There are many reasons potentially for someone to engage another person in talk.
Just like how good food needs good ingredients, good engagement over a philosophical topic needs good motive, good persons, etc.
Many a person live a fruitless life, especially in the arts of philosophical progress.
Philosophy is more personal than how to cook and drive a car.
It releases itself from the inside of your mental system.
Therefor, the ever-abundant “bad people” will poo on and in all manner of forums and discussions.
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Moreover, Knowingly or unknowlingly, people give the hint of what they bear inside them, even without engaging.
If you look carefully at the username, Avatar and signature of a poster, and then to his posts, in 90% of the cases, there would be clear correlation.
with love,
sanjay
I believe in masterful gods, yet the world has both wonderful and horrible things.
It is as if the world is half made. That a person, in soul and in body, is only half made.
“Half-made” is a term that is less harsh than calling the person a dummy or an evil heathen.
The answer lies in a very old but simple saying- Something is better than nothing.
Half-made is better than not being made at all and full-made is better than half-made.
It is better to exist as an evil than to not exist at all. Because, being existed, even as an evil, gives you at least chance to rectify yourself into good. But, if you do not exist, you cannot be good.
with love,
sanjay
Good post, Dan~
Thanks.
I don’t understand why there is both beauty and ugliness in the world.
I don’t blame randomness or chaos.
I’m left without an answer, though.
Beauty and ugliness are human standards, every life sufficiently conscious in itself and in its ideas will naturally create opposing poles of experience, “good and bad”, and opposing poles of aesthetic-ideal responsiveness and feeling, “beauty and ugliness”. These are further expansions-derivations of the basic pleasure-pain dichotomy in the sensate organism.
The problem of finding expression in one’s daily life can be daunting, even amongst my thinking friends I’m more and more hesitant these days to get philosophical, learned the hard way over the years that deep topics don’t suit normal social living. Save your beard for college tutorials or the internet where the culture exists to welcome it.
If I were to judge the nature of persons and thinkers by measure of this forum, I would say that there are quite a few persons which would prefer to talk and believe, compared to someone else whom would want to listen and re-forge or adopt beliefs. There is a big difference between believers and learners. Sure, we believe what we learn, but to say that we are done with it and on the right track, is often a problem.
The reason for belief is many.
Some people believe something because it is true,
but many believe something because it is appealing.
Or in other cases, people believe a certain way for a reward. (in some religion, for example, not that that is an insult.)
Believing for a reward can be a direct or a distant reward.
I suspect people are not believing purely for truth, or engaging for truth.
It seems more likely they do the belief and engaging for appeal and for reward.
So they show up at a forum and don’t preform all that well.
It is because it is all just noise, but some of the noise is appealing for being not as noisy as others. 