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[Guest]

Is wisdom not the child of experience, be that parents mad or sane?

 

[silkynik]

Ah but, the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil, isn't it?

 

[Guest]

But isn't a pleasant insanity an appropriate response to an evil reality?

 

[silkynik]

As Aldous Huxley said "At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols."...I believe he was on the right track, wasn't he?

 

[Guest]

I believe he was, yes...was he also correct when he asserted, "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex" ?

 

[silkynik]

Mmmm, I'll have to ponder that one!!! Although he also said "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."...Do we?

last one for now...byeeee

 

[PrinceRyu]

What is the meaning of life?

 

[FallingToFly]

What is the meaning of life?

Isn't the meaning of life to write/read more smut?

 

[expertlinguist]

If the answer is 37 what was the question?

 

[tiara suzanna]

I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad?

You know Holy Devil?

 

[TheOlderGuy]

You know Holy Devil?

is that a good thing?

 

[silkynik]

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven." John Milton...Surely, this cant be a bad thing...?

 

[Guest]

Ah, but where does the mind exist in the maze that is the brain?

 

[Holy Devil]

is that a good thing?

Why do you even need to ask?

 

[surferboy69]

Ah, but where does the mind exist in the maze that is the brain?

the mind exists with in the spirit, the soul as it were, possibly?

 

[Hikari]

Let us slink into the ever creeping darkness that is our mortality, shall we?

 

[Guest]

Is the thought of mortality not what gives meaning to life?

 

[Hikari]

Is the thought of mortality not what gives meaning to life?

What are your feelings on this topic?

 

[surferboy69]

Is the thought of mortality not what gives meaning to life?

of course it is, but does the fact that we understand on some level that we are mortal bring sadness to that meaning?

 

[Guest]

Perhaps, but, could we know joy without sadness?

 

[silkynik]

Best to "Realise" the temporal nature of things
and simply "Do and Die"..apparently, Is that the case, though?

 

[surferboy69]

Perhaps, but, could we know joy without sadness?

excellent point.......without one we have no perspective on the other.

is there truly balence between joy and sadness in life?

 

[Guest]

Does that not depend of the life lived?

 

[silkynik]

Does that not depend of the life lived?

Ah but as Albert Einstein said "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." Would you do the same?

 

[surferboy69]

Does that not depend of the life lived?

is the life lived, a series of choices or is the life lived something that is fate?