I've had this written for a long time, but no one to show it to. I may as well post it here now.
Right after I post this I'll audioblog a clip relating to it, so stay tuned.
Everything you know and love, your family, your iPod, your electronics, your fingers, your family, your ears, the air you breathe, your social life, does not matter. NOTHING YOU KNOW MATTERS. It means ZIP, NADA, NOTHING. Everything you've ever known is virtually meaningless.
Here's the proof.
Read the following questions.
1. Why am I here?
2. What is the purpose of my life?
3. What does life mean?
4. What is the purpose of my existence?
Now you think you understood that when, in fact, you didn't.
You eyes saw the ball but your hand failed to snatch it out of the air, to examine it, to feel it. You see, these questions are the heavy-hitting mega-questions of life. The answers to them are the stuff of life's meaning; the stuff philosophers have been debating about for centuries. Your mind either wraps around them or it doesn't. And if your mind does wrap around it, a feeling is generated so powerful it makes you feel dizzy.
I started getting moments in 7th grade where for no particular reason I would have an instant of understanding and insight into these questions. On one occasion, the total intellectual overpowerment caused me to fall on my face on the way to lunch.
If you have read FullMetal Alchemist Volume 6, pay attention to the moment where Ed is gifted with knowledge for his sacrifice of an arm and leg. The feeling he describes is near identical to mine.
That is the difference between my intellect and the intellect of all but a precious few. My mind wraps around these higher thinking skills, while most people's minds never leave their immediate surroundings. They function like characters in The Sims, doing whatever is obvious to do and never thinking about who made them or why they exist. Their lives are superficial constructs. Going outside the box for them would destroy the little walls they've built up around themselves in their minds.
You don't think of stuff like this while talking to friends or while at the mall, etc. You get so caught up in your life that you don't worry about what that life really means.
And if you don't get these moments now, don't try. I believe that they come from true intellegence, and there is a difference between that and book knowledge. An autistic can learn book knowledge better than me while being dumber than I am. True intellegence is what you're born with or at least developed at a very young age. If you get my general gist, you're too old to get any more true intellegence.
There is only one way, in my experience ot generate these moments on demand, which I have perfected. If you're interested enough to want to do this, IM me at ShellsOnTheFloor (AIM).
Now that I'm finally done with a painful intellegence trip, I shall go wipe my mind.
***Puts on System of a Down***