We're all materialists, it's just that some of us are more materialistic than others. So even though "man does not live by bread alone", we all need some bread to live by but what else do we need?
There's a hierarchy of needs ofcourse and these aren't all material needs but even our principles ultimately aid us materially. We need and should value principles, which are an abstraction until they bear fruit one way or the other, good or bad.
What is worth? That's at least as hard a question as "what is truth"? There's a poem by Bukowski where he says that death wants more death,for whatever that's worth. Maybe we should value nothing and maybe we should value everything. After all, life wants more life too!
"Playing the worth game, we have indeed pierced ourselves with many sorrows."
All part of a distorted and captured world, quickly collapsing. I think the question of worth may be 'up' because we will be grappling with it very soon - collectively.
Layers are coming off, and their attending identities, which came about in order to adjust to a slave system.
I look to Nature - which we're clearly part of - and I don't see questions of worth burdening anything. The distorted world itself created the conundrum maybe? Worth must be weaved into our very existence, like love. Beings of love have no quantifiable measurement. They just are - they are worth. The more we deepen into our natures, the more love, the more worth comes into being.
Or something like that. :-) Appreciate the reflection.
We're all materialists, it's just that some of us are more materialistic than others. So even though "man does not live by bread alone", we all need some bread to live by but what else do we need?
There's a hierarchy of needs ofcourse and these aren't all material needs but even our principles ultimately aid us materially. We need and should value principles, which are an abstraction until they bear fruit one way or the other, good or bad.
What is worth? That's at least as hard a question as "what is truth"? There's a poem by Bukowski where he says that death wants more death,for whatever that's worth. Maybe we should value nothing and maybe we should value everything. After all, life wants more life too!
"Playing the worth game, we have indeed pierced ourselves with many sorrows."
All part of a distorted and captured world, quickly collapsing. I think the question of worth may be 'up' because we will be grappling with it very soon - collectively.
Layers are coming off, and their attending identities, which came about in order to adjust to a slave system.
I look to Nature - which we're clearly part of - and I don't see questions of worth burdening anything. The distorted world itself created the conundrum maybe? Worth must be weaved into our very existence, like love. Beings of love have no quantifiable measurement. They just are - they are worth. The more we deepen into our natures, the more love, the more worth comes into being.
Or something like that. :-) Appreciate the reflection.