Today's Ontology

 There is nothing quite like being.

To be.

That's as simple as you can put it.

Ontology, for those who don't know, is defined as the science of being. It digs into what's called metaphysics. This is some pretty deep shit. Creating the Red Block, being isolated and changing life for the better, has created a stoic, transcendant, ontology environment out here.

This takes a little explaining. Let's begin with doing a short recap and explanation of today:

Being out here in the middle of nowhere, it's created a creative routine that is easy to follow. It's taken a few years, and has been hard to create, but now, that it's created, it's easy to follow as a routine. The day always begins with social network tasks, then shifts to reading and writing. It would be wonderful if every day could be like today. Today, for some reason, the reading and writing all dealt with philosophy, stoicism, ontology and transcendance.

Right now, the writing project out here is a journal of a summer in Milford, 4 months in isolation after a year of the pandemic, out here in the middle of nowhere. While writing out the daily journal, today, the main subject that stood out was ontology. When writing about the Upanishads, Christian Science and Aesthetics, it was amazing to see how all connected with the subject of Being. To be. There is a word in the Upanishads called 'unmanifest'. That means to be. Christian Science is a religion that is known as the science of being. Ontology is defined as the science of being. Then you have the subject of transcendance.

This month, the book being read and broken down out here is Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In today's reading, the word 'transcendant' was featured. Looking that word up, it's defined as: Beyond or above the range of normal; surpassing the ordinary; exceptional; exceeding or surpassing beyond usual, ordinary limits. This is some deep shit. To transcend is to do this. That's what being out here on the Red Block is. It's to transcend past the range of normal. By simply being.

There's a great stoic quote by Vietnam veteran James Stockdale: "I am leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus". Wouldn't it be great if the world was like this? It would be nice. But you have to accept the things you can't control. However, you can accept and live by the things you can control. By reading, writing, creating, and just being, while isolated in the middle of nowhere, it's so important to keep the mind healthy. By doing that, you can surpass the ordinary. 

What a wonderful day.

To just be.