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Question: Are addictions, religions, obsessions and pass times an escape from being alone with your mind!?
maybe people would rather not be left alone with there mind and reality!. thoughts such as!.!.!.
your born, you go to school, you go to work, you reproduce, you die!.
or the thought that you will die and not remember any experiences you had and every thing you did was without real purpose!.
is this why when people are not obsessing over work they are sure to be nocking them selfs out with alchohol or drugs!. or placing blind faith in a god who will grant them eternal life and peace!. or focus all there thought and energy to a hobby or sport or discipline etc!.
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you really need to stop thinking so much you are going to hurt yourself, I always was a firm believer in !.!.!.!.!.no such thing as a stupid question,,,but you just proved me wrong!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Don't have a lot of opinions about this!. Other than some about Religion and God!.
Properly understood, God gives us free will to persue our desires!. It pleases God when our desires are consistent with Gods!. And, that pleases us as God's children!.
Religion provides positive a views of life and ones relationship to life events!.
Drugs and alcohol fog the mind and create artificial views of one's life and one's relationals to others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
They could be!.Everybody perceives the world differently!. Some are happy to live and die and not expect eternal life elsewhere!. Some want more purpose in their life!. Some become alcohol and drug addicts which are illnesses!. Some believe in God!. Some are forever looking for happiness!.One thing is certain though whether you admit it or not, and that is :The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself!. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for!. This has nothing to do with "blind faith"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
well!.!.!.I consider spirituality (not necessarily religion) to be time spent alone with your mind, trying to understand things that are beyond your own comprehension!. so that I would rule out from your list - though I can understand why religion is on there, mindless religion does no one any good!. obsessions and addictions - yes!. they are ways to block yourself from reality!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I tend to agree with that!. I know that at some point when I am indeed alone with my mind , that the experience becomes almost pain ful to the point that I will seek out just about anything to concentrate on to keep from being alone with myself!. Why it is painful I don't know!.!.!.!. That is a subject to be meditated on!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
without addictions religons obsessions and pass times life would be too boring and no would be able to stand it!. minus the religon part you can live without that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
yer! people are bord but it's also peer presure andstuffWww@QuestionHome@Com
no, they do it for pure fun!.!.!.!.period!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Ancient pre-human ancestors were non-verbal!. They had little-to-no notion of grammar or language, and thus related to the world and their own inner selves very differently than we do now!.
The subjects you questioned are all emergent phenomenon, having emerged over the centuries with the discovery and mass-exploitation of language among the human species!. Whenever a modern human finds that they for whatever reason are experiencing the world without referencing language internally, they are perceiving the world from a very primordial place - a place which still lingers within us from a time when we were much more prone to being prey for other animals than we are today!. It's a place which in modern humans is labelled "fear" and "paranoia"!. It's not usually a very comfortable place!. The darkness we peer into during times of wordlessness is a terrifying thing, and a mirror that reveals who and what we are at the very core of our being!.
Some folks take a lifetime learning how to peer into that darkness without fear via meditation and vision quests and such!. Some folks never will be ready to face their true selves, and so they instinctively use tools of grammar to drown it out!. Grammar and its tools make for an extremely effective hiding place from the self!.
So yes, in many cases, what you say holds true!. Obsession with anything is often a subconscious urge to avoid thinking about or facing some other uncomfortable situation!. However, even some very quiet-minded folks do all those things and for reasons which are their own but which have nothing to do with fear!. Those things probably would never have emerged if people weren't so terrified to face the awesome scope of the world in which we live, but that doesn't mean their -only- practical use is as a hiding place!.Www@QuestionHome@Com