from Random Thoughts; Intermediacy

What if we are right;
What are the implications, obligations, rewards, consequences?
What if we are wrong;
What are the implications, obligations, rewards, consequences?
What do we do in the absence of certainty of right and wrong;
What are the implications, obligations, rewards, consequences?
Sometimes we don’t know the answers to these questions.
Must we know all the answers, all the time? Does it matter?
Can we believe?
Can we just believe?
What are the implications, obligations, rewards, consequences?

Happiness is a condition of being; amongst many conditions of being.
Happiness is encountered; it may or may not be realized.
Absence of happiness is not the presence of sadness, though it may be.
Sadness is a condition of being; amongst the conditions available to being.
Absence of sadness is not the presence of happiness, though it may be.
A condition of being is a physical state in the course of being.

We often don’t seem to know how people come to “Be” as they are.
We often seem to have incomplete ideas of how we come to “Be”.
Ideas we hold as knowledge about how people come to “Be” are often beliefs.
Scrutinized, it often seems that the ideas we hold are mixed, maybe muddled.
Often enough our beliefs seem to be unconvinced; some, are very convinced.

Knowing and believing are peculiar conditions; sometimes they may be similar.
Knowing and believing are not absolute or complete conditions.
Their presence can be demonstrated; their absence cannot.
Their habitat, or residence, seems to be physically in the brain.
Their structure may change.
The properties of their existence are debated.
The properties of their existence may be asserted as a physical state of being.

Some people hold the idea that people are made the way they are.
Some people hold the idea that people are born bad or born good.
Some people hold the idea that people are, as they were born.
Some people hold the idea that parents have made people as they are.
Some people hold the idea that culture has made people as they are.
Some people hold the idea that race has made people as they are.
Some people hold the idea that gender has made people as they are.
Some people hold the idea that people can change; some, that they cannot.
Many people are unsure of how they themselves came to be as they are.

Sometimes people wonder why:
Others are as they are;
Others are difficult to get along with;
Others change;
Others don’t change.
Sometimes people wonder why:
Myself is as I am.

It is typical of people to categorize one another.
It is typical to be rather inexact in categorizing one’s Self.
People often categorize in terms of traits and/or stereotypes.
There are Subcategories that include typecasts and Types.
It is typical of people to typecast other people.
To typecast is not the same as to Type, it is to stereotype.

Typecasting, there are people cast as:
mean people, or nice people;
People cast as arrogant, people cast as meek.
There are good and bad, generous and stingy casts.
There are people helpful and hurtful; people type A’s and B’s.
There are people who are Black, Brown, White, Red and known as Yellow.
There skinny cast and fat cast; male cast and female cast.
There are those cast as high-energy people, and those as lazy.

People often profile others in terms of psyche, soul, spirit, being, or personality.
Profiled terms often seem indistinct, unclear, muddled.
Characteristics of a profile may be positive or negative.
Profiles are grounded in something.
Flowers are grounded.
Perhaps we should know the soil from which the blossom blooms.
Perhaps we should know the soil in which we nurture our garden.

Perhaps we should cultivate that soil.