How do we decide what matters? — TiredThinker
Is what matters and what we're willing to forgo have everything to do with our own mental state and less to do with the world we are trying to describe? — TiredThinker
How do we decide what matters? — TiredThinker
To do so I think one mustHow do we decide what matters? — TiredThinker
NB: Such as cultivating habits of courage ... of learning ... of ecstasy ...... whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. — Albert Camus
How do we decide what matters? — TiredThinker
I think such an approach to life is generally an unbalanced one. — Abdul
One should always spend time reflecting and evaluating their own judgment, sharpening the moral self if you will. I — Abdul
I wouldn't practically heavily rely on one of my virtues such an intuit as attractive as it may seem. — Abdul
...but if instructions are required something is terribly amiss. — Janus
Never used a pubic toilet?
Feeling alive is pleasant, but does it matter? Naturalistic fallacy, yet again.
General gripe: ↪Deus
, ↪Yohan
, ↪Seeker
, ↪I like sushi
and you all posit suggestions that fall at this first hurdle. What we wish to do is not always what we ought to do. Nor can one derive what we ought do from what we in fact do. Basic stuff. — Banno
but I have never needed instructions. — Janus
Why? We might make your unhappy life not a waste by harvesting your organs...If you don't feel alive then your life is wasted, — Janus
Why? We might make your unhappy life not a waste by harvesting your organs...
You haven't presented, and can't, present an argument because you can't move from what is the fact to what ought to be the fact.
Otherwise, it's just organ harvesting or advertising slogans. — Banno
So what matters is that it stop raining. — Banno
Ankles are so badly designed. Proof that there is no god, or that he's a right arsehole. I think things started to go bad when we came down from the trees. — Banno
Right, so that we can do what makes us feel more alive. — Janus
You never have such a clear and distinct apprehension of the fact of being alive as when you are bored shitless. Which entirely undermines your point. — Banno
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