Silence is a mental health "duty", I'd say, because we're (mostly) affective, or feeling, creatures - after all, at most, only during these last couple of centuries (out of about two thousand centuries as 'modern homo sapiens') has so much of the species been numbed and captive to the incessantly deafening roar of urbanized & mass media cacophanies; (our) "rationality" seems, btw, only a dependent variable, or spandrel (Gould, Hume).Can we even say that it is our duties as rational beings to practice daily times of silence? — musicpianoaccordion
; (our) "rationality" seems, btw, only a dependent variable, or spandrel (Gould, Hume). — 180 Proof
Is it possible to live a good life and see reality as it is without daily silent meditation/reflection on yourself and the world? — musicpianoaccordion
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