legitimacy: the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity
is loving something concrete more valid than loving something abstract ?
like can you love "beauty" even tho beauty is in the eye of the beholder ?
can you love a abstract concept like art and be in a concrete relation with it ?
you may say that a painting is art but its not the painting itself its what it represent that is art "ceci n'est pas une pipe" and if you dont like that painting you might say; "that aint art thats crap!"
but can you be legitimate in loving art even tho "art is in the eye of the beholder" ?
so what if someone paints with his own poop ? some people will find it abject and wont allow it to be considered art because it doesnt fit with their model of what art is
like how some people could not see the blues as a valid art form some time ago because it was done by the wrong crowd
what im saying is that imo legitimacy is in the eye of the beholder
and like in those art discussion you end up with people who dont agree that there aint no true rule on what art is and is not because ultimately art is a subjective experience but still some people have to view it as having some kind of rule that needs to be followed or else it can be disqualified as true legitimate art
but then if you are following rules to get there how much of it is still art ? it becomes more of a painting by numbers kind of art, it becomes formalistic, it becomes entertainment if it aint free of convention imo
art for itself is free of form but you can divide art in different genre like music, dance, painting...and then you can divide those in different category...
and those different genre or category have rules to differentiate this from that and some people have rules to differentiate what art is and what its not but even tho those rules are simply their rules and even if they share it with a bunch of other people it doesnt make it valid to some others who share a different experience in regards to art
so what if picasso would have being a scatophile who like to paint with his own poop from time to time, to him it would be as valid as using a brown brush, so you would have his blue period and his brown period and no one would complain until someone would discover that he wasnt using paint in his brown period and what was once consider art by some would now be disqualified as being art because some people would now have a different experience when looking at those paintings
but some people wouldnt care if its poop or not, it still would be art to them
but that wouldnt change the mind of people who have decided it wasnt art anymore and if those people want to believe that art is something that they know more about than others making them the ruler of what is and what isnt art then they are gonna believe that they are right and others who dont agree are simply wrong
but art is as much a abstract concept as reality is, and it doesnt mater how much concrete the experience of holding a brush or a instrument is, or how you can feel sound on a physical level with your body, sound isnt music, what turns sound into music is your concept of what differentiate music from sound, which is to say art, so sound is concert but art is abstract, the painting is a concrete representation of a abstract concept
so it doesnt mater if reality is a concrete experience, its still a abstract concept
some people have real concrete experience with god, but it aint because its music to then that its gonna be anything else but sound to you, but in this case its more like a silence that they can ear as music, so that to you god will only be a abstract concept with no real concrete experience attach to it because you define your reality using different parameter, using different rules for what is and what is not
but that doesnt make believers experience any less legitimate because they are experiencing it and you are not because you want to see and experience things differently than they do because you have chosen to go that way
so that the placebo effect works if you believe it works
and it aint because you know that there is no god(active ingredient) inside the pill that there is no god(active ingredient) in their faith that makes it work, but then thats why it works, they create a active ingredient(god) within themself, they create the placebo effect by having faith that the pill(reality) isnt a placebo(empty)
it works, its science, the placebo effect is a real phenomenon with measurable result, you can alter your reality simply by believing its something its not, but then is it not something if it is working ? what if for you prayer works every time, and that the more you have faith the better result you get ! how would that not be legitimate even from a scientific point of view ? and there is research already about how praying can have health benefit, and its the same as the placebo effect but thats not a argument against it, im not discrediting it by calling it a placebo effect, its like what jesus was saying that : the kingdom of god is within
it aint in the pill, it aint in the church, it aint in the bible, it aint outside of yourself, it is within your own subjective experience and that is a abstract concept
if you experience it as art then it is art to you, if you experience it as god then it is god to you
and it doesnt mater if someone doesnt see it as art or as god, those people who can experience it are having a legitimate experience that is as real as dreaming every night
it aint because that dreams arent "real" that they dont exist
it aint because imagination isnt "real" that it doesnt exist
it aint because art, beauty, music, reality, god, inspiration, love...are abstract concept that they cant be experienced on a concrete level
so what if some people want to eat fast food even tho its unhealthy or do drugs and have unprotected sex or do some extreme sport or go above the speed limit, dress up all wrong...
people should imo be free to do whatever as long as they dont arm others
guns should be legal, drugs should be legal, religions should be legal
we already have laws that deals with bad behavior, we dont need more
or else you turn people into babies in diaper
trying to regulate beliefs will only lead to more problems
trying to impose what you believe is the truth will only lead to more problem no mater how much you believe you are right
because in the end imo reality is as much subjective as it is objective and if you impose one side as being more "true" than the other than youll create unbalance
because not everyone will agree
so it doesnt mater how much good and true you think you are doing it you still are gonna fuck it up for someone else, hitler fucked it up for some just as much as jesus fucked it up for some, thats why he ended up on a cross, ghandi fucked it up for some thats why we heard about him, those Tibetan Buddhist monk as peaceful as can be are still fucking it up for someone who wants them out of there, so even if you do good all your life you still gonna end up doing arms by dying, youll hurt people by not being there anymore, and if you are hated by everyone then its the other way around, your death will be celebrated, youll make people happy
you cant do good without doing any arm, or doing arm without doing any good
shit always balance itself out, thats imo the nature of reality
so that if you are trying to do good by imposing one side more than the other because from your experience you are right because you are able to make sense of it all and conclusion : you are right and thats not your ego talking its logic and reason because even tho every night you get caught up believing that those dreams are real you sure cant be fooled by reality right now and start thinking that your logic and reason might have a bias at their foundation
if objective reality built from a foundation which is your own subjective experience then your own subjective experience builds from a foundation which is objective reality
its like a tree feeding off the ground nutrients with its roots just as much as the sun light with its branches
so that a trees branches are as good as its roots and its roots are as good as its branches
and the tree isnt contradicting itself by growing in and out (or up and down) at the same time, those are complimentary
logic and reason are as good as the heart they are standing on
Hitler had brain(cerebral intelligence) but he didnt have the heart(emotional intelligence), he was influence by Darwin and Nietzsche but that didnt help to make him right or good or true
he had a huge bias from the heart and he ended up with fucked up conclusion
he could use his brain and rationalize everything he was doing, he could use reason and logic and end up with evil
the brain isnt a computer disconnected from your body, its a bio-computer that works for your body for the sake of survival
its self serving, your ego is there to tell you to eat as much for yourself unless giving some to others will be good for you on a larger scale
we are machine made for survival and we fight to win the race
we fight against each other to know whos right
but we are in a situation where we are the biggest thread to ourself
we need to learn to work together
and if you think you are more deserving and should have a bigger part of the cake you create a situation where someone will mimic that behavior and he will think he deserve a bigger part of the cake too
and it wont mater if you are right or wrong (from your perspective) anymore, because you made it wrong by thinking you were right
you made it wrong for somebody else by thinking you were right more than they where because then you incite them to do the same, because we learn by mimicking each other
so you think that you are right from a objective perspective and think that thats more important than your subjective perspective but from someone outside yourself your objective perspective is his subjective experience and your subjective perspective is his objective reality
so that what goes around comes around and if you dont balance the two side within yourself then its gonna balance itself out outside yourself, and thats real, thats reality, thats objective reality, and it doesnt mater if you decide it aint art, you aint the ruler (despite what your ego might led you to believe) of what is and what isnt art, and you aint the ruler on what is and what isnt true outside yourself, no one owns objective reality, i dont have a better grasp at it then the baby pooping his diaper, but i do own myself, i have a good grasp over my subjective experience, i can control myself, but i cant control others unless they agree with me, so that the more encompassing of others i become the more in control i can be, but then you dont become in control of them, you just get more and more in control of yourself, because the more you lets yourself being destabilize by conflicting and contradicting view, the less your ego is in control over you, the more flexible it becomes, and flexible muscle arent weak, they actually are better, they are less prone to injuries, the more you can learn to let go the more you can go with the flow, and rivers turn left and right and the current turns left and right, its very yielding but somehow that makes it strong because gravity makes it strong, it receive gravity and use it to its advantage
if you let yourself fall youll accumulate energy, that will result in a acceleration
you can use that to your own good, if you do any kind of physical activity you need to use that dynamic, thats how you learn to walk
you need gravity to walk forward, or even to go up, you cant walk upstairs if there is no gravity pushing you downstairs, you need something going in the opposite direction, so that the opposite sex is as complimentary as opposite views are complimentary as roots are opposite and complimentary to its branches counterpart
one side isnt more true than the other, because it needs the other side to have a point of reference in regard to itself, its foundation is the other side
so that if you come up with some objective truth they are the result of subjective experiences, but those experiences would have lead different result if you were someone else,
we are here because someone had sex at some point
and we are here to have more sex
and thats what your brain is for, to get better result at survival
but if we are still killing each other over im right you are wrong and we cant agree to disagree, which means agreeing and disagreeing at the same time which would create a paradox that some would feel is a compromise instead of a completion
but if you feel its a compromise you wont be happy as much as if you can see it as a completion where opposites are complimentary which makes it so that the dynamic between the two is equal on both side resulting in a perfect balance within itself so that we can finally have peace
but if both side still want to be right and dont agree to disagree then their ego is still more in control then they are so that they cant find balance within themself so that they cant bring balance outside themself and we cant have peace because they are not at peace with themself
so then its somebody elses fault if things arent working in the world, and religion is the cause of all wars, or infidels are making god angry or whatever...
the truth from the brain isnt any more true than than the truth from the heart
both are working for your genitals for the sake of survival
so truth is something we made up in regards to our chance of survival
and it aint only about quantity more than it is about quality
so that if you spend all your time in your head you might end up unhappy about life, being a intellectual doesnt automatically makes you happier in life, its usually the opposite because most people dont think too much because they dont have too, so that we live in a culture that is pretty dumb and the more you are obvious to that the sadder it can get.
so would you rather have happy children with average intelligence or sad children with above average intelligence ?
what if your truth makes people unhappy ? depression can lead to suicide, and that aint a good scenario for your genital if what they were aiming for when they put up a brain on top of the heart was to get better chance at survival followed by a better quality of life..
so basically the truth from you brain is as good as its need to be by your genitals
and its the same for your heart
and it aint because someone decide that the brain is the true truth and that our genitals should be hidden and go back to europe when they would dress up like they were going to a funeral when they were going to the beach and that from their point of view those half naked african dancing around and playing syncopated beat where savage with no morality and that made then obviously inferior to the high wig powder standard of the European elite who could not dance for shit with their tight ass morality
and later on elvis was the music of the devil due to his african influence and the way he was shaking his hips..
and now a day we dont wear much to the beach but we still do get caught up in the idea that our own genital are somehow to be hidden from view because we still arent completely at peace with them
slavery in the Americas brought a huge African influence into European culture
and it was much fucking needed
it brought back a balance that had being lost
dancing around half naked under the influence in a sexual climate that might be promiscuous while listening to syncopated beats that might sound primal and sexually suggestive doesnt make you in any way immoral or inferior or a bad person or unevolve and it wont destroy society and turn everyone into a animal
hiding your genitals doesnt make them go away and it doesnt magically puts you in charge by avoiding them, if we wouldnt care about them we wouldnt care to show them (as in we wouldnt care to hide them)
we still live in a reality that is the domain of the brain, except that we aint suppose to do drugs because they make reality a whole lot more flexible and end up with experiences that contradicts what you have being lead to believe...
so lets hide the drugs and the genitals, actually lets make it illegal to do drugs and walk around naked because our fragile reality could not deal with so much deviousness, and lets not breastfeed in public either thats way too much suggestive and if you have any sexual though about it youll loose your firm grip on reality
avoiding parts of ourself just doesnt work, we need to work as a team, as a whole
objective reality doesnt involve your brain more than your heart or your genitals
but it does involve you as a whole more than it does you as a individual part
the brain alone cant survive without a heart, and it wouldnt be here if it werent for sex
and whatever truth we make up and believe in is only there to serve a whole
and if you take the whole of humanity the truth is gonna be whatever gives humanity as a whole a better chance of survival and post that a better quality of life
objective truth means shit unless it has a purpose
and if that purpose is to legitimate your own experience more than the experience of others than imo you are doing it wrong
the whole idea that African were inferior because they didnt fit the European standard was bullshit and it is no different (from my perspective) than atheist thinking that believer are not legitimate in their belief
thinking that you are more true than anyone else makes you egotistic
and i think that im more true than you but i only do so within myself, so im only more true in regards to my own reality, that doesnt make me more true to you because you are not me
so i can be 100% egotistic within myself because that is who i am, but on the outside its both me and you, both me and others, both me and the outside world, half my subjective reality and half our objective reality
and if its half and half then it aint egotistic, it only become so when its more me than you because im more right than you (from MY own perspective)
the ego can create a viscous circle where the more you have the more you want
but its like any addiction where you dont actually get more because what you want isnt necessarily what you need and quantity doesnt = quality
the more well balance you are the more healthier you get and the better you feel and the easier it is to deal with contradiction or conflicting situation
if you allow others to be as right as you are then you allow your own contradiction and your own failure as not so much of a problem, because you learn to walk by falling, you learn to do it right by trial and error, you need to fall to learn how to rise
if you allow others to be right from their own perspective even tho they are wrong from your own then you allow yourself to be as much wrong as you are right so that whatever you are doing can be a completion to whatever else you were doing so that you can start feeling as a whole,
so that playing the game of duality (2) can lead you to become one (1)
so that duality leads to unity, within yourself as much as with the rest of the universe, in and out, back and forth
and back and forth is what your parents were doing before you came to be, thats where you started and thats where you can go back, feeling one with it all, at peace, in motion but standing still, balancing, in and out, back and forth
