The Ramblings
of
Mr. Nobody
May 16th, 2020: Opening.
Welcome to the mind of Mr. Nobody. This is the first post of many. For
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Some Clarifications
I am Mister Nobody i.e, the one who writes. As you will find, I mix first and third person. The reason being that Mr. Nobody is just a sample of thousands of them spread all over the globe. Sometimes I call them The Nobodies. When writing, I see myself as a part of this collection along with some variations, then you'll find both He and I interleaved in the text.
In most posts there is a main photography, probably taken by me, and not necessarily has to do with the post's topic. These days I'm traveling (look over in the about page) and find it nice to share a picture with anyone reading.
Brief
Mr. Nobody knows many things, none of them in depth. He has a natural tendency for abstract thinking, art and irony. Irony helps to deal with the intrinsic paradox of the world, and to avoid taking himself too seriously.
Evolution of Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody starts to develop when the seed of doubt opens up. At an early stage he doubts about anything and everything. Across the first couple of years doubt takes over his mind and temper. Mr. Nobody now vacillates, is shy and solitaire. Meanwhile most of the reading and thinking about life goes on. The apparent lack of a True Order conduces him to anxiety and confusion. He finds himself Samsa-like. Nobody has no choice but to look for help on psychology, religion, meditation.
Next stage in the methamorphosis finds a highly detached individual (in a materialistic sense) but yet this detachment doesn't necessarily imply egoism: Mr. Nobody likes helping others just for the sake of helping.
Nobodies need to know what exactly defines good or bad, right or wrong, why some things are supposed to produce sadness or happiness; what does it mean for something to be true or false or none of those. And the ramblings go on and on. It's not curiosity but desperation for knowing. Topics like What is an answer? What is a question? become frequent, meditation becomes substantial.
Late on this second stage Mr. Nobody becomes an absurdist but as a side effect he seeks for meaning on every chink of the world. He comes to some conclusions though. There are no right feelings; mind is built in our own develop as organisms and it can be changed. [Mr. Nobody is a materialist. For him, mind is a complex biological process. We may say bend the mind, as we bend an arm.] There is no meaning or purpose out there; in some sense, we create it. Free will is a myth, we are a flow of a universe dictated by laws. Science is a living curiosity and a wonderful tool. You shouldn't take yourself, your thoughts or ideas any serious.
On a third phase those wanderings are less frequent, this is not because of answers to previous questions, but because they are perceived in a different way. Suffering leads to wisdom about life. Mind is now calmer. Contradiction, fear, joy, all live together - as if they were out there, loosely related to myself. This new Mr. Nobody feels essential to keep an eye on the present moment.
This website
I am another puppet, an example case. I've studied a little bit of music, literature, philosophy, languages, science, programming. This website is an attempt to show what's going on inside this kind of mind.
