Thursday, February 16, 2012
2/16/12
I was wondering today why it is that we listen to the ideas of these philosophers anyways, I mean they make connections with the world that don't make any sense anyways to people like me that are just trying to make sense of the world! I would be lying though if I said that the ideas that these great men thought of didn't interest me, but what bothers me is that they all make me feel bad about something I do in my every day life. Looking though my past posts I see that all of my ideas revolved around the idea that we should feel bad for any type of happiness that we feel for ourselves and if we don't examine our lives then we are not living the lives that we should be. But I think everyone can agree that sometimes it is better to just live life rather then trying to over think everything that we plan to do. What type of life would we be living if we thought about every action we took? We would never fully be living the lives that we could, and in that way wouldn't that be selfish? I think all of these readings are starting to get into my head...
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The philosophers are not some odd race of people, they too are people who, much like you, are trying to make sense of the world. Some people may not like to have their views changed but sometimes, I think, it is completely necessary. They don't want you to be unhappy. Most of them just want you to think and to do thinks that you actually want to do, but sometimes it takes lots of thinking to do. They want you to be happy and to see the truth which they think is fairly essential to being happy. Would you want to spend your entire life eating something that you didn't like, just because you didn't know that anything else existed? There is not just living life, you don't need to constantly think about everything you do, but as they come up you should consider them fully and then act accordingly. You don't need to plan anything out, really.
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