common sense

I am going to give you as myself as simple as possible an explanation to what common sense is.

I will put it in the context of, bringing it here and use our senses to do so.

We have our eyes to see with
We have our ears to hear with
We have our skin to feel, that which we call; touch
We have our mouth with which we taste with.
We have our nose with which we smell.

Now i am  going to leave the sixth sense out because this is about intuition, and will leave this one out and just give a rough explanation and try to be as simple as possible.

Now to break it down using the 5 senses that we all share equally as a physical being, we can now see that we all have this in common, there are some people, very few who can't see, or can't hear, or can't taste in one way or another one of these senses are damaged either from birth or through accident. And because of this being a very minor minority in the bigger picture but still lets keep on with the anology of our 5 senses in order to bring some simple clarification upon that which we at desteni call: ''common sense''

So let we start with our first sense we mentioned above which is: the act of seeing.

Now each individual regardless of their race, gender, culture, beliefs and superstitions, political preferences, geographical placement, and so and on all and each one of them have the eyes to see what is going on in this world, what is going on also in their immediate sorroundings.
So the act of seeing is common to all individual, none can say, i cannot see this or that.
You can see the poverty in this world, you can see the wars in this world, you can see everything that is going on, that is to see with your eyes, so all with eyes can see. So within this all know what is going on, on a visible level, you cannot deny it, and this is the same for all.
And within all this you don't have to directly be there to see, today we have many ways to see or to make facts visible.

Then we move to our second sense that we mentioned, which is the act of hearing.

Now within this act of hearing almost the same as above applies using the example of that of seeing.
You can hear through the news, through talks and many different ways,music and so on, and sounds of nature and also the cries of what is here, what is going on, there is no denying what you hear, the act of hearing is the same for all individual, the act of outside sounds being interpret through your ears is common to all of us, so all who can hear is capable to hear the same, and with this i mean the act of hearing itself.

Then we go to our third sense mentioned which is the act of touch.

Now within this the same as our two explanations applies, all can feel the touch of many different things on their body or through their bodies, so that the experience of touch is real to our human physical body. All know the pain of the physical body, because all has been in some way or another through some physical pain, so we all know using pain as an example, what pain is, because thanks to our sense of touch.

Then we go to our fourth sense and this is the sense of  taste.

One more time same as the above explanations applies only a little bit different as is the experience within the application of the sense, that in this case is: taste.
Now we all know and this is very basic what i am about to say here, but we taste what is: sour, sweet/salty and bitter. Now all these, every one indivudual is able to do the same, we are equal within our abilities to taste things we eat.

then we move to our last sense which the sense of smell.

We all can tell the difference between something that smells what we consider pleasurable and things we do not consider as pleasurable. But to engage within both pleasurable or not, is an act that is common to all of us, we can all smell things.

Now what i am trying to bring down easy for you here in order to explain in easy terms what we mean with common sense is that we bring all that is common to everyone and act in order for us to understand and see what the subject or object intails in fact, what we all can sense the same. and within this we have a mathematical equation we use that we call the equation of accumulation, and this is 1+1=2.
so within this accumulation equation we can test if we are acting in common sense or not, and our actions are that of which is best for all or not, because we just keep on adding and adding everyone and everything in the equation, so each one in the equation has the same value and worth.

The difficult part about this common sense for some to grasp is when we apply it to things that are not so easy and physically sensable.
Let me take an example: let's say the government decided to built a road that goes through criss-cross to some land with allot of trees, and these trees are home for allot of animals and birds, and also give fruits to them. Now some of the trees are now so big that they're roots are starting to damage the road, and because of this the government now decides that they are going to cut down and remove all those trees, and meanwhile there was another way for them to built that road, where they didn't have to go building their road in the middle, criss-crosing  all those trees. So now the government because of their dicision taken to bring down the trees, have in that single act take away; the home of many animals and also food for many animals. So this road was built without using common sense, the government didn't gave any thoughts whatsoever on the inhabitants of this forest of trees and built a road only for their best interest.They valued their lives more then that of the trees and the animals.

Let me give another example.

I am walking down the streets and i encounter a drug addict and he asks me for some money, and he is telling me that he needs the money because he needs some money to eat, he is hungry.
So you, because of already knowing that he just want the money to get high, you tell him o.k. if you are hungry i will go with you buy you some food and then all is well for at least this day. He agree with you and then after you have bought some food for him, he decides that he want to ask you now for some more  money because he needs some more money to buy some food for later, and after that you decide you give him the money anyways and, the way he goes..
Now you may feel like you did something good here, but the reality is that you have accepted and allowed this fellow human being to stay within his abusive act towards his own body and also accepted and allowed lies to be told towards yourself. Now what is the common sense to this story..??
The common sense to this story is that you know that the life this individual is living is not what is best for himself, and the obvious action would not to give him money to abuse his body and also not support him with money to buy food, because otherwise he will never get to a point where he will have to face his own shit he puts himself in, because if you and other people support him with his addiction he won't realize what he is doing and also will not get out of it that easy, so your support of feeeling sorry for him and giving him food only strengthen his abusive behavior towards himself and can even cause him to abuse others just because he can't get what he needs. He will never get to the point where he will face his consequences in fact, because you are making his addiction still livable.

So as we can see, common sense apply is some living application in our everyday living can sometimes be difficult to see.
It is something where we can directly see in a immediate situation that it is acceptable or not, within the context of what is best for all, because someone can find something to be acceptable or not in the context of their believes but this doesn't necessarily mean that, that is what is best for all. You place yourself in the situation and see if you would be able to live like that, go through that and be self-honest about it.

Let me give a last example.
Let's say you are in the classroom and the teacher is busy explaining a subject and  suddenly within the explanation that the teacher is giving, you  realize something and you ask a question, but now that you have asked your question you hear the teacher telling you that your question is in conflict with the subject and that you are questioning the very subject itself and the subject as it is being given is the correct one. So now within this example the common sense is, that you are not allowed to question a particular subject itself only if the question was directed to a particular lesson within the subject but not the subject itself in it's entirety. So within this example the common sense is that what is define as learning is not really so, because in learning one must have questions and allot in order to learn something and if one is not allowed to question the very materials or subjects given at school then that school and teachers and whomever is calling the shots are not really interesting in you becoming an individual who can think critically and sort things out and come-up with the best possible  outcome for a best solution, and if you cannot bring best possible solutions to problems then problems in this world will never be solved, because you are tought to only accept and don't question anything.


Thanks.




Larry Manuela