Yesssss... Delicious and various if possible. And yeah.. quite a lot of it. There are many tasty plants and animals out there! :D
"..absence of pain."
You know I do not agree. But last time we did not have the time to talk about it much, so here the missing link.. Pain is the best teacher to some, to others a drug, to others motivation, to others inspiration. I do not only miss the point in absence of pain, I think I would not want to live a life without it. Pain, suffering and problems made quite a contribution to who I am now and I love it. And I look forward to more of it once in a while. Love without a bit of pain would certainly bore me to death. Inner suffering and solitude, pain and sadness in the own mind/soul is most inspirating for any kind of creative work, be it writing, pain-ting ( :P ) or composing music. The calm happiness of letting go is worth nothing without the pain one feels from the side that does not want to. Some people feel numb and not alive without it (though I am not on that path).
No, dear friend, without pain.. no way! Life to me would seem dull to me.
Hehe.. just as Mr.Smith said in Matrix.. The first Matrix was a perfect world but people started rejecting it and it collapsed, because they did not accept a world without suffering and pain. There is more truth in these words than one might think.. ;)
"Power" is too coined to the use in politics and influence, finance and so on, that is why I dislike this term. I think power is the possibility to enforce one's will upon reality (general definition) by whatever means necessary. So if you have power (not in volt) you have the possibility to do what you wish when you wish to do it. Having power is the opposite of being helpless. And being helpless is what I am willing to avoid. And as I remember you defined happiness as "being capable.." - and in my opinion it is not far from what I consider is power. Now back to more power metal.. read you later. ;)
I could, but I do not wish to. And the stuff I buy is basically via money order or paypal, so what do I need it for? Buying a house? Subscribing to a porn channel? No, really - I doubt I really need it now and I doubt I will in future. And only to hire a car I am not going to get a credcard.
Hell, I had the same experience with my grandpa and the car clerks. I do not own a credit card (and I hope I never will because I do not like them) and he wasn't eager to drive in his age of 80 and the traffic in southern france. We got the second driver thing done but it was a friggin' nightmare to find the car because it wasn't properly parked on the right place and we ended up running around the car park for almost an hour. Try Barcelona and Madrid instead of Toledo next time, I think that would be much better. ;)
"But nobody is really free that way.." - This is why we seek more freedom constantly and why freedom is so precious to us, I suppose. And this is why noone can be objective. ;) Being isolated is not enough, I think. It's quite close though. That is why so many people get introverted and isolate themselves within, I think. Though I doubt that it is obvious to them. But what else is to do, if you get your urge for freedom denied constantly by the surrounding world as happens quite often?
On the other hand, to achieve freedom is also a matter of bravery, cleverness, etc. - But this will be off topic again. Yet a fool's heaven might be a wise man's hell.
Yes, I know. And it's okay. Freedom of belief? ;) :D
But when it comes to "knowing" you will have to admit that what we "know" is evolving as well (heck, look at the past 100 years - it's amazing!) and there is a high chance that we know next-to-nothing right now and maybe never will know something of significance. Then again - what is significance, anyway? And there we are back to it-is-what-you-make-of-it. And only then we know at least something. ;)
I am not going to convince you - but I know you are able to consider different points of view and so I will never stop to invite you to think about it once in a while. But do not forget that you will be developing structure always dependent from science, so more slowly than you could. Look at the social skills you have - social science is not half way through it's own forest of theories, not sure about why and how some of the things work, because individual experience is not counted in that much. I am not sure if I could express what I meant, but please ask if something is unclear. o_O
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Yesssss... Delicious and various if possible. And yeah.. quite a lot of it. There are many tasty plants and animals out there! :D
"..absence of pain."
You know I do not agree. But last time we did not have the time to talk about it much, so here the missing link.. Pain is the best teacher to some, to others a drug, to others motivation, to others inspiration. I do not only miss the point in absence of pain, I think I would not want to live a life without it. Pain, suffering and problems made quite a contribution to who I am now and I love it. And I look forward to more of it once in a while. Love without a bit of pain would certainly bore me to death. Inner suffering and solitude, pain and sadness in the own mind/soul is most inspirating for any kind of creative work, be it writing, pain-ting ( :P ) or composing music. The calm happiness of letting go is worth nothing without the pain one feels from the side that does not want to. Some people feel numb and not alive without it (though I am not on that path).
No, dear friend, without pain.. no way! Life to me would seem dull to me.
Hehe.. just as Mr.Smith said in Matrix.. The first Matrix was a perfect world but people started rejecting it and it collapsed, because they did not accept a world without suffering and pain. There is more truth in these words than one might think.. ;)
"Power" is too coined to the use in politics and influence, finance and so on, that is why I dislike this term. I think power is the possibility to enforce one's will upon reality (general definition) by whatever means necessary. So if you have power (not in volt) you have the possibility to do what you wish when you wish to do it. Having power is the opposite of being helpless. And being helpless is what I am willing to avoid. And as I remember you defined happiness as "being capable.." - and in my opinion it is not far from what I consider is power. Now back to more power metal.. read you later. ;)
On the other hand, to achieve freedom is also a matter of bravery, cleverness, etc. - But this will be off topic again. Yet a fool's heaven might be a wise man's hell.
But when it comes to "knowing" you will have to admit that what we "know" is evolving as well (heck, look at the past 100 years - it's amazing!) and there is a high chance that we know next-to-nothing right now and maybe never will know something of significance. Then again - what is significance, anyway? And there we are back to it-is-what-you-make-of-it. And only then we know at least something. ;)
I am not going to convince you - but I know you are able to consider different points of view and so I will never stop to invite you to think about it once in a while. But do not forget that you will be developing structure always dependent from science, so more slowly than you could. Look at the social skills you have - social science is not half way through it's own forest of theories, not sure about why and how some of the things work, because individual experience is not counted in that much. I am not sure if I could express what I meant, but please ask if something is unclear. o_O