horse said:
And there you have it folks, straight from the horse's mouth. :P
My goal is to learn, and to help others do the same. But a goal is not a direction, and I should never confuse the two. A goal is a "direction potential" at best - it only becomes a direction when I objectively start moving towards it with objective actions and objective results of those actions. Almost everyone I ask if they're interested in the truth will say "of course, who isn't?". But yet they are all going in all different directions which certainly cannot all be true. I too have the goal of finding truth, which makes me no different than anybody else, and therefore this is logically not enough. I am forced to add to this goal - to learn how to seek truth and how to tell if I'm truly moving towards my goal of truth, and adjust as necessary. And none of it would have any purpose if it wasn't for everyone and everything else. In other words, not only can I not do this alone, I wouldn't want to.
So my expanded set of goals is:
1) To learn how to seek objective reality and refine/change previous method as necessary.
2) To apply what I learned.
3) To verify if application was successful, and repeat 1-2-3.
"Helping others do the same" becomes, in my view, an inseparable part of those 3 steps because nobody can do it alone anyway. Besides, even if you could, that would be extremely boring, take forever, and I'd see no point in it.
And most importantly, the sooner we can do this, the sooner we can see Anart scream like a little girl. I think that alone is motivation enough to wake up! :) Hmm... on the other hand, I might scream like a little girl too. Or maybe not scream, maybe more of a whelp or a squeak or something, but definitely all girly like. Now I know why Anart is screaming in horror, and why I'm squeaking, and why you might even see Ark cry like a girl. When we all wake up we will finally realise the horrible truth - the best part of waking up really IS Folgers in your cup! :O