 Why do we carry on? |
| Hey Hey |
 Dec 20, 2008, 03:08 PM
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Why do we carry on? We are stupid? We are automata?
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| Joesus |
Dec 20, 2008, 03:40 PM
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Every thing can be traced back to one that keeps it all happening.
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| Rick |
Dec 31, 2008, 05:07 PM
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QUOTE(Joesus @ Dec 20, 2008, 03:40 PM)  Every thing can be traced back to one that keeps it all happening. Or set it in motion and then retired (Deist view). That leaves Hey Hey to wonder what to do next. And also to wonder why he just doesn't chuck it all and quit. He may notice that there is a thing deep inside sometimes called motivation (or will to live), that keep us going, gives us energy so we don't always have to think about summoning it. We are given life without asking for it, but also a gift of liking it for its own sake. That would seem counter to free will, except that if we look at the true source, it is us. That's a circuit, a bootstrap sort of thing. Therefore we are not automata, not victims, but the originators of ourselves. Be glad you want to live. Rejoice. It's a thing not to be taken lightly. Life is deadly serious. Do it justice. |
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