Brief Reflection
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
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'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 ( ... )
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