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4. Our Reactive Thoughts Are Unique

The chain of free thoughts, free will, and free reactions enhances your uniqueness and therein lays a problem. And it is a big one. Once you begin to realize that another cannot exactly duplicate either your intensely personal reactions or your logical conclusions there begins a devastatingly accurate apprehension that you are totally alone. This may be the largest single problem for us here on Earth for it is at this point that you start to abandon thinking logically and begin to substitute reacting emotionally.

Moreover, if you become aware that there is only Now and your Now reactions, the alone-problem intensifies. The Future may be rosy and the Past may be too, but you are reacting Now; your thoughts are Now.

If you are not aware of your true nature, one's inescapable existence "in" TSB, desperation starts to occur. Unless you realize on some intellectual or emotional level that your bond to TSB is inextricable and inescapable, all your ethics, morality, etc., and any kind of lasting happiness, contentment, peace, tranquility, etc., becomes impossible. What's left is a seeking of sensation and momentary 'fixes', and we all know where that leads....

What to do? What to do? What you do is join a group. And one must join some group, as, you'll notice, there are very few hermits and recluses. A group is a group is a group whether it is the local bowling league, the RC Church or just your friend. The group likes your style (as long as you respect the group) and gives you emotional support for what you and the group believe in.

I treasure all my groups, my friends, and especially my number one Friend. The trick is to give (and get) emotional support whilst still maintaining one's individual integrity: one's logical freedom. That is to say, I believe all my groups are good people and perfectly entitled to their conclusions but I think some of their conclusions are whacko and I just can't support them. This situation was, is, and ever will be, a continuing diplomatic task (witness the failed diplomacy of racial, religious. economic wars and the too frequent divorces, abandonment's, etc.) but, being the distinctly individual humans that we are, this situation is all we now have.

To stay on friendly terms with your wife or the Republican National Committee (RNC) demands that you appreciate both her integrity, or the RNC's, and yours.

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