In Memorium

(OB1 observes)

Depending on who does it,
the only two things lost in death
are ignorance and idiocy.

Stranger Than We Can Imagine

(OB1 notices)

The person who asks,
"Is this all there is?"
Hasn't even started the race.

Do It

(OB1 repeats)

Ameliorate ignorant, survival-based, in-group absolutism!

The Ship of Fools

(OB1 observed)

Most human primates make no distinction between
their thoughts and their existence.
If you threaten their beliefs, you threaten them with annihilation.
Most human primates will fight to survive by rejecting the perceived threat.

Human primate ideas about the meaning of existence and events
and their causes,
are the attempt to survive.
It is extremely difficult for an ignorant human primate
to understand the natural process of cause and effect,
but they will give it meaning.
(“Ignorant" is not used as a moral judgment,
but as a statement of the lack of information).

If a human primate believes the survuval-based idea
of a reality-creating god, who rewards and punishes
disobedient non-believing human primates,
and, that idea is threatened,
they will vigorously defend themselves (idea = self-concept),
and even try to eliminate the threat by whatever means serve their survival.
A great dilemma in our time
is how to ameliorate ignorant, survival-based, in-group absolutism.