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Just some thought about people and everyday life.

MOST IMPORTANT THINGS

gerasimchukalex
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Posted 08/19/06 - 09:34 AM: Subject: MOST IMPORTANT THINGS	#1
I can do whatever I want whenever I want. I love people. I think that we are the best creatures in the whole universe and should care about and help each other as much as we can. We should always do good things for everybody, even those people that do bad things for us. Each of us has the power and ability to be perfect and all we have to do is just understand what is our place on this planet and what things make us happy. Smile is the most important thing in the universe. It always makes everybody, including the person that is smiling, feel better. If everybody would smile more, the world would be a much better place. I everybody would be kind to everybody even to people that are not kind to other people soon they would understand that an unkindness and hate does not lead to anything but bad things, which even bad people don't like to experience. I don't think the looks of a particular person matter a lot, if at all. What people need is to find somebody that they can communicate with and not one that they can look at because even the most attractive person would just seem a normal person after you date her for some time and the most unattractive person would seem a normal person also. The only thing that is left after those few days is the ability of that person to communicate with you, nothing more. I believe that there is a perfect someone for everybody, but only few people few people find that person and the rest of us just have to coop with everyday life. People do not have the time to look for that person anymore because most of us are so busy that we barely have time to eat, shower and see our most important friends. I don't think that work or money is the most important thing in life. Money never made anybody trully happy. The only thing that can make people happy is that perfect someone that will love them and make them feel like the most important person in the world. The only bad thing is that all the good feelings usually last only a very short time and after them come bad feelings, sometimes even if everything in our lives is perfect. But we should be glad that we have all the bad feelings in our lives because without experiencing bad things we would not be able to fully appreciate the good things because we would have nothing to compare them to. If we would always feel good we would not know how bad things feel like, so we wouldn't even know if the good feeling are really good or bad because we would have nothing to compare them to. I just woke up and was thinking about all these things and it is so weird how everyone of us wants to feel good, to be loved and admired by others, but at the same time we are afraid of being rejected and hurt by other people. Everyone of us wants to have a close friend that he/she can tell anything to, but at the same time we think that other people would not care about us enough and that they have their own problems to take care of, so we put on a mask and smile to everyone with not a true, but a not natural smile, just to be nice to them, and hide the real us deep inside under that mask. Some of us don't even know who we are anymore because when we hide ourselves and our feelings from other people, with time we start to hide them from ourselves too. But what is the main thing in life? Money, work, entertainment? None of those. The main thing in life are our real friends that most of us have very few of if at all, the people that help us in the time of need, the people that understand. Alex.

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Posted 08/19/06 - 09:39 AM:	#2

"Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "O terra, addio; addio, valli di pianti..." - Aïda e Radamés, Verdi's "Aïda" "Man is the measure of all things." - Protagoras

Yahadreas
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Posted 08/19/06 - 09:42 AM:	#3
It is a shame that so many people are unwilling to be kind and considerate to one another. It is a shame that so many people will cause pain and harm for the sake of material gain. Although I agree with what you say, I honestly do not have enough faith in humanity. I do not think that the picture you paint is able to be actualised, at least, not anytime soon. Perhaps someday, something will bring mankind together as one. Perhaps one day people will no longer be subject to identifiers, like religion, nationality, race, political opinion and the such. Perhaps one day mankind will relate to one another as one family member relates to another. But perhaps, none if this will occur. The greatest shame: that so many will not, and cannot, love their neighbours.
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gerasimchukalex
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Posted 08/19/06 - 10:19 AM:	#4
Yahadreas wrote: It is a shame that so many people are unwilling to be kind and considerate to one another. It is a shame that so many people will cause pain and harm for the sake of material gain. Although I agree with what you say, I honestly do not have enough faith in humanity. I do not think that the picture you paint is able to be actualised, at least, not anytime soon. Perhaps someday, something will bring mankind together as one. Perhaps one day people will no longer be subject to identifiers, like religion, nationality, race, political opinion and the such. Perhaps one day mankind will relate to one another as one family member relates to another. But perhaps, none if this will occur. The greatest shame: that so many will not, and cannot, love their neighbours. All of these problems arise because many people do not see other people as human beings with thoughts, beliefs, desires, etc. They do not see that most people are just trying to survive and be happy in this world. Anytime one plans to kill somebody during the war or other circumstances one should first think what would it be like is that person killed him/her. The world would end, never to come back again. And all this for some stupid belief in something or emotion. Who cares about them; human beings are the most important creatures in the world and their life is the most important thing that they have.

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Posted 08/19/06 - 10:51 AM:	#5
"If we would always feel good we would not know how bad things feel like, so we wouldn't even know if the good feeling are really good or bad because we would have nothing to compare them to." Why do so many people believe this and why do so many people see it as "necessary" that humans suffer. If your statement is true, how could we ever have first-experiences, for, how could a being ever learn what is a "good" exeperience prior to knowing what is a "bad" experience. Assuming we start out prior to our first memory* as a tabula rasa (blank slate) then to gain a capacity for "good" or "suffering" would entail eachother and would have to come into being simultaneously wholly together and wholly apart, for they are still distinct yet they are bound together. This seems contrary to experience though, for when we are "happy" it is not because we are thinking about not-being sad, or that sadness is "with" us when we are experiencing that happiness, happiness has a presence to being in a positive way, it "has being" in the way it "is there". I think it is usually a matter of "appreciation." Think about taste, a sour candy will taste sour, even if bitter has never yet been tasted, it is a physical chemical experience much like the experience of happiness of sadness, meaning that you WILL experience these emotions these feelings for that is exactly what they are "experiences" that are impressed upon us from some "other" source (in the sense that we cannot explain the true origins of our emotions and "experiences" such as these). Now I agree with you that once you know both goodness and suffering can you appreciate it more because with that knowledge of experience comes a greater intellectual grasp when reflecting. But I think this presupposes the entire thing, true a "greater" good will come out of the knowledge of "suffering" but to feel happy is not dependant on knowing both sides fully and equally. Meaning that happiness is possible without appreciation, and while this is not the ideal, I feel this is much like childhood, or the ideal of a childhood. When we were kids we were ignorant, often kids only want to become older and are not conscious of their childhood but they cannot be, this is the great tradegy of life and goodness. Children do not know how good they have it, they do not love their life like they "should," but this perspective is only because of that loss of innocence. But because they do not appreciate their childhood does that negate it's worth? Is their happiness not "good enough" when compared to your perspective? When looking at humanity, I know that we do suffer, but I do not think that we "should" have to suffer or that it is somehow "needed" to be human. "Human" is used to describe how most humans are and how most humans were, but this definition should not prescribe how all humans must be. We focus too much on accepting suffering, on apologizing for its existence, perhaps to reconcile in our own heads the absurdity of the world, or perhaps to "look on the bright side" or find the "good" in "evil." *I use first memory as the cut off because by that point the consciousness is established enough to hold memories of experience at all and it is too late, the tabula rasa has been written on
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Posted 08/19/06 - 11:25 AM:	#6
Ying-yang, counterparts are needed. Day would not exist without night, life would not exist without death. And joy would not exist would not exist without pain, it would just be the state of constant being.

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Posted 08/19/06 - 01:26 PM:	#7
I can only think, either you just went through some revelation or your seriously pissed off...
Change the world by example.

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