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The Real Reason why Life is like a Box of Chocolates?
Nov 21st
Life is like a box of chocolates in so many ways. If not correctly made with the right ingredients, a chocolate may not taste right, look obscure or even lead to illness. Similarly, if a chocolate was not placed in a beautiful, extravagant wrapping, it would usually mean the contents exhibit characteristics of being cheap, nasty or inedible. This in any case is close to worthless, but still worth what it is capable to be exploited for. Equally, if a chocolate was not kept under the right conditions, it would melt, freeze or decay. Finally, if a chocolate were ever More >
Life is such a bore!
Oct 22nd
I am convinced that boredom is the greatest of all tortures. Yet it seems that life’s purpose is to pass in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. To escape this boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. This is perhaps the most disheartening aspect of life More >
If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected and the expected unexpected?
Feb 15th
Just because you anticipate the unexpected doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t be surprised when it occurs. To expect an event which is still unexpected connotes the element of surprise and an element lacking in comprehension.
Example: I may take an umbrella with me to work in case I require it to prevent becoming wet from an unexpected rainfall. But, nevertheless, use it to ward of a thief trying to steal my car.In summary, life isn’t predictable. Although some things can be expected, many are not, and just because we anticipate an expected notion, it often does not imply that More >
Is a bird that can fly really a free bird?
Dec 16th
The definition of free is enjoying individual freedom not under constraint from being subject to the control or domination of another.
Based upon this definition, just because a bird can fly, does not necessarily mean it is free.
Obviously not all birds have the ability to fly, and although they cannot take to the air, they are still not captive.
The only time a bird would not be free is if it was inhibited and unable to escape from constraint.
In summary, just because a bird can fly does not mean it is free.
Freedom is dependent upon the constraint, control and freewill of a More >
Nihilism: The Meaninglessness of Life.
Dec 16th
The belief of Nihilism is that all values are baseless, purposeless and nothing in life can be known, communicated or proven. Often mistaken as extreme cynical pessimism, the radical and often frowned upon term condemns life as a purposeless existence without cause. The best description of a nihilistic individual is someone who believes in nothing, has no loyalties, and has no other purpose than to destroy hope and realism.
Characterised by Friedrich Nietzsche, it was often argued that that the corrosive affects of nihilism would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions, which supposedly would precipitate the greatest crisis in More >
