Brief Reflection

[parma_violets]

Every time I drink wine, I like to listen to Beck's Sea Change album. Judging by Guero and what little I've heard from The Information, it's perhaps his last great record. I can well understand why people might think that this album is not the sort of thing you'd go back to time and time again - it was written after a traumatic relationship break

Comments

[baron_scarpia]

Even my video camera can never bring back happy days from long ago; once you feel something, that moment is gone forever and it can never return.

'I have this now, and therefore I am happy', 'I cannot have this forever, and therefore I am sad'. While there's always regret that a moment can't return, the fact that you had that moment at all isn't something that should be overlooked.

I believe in rationality, and that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I've told you before that my favourite philosopher is David Hume, haven't I? I think you'd get on rather well with him...

All there is is now, and if you don't appreciate the beauty and wonder of it while it's there, you'll never get a chance to appreciate it later.

This has a lot of weight, but I think it misses the point slightly. Imagine that there was a heaven; why should that make the time we spend on this planet any less significant? We're told that this life is just a preparation for the big event, but as far as I'm concerned every moment has the potential to be a big event. Whatever happens in the next life, this life is important because we still have to experience it. We still have all the emotions and all the opportunities that go with it. To discount that just because the next stage is better is somewhat short-sighted, and when there's no proof that there is a next stage, as you say, it's basically ridiculous.