XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Julian  wrote:   
   > On 14/09/2016 15:48, Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >> On 9/13/2016 8:42 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The 1 in a million coincidences get noticed.  The other 9999999 misses   
   >>> aren't noticed.   
   >>   
   >> The random mutations that guide evolution   
   >> roughly work on the same principle, that the   
   >> 1 in a million mutations get noticed, and   
   >> that the other 9999999 misses aren't noticed.   
   >> Mother Nature notices that 1 in a million   
   >> mutations offers some better chance at   
   >> survival and even blossoming, and that the   
   >> other 9999999 don't, or even can drive the   
   >> species to the ground. Sometimes success   
   >> can go wild and drive the species to the   
   >> ground, like the armour plates of dinosaurs,   
   >> or just the mere size of the whole animals, as   
   >> some dinosaurs in South America rise to   
   >> seven stories high and are essentially eating   
   >> machines. Scientists (and not even scientists,   
   >> but mere mortals) wonder how they can have   
   >> sex.   
   >>   
   >> Mental culture and religion essentially work   
   >> on the same principle, too, as 1 in a million   
   >> strivers hit the jackpot, so to speak, and   
   >> successfully start a trend in mental culture   
   >> or a religion, like in Buddhism, Daoism,   
   >> Jewish mythology, etc. Ditto for political   
   >> leaders, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler,   
   >> Gandhi, Trump, etc. whilst the other   
   >> 9999999 don't get any traction and instead   
   >> drop into the dust bin of history.   
   >>   
   >> It's a brutal world.   
   >   
   > Same with artists/writers/musicians.   
   >   
   >   
      
   How come I have to disagree with everything?  It sucks.   
      
   Yes, very few writers/musicians/artists survive, because most of them suck.   
    There's nothing random about it.  They suck because they aren't what   
   they're trying to be.  Writers who aren't writers are guys walking around   
   with writers' block.  Artists who aren't appreciated maybe aren't   
   expressing themselves in a way people can relate to, or what they're   
   expressing is just more whining like people are sick of.  And lots of   
   wannabe musicians don't want the music at all, they just want the money and   
   the chicks.   
      
   You can not succeed at something without commitment to what it is.  People   
   in "mental culture" think they're getting themselves all magicked-up, but   
   they don't even know what "mental culture" means to anyone but the teacher   
   trying to suck them in for a few dollars, or more students to advertise on   
   their website, or whatever.   
      
   It isn't a brutal world, at least that isn't what I'm seeing.  I'm seeing   
   that it seems brutal to people who are brutally stupid, who haven't learned   
   to think, who are wandering around quoting this or that in hopes that   
   somebody will post *anything* in response that makes some sense for a   
   change.   
      
   Whatever.  If I just disappear one of these days, you'll never know whether   
   I went off to do something else, or if these useless forums simply bored me   
   to death.   
      
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