One man does not shoot another man inside the inescapable-insides-of-life. One part of life “attacked,” (from mind’s view) another part. To believe it otherwise, is to look at one piece of a jigsaw puzzle and pretend that it unilaterally, for no reason, assaulted another piece.
The mind is not usually wired nor programmed for this perspective, but rather to rant and rail at the totally unexpected and unjustifiable, (to it), turns in the ever unfolding human drama. For those who do not see it as a light comedy, it requires unusual electro-chemical activity and desire to understand what is going on in life, as opposed to being upset by it. Letting your consciousness passively trail, after the words you hear from others and from your own brain, will nicely squelch any such possibility. If necessary, a really hungry and sharp man would tattoo this on the inside of his eyelids: “Anyone who tells you what is going on in life does not know what is going on – including the tales which life normally allows to appear on stage in your own head.”
Ordinary people are not evil in their attempts to explain life. Life obviously wants them to try, but does not outfit them with the mental wherewithal to accomplish it. Life is omnipresent. In what part of the universe does the universe not exist? The extreme northeast corner of reality is in no manner separated from the extreme southwest corner, and neither corner can kill nor harm the other through some ex parte act. The enormity and complexity of life’s internal workings, (which is all that we IN the internal workings can be aware of), is observably beyond the capacity of anything, including man’s mind, to take in and fully comprehend.
Anyone who attempts to predict the future should be identified throughout the world as a fool, yet note they are not, even though is clearly known that no one has ever had any meaningful success in doing so. Men’s minds, while knowing better, will listen attentively to prognostications which they know, and history proves, are always juvenile and not to be relied on. (Unless you prefer paying stock analysts’ fees to the old fashioned method of simply burning your money with psychics, priests, and men who rebuild brake linings).
J.