# The last time you do something **URL:** \ **Category:** Philosophy\ **Created:** [September 18, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344 "2021-09-18T13:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mitch70](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/mitch70/32/28536_2.png) [@mitch70](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/mitch70)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/1 "2021-09-18T13:32:11Z")
This is me at my most pseudo-philosophical. I don’t know why it bothered me for a while till I eventually got over it, but the last time I ever do something, I’ll probably not even know that it’s the last time I’ll be doing it. I’m guessing it’s because I started to really think about this when my mom’s PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy) started to show its first real signs when her car hit the side of the garage door frame of her house as she was pulling into it. That was the last time she ever drove. I regretted never taking her to a parking lot to have at least that one last moment for her that didn’t have to end in disaster. So my mind mauled on in realization that everything we do in our lives will probably have its last moment that we’ll be completely unaware of, so it gave me just a little more appreciation in life. Like I was saying, it’s pseudo-philosophy with no real meaning behind any of it. It is a closed-ended topic, but it meant something to me and I thought just to throw it out there. ---
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/2 "2021-09-18T19:03:58Z")
Ain’t nothing like a closed end topic. You remind me of why it’s so important to be present to your today and the moment you are in. It’s why though I don’t believe in personal god, you’ll find me saying (or thinking) “The good lord willing” before leaving on any trip or assignment. We never know for sure what will be what. Last year my wife had been working with a guy remote, she’d worked with him on and off, a couple decades, and of course with chit chat, they’d talk about their respective growing child. Now she was in college, he was obviously in love and proud of her. Then one morning they said good bye, he went to work, couple hours later received _the_ phone call no parent is prepared for, car accident and her life was over in a moment. Not even her fault, apparently another drunk idiot. _Seems to me the best we can do is live today to build memories worth cherishing._ ---
**Author:** ![anandhaqq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/anandhaqq/32/18_2.png) [@anandhaqq](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/anandhaqq)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/3 "2021-10-24T00:33:31Z")
. I never do anything … . How may I do anything? Is it possible even to do anything? . And even If I seem to do anything … I am not. Because, by doing one needs effort. And I simply live a Life of spontaneity. . Everything _done_ shall be _undone_. Doing something is like building a sand castle by the water. . Sooner or later it shall be swallowed by the devouring invisible force of _Time_. . Nothing which is essential has ever been made by man. Man only does the _pseudo-reality_ … man cannot do _that_ which has been here before any Man has ever stepped on earth. . Man is a newcomer compared to existence … . For example, Man can do a clock but not Time. And the clock is not time. . So why do _that_ which will be undone sooner or later? . Why not **be** rather _that_ which has never been born and therefore will never die; _that_ which is the eternal; _that_ which goes on flowing by the flux of Life … by the flux of existence … by the flux of _that_ which _is_ … has ever been and therefore will never cease to be? . My whole emphasis is not on _doing_ … but rather on _being_. . I am an existentialist … . And Descartes was utterly wrong. . The man has said - “I think therefore I am”. . That’s the most nonsensical, absurd idea I have ever faced. . How can one think if one is not? One shall be, so one can think. Thinking does not appear out of nothingness . It appears out of an entity; that entity is the _me_. . That’s the problem of Logic. Logic is limited. It cannot conceive _that_ which goes beyond mind. . And _that_ which goes beyond mind … beyond _doing_ … fits into the realm of the _being_. . When thinking ceases, only then does one know who one is. In a non-thinking state of consciousness, one realizes one’s being – not by thinking, but by non-thinking. . _Being_ is primary. _Thinking_ is secondary. . Meditation is non-thinking; it is an effort to create a state of no-mind. ---
**Author:** ![lausten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/lausten/32/23705_2.png) [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/4 "2021-10-24T19:06:36Z")
Sometimes called “word salad”, lots of contradictions here. You say there is no way to think into whatever this “being” is, then you say you’ve done it, by not doing it. Sorry, I’ve seen it all before. ---
**Author:** ![eli1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@eli1](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/eli1)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/5 "2022-04-16T00:41:57Z")
Yes good first couple of posts. Live your life from moment to moment, one day at a time, full of appreciation and hope. Cherish relationships and all the highs and lows that come along the way. ---
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/6 "2022-04-17T15:08:46Z")
> [@eli1](#): > > Live your life from moment to moment, one day at a time, full of appreciation and hope. That’s not to say ignore the future. It does reflect a faith that if I deal with today properly, tomorrow will take care of itself - and for the most part that’s been my experience. > [@anandhaqq](#): > > Meditation is non-thinking; it is an effort to create a state of no-mind. I laugh when I read stuff like that. In my younger decades I was rather taken by that notion and worked at that sort of deep mediation, striving to silence the mind, to experience no-mind and non-thinking, very difficult and I pretty much failed. Then one day out in a truly magical area (ironically called the [joint trail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajTENmFhuKY) Canyon Lands, I split up from my bros, to find an awesome spot and give it another try. This time I succeeded and it was one of the most terrifying moments of my life, it suddenly felt like I was kicked out of a space ship and alone in the void. I remember thinking fuk that, I’m human and I’m alive and that stuff can wait until after I die. But I do have the satisfaction of having actually touched that moment and figured out, it’s a bust. By and by I discovered what I was looking for in a simple realization - an _Appreciation for the Human Mindscape ~ Physical Reality divide_, which has really opened my eyes to a better and more satisfying appreciation for my mortal self and a better understanding of what’s going on around me. ---
**Author:** ![eli1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@eli1](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/eli1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-last-time-you-do-something/8344/7 "2022-04-17T15:11:34Z")
> [@citizenschallengev4](#): > > That’s not to say ignore the future. It does reflect a faith that if I deal with today properly, tomorrow will take care of itself - and for the most part that’s been my experience. I see the future as Trusting in the Future not planning for the future.