To think, to reason, to contemplate… Salvation of Saviors 11_series 369

Feodor Shkrudnev: To think, to reason, to contempl ate… 6 We discover something new for ourselves only when we are ready to receive this information. Until the right moment arrives, we do not even notice things that seem obvious to most. The strongest impetus for philosophical contemplation and metaphysical comprehension of the world around us comes from the awareness of impending death and the vision of the suffering and misery of life. If our life did not have an end and was not filled with suffering, then perhaps it might not occur to anyone to ask why the world exists and why it is exactly as it is. But on the other hand, we cannot break out of the patterns into which we have been driven, that limit our thinking about practically everything. PATTERNS GENERATE consumerist desires in Man . While being at their mercy, he is completely aimed in this direction. He is neither able to hear any thoughts unrelated to this direction, nor adequately respond to the situation. Adequately is not necessarily effectively. When people panic and run through a burning house, their actions are ineffective. But adequate. But if the father of the family sat down in a burning house to watch soccer, and the mother is putting the children to bed, no matter how effective their actions are, they are a priori inadequate for this situation. If we evaluate the consumer society from this point of view, it consists of inadequate people. Everyone is aware that they have a disease called “death.” No one doubts that they will die. Except that the awareness of the danger DOES NOT PROMPT anyone to seek a solution to the problem. Agree that it is rather strange that everyone wants to live until their death, and no one wants to live until their life. No one can intelligibly explain why people who know about death, who do not believe in the afterlife and religious techniques, do not respond to the acknowledged problem? I am sure that you, who are reading these lines now, are not responding either.