'Entertainment' Articles
Entertainment is a state of being. When we become deeply absorbed in something in a passive way without exerting controlling effort, this is entertainment which is synonymous with entrainment. The passive part matters, being receptive. It takes intention to be receptive. When you get receptive, you give over your ideo-motor response to whatever it is you have focused your attention on.
By our choice of entertainment, we choose our every activity. We chose our world by choosing the ideas we will fill it with. We can choose based on self-awareness and seeking, or we can have our entertainment chosen for us. You will ultimately build a collection of entertainments, and these will form a sort of spiritual genetic code that you will expend your energy through.
“We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.” Anthony Robbins (American advisor to leaders)
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.” Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
Constantly Entertained
Entertainment. What is entertainment? Something that stimulates your attention and emotional response. Walking through the woods. That can be done in a receptive state. Something that draws you in so you stop thinking about yourself. Watching the squirrel leap over the cat as they walk on the same fence. Indeed. That would be very amusing to watch. What you enjoy and do simply for its own sake. Entertainment or amusement is a state we can in theory enter at will. Entertainment is a state of being. We also call it amusement, but it is the precursor to inspiration. When we become… Seek More
Suggest Back
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The Word was God not in the literal sense. The internalized self-talk or self-stimulation is this force some call God, and you didn’t start it nor can you stop it. The Word was God as a man who spoke the word. Jesus = the Word. So it’s God speaking as human. And it was before then as well. The theology breaks down without that assertion, but I was using the concept loosely, as discussions of the logos predate Christianity entirely. “Before Abraham was, I am.” But as long as it… Seek More
Philosophical Zombie
There is a concept. It’s called the philosophical zombie. It’s a scenario where you have every process of awareness, and the figurative zombie reports experiencing everything anyone else might, but they lack self-awareness. Some say those with autism fit that description, but I disagree. But my reason for talking about the philosophical zombie is to point out that doubt has no inherent worth. It neither proves nor disproves existence. What they see does not register with them? What they see does register with them, but they lack any context to put it into. They are the perfect passive recipient of… Seek More
Favourite Entertainments Linked to Chronic Events
If anyone would care to offer, tell me about your favourite entertainments and I can tell you about the most chronic events in your life. Repeating or repetitive. Recurrent. I like science shows, business shows, and anything that makes me laugh, and I play 3D online games. You tend to have things stripped of complexity. You seem to have options slip away on a regular basis. You enjoy your life perhaps, but find that you run into problems in connecting with people, which makes much of your gains come with strings attached. Everyone’s life has complications, so I am not… Seek More
