to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women
>>34762040Anything else?
>>3476204242
>>34762046Thanks God appreciate it. See ya in 75 years
The words we wish we knew
But I suppose it’s a dream to grab the pen of God and rewrite reality >:)
>>34762039People
>>34762061So me ? :)
Proceed
>>34762039The one instinct that every living organism shares is to reproduce
>>34762079Too bad you'll never do it
>>34762079I don't have this instinct and I never have. What does that make me?
>>34762039To eat, fuck, and die epicallyIn that orderBeyond that it's up to you
>>34762039The human vocation is wisdom. All well-being, happiness and purpose are found in the acquisition of wisdom.
>>34762046AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA BLIMEY
>>34762186how do you obtain wisdom? is there such a thing as an absolute wisdom?
>>34762039solving problems
>>34762198We gain wisdom in the form of understanding when we use reason impartially, and then we cement wisdom into the virtues when we turn aside from our own irrational desires for the sake of acting on conclusions drawn from rationality. Justice, generosity, compassion, patience, courage and so on are all just expressions that arise when wisdom, or objectivity, is the motivating factor behind an action rather than personal passion.To be wise is to cleave to and act on truth, so absolute wisdom would be nothing other than Truth itself. We can't become Truth, but we can act in accordance with it, and we become wise, happy and fulfilled insofar as we achieve that goal.
>>34762270this sounds nice, I am afraid to make mistakes, is there a reliable enough way to distinguish a truthful way from an untruthful way? do I have to trust my senses, my mind with its pattern recognition efforts, or something else?
>>34762290Senses can't be trusted because they're fallible, but they are useful as long as they're bridled by reason. A common example being a stick submerged halfway in water. If you trusted your senses fully, you would be forced to believe that the stick is bent. Reason will tell you, though, that the stick looking bent is only an illusion caused by refraction. The best way to avoid mistakes is to study and exercise the usage of your reason, which there are plenty of options for in the fields of critical thinking and logic. I personally like Celestine Bittle's 'The Science of Correct Thinking', but anything ought to work as long as it's not too modern.It's also worth holding on to the idea that mistakes are inevitable, no matter how thoroughly you study and practice beforehand. That's not a bad thing, though, because those mistakes are themselves lessons to be grateful for. Each time you make an error, as long as it's an error made in good faith and not one that's the product of ill will, then you'll have learned from it almost the moment that it happened. The only way to cut off your progress towards Truth is to persist in your errors out of pride, either because you hate to admit you were wrong or desire to uphold a belief whether or not it's true.
>>34762338thank you for your answers
>>34762064Yes
>>34762039Life is supposed to be lived.It's not fucking hard to understand.
>>34762039Try to be happy.
>>34762039Connection.In the end, it boils down to connection.
>>34762149>I don't have this instinct and I never have. What does that make me?free
