Ah okay, thanks EMyth!
This is the link
Abnormality of Human Reality. But I see the site is marked private now. Any reason for that? Anyone can post links here by the way (three max. per post I believe) but not within the first 24 hours after account creation, to discourage spammers.
There's an interesting aspect to your observation that your provided explanation on motive would not register with your readers. That's actually easy to understand for me. Lets imagine for a second a sincere reader, being your target audience, would as well be "allergic to lies". Wouldn't that reader not remain naturally driven to question and probe for a better explanation to verify the answer for himself? Then if the answers don't seem to "register" with the other, perhaps it might be because it appears to them as avoiding something or deceiving someone? Which will provoke more questioning. Cause and effect. But it might start with your presenting a "self" through dialog or explanations and yet refusing to give more details on what propels that self.
And would it be so hard to self-examine and find some of ones motives or at least some kind of introduction to them? Are we not
more than animals who are all acting subconsciously driven by primal concerns like carrots and sticks, Pavlovian responses and genetics? If we believe we're exactly that and nothing more in terms of ability to respond and inquire, then there's not that much more to say as all words would add more deception often including the ones explaining the deception.
I could also be slippery in the same way Kenneth (Jed) has always been, and say that the question ‘why’ is meaningless. Why do birds fly? Because. They were created that way.
Meanings are created by and through thoughtful engagement. The question "Why" is also a result of setting up these particular connections. It cannot be denied. The "why" simply
flows from the network of words and interactions. Kenneth might be right in saying that 'why' will prove to be unimportant, ultimately, but it's simply not true that it cannot be answered or responded to. Actually all we do is respond to it when we engage, as meaning-makers. We were created that way.
Why do they keep asking and looking for some untoward reasons? Why do they ask me about it, yet cannot see that by asking – they have already formulated the answer?
That works as well in reverse: by addressing people about whatever topic you formulated the question as well as the answer.
The acts are not acceptable to me personally. And if the rest of Humankind says it is all OK.. I really don’t give a shit.
You have a strong sense of morality. But it's something that cannot be said to be utterly random or mysterious in terms of origin. It's often not that difficult to look and see some of where and how our morals are formed. It can be enlightening to do so.
And so back to the question ‘why’… the answer is – because. I have no rational explanation. It is a drive, in the same way it was a drive for Jed to write his first book. Why can’t you accept this? What kind of hidden sinister intentions are you looking for? There are none. No money making. No desire to be in Kenneth’s good books. No want to teach anyone. Definitely no want for fame and glory, that would be my worst nightmare.
Why? Because. Stop asking.
From my sense of truth and morality, this answer seems unacceptable. Self-knowledge is key. It's impossible you
don't know some of the origin of your actions and desires. You're not a cow! Not even a monkey (but close enough). Perhaps we cannot know
everything of the origination but as long as we're not actively suppressing and denying it, finding truth is not that difficult. It comes
naturally.
What kind of intentions or drives could be possible? For example: feeling relevant, feeling doing something important, even when reaching a hand full of listeners. Or exorcising some daemon. Or channeling anxieties into the activity, as a form of relief. Perhaps just a desire to make a splash, to exist in something, somewhere, virtually even. In the end these are all
human drives.