Friday, October 7, 2011

Materialistic Paradox.

We take personality test to figure out what kind of person we are, if we're right brained or left brained, to figure out what our inner aura is. The only problem is we have biases and take these tests with biases. We don't answer truthfully, and it's not intentional. We see the choices and consider, "Which would be more like what I want to be?"

Then I read in the small print for the first time on a personality/intelligence questionnaire.
"*Instead of retaking this test over and over again to prove to yourself that you are some sort of intellectual superhuman, or discard the results because you think the author does not share your viewpoints (which you can't know), why not instead spend a lifetime educating yourself, questioning everything you believe in and discarding ideas/values which don't actually improve you and the world (when you examine the evidence), become physically fit and maintain your physical fitness (aerobically exercise to exhaustion every 36 hours for the rest of your life), and live an altruistic life where you are considerate to people regardless of whether they mirror your values/beliefs because you understand you live in a world with them and their long term happiness benefits you, their long term unhappiness hurts you."

The end result of this survey turned me off of surveys completely because that's the answer I was looking for. I read somewhere "People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used." Yet if we turn it around, will the chaos be irreversible?

I'm done designing my next tattoo. Where's pay day?

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