Life is not fair. -it is also not unfair. justice exists when people make it so just as injustice does if people make it so. luck exists every bit as much as illfortune.
No one is exempt from death. -this depends on your definition of death. from my religious standpoint, everything is both simultaneously alive and dead; a human more live than a cat, a cat moreso than a worm, a worm moreso than a bacteria, to virus, rock and all that is matter and energy. from this perspective, death is simply a change of form. If you choose to look at things from a judeo-christian viewpoint, then your soul continues to exist in heaven, hell, purgaroty or whatnot. in both cases, death is not the destination, to draw from grim fandango ~_^.
Physics rules the universe and biology rules life. -biology is a subset of physics
The universe does not care. -it neither cares or doesn't care the universe, as with all life, simply ISThe only constant in life is change
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I didn't say I lived by them, now did I? Just that I found them interesting and they fit in with the generall theme of introspection. All in all, I wanted a discussion. Which I got.
Personally, I live by a different code, which we have in fact discussed before.
Agreed, mostly. My favorite quote (speaking of counterexamples) is: "There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." Niels Bohr
Okay. -Life is not fair. Would you want it to be? To borrow from Babylon 5, would you want to live in a world where every bad thing that happened to you happened to you because you deserved it? Would you really want a world where nothing but hard work and honest effort brought good results? No. You wouldn't. But I would, which brings us to- -Life is not fair. Yes, and with that attitude, it never will be. Inevitability is the last resort of a weak mind. It hasn't the strength to go on, so it simply decides that its goal is unattainable. Pure sour grapes. -No on is exempt from death. Again, would you want to be? If death were optional, only the brave and the wise would do it, and the world will be filled with the foolish and cowardly. Besides, you don't know that everyone eventually dies. You're just saying that because everyone has
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I agree with you an all counts except for the last point.
I feel that it is possible to change ones own character with enough drive and conviction. Most people don't reach the point where they decide that they need to change their character.
I have friends who have changed their characters successfully, and other friends who believe it to be impossible. They're both correct, for themselves.
Perhaps I should amend that. It's certainly possible to change actions; what one does is something you have almost total control over. But what you do and what you are are two different things.
It's been said that life is 10% what comes to you and 90% what you do with it. This fits with your theory that one can change actions.
What forms "What you are"? Nature? Fate? Where you grew up? Parenting style?
If what you are was formed over the course of your life, it can logically be changed by intent and will. If it wasn't formed that way, how was it formed?
We should do more things of the hanging-out nature. I will debate your "Facts of Life" (most of which I agree with) at some other point. Mostly, I'm just happy to see you on LJ!
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-it is also not unfair. justice exists when people make it so just as injustice does if people make it so. luck exists every bit as much as illfortune.
No one is exempt from death.
-this depends on your definition of death. from my religious standpoint, everything is both simultaneously alive and dead; a human more live than a cat, a cat moreso than a worm, a worm moreso than a bacteria, to virus, rock and all that is matter and energy. from this perspective, death is simply a change of form. If you choose to look at things from a judeo-christian viewpoint, then your soul continues to exist in heaven, hell, purgaroty or whatnot. in both cases, death is not the destination, to draw from grim fandango ~_^.
Physics rules the universe and biology rules life.
-biology is a subset of physics
The universe does not care.
-it neither cares or doesn't care the universe, as with all life, simply ISThe only constant in life is change ( ... )
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Personally, I live by a different code, which we have in fact discussed before.
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"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."
Niels Bohr
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-Life is not fair.
Would you want it to be? To borrow from Babylon 5, would you want to live in a world where every bad thing that happened to you happened to you because you deserved it? Would you really want a world where nothing but hard work and honest effort brought good results? No. You wouldn't. But I would, which brings us to-
-Life is not fair.
Yes, and with that attitude, it never will be. Inevitability is the last resort of a weak mind. It hasn't the strength to go on, so it simply decides that its goal is unattainable. Pure sour grapes.
-No on is exempt from death.
Again, would you want to be? If death were optional, only the brave and the wise would do it, and the world will be filled with the foolish and cowardly.
Besides, you don't know that everyone eventually dies. You're just saying that because everyone has ( ... )
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I feel that it is possible to change ones own character with enough drive and conviction. Most people don't reach the point where they decide that they need to change their character.
I have friends who have changed their characters successfully, and other friends who believe it to be impossible. They're both correct, for themselves.
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What forms "What you are"? Nature? Fate? Where you grew up? Parenting style?
If what you are was formed over the course of your life, it can logically be changed by intent and will. If it wasn't formed that way, how was it formed?
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We should do more things of the hanging-out nature. I will debate your "Facts of Life" (most of which I agree with) at some other point. Mostly, I'm just happy to see you on LJ!
Enforcers For Life!
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*adds back*
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