Reality doesn't care about philosophy

Birds don't care about ornithology, and the stars don't care about astronomy. Plants don't care about biology, and God doesn't care about theology.

Thinking meditation

In most forms of meditation, you have to learn to let thoughts come and go. They are like cars passing by in the street outside. They are nothing to pay attention to. You notice them and then continue with your practice.

Another way of dealing with thoughts is to listen to them carefully. What is going on here? How can my brain produce so much crap, nonsense, and nasty stuff? How can I be so grumpy, small-minded, petty, and stupid? I want to be a good person.

So, because you don't want to listen to all this BS, you turn on the internet on your mobile phone or your TV set. If you are driving a car, you will probably turn on the radio. I have used this strategy all my life, and it works quite well. I don't want to hear all the stupid shit my mind produces.

However, if you continue listening to your mind a little longer, you can learn more about yourself. You can also challenge yourself, your ideas, beliefs about the world, lies, pretexts, justifications, rationalizations, and spinning. You can discover that you also have genuinely warm and not stupid thoughts. You can find that you don't have just two voices inside your head, one good and one bad. Moreover, you can also discover that one part of you is observing the internal debates.

This is thinking meditation.  

Miracles

Brain scientists and Buddhists claim that the sense of self, the ego, is an illusion. But isn't the world itself an illusion? Isn't the world as we know it created in the brain? Your eyes detect light waves and convert them into nerve impulses that are transported to the brain, where an edited video is formed. But this is not the reality—it's just an edited tiny fraction of it. As Kant said, what you experience is not the reality itself but the reality for you.

What would the world look like if no one was there who could perceive it? More than 99% of an atom consists of space between the nucleus and the electrons. According to the physicists, "the real world" is an endless empty space with a few elementary particles here and there bouncing about.

Are synchronicities, ESP, and miracles real, or are they delusions? Isn't everything a miracle? The more you learn about life and how a living cell and living organisms are constructed, the more astonished you will become.

So, you conclude there must be a superior intelligence behind it all, and you become religious. You become a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, or something New Agey. This is a mistake, I think. You don't need all the junk that comes with religion to marvel at the great mystery.

Postmodernism, relativism and reality

There are thousands of different religions, philosophies, and political ideologies worldwide and billions of homemade beliefs and worldviews. Scientists also speculate and assume. They can also make mountains out of molehills. They wouldn't have much to say if they were only to discuss what they had clear, irrefutable evidence for, much less write voluminous books. They don't know how the universe came to be, how life originated, whether life exists on other planets, what consciousness is, what electrons and quarks consist of, etcetera.

We don't know where we are coming from and why we are here. We make assumptions and create hypotheses, conduct experiments to find proof, pray and meditate, and become convinced that we finally have it right — but we don't. We later understand that we were wrong. So we try again. We can't live without phantasies, stories, assumptions, and beliefs. To be human is to live in a virtual reality. This is our habitat. It's not possible to live in "the real world." It's like fish who can't live out of water.

However, aren't some religions and ideologies worse than others? Is not nazism worse than socialism? Is Baptism not better than Wahabism? Is not the scientific standard model better than The Old Testament?

Who shall be the impartial supreme judge?

And what about hallucinations? People with schizophrenia, for example, can see things that don't exist in the real world. And deluded people believe in things that are crazy. 

And what about Fake news? Both social and mainstream media disseminate lies—and truths.

The idea that the truth is what is the truth for you is not the truth.

Reality is not what you think it is.

Contempt for politicians

I don't like Hamas, and I don't like Hizbollah. I don't like Netanyahu and his right-wing extremist government. I don't like al-Assad, and I don't Like Erdoğan. I don't like Zelensky, and I don't like Putin. I don't like Biden, Kamala Harris, Anthony Blinken, and Trump. I don't like their neo-liberal, neo-conservative, American exeptionalist agenda. I don't like Keir Starmer, and I don't like Macron. I don't like our right-wing government here in Sweden, and I don't like the opposition. I can't think of any politicians in any country that like.

There is no future for humanity with all these war-crazy meatheads at the helm.

Mental cover

You label yourself as something.

You are a Sunni or a Shia Muslim

a humanist or a Baptist.

You belong to a group or a clan

a tribe or a gang.

You have an identity.

You are Jewish or Greek, Arab or American.

Why is it so difficult, do you think?

to just be a human being?

You are a rightist, a leftist, or a liberal. 

You are an intellectual, an artist, or a plumber. 

You are black or white, sis or binary. 

You have to be something.

You have to have a mental cover.

Democracy

77 million Americans voted for Trump, 74 million voted for Harris, and 89 million eligible voters did not bother to vote. 

In the UK, 9.7 million voted for Keir Starmer, 6.8 million voted for Rishi Sunak, and 3,5 million voted for Ed Davey. 19.3 million did not vote.

In the second round of the last French presidential election, 18.8 million voted for Macron, and 13.3 million voted for Marine LePen. 13.6 million did not vote, and 2.2 million voted blankly.

Turnout in the last election to the European Parliament was 51%. 200 million eligible voters ignored it.

Many people think that party politics is important, especially in the mainstream media, but a large, heterogeneous group give a fuck about who becomes president or prime minister.

Moreover, many who voted for Kamela Harris didn't like her and her Biden policies but feared for four more years with Trump. The same thing happened in the UK and France. Many who voted for Macron detested him but saw Marine LePen in power as a catastrophe. Many of those who voted for Keir Starmer did so only to get rid of Rishi Sunak.

Many have to hold their noses when they vote.

Some voted for Trump and the Republicans only because they were sick and tired of the Democrats, their hypocrisy, their endless wars, and their neglect of working people. Some didn't know what they voted for and why. 

Less than one-third of the Americans are genuine Trump supporters. In the UK and France, the support of their leaders is even lower.

In a democracy, we are free to choose between two or three parties or political blocs with neo-liberal and/or neo-conservative agendas. All those parties are eager to go to war with Russia.