Theory No. 1--Warning: Some depressing stuff here

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Ness Farseer

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(5/3/06 10:53 am)
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Theory No. 1--Warning: Some depressing stuff here

Hey, guys! I wrote these theories out a while ago when I was still in my depressed phase, and came over them a while ago. Anyway, wanted to get the ol' brain-box moving a little, so I thought I'd post em here and we could exchange philosophical viewpoints and/or brainstorm a little. What say you? First a little background, a small paragraph I had before the start of the theory:

At times I feel like I am burning with passion, wanting to consume another person's being, make them feel as though I am their world, that they should need my existence, need me to be there for them. I cry out in the empty shell of my mind to people I see, "Come. I love you. Why don't you love me? Can't you hear the thoughts ringing so loudly in my head?" followed by a soundless scream of such volume that it leaves my mental ears ringing with the sounds of endless discord, echoing though the halls of my mind into an endlessly twisting corridor that is the attic of my thoughts.

Anyway, here's the start of the theory:
Human beings are born and die lonely. At first we scream out from womb in pain, shock, and loneliness. Only when we are comforted by the only being in our existence, usually our mother, does our loneliness end, if for a little while. That person is the ONLY person in our existence. There is no sense of self. Moving on, we find at some point that we exist. That we have our own personality. That we have our own needs, wants and emotions. We slowly decrease our dependancy on the mother, and transfer it to other people. As we make friends, we become dependant on them, and they usually dependant on us, forming a circle of dependancy. Later, we usually choose to bond with one person, forming an even tighter circle of dependancy that is even harder to break, but if broken gives much more sadness. Then we have our own child.
Why?
Because we want someone to be completely dependant on us. If they are dependant on us, that means they need us. This means they require us to live.
All the times we feel someone is dependant on us, needs us, we feel good.
Why is that?
Because it gives us a reason to *be*. It gives us a reason to *live*. It gives us a reason to *go on*. As long as someone is dependant on us in some small way, we feel as though we are worth something. What worth do you have, if no one needs you? Why do you keep on living?
Yourself? That is no answer. If our needs could be self-fulfilled, we would never need anyone else, never feel lonely, never hurt, never be sad.
But that is not the way it is, and that's why we must continue to try to love and be loved at any cost, because only then are we worth something.
(Thanks especially to Naruto and Neon Genesis Evangelion for putting flesh and animation to my ideas.)

Human beings can adapt to just about anything, right?
But can they adapt to the pain, the despair, of being lonely?
Can they?

Related Quotes:

"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world." --Aristotle
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." --Charles Calen Colton
"Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to be-friend him. He thus gets filled with emptiness and a non-existent sense of self-worth." --Mark R. J. Lavoie
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration." --Pearl S. Buck
"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by the come and love us." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it." " --Vincent Van Gogh

Edited by: Ness Farseer at: 5/3/06 10:54 am

Ness Farseer

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(5/3/06 10:55 am)
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Re: Theory No. 1--Warning: Some depressing stuff here

PS: Got outta that phase, hehe, so this is purely a mental excercise--do you agree with the points put in? Yes? No? Why not? Expand, etc, hehe. I'd like to get a nice discussion going on--and remember, this is not supposed to develop into a flame war, but a civil debate based about philosophy and logic.

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Vega Tajiri
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(5/3/06 11:00 am)
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Re: Theory No. 1--Warning: Some depressing stuff here

An interesting theory. I have been saying for many years that the entire exercise of morality, friendship, and family were simply a way for human beings to justify an existence that is utterly without meaning.

However, if we throw religion into the story, then the game changes altogether. Then, a human being can have a purpose, but does not necessarily do so. However, from an atheistic viewpoint, your theory is completely correct.

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Ness Farseer

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(5/3/06 11:02 am)
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Re: Theory No. 1--Warning: Some depressing stuff here

Let's keep religion out of this, since most religions are based upon either irrationalities, emotions, blind faith, or things that can't be proven--trying to keep this as emotion-less as possible.