What do you think? Can you relate to what I think/feel? — niki wonoto
Better to create stories for ourselves that give us power and reject those that take it away. — Baden
Yes, consumer society is exploitative and alienating. I agree. If that is enough for you to build a prison for yourself, feel free. — Baden
Better to create stories for ourselves that give us power and reject those that take it away. — Baden
In reality, not everyone can be a winner. — niki wonoto
What do you think? Can you relate to what I think/feel? — niki wonoto
Can you redefine the prison or do you just accept the conditions as it is what it is? — schopenhauer1
To "win" is to cultivate virtue and self-mastery, though one doesn't triumph over anybody else except perhaps one's lesser self, thus this type of winning does not imply the existence of a loser.
Anyone can do this, and one may very well argue that virtue and self-mastery are cultivated more frequently by those who have less than those who have more. — Tzeentch
But in my old age I regret the young do not want to know what I think and they are making very bad decisions, such as smoking pot and refusing to go to school. As they know very little of life, — Athena
I think you may be right about adversity being a good motivator. I am concerned that Christianity has hindered us in the need to learn of virtues and intentionally act on them until doing so becomes a habit, because Christianity is about being saved by the Savior, instead of being saved by our will to develop virtual habits. — Athena
The pretence to objectivity fails. Your pills are for those who like prisons. And that's fine for those who do. — Baden
But Hanover had some point that life is not necessarily a zero sum game of winners and losers in terms of the possibility of making a living. However, it is setup a certain way that is basically intractable. You were born, in this world you have to survive, and history has its contingent ever present constraint along with the cultural artifacts of what came from it. — schopenhauer1
Sure, and you were forced to say that by these constraints and me to say otherwise, which is the meaninglessness of determinism and which is even more meaningless to suggest we've figured it out, considering whatever we figured out was what we had to think regardless. — Hanover
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