Welcome Back to Codgers and Computers!

I do apologize or my absence of late.  Life, as always, had commandeered my ship and ran it aground on a far off shore.  Though filled with trepidation, I soldiered on and have come back humbled but illuminated.  Wow,  I really am a pedantic bag o’ wind aren’t I.  Well, such is my contribution to this “digital space”.  What I lack in memes (sp) I make up or in florid language, that you too can misuse.

My continued efforts are still being aided by my good friends.  For some reason they think me interesting and profound in my ramblngs.  As such, if you are new here, these are the chronicles of the output of this archaic mind.  My continued mission, to explore strange new avenues of speculation.  To seek out new thoughts or reasonable facsimiles.  To boldly go where no sane or rational person has had need to go before.  Now, I don’t know about you but, as I wrote that all I could hear was Bill Shatners voice speaking it.  With that, let us “Engage” our query.  (Can’t leave out old Patrick can I?)

What Is the purpose of life?  Now, I know what you are thinking.  “Dear Lord In Heaven!  It is his third Blog (sp) Post and he is just barreling into this?  How could a nobody like this feel that he could shed any sort of light on this subject?  What could he possibly have to add that the greatest minds of our times have not?  What a presumptuous gobsh**e!!  My GOD I AM SPEAKING LOUDLY!!  WHERE IS THE TYLENOL!!!???”  All of this ire and stroke inducing rage is well founded.  And I empathize.  I really do.  But, let me refine the statement further.  I really want to make sure that the Trolls (sp) have sufficient ammunition to destroy any credibility I may yet have.  Then again I have none of that.  So, I have nothing to lose in continuing onward.  Bully for me eh?

So, to reframe my question.  What is the purpose of HUMAN life?  Not much better from the original but I feel, more to the point.  As we reenter an age of rampant disillusionment and disinformation,  our Personal identity erodes.  Our “selves” are under constant attack and that which is most important to “I” seems to be ever ebbing away.  We are in a constant state of chaos and terror as it is obvious that,  THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE IS BURNING TO CINDERS IN FRONT OF US!!!!.   This is a common feeling.  A completely normal feeling for any rational person to have.  It is a complete fabrication based on extremely narrow perspective.  But, it is completely reasonable.

I am in no way discounting your Emotions.  Emotions are a large part of the apparatus of the mind.  It is important to pay close attention and reverence to its experience.  It gives us the whole range of feelings and flavors that give life all its sumptuous brilliance.  It gives us Love and Hate, happy and sad,  comfort and depravity.  Emotions are the art of physical life.  The Crayons of existence.  And all manner of other metaphors.  But, do they actually do all that”?

Our Emotions are reactionary.  They tell us how we “feel” about things.  It does so by using our external sense apparatus.  When we see our loved ones it makes us Happy or it makes us Sad.  But,  do they?  Happy and Sad are words, not feelings.  They are avatars of our Emotions then.  But,  are they even that?  Our Emotions seem to be very illusive things and all we really can do is experience them.   Are they then not an end user?  Are they then really a filter?  Can I have more question marks in this paragraph?  I am starting to feel like Erik VonDaniken.

Ok well if our emotions aren’t 100% of the picture then what is the rest of the equation?  What is the opposite of emotion?  I know!  Pure Rational intellect!  The methodical application of rules and formulas!  Now I’ve switched to over using EXCLAMATION POINTS!!  If Emotions are the Crayons then Intellect are the precision made Black Pens.   You know,  like the kind you would get for graduating Uni in Economics.  So let us take that same scenario: When we see our loved ones it makes us Happy or Sad.  Well if we take that same experience and pass it through intellect, we can apply strict formulas to it.  “I see this person.  I have seen them in the past.  I am seeing them again.  They are about a meter away from my eyes.  They have grey hair.”  All of that is based on rational judgement of the situation.  It gives us reference for the methodical explanation of what our external senses are taking in.  But, does it really do that?  The intellect appears to really be just another filter.  Another sense organ only this time a virtual one.

Both Emotion and Intellect are merely filters.  Virtual sense organs.  You might be thinking, “Right, I was right. This ignoramus is the exact type of charlatan and fraud I believed him to be.  Way to go me! I am Brilliant! And he is decidedly not.”   You may well be correct.  Good show.  (Hands over Trophy).  But, You also might be thinking.  “Patrick,  if both Emotion and Intellect, which themselves are only words to an ineffable experience, are just filters for experience then what are they filtering towards?  And how does that relate to your ill conceived query ‘What is the Purpose of Human Life?’ Furthermore, how does it answer your query?”  Firstly,  You do love questions don’t you?  Secondly,  I will elucidate myself in the manner that is my way.  Through ignorant observation.

I will make this statement in response to our questions.  To my mind, the purpose of human existence is the Creation and Revelation of Meaning.

Now, that Meaning is created in/by what I refer to as “The Third Stage.”  If the Emotion filter is one stage and the Intellect the other then it follows then the third stage would be the culmination of the scrubbers.  The “TS” is “The True Man” , the Center the part of ourselves that is the most us.  It achieves this by taking in all the external sense inormation, passing it through the internal senses to give another level of information and passing it on to its End User: The “TS”.  I use the term the “Third Stage” because in much of my background and study it has come to me that there is no more important a number or shape or metaphor to human kind than 3 or, triangle or Ascendant being.  Plus it has a nice sci-fi ring to it eh?  Also it happens to be,  in my mind the Truth.

So,  What does the “TS” do.  Well this is the question that I myself am in constant fathoming of.  I know that from my perspective it creates meaning,  But,  not by combination of stimuli but by interpretation.  It takes in all this sense information and reconciles it into useful representations… Meaning, importance.   It does this separately from any perception available to us in our “conscious” minds.   It is the Hand that takes the Pen and draws a picture and fills it in with the Crayons.  Then and only then do we see and feel the pictures meaning and purpose to us.

This is our purpose.  It is allowing the ephemeral Hand of our true selves to combine the Pen and The Crayons to give all that we imbibe into Meaning.  By that Meaning we then have our True Lives.

As always,  Thank you so much for your time and attention.  It is an honor to be able to share my nonsensical ramblings with you.  I hope that your Digital Experience has been satisfactory (My helpful friends persuaded me that this is an important question to ask!).  I hope that your moments are packed full of Meaning and that they carry you swiftly into your next moments forever.

Your Humble Servant

Patrick Ames

P.S. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”  – Hermann Hesse