If you have the desire of wanting what is true to be true, then your desire is already fulfilled. Where is the unreasonable nature and its subsequent greed? Is it in that you wish for it to remain true?
The desire remains, but the one change in circumstances that could fulfill it has already happened. So the desire is insatiable, and there is no reasonable way to act on it. It's not a desire for something to remain true, nor is it a matter of knowledge... the closest thing I can think of is a lack of presence, as though the friend in question (sometimes multiple, but in this case one) were withholding some important demonstration of his existence, or were allowing himself to be taken for granted, since something taken for granted is less likely to satisfy.
Anybody that wants to alter the world has such a desire, and for those that want to reshape it completely, that would cross into greed territory, I think. That's not very specific, though.
I don't think the greed appears in the scope of the desire, but in how much reason and desire, particularly those of other people, a person is willing to subvert, disregard or deny in attempting to satisfy it. Though when you get to the level of wanting to reshape the world, there's little to no way of reasoning with that, or altering it to accommodate others.
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Date: 2008-09-24 04:14 pm (UTC)The desire remains, but the one change in circumstances that could fulfill it has already happened. So the desire is insatiable, and there is no reasonable way to act on it. It's not a desire for something to remain true, nor is it a matter of knowledge... the closest thing I can think of is a lack of presence, as though the friend in question (sometimes multiple, but in this case one) were withholding some important demonstration of his existence, or were allowing himself to be taken for granted, since something taken for granted is less likely to satisfy.
Anybody that wants to alter the world has such a desire, and for those that want to reshape it completely, that would cross into greed territory, I think. That's not very specific, though.
I don't think the greed appears in the scope of the desire, but in how much reason and desire, particularly those of other people, a person is willing to subvert, disregard or deny in attempting to satisfy it. Though when you get to the level of wanting to reshape the world, there's little to no way of reasoning with that, or altering it to accommodate others.