Many times death is the only solution to certain kinds of suffering but people don't want to hear that. For example what was the solution for a lacks born during slavery?
Whats the solution for a terminally ill cancer patient?
How aout for a double amputee thats paralyzed?
For a blind person?
Truth is sometimes there is no solution and death is the best option.
2016-07-16T02:20:50Z
the "b" on my keyboard doesnt work 80% of the time so i meant "B"lacks during slavery and How "A" bout for a double amputee
2016-07-16T02:22:37Z
I'm asking this because i saw something on tv about a solution for every problem and i thought that was ridiculous. Besides vedic philosophy says you are forced into the material world.
Thomas2016-07-17T19:39:08Z
Interesting that you would consider death, something a great many of us consider the ultimate destroyer of all things good, as an effective solution to an otherwise unsolvable problem. Since death is not very likely to attack and destroy anything but us, the strategy is not to attack the problem with a brilliant solution (that Mr. Death was nice enough to jot down for us) stopping it in it's tracks. No and I don't see death swooping down and flying us away to safety whenever we decide....No death comes to late if we suffer..too early if life is good. So our solution to this problem is suicide, which effectively ends all our problems now and forever. If you take a look at the suicide rates in this country alone you can see that this Idea of problem solving is shared by many and is growing at an alarming rate. All I can say is we don't normally choose the noose if solving a problem by less drastic means frees us to go back to happy land. No I'm afraid death is chosen when the problem is life itself and everything in it. Anyway if we consider death to be a solution then yes there is a solution for every problem.
The Distraction Potential of Certainty2016-07-17T17:51:07Z
Just buy a new keyboard, I have a lot of them that I don't use because every refurbished computer I buy comes with a new keyboard, so I'll probably never run out of keyboards, but I prefer the tight spacing of the laptop style keyboard because I got used to the keyboard I had with my first Xp system.
As far as solving problems, it really just depends on how many choices you have at your disposal, if you assume that death is the only solution, then perhaps having a nihilistic view on life isn't the only thing bothering your decision making process, perhaps it's deep seated self-loathing, I can identify with that because I feel like that all the time, but I don't allow it to be the sole focus of my inner praxis.
Once you identify a problem, can you improve it or make it better, probably not unless you're extremely wealthy and you can manipulate an entire society to bend to your "philosophical whims", much like perhaps the political aspirations of the infamous "Koch brothers".
If you gave me the parameters of a given problem I could probably solve it for you or at the very least, tell you why it's not solvable given the current limitations of human derived technology and if that's not the obstacle, then in most cases, people do not like it when humans carve out a niche for themselves formerly held by that infamous internal meme of the infallible projection authoritarian sky daddy.
Before a solution can be determined, a goal or goals have to be defined. What is it we want out of a given situation? If we're a double amputee, elimination of the pain we feel from being crippled is ONE goal. But it isn't the only goal. We might also want to keep living. If we have children, we may want to continue to raise them, even though there are certain things we can't do for them anymore. Double amputees can still work and do many things in today's society. So these positive things might outweigh the negatives. So death may not be the best solution in this case. Life, and the situations we encounter in life, are complicated. Solutions always exist. But PERFECT solutions RARELY exist. Most problems we encounter have solutions that represent a compromise. And if one is unwilling to compromise, perhaps death is the BEST solution, because compromise is required in life.
Not every "problem" is a problem, and not every "solution" is a solution. I am also familiar with the teachings of the Vedic/Hindu faiths, and how it was meant to be interpreted. From my own subjective observations, I've notice how humans unnecessarily create problems to in order to create resolutions, where there are none, typically, to comes off or appear a certain way 'they are not'. In the respect to the Eastern view, question are subject to be open to both 'yes' and 'no' answers, in recognition of a nondualistic reality ("Advaita"). From the worldly perspective something can be 'true', but not be 'all the way true' ('Truth', as 'It' is), existing as partial degrees of what we call "truth".
We are not so much "forced" into the material world as we are subject to the condition of "ego-contamination", or what can be describe in the Vedic faith as "maya" or "illusion", which perpetuates "samsara" ("the cycle of birth and rebirth). We are subject to the karma we put out, by the use of our freewill, which must be returned to it's source, in accordance with "Cosmic Balance" and Universal Law, confirmed by science. Ultimately, freewill is the alignment with God/Spiritual Self (the impersonal), or the ego/material self (the personal). If that is so, history shows us which has been the most popular choice.
By fabricating problems, which come with made up solutions, we create more karma to undo, detracting from the obvious reality that 'Truth is all there ever is', and all there ever is to go by. We have to first discern if there is really a problem or not, before going about solving it, in which we must trace back to it's source. If you do not investigate deep enough, you may find a problem where there isn't one, or complete miss that you have one at all. From the Vedic standpoint, every problem with a source has it's solution that only needs discovery. Those without a source other than the imagination, can be disregarded as a hindrance, and only need to be seen for what they truly are.
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "solution". Here is a question that CANNOT be solved (it manifests chaos in the mathematical sense): Why do tree branches arborize in the patterns that we see.
As an aside many (?most) biological processes mirror the unpredictability of tree arborization, and I suspect that "consciousness" has similar properties.
Political questions in truth cannot have "solutions" when that idea is used in a scientific sense; there can only be opinions. I think the same is true of psychology and sociology.
It is truly unfortunate that college professors have a need to appear omniscient and able to solve any problem. I think this is true more of the "soft" sciences (biology, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and the like) than of mathematics, physics and chemistry. Young people would be wise to be skeptical of profs that convey the sense that they are all-knowing.
You are right that the idea of "a solution for every problem" is ridiculous - and suggests a profound lack of any but very superficial knowledge and naiveté.