What is your philosophy of life?

[Gracchus]

Or maybe: "It doesn't matter whether the glass if half-full or half-empty as long as the bottle isn't empty."

 

[WonderBeat]

God is, end of story.

 

[Gracchus]

God is, end of story.

Does that mean that God needs a better editor? And if that is all there is to it, then why bother to publish?

 

[brinny]

perhaps what was meant is that God is the Alpha and the Omega as it is written that He is.

 

[TheThirdMan]

Love everyone regardless.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

I like the selfish gene interpretation. My life (lived history from birth to death) is only here because of its potential survival value, my life is a survival machine. From that I can infer that if I do not try to survive, probably I am rubbing up against my nature the wrong way.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Love everyone regardless.

How is such love embodied?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

perhaps what was meant is that God is the Alpha and the Omega as it is written that He is.

Or... he is that He is (tetragrammaton), his essence involves existence. As a footnote the ontological argument (of St Anselm) tries to infer that...A perfect being must exist, else it would lack perfection. That perfect being we call God.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

For me the value of being, of a living human being knowing itself to exist, is not reducible to one of the parts of experience like happiness or ataraxia. Rather in the synthetic totality of a situation, of an experienced flow of being and becoming, has a value to which such things contribute but do not entirely constitute. The contributory factors are perhaps uncountable, but the resultant value is holistically emergent or summative rather than reduced to a particular element in the equation. And the fact that there is for example some non happiness in the equation e.g. a book or a tree, or abstract thought, can add to the value of the 'gestalt of being' rather than subtract from it.

 

[Eudaimonist]

For me the value of being, of a living human being knowing itself to exist, is not reducible to one of the parts of experience like happiness or ataraxia. Rather in the synthetic totality of a situation, of an experienced flow of being and becoming, has a value to which such things contribute but do not entirely constitute. The contributory factors are perhaps uncountable, but the resultant value is holistically emergent or summative rather than reduced to a particular element in the equation. And the fact that there is for example some non happiness in the equation e.g. a book or a tree, or abstract thought, can add to the value of the 'gestalt of being' rather than subtract from it.

That is well put.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[elephunky]

Learn to question things, be honest with yourself and always do your homework/research (in a topical sense not school/work sense)