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YA > Q: What is your favorite thing to think about?
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I rather tend to agree with this wise observation. My
"favorite thing to think about" is my book. You know ...
THE Book! It kinda gives direction and meaning to my
life in a very general sense. This is important because
these are the kind of "little things" that make life worth
living by investing it with depth and quality. If you live
only from moment to moment, and day to day, without
ever thinking ahead (or behind) ... What do you think
about all day and all night long? Do you think about
whatever's going on around you from one moment to
the next moment, and from day to day? Does this
mean that all day long you think about the incoming
information that your senses are giving you, along with
all your emotional responses to same? Does this mean
that thou art truly a poor victim of circumstance, and a
slave to your surroundings? Oh My Stars and Garters!
Who could tolerate living like that all the time? I know,
I know, we all have to do this sort of thing every bloody
day. Right? But ALL the time? Don't you have to be
rather thoughtless and unreflective to prefer 'thinking
only of the moment' to thinking 'ahead and behind'?
Yes, it's true that there is much meaning to be had in
action and full immersion in ... whatever you happen
to be ... umm ... occupied with? (Is that the right ?)
Anyway, what you tell me about 'your favorite thing to
think about' tells me not only who you are, but also
your relative philosophical worth! :)
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YA > Q2: How to Have a Successful Life? ...
-- Or: The Great Cosmic Secret ?!? --
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To be successful ... To build yourself a successful
life ... it is presumed that one's condition, albeit
mortal and (as it were) terminal, must yet also
exhibit the signs and feelings of that ever-elusive
state called Happiness. To be happy ... even in
the midst of danger and grief and uncertainty, of
poverty, ill-health, pain and loneliness, and even
in the midst of all the evil and stupid things that
this World (and its People) can (and do) provide in
such abundance ... *THIS* is the secret to Life, the
Universe, and Everything ... BUT to be Happy you must
first know HOW to be happy! You must therefore know
many things: such as peace, contentment, quiet,
liberty and love, focus and absorption, fascination
and obsession, passion and glory, mystery and reason,
etc ... and (above all else) ... Joy! ... which can't
be measured or quantified, or even objectively proven
to exist, but which is nevertheless the most essential
ingredient of all happiness; for joy is pure spirit!
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> Yahoo! Answers > Arts & Humanities > Philosophy >
> On 2May07 lucarior asks: Why were we created?
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w: i have never seen so many garbage-answers to any
question before; and for that reason alone i am compelled
to answer. firstly, the human race was NOT created! homo-
sapiens evolved over long stretches of time from our hominid
ancestors who were almost as clever as modern-man
(judging from the answers i see here, maybe even more so).
the fact is that there is absolutely nothing *necessary* about
our presence on this planet. in fact, if that meteor had missed
the earth (about 65 million years ago), we would all be
intelligent dinosaurs debating about whether or not god is
the great universal-snake.
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