Just a few ideas...
Can an intelligent person be racist? We had the discussion in philosophy a few days ago and it turned into a very interesting one. If you are reading this, no matter who you are, I want you to comment and let me know what you think.
Now onto a few quotes that really make you think. I took these from a book I started reading today. I've changed it a bit to make it more understandable out of context, rid parts of the second person point of view, etc. I'd also like to hear what you have to say concerning any of this:
"Events are a part of a lifelong pattern in which thinking and doing have either come together of failed to come together- I think, I reach a conclusion, I turn the conclusion into a decision, and then I discover that acting on the decision is something else entirely, and that doing so may proceed from the decision, but then again, it may not. Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do. Something -whatever that may be- goes into action. I don't mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have nothing to do with behavior. But behavior does not merely enact whatever has already been thought and decided. It has its own sources and is behaviour, quite independently, just as thoughts at thoughts and decisions are decisions."
"Why does what was once beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of happy years go sour when lies and secrets are revealed? Does such a situation make it impossible to be happy? But there was happiness, once. Sometimes the memory of something happy cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Is happiness only real if it lasts forever? Do things always end painfullyif they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But, what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?"
This one I changed quite a bit:
"Saddness is what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise (of future) that was not kept."
I'd like to hear what you have to say on any/all of these ideas. I'd share my ideas first, but I don't want to influence anyone's perspective. Comment please, I'll respond back.
Now onto a few quotes that really make you think. I took these from a book I started reading today. I've changed it a bit to make it more understandable out of context, rid parts of the second person point of view, etc. I'd also like to hear what you have to say concerning any of this:
"Events are a part of a lifelong pattern in which thinking and doing have either come together of failed to come together- I think, I reach a conclusion, I turn the conclusion into a decision, and then I discover that acting on the decision is something else entirely, and that doing so may proceed from the decision, but then again, it may not. Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do. Something -whatever that may be- goes into action. I don't mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have nothing to do with behavior. But behavior does not merely enact whatever has already been thought and decided. It has its own sources and is behaviour, quite independently, just as thoughts at thoughts and decisions are decisions."
"Why does what was once beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of happy years go sour when lies and secrets are revealed? Does such a situation make it impossible to be happy? But there was happiness, once. Sometimes the memory of something happy cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Is happiness only real if it lasts forever? Do things always end painfullyif they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But, what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?"
This one I changed quite a bit:
"Saddness is what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise (of future) that was not kept."
I'd like to hear what you have to say on any/all of these ideas. I'd share my ideas first, but I don't want to influence anyone's perspective. Comment please, I'll respond back.