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It would be unfortunate to to think that this guy is saying the same things that we have heard before and all along. It is all about what we "feel".

Nothing could be farther from the truth. I am not talking about what we "feel" or "sense". That is the stuff in the psychology primers. That is not what I am talking about at all. Indeed all psychology or related sciences and medicine are only dealing with symptoms and not the causes. The causes never even occur to anyone.

They get so entangled with the complexity of feelings that it never seems logical even to ask why we are feeling the way we are feeling. I claim that the feelings are manufatured by unknown causes and are not random and are in fact purposeful and can be deadly and are directed externally. I will prove this to you now.

Do you ever think why we "feel" at any time the way we do. Do you know how you feel on a Monday. Pretty normal, nothing unusual. But what happens on a Saturday night? We seem to lose all inhibitions and want to do strange things like getting blasted. The normal reaction is that 'Oh it is party time and a time to releax and enjoy'. And if you are not strong enough you will even go over board and do something irrational and think nothing of it and then in the morning the feeling is "gone". You can ask a psychologist or any other expert what happened here. The standard answer is going to be that it is how we "feel". I am saying that the feeling is "pushed" and is manufactured and supplied and intensified. They will also say that the changed feelings on a Saturday are simpply the 'peer pressure' or are 'catchy' from others or is the 'demonstation effect'. That is prepostereous. There are people that are totally unaffected by any Saturday or Sunday or anything. How come they are not 'feeling' it. If you think like the psychologist or the psychiatrists that the feelings are created or affected by what others are doing then think about this: The response is begging the question! Who felt different first on a Saturday so that it got to everybody else subsequently? See the problem? Never mind. let me tell you what is a happening and what to do about it.

The Destroyer is behind it (and it is part of you) and knows exactly what strings to pull to have the desired effect, your misery and unhappiness. The Preserver ( and it is part of you also) is always nudging you to stop and go home but nothing it can do. These 2 forces are the authors of all that happens anywhere and everywhere. These forces are both large and extensive and operate at all levels. There is also the force of Balance (and it is part of you also) that never allows either one to win completely. ( by the way this is not the Hegelian thesis, antithesis and the synthesis. This has nothing to do with that and I do not want to go around discussing that here). Suffice it to say that I never read Hegel or anybody for that matter!). Have you noticed why it does not rain for ever and drown eveybody out completely. It stops! Why the storm does not just keep going and get stronger and stronger but instead dies down? Of course, I will be told the usual accepted things that the storm dies down because the pressures get equalized or the wind velocity drops. But you see these explanations from the weather man and the scientist may be very "causal" to the general public and to themselves but they are not causal at all. Again, they are just symptoms. I mean, what caused the pressure differential in the first place so as to generate the storm? And why the differential is sever in some cases and on some days and on other days it is not so bad. I mean the rotation of the earth and the power of the sun are the same pretty much year after year, yet we have exteme variation without any apparent explanation. A causal explanation in the sense I am looking for is not in any book. The book only tells you the storm track, where it originated and detailed fgures on the wind velocity, temperature and touchdowns and is very impressive but does not tell me anything. Indeed I might as well not have even read the book and not the worse for  it! Because the guy who read all the weather reports and analyses and the figures does not know any more than me and yet I did not read a single book! Instead there is just acceptance on everybody's part that simply accepts the status quo and assumes that that is the way things are and that that is supposed to be causal and sientific enough. In other words, the scientific explanations are causal only in a less than ultimate sense but that in some ultimate sense science has no explanation of anything at all. If you do not believe this then think about this counter- example. Science maintanis that you catch the common cold because you get exposed to the flu virus!. Is that true? If that was the case then each breakout of flu would expand to everybody that was exposed to it. But you know for a fact that a whole lot of people, although exposed to the virus, never get it. Of course at this point they will counter with all kinds of congenital or the antibodies arguments and a whole bunch of similar arguments. But that only pushes the problem one level deeper and as I was saying you will get just what I said earlier, an explanation which is causal only in a less than ultimate sense.

May be this is not making any sense. So let us look at it another way. The scientists themselves are aware that they only "discover" things and how items interact with each other or how they behave and they know that they do not have the reason for anything. The items they discover do not explain anyhting. They just are and their discovery is then put to use, if any, for our daily lives. For example, we discovered that water or any liquid will try to maintain its level if found at 2 or more levels and if connetected. We use this Law (anythig we cannot explain, and have to accept is given this exalted stauts of 'Law', like Newton's Laws of Motion!) in many ways like in the water supply systems for cities. But did anybody ever try to find out why water has to maintain its level. That is what I am talking about. This is actually part of a larger problem of what is "Knowledge" which I cannot addres here but may be elsewhere. This is even more murky and disturbing.

Think about it!

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