I have the inner confidence to know the value of ideas before using them. I could simply memorize an idea and use it systematically, every day and several times a day, but I have another option, which is “not doing it.” Once the notion of the idea’s value is created, the outside world is merely a confirmation of something I already know.
I remember a song that says, “How quickly I forgot that this is meaningless.” That’s how I feel about girls. They’re all alive with something I don’t need and nobody needs.
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What, like a womb? You needed one once…
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Asking about which is more superior is a curious way to go at it since both can overpower the other.
Enough external stimulus can overpower the internal, and enough internal can overwhelm the external.
You can have all the money in the world and still be someone who chooses to paint a bathroom wall with their brains. You can also be someone living on the street with nothing to their name and still be content with your life.
However. It feels a bit to me like the title and body of the topic are two different subjects.
What you asked in the body of your post was not about happiness but rather… experience?
Which is more superior:
The lived experience or learned knowledge?
The experienced value of an idea, or the educated estimate of it?
Fact or fiction?
And the answer to that would be: No idea.
What is your metric for measuring superiority?
You can have either, neither or both, and you can be content and happy with any of them.
Which makes you the happier? Well. Only you’d know that, wouldnt you?
Yet. There IS a difference between knowing what the gentle afternoon sun feels like on a sunny autumn day, and feeling it on your skin.
Which is superior and which makes you happier however… are all subjective points.
What on earth does that mean?
Before I begin, I want to say that your opinion, especially when challenging, is important for me to develop the text I’m working on. My goal is to take an ordinary person and transform them into an ideal super-being, but for that I need your perspective. Don’t be too nice to me or ashamed of what you feel.
The text talks about experience, or an episode of conquest, because that’s the definition of happiness for most people. That is, that happiness consists of the satisfaction of needs in an imaginary episode of conquest.
My point is that if this conquest is already present in the imagination, the external world will only be a confirmation of something the person already knows will happen. And if the person already knows they will succeed, there is no learning, only confirmation.
For example, if we imagine a girl who is a virgin, she can use her virginity to impress the boys and conquer all the boys present in a bar. Then you can move to another bar, you can conquer a school, or even express yourself with family members. She might even decide to conquer all the bars in the city where she lives. This doesn’t happen, why? Because once she conquers one area, she assumes the whole city is conquered without visiting every bar. Then she needs new ideas to try, and the idea that she’s a virgin becomes unnecessary. She already knows the outcome.