Personal Note V

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

What is the point of being social?
Saturday – October 11, 2025

I've noticed lately that I myself struggle to be social, at least in the way most people seem to understand that word. I believe the primary function/purpose of being social is really to be functionally reflective in others. If I can manage to be social, that means that I can manage to interact functionally with other kinds of people. I also believe that if I can be social I can confirm in others myself. The purpose of being social is of course from an evolutionary point of view to relate to other people, people that are acceptable. This also of course goes to the anthropological limit/distance: if I can be social with someone, then I can trust that person enough. But being social is also about transmitting certain signals: people aren't only social in how they converse with the likes of other people, they are social in how they relate completely across all human dimensions with other people as well as other groups. Again, if you can successfully be social with someone, then that means that you are able to be completely sane in that person's eyes, your political object is compatible with the groups so to speak. Again, to be social is to be accepted by the group. If you are unable to be social, if you cannot successfully establish contact with other people, then you are not really a part of the tribe, and that is often very devastating, as the history of humanity has shown. It is clear that there are many social signals that have to align with the expected baseline for social behavior, and this baseline is usually rather particular: it can be particular to all sorts of things and it may even concern a group as small as two persons. So again, if you're going to be social with other people, you need to be able to express yourself right: you need the right facial expressions, the right tone, the right accent, the right empathy, etc; to be social is indeed to be able to be the carrier of what is colloquially considered acceptable social life, and again it's really an ability that one must have as a human being, for without the ability to be social, there just is no hope for survival. Social signals are one of the most important things in life.

    I myself must admit that I tend to struggle in social settings, but I believe that this is the case because I have retired from the world, but when I used to be in the world I still struggled with being social, and that wasn't fun, and I believe one of the biggest reasons why I decided to leave the world behind was due to my inability to act in social settings. I believe that this was a way for the creator to guide me away from the bad side of life to the good and righteous side of life. Indeed, I believe that my seeming inability to connect with the beast was God using his hand of protection to take me away from danger. But I don't know this; I don't know this.

    The reason why you may feel an inability to be social is not because you are a bad person or because you are stupid or anything like that. The reason you may be asocial is precisely because God is attempting to work through you, so allow him to do that. Don't try to force yourself into something that you know isn't right for you. Ask yourself this: is it right, would it be right, for me to force myself into submission and into oncoming traffic? If not, then follow the guiding hand of the creator, transcend beyond the material order that is attempting to mold you into the beast. I do however just want to make it clear that you do not have to be asocial, but I do think you should just try to understand the purpose of being social and why your life very likely would run into major difficulty if you weren't social. I believe that it's a good idea to be nice and formal with people, but I just don't believe that social life is the most important aspect in life, but of course, in the material domain life seems quite impossible without this ability. Before I close out this post, I just wanted to provide some information, lesser known information, about why being social is generally bad but can be good. If you are social you can connect with humanity and with other people, but if you are asocial, you have now lost that connection with humanity and while that's sad, this has given you time to appreciate God and his creation.

Reginald Drax – October 11, 2025.