Call me clinically depressed, but damn it all, I’m afraid that I’ve become completely disillusioned with the idea of answering life’s questions, of realizing The Way. I just don’t CARE anymore (or perhaps, I don’t care at this point in time), because there’s always this voice in my head, deafening in its silent, subtle persuasiveness, muttering softly, “these questions are unanswerable…give up…” It so often seems as if these debates are exercises in futility, masturbatory, almost. Resolution never comes as a result of our discourse, whether it’s intellegent or otherwise. Perhaps, instead of the construction of ideas and adoption of theories in regards to philisophical matters, a mind-set of deconstruction is the only truth: order in the acceptance of inevitable chaos and unavoidable ignorance (I have a feeling the declaration of such nihilistic principles aren’t going to win me any votes over at the “Who Would You Want to Date” thread).
Since this is the “Great Debates” arena, I suppose I’m required to ask a question of some sort. Ummm…I got it: see subject title, replacing “I” with “we.”
And finally…
“The Good deserve a higher plane of existence than this life can offer, The Bad an even higher.”
Hell, most of us aren’t really looking for the big answer, 'cause like you, most of us realize that there is no one big answer. Rather, I think most of us come here and engage in these debates that we might expand our knowledge base. It’s the quest for the big answer that’s the point. You learn as much as you can along the way, and you’re better equipped to be a useful person. That’s just my opinion, though.
(to borrow a sig)The Poster Formerly Unknown as Rodimus
“Are you frightened of snakes?”
“Only when they dress like werewolves.”
-Preacher
I would say Junior that according to your profile you are a college student. If you are having these kind of problems now you are in serious trouble down the line cause you ain’t even got your feet wet in the steam of life yet. Slow down, don’t sweat the little stuff and if you wait long enough and don’t panic usually the big stuff will just take care of itself.
You are clinically depressed da dum dum. Ahh, the old jokes are still the best.
a and b added by moi.
a) That’s okay. It isn’t the answer that it is interesting, nor is it the answer that leads you towards development. It is the act of thinking about these things that get the neurons pumping and expands your horizons. Consider the unanswerables to be a form of exercise.
b) This is not so okay. To lack a way is deadly to the spirit!
“When you don’t know what harbor you’re aiming for, no wind is the right wind.”
Seneca
I urge you to fight, to push forward and endure! Keep looking! Keep defining what it is that you will live by and live for! There is no one way, there is the way for you. Never stop trying to find those things that you wish to live by, to stop is to become adrift and lost. Once you find a principle that you want to live by do so with great intensity, but do not grip it so tightly that you become stagnant and unable to change.
Junior Bunk: Hell, everybody becomes disillusioned at one point or another. As long as you feel some curiosity about those questions, then you’re not as far gone as you might think.
I imagine that you’re correct when you amend your statement to “or perhaps I don’t care at this point in time.” I would be willing to bet that you will care again. Again, most everybody stops caring at some point or another.
Oh, I dunno. Maybe people aren’t convinced that others are right in the big ways, but I know that some of the folk out there who couldn’t understand why or how an atheist could have a moral compass now are closer to understanding. And that’s just one f’rinstance.
And I think that there are chicks who dig nihilism, too.
Hey, I’m not here expecting to find any right answers. At best, I want to exercise my brain, pick up a little knowledge, find a few new questions and eliminate the wrong answers that trick me into thinking I’ve got it all worked out!
