Thanks for sharing. I’ll read up on these when I have the time.
Hello Ippy nice to see you again.
Good to see you’ve started a log, can’t wait to read it!!!
Yes I’m aware of this, however most don’t just make a account to insult a 15 year old for their lack of progress.
Most people prefer to start a thread or try to add something to the conversation.
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Re read what I said. I wasn’t insulting him. He has to expect his current abilities and the progress he has made to be mentioned when he is talking about wanting to give advice to others. He needs people being honest to him as he doesn’t seem to understand how limited he is in experience when it comes to training.
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Please oh Please have pity… Every time now when my son is home from school this semester,
I have to hear all this since one of his classes he is taking is philosophy. Actually you two probably could have a good conversation over it.
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I was a philosophy major. And existentialism is fun. I took a class that was entirely devoted to existentialism with one of my favorite professors. His name was Howell, But he looked like Bill Hader’s twin.
Anyway. I took 4 years of French when I was in high school, and it was all with the same teacher, who was also a philosophy major in college. She absolutely loved french existentialism, and so a lot of our reading involved Sartre and Camus and others. She felt that learning existentialism was essential to understanding French culture in general. Also got a good introduction into theatre de l’absurde. Ionesco was/is one of my favorite writers.
@bulldog9899 It’s amazing how much I disliked studying it in school. I don’t talk about it much offline, but it’s mainly because people tend to turn it into debates, when I really just enjoy the journey of learning. That said, I suppose it could be worse; he could be studying politics, haha.
@flipcollar Pretty awesome to get that sort of education. I’ve read a little Sartre and Camus. I felt like Sartre was a little more approachable, but Camus had more dynamic revelations once you unpacked them. There is still a part in “The Myth of Sisyphus” that gives me goosebumps.
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Or how about the effects of a family member dyeing on anyone on general? Is i right that because someone smokes they should die from lung cancer and everyone else their family, friends hav to mourn there passing? Of course everyone dies anyway but their life can be prolonged from not smoking.
Yes im very selfish. If my mum or dad died right now because of some sudden death caused by smoking or drugs ( they dont do drugs just an example) and i could have prevented it by pushing them to stop. Then im not really concerned for my wellbeing im concerned for my younger sisters wellbeing because im older and more able to handle it then she is. And it will affect her alot more and i wouldnt wish that on my sister… so yes im extremely selfish yep
Again; not everyone has the goal of reaching some sort of high score in years lived. You are still primarily focused on how one person’s passing affects the feelings of others and acting as though it somehow grants licence to remove automomy and agency from the owner of said life.
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I never said i think everyonr has some goal of maximum longetivity? How would you feel in heaven if say you died because you were in a car race and because of your selfish actions you left a bunch of people depressed that you died when you could have prevented it.
Actually forget it You’re right and im wrong. Have a nice Day/night
Thankyou for all the advice it helps alot and showed me a new perspective of thinking.
My views on the afterlife would make this scenario weird to say the least, but hopefully Odin will still have me at the mead table, haha.
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Haha!
Yeah Crom would kick you out of Valhallah and laugh at you anyway for all this philosophizing and shit.
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When I heard I got to heaven in the firsr place, I assumed there must have been a clerical error.
Oh god, it just dawned on me how bad of a pun that is.
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I’m trying to respond to the question of you never know what someone is doing and what their goal is.
From The Coherence of Theism.
“There are plenty of examples of statements which some people judge to be factual which are not apparently confirmable or disconfirmable through observation. For example: Some of the toys which to all appearances stay in the toy cupboard while people are asleep and no one is watching, actually get up and dance in the middle of the night and then go back to the cupboard, leaving no traces of their activity.”
So basically, applying this to our gym scenario, You cannot confirm or disconfirm what someone is doing and whether it is right or wrong purely though observation.
Also with @Benanything’s scenario of the person training optimally. Applying this you can judge your own assertion to be true, however you cannot prove it to be true nor false only through observation. Nor can anyone else prove it to be true or false only through observation.
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I get where you’re coming from but was the fanciful words really necessary?
Yes. Someone will bully me for my age if I use short words or wrong SPAG even once.
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Just chill out ahahahhahah, everyone is just jesting around.
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Except ActivitiesGuy, he’s out here killing people.