April 6, 2007
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More Thoughts
No person should be completely understood by another. No matter how well you know someone, there should always be just a little bit left to know or understand. And that little bit never decreases in amount, which is the essence of every person being an individual.
It is a very good thing early on in life to gain a prejudgment about something from ignorance, and then, once investigating the matter, find that you were completely wrong.
It is better to think than to not think, I say, and I would never debate a person who said otherwise, because I daresay they never thought about it.
Whenever you are talking to a stranger, remember to know that however much they do not know about you, you probably do not know about them.
What is life in between the moments that emotions chill our bones? What is life in between the times we gaze into death’s eyes? What is life in between the times that we notice what life is? When we see our position in the universe as singular, momentary, and conflicting? When we realize in this life we have the potential to be anyone at all? What do we do inbetween those moments?
Be thinking! But in the meantime, have a wonderful night!
Comments (5)
you make some very good points.
Dude, I wish I was half that profound!
I’ve been wondering about life. Yesterday, I didn’t feel the least bit alive.
thank you.
this is reminiscent of confucius or lao tzu. poignant. true.
Once again, I love your thoughts. Sometimes I wish life could be all thinking. “I think; therefore I am.” Wouldn’t that be so easy? If we could just think it through and marvel over how fascinating it all is and every time we thought, we would think a new thought and then we’d go somewhere else and it would never end. Your Calvin & Hobbes picture fits perfectly.
I love those guys.
You wrote: “How can one consent to be created? This criterion makes it so that no one can ever have a duty to anyone else ever. This is an argument that duty does not exist.”
No, it is not an argument that no one can ever have a duty to anyone else ever. It is an argument against the idea that, just because someone was created by another, they have a duty to that person.