Dialogue

In the response to Valium lastest message, i have decided to post this letter as any good reply to the comment will be very limited by the amount of characters the tag board can take...
Valium: "a good attitude doesn't really need another catalyst to cultivate.. ourselves r good enuff to be one.." From the very contextual meaning that i derived from reading the message is this. That a good attitude is very much dependent on ourselves and only ourselves. Are you really that absolute about things? Do you want to reconsider your position? Do you mean that you need no teachers to tell you cheating is bad and you wont cheat? Or your Mum to tell you stealing is no good before you wont steal? You can know what is the right attitude without any outside influence as in this case the catalyst... Are you saying that we already know what is right from wrong the very moment that we are born to this earth?

If so you may have share Plato’s view in one of his dialogues “THE MENO”… In it, he conducted an experiment with a boy to prove to Meno that everything in the past lives are memories to be recollected. Plato believes that we all carry with us the memories of the past lives and we only have to trigger an interest before we can remember it. In this very case you may have meant that! That being, you already know how to do the seemingly upright things even as a child. (Read Meno By Plato Written 380 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett) http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html If you are reading it, please let me know so I can pin point the important extract for you… its really a long dialogue.

But as a rebuttal to the above, I would like to say that it is really very difficult for me to fathom sperms and ovaries having to combine themselves and then bring with it memories of past lives. DNA? They are genetic codes that governs the appearance and abilities of the person from the parents. They are not memories and definitely not catalyst telling people to do good or adopt the right attitude?

Have you ever heard of the Chinese phase: “当局者迷,旁观者清【dāngjúzhěmí,pángguānzhěqīng】 the spectators see the chess game better than the payers; the onlooker sees most of the game ”
Havent it been the case for us whereby we always looked back in our life and thought about how we could actually make better decisions. At the point of time, we all think we are doing the right thing and even if people tell us that we are in fact indulging in the wrongs, we persist in it. How ignorant!? Finally someday we relent, but that of course comes with a price… So you see when we are in the game, we tend to lose yourselves in it… other people will see things at a better point of view… This other people in the particular post will have to mean, Religion, friends, Mum, teachers, etc. These are the very essential catalyst that will have to be around us guiding us to lead a socially acceptable life and cultivates a socially acceptable attitude.

When these catalyst is around, then it becomes your responsibility to decide if we want it or want to escape from it… That I think is your point! We have the catalysts and I think it definitely is essential, then the rest will be up to us…