions others concern themselves with, to continue life as a child. This is the playing ground for evil, just confuse the facts a little, add some confusion to an already devastating weakness for mankind. They will give up easy, or easily be sidetracked to unimportant interest or information . The weak try to justify their childish behavior, by labeling those that ask the difficult questions. So many of the young intelligent repress their minds true thirst, to easily fit into the weak groups. Soon repression becomes negative affirmations and just like all affirmations, you keep telling your brain something, and it will believe and get easier to ignore the thirst. The brain adapts to its environment and the young intelligent becomes just another storage vessel of useless information. The human brain is a sponge it stores information, it classifies this information of importance by repetition. The more you see or hear something, the higher its status. This is why affirmations work. You tell yourself something on a daily basis, like I’m a good person, or I will accomplish a lot today and this will work by training the brain, a mild form of brainwashing. Now imagine the damage done to a young mind spent in countless hours of listening to music. What may have started as appreciation of a certain style or combination of notes, results in nothing short of brainwashing. Complete acceptance of the music, language, mannerisms and ideas. Once the brainwashing is complete they want to dress like them, cut their hair like them, act like them and most of all defend them to those that are not brainwashed. The band whoever it is, is here today and gone tomorrow nothing of greatness, yet the young mind is overwhelmed, you can see a physical and mental change. I used music in this example, but I could have used any other form of useless information. Music is not dangerous as long as you don’t take it to serious, that’s why they call it playing music. It’s for entertainment, here today gone tomorrow, nothing of greatness. Styles and designer names have even a shorter life span, important only to the stylish who tend to gather in their groups to critic each other. Most of that group believe everyone else is either too poor or tasteless to compete in a stylish manor. A person like myself just doesn’t care, only sees it as more useless information and a huge waste of time, effort and money. An intelligent mind would look for good value and comfort, anything else only serves vanity. There has been many types (or styles) of clothes in our history. The word style meaning, distinctive form or way of doing something, which would cover all types of clothes. Stylish however is a adjective, meaning fashionable or sophisticated, these words are used to separate into groups . However the word sophisticated is missed used here, in an effort of justification. The word sophisticated means, knowledgeable about the ways of the world, self confident and not easily deceived. No statement concerning wearing clothes or not wearing clothes of any type. Only an effort to associate themselves with worldly, self confident, intelligent people. So now stylish is reduced to fashionable, or is it ? Fashionable has two definitions, the first is, currently popular; following a style or fashion currently popular. This definition would include the poor and the rich, style and fashion, whatever is currently popular with any group. The second definition is, trendy ; popular with or frequented by rich, famous or otherwise glamorous people . Trendy , now there’s the word that fits with vanity. Trendy, also reflecting the latest fad; deliberately reflecting or adopting fashionable often faddish ideas or taste. If you are trendy, if this definition fits you, that’s your business , but don’t confuse yourself as being stylish or fashionable. Most of all don’t deceive your own brain, that because of this you are sophisticated (worldly, self confident, and intelligent), these attributes have nothing to do with what you wear. Again all this time, effort and money, wasted on useless information, that is here today and gone tomorrow, nothing of greatness. There is nothing wrong with looking good, people have done so in every style that man has come up with so far. The truth is, if you went into a room filled with beautiful women, dressed in the most expensive gowns, and picked out what you thought was the most beautiful one. Then took her into another room, had her dressed in clothes from a different time period, and returned to the others, you would still think she was the most beautiful in the room, and nothing she could wear will change that. Of the examples of useless information I gave, I randomly chose two, music and clothes. Not to pick on them in particular, only to make my point of how the brain works. Unless it is purposely trained by you, as to what is important, it will train itself from what it hears and sees the most. It could just as easily learn new skills, rather than just more useless information. This behavior effects everyone, including those successfully focused in one direction, as being financially successful, or successful in other aspects of their lives. Their success does not mean, they store less useless information, or fill their mind with less interest than you. All of these interest are few in a long list of distractions, from which humans pick their favorite, to occupy their time and idle brain function, to avoid difficult questions and answers. In each individual the brain thirst for answers, some stronger than others. Some require drugs and or alcohol, in addition to a or many distractions, in order to num this natural thirst. Most wander from interest to interest, or distraction to distraction, throughout their life suppressing the thirst . They end up with nothing, but the thirst , useless information, and regrets. If humans lived the simple life, that was intended for them by their creator, useless information would not be such an effective weapon by evil. For in honoring the father and mother, questions and answers were passed on generation after generation with only minor distractions. Parents felt responsible to pass on this information, and children felt responsible to receive it. Now parents and children ignore their responsibilities, they are too busy, too many interest and distractions. The result is children leave home without knowing what their parents believe, or their grandparents or their great grandparents, or anybody of which they came. The wisdom of all that life, their family tree, their heritage, is lost because they are to busy with useless information and interest. Evil never had it so easy, just make fun things to do, the pattern of behavior is already established. It would seem the Amish and Mormon religions are attempts to correct this problem by simplifying or continuing a simple lifestyle. As I am sure other groups also separate themselves, in an attempt to regulate outside useless information. I applaud their efforts, at least they recognize how devastating this evil is to the human brain and mankind as a whole. If those individuals leave this world, having passed on what they believe to their children, their sacrifices have been justified. Of all humans I have met of these groups, I have been impressed by their love, for they make sacrifices and sacrifices only come from love. I won’t pretend to understand completely each of these religions or to group them together. They like all others gathered to serve GOD, are full of good people, with good intentions and good deeds. I do believe in a simpler lifestyle, and passing on ones beliefs, as should be obvious. However useless information can’t be eliminated, only reduced, therefore slowing down time would be less effective than managing time. Life on this planet is basically the same, regardless of what modern era you live in. Distractions are everywhere, for invention continues throughout, for invention is a divine hand, pushing us on an exact timetable, to that unavoidable final scene. Invention is not evil, but what you do with it, or deviate from it is what defines you. For to ignore its worth, would be as to hide in a closet, and not risk good or bad evaluation. Invention is a large part of distractions, but not the strongest, still at number one since the very beginning is sex. And a lot of useless information, has its connection thru its application or association with sex. Which brings me to this question, to those who would seek a simpler lifestyle from invention, yet complicate their lives with multiple wives. What’s up with that ? I know when I am in love, that woman is constantly on my mind. In everything I do, I find myself asking, How would this effect her? How would she feel about this? What can I do to please her? How can I make her life better? and so on. Although this is the most pleasant of distractions, it is a distraction none the less. Your mind wanders to the evening hours, and how they may be spent with that special someone. Whose special talents or needs, fill your mind randomly and frequent. Then compound these distractions many times, with multiple wives and the fact most of these wives are inexperienced young girls for older men. What man wouldn’t be happily overwhelmed, and mentally occupied with sex? I say this not to attack this lifestyle, only to point out, this is not a simpler lifestyle for anyone involved. The truth is, you can’t stop the mind from wandering randomly and frequently on a wide variety of useless information and interest. What you must do, is recognize these things for what they are, and their real value. You must not be overwhelmed by any of them, and you must limit their numbers. They are not illuminating as to light your path, nor called a necessity. For none of these things could be called virtuous, and none could be called of greatness. One should limit and arrange these distractions, as to not interfere with what is important, seeking out the truth, and spending time with family, to either learn this truth, or pass it on to the next generation. What one should not do, is arrange their life or time with their family, for the sake of these distractions or useless information, for they have no real value. |