What is your aim?
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Well I am sure you are wiser -thats why we have this discussion, no?
P.S. : if you really want you can speed up the process by wanting more
Great question!!! Hard to answer though... If you love something you do anything for it dont you? If you increase your love for wisdom you increase you sincerity. Mix with people who have the same desire and read wise books...
Haha yes! It's all carbs here!
Terxpahseyton
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Yeah, by legitimization. The thing here is, that to think something is legitimate is - in the context of emotions - an emotion in itself. But it is important to understand that this is the only genuine emotional response you get out of rationality. I'll illustrate with your own example.
There it is! A feeling is branded as irrational and hence denied its legitimacy. Yes this works! But not because of the soundness of a rational in itself. Not because weather it really is irrational. If it works entirely depends on if the patient accepts the claim of legitimacy - never mind how rationally sound it actually is. Psychoanalysis is a textbook example for this.
Freud for instance liked to trace many problems to the relation to the mother. Which ended up in a therapy approach which came down to "blaming" the emotional trouble of the patient on external factors - in this case the mother. This way, the patient was made to believe that it was legitimate to feel better - it wasn't his own fault after all! But as has been realized - this had little to do with the actual merit of what was said. The rational content - its actual soundness - was in the end irrelevant. All what mattered was how legitimate the patient thought certain feelings to be.
You may call it also differently. Call it "justified". Call it "reasonable". Call it whatever you like. It all comes down to the same basic emotional impulse. The actual content of the rational? Just a tool void of any inherent emotional implication.
I am not disputing that it is - in principle anyway - possible to rationally explain emotions. I dispute that we feel because of the content of a rational as such. I don't feel fear when watching a scary movie because it was rational. And I don't hate myself because it is actually rational to hate myself. But I can certainly rationalize this self-hatred anyway. Which is what psycho-analysis is about, but which is not actually rationally sound, but plain psychological trickery. And that is what every rational is which concerned with motives rather than with instinctive/biological reactions.
My aim is (a) human immortality fast enough to help save our parents and then (b) to colonise my very own star.
Sure, big dreams. Feasible, though, if a lot of things go right (and I get more help!) AND if I take the long view.
Sure, big dreams. Feasible, though, if a lot of things go right (and I get more help!) AND if I take the long view.
Mr. Dictator
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This is the first moment that your avatar made full sense to me.
Not sure in what sense... One certainly needs good deal of sincerity for happiness. And humility and simplicity...
One can be sincere about something but one has to also be able to put some effort (be determined) for happiness.
The best kind of effort is the one which is done in self-giving manner or which leads to self-transcendence. By achieving something new one definitely achieves satisfaction.
You must have a much higher tolerance for temperatures than most people. It was 30C here yesterday and I was looking at pictures of winter and wishing it would snow.
I'd rather colonize a planet in the temperate zone, personally.
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Jewel Runner
As of this week, I feel compelled to write a novel.
Ajidica
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Good. Perhaps it should take place in a cyberpunk futuristic Constantinople where the characters discuss the nature of God/Jeus and how the net impacts it.
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Jewel Runner
I went to a writing workshop and was told by the other participants that an SF short story I wrote reads more like the opening of a novel than anything self-contained. It is, unfortunately, nothing like that. I'll file that away for the future though.
Have you ever participated in NaNoWriMo?
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I haven't. Not sure my writing process is really conducive to it, but I might give it a go this time to see how it goes.
Well, you have until October 31 to think about it.
Well, I mean 'colonise my own star system', technically. The trip is likely to take a few thousand years, so I will need to be completely capable of being comfortable 'long-term' in space.
Remember, humanity has been around for almost 100,000 years. Only 93(ish)% of human adults have died. IF we're going to think in less than 5-year leaps, it's worth thinking a bit more long-term than most people do. The world's going to be a different place in 30 years ... I'd prefer to help mold it into something that we want.
