The Rockerfly said:
Velvo said:
Ha! You are going to be unhappy in time with that attitude, friend.
-Humankind is a social species. You find a group you can rely on, or a community you can rely on, or a government you can rely on, or you die lonely.
-Nothing is free. You pay for it with the hours of your life.
-No one is so essential that the world will not forget you in time. If you fuck up, don't fret too much. It won't bother you long.
-Life is not taken from the womb like an opportunity seized. It is given, both in sorrow and joy. The opportunities to become a better person are, again, given. You are a combination of your environment and your genetics (arguably also environment), so feel lucky if you're not "down."
I'm sorry, I think of the image of the "self made man" and I think of a fellow being birthed out of his own womb. Ridiculous.
It's not a case of loneliness but if you ask someone to do something, make sure they do it and don't make a leap of faith on that. More something you should apply for work
How can you rely on something that changes constantly with thousands of human variables. Such as internal problems, external problems, emotional, reactions to changes you make. Relying on someone is a really bad idea and will get you hurt in one way or another
Nothing is free? Things are free, the beauty of nature is one good example
I do agree with the last one though but you are still the master of your own destiny, you can move to any country at any time. The only thing stopping you is you own mindset
Also I am not lonely, I have a girlfriend of 7 months, a bunch of close friends and a best mate. Don't make assumptions like that without knowledge of the person
I really meant no offense, sir. Just commenting.
But it's not really a choice as to whether you rely on someone or not. In work, you rely on your coworkers and bosses not to turn the company to sh!t. In your community you rely on people to be there making small scale civilization possible. In your government you rely on them to make sure, however sloppily, that large scale civilization is possible. It's not possible to envision all that people do for you, every day, so that you can live your life in the manner to which you are accustomed. If your trust in these people is damaged, then you deal with it. Pain is a part of having to put trust in people who are flawed themselves. But you can't make it totally on your own. Keeping an open mind and an open heart ensures that you won't be a lonely hermit. Course, you gotta keep up a few defenses so you don't get shattered on terrible people, but either extreme is harmful.
When I say "nothing is free" I am referring to the time you "spend" experiencing these things when you could be experiencing something else. Perhaps something better, perhaps something worse, but everything is still effectively a trade. And, of course, people take advantage of "time as money" all the time. Whether or not nature is always there totally for free is irrelevant, cause if you didn't spend time appreciating it, then you wouldn't appreciate it. Course, there are some things for which the time-to-value ratio is very advantageous...
Where do you get your mindset, sir? If you didn't have the opportunity to learn that mindset, then you wouldn't have it, would you? There is no such thing as an effect without a cause (except in some quantum cases which have no discernible impact on the macro-universe other than causing an equitable amount of randomness). Believing that you have some special quality which allows you to think of any idea or feel any emotion with no instigation is simply magical thinking.
Of course, that brings me to the idea of free will. Is there some force which specifically effects the course of our brains from outside the universe in order to make such a thing as free will possible? Until we know exactly how the brain does what it does, we cannot know for certain, but I think not. Occam's Razor kinda cuts it to pieces.
I'm not saying that we're not responsible for our actions. Obviously, even if at core there is no free "I" that is responsible for the things I do, we must act as though there is because the "individual will" with which we are all so intimately familiar is such a persistent, if possibly fallacious, experience.
So basically, f**k it.
"Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness." - Viktor Frankl
