Reify
4th April 2012, 22:48
Hello,
I don't usually post in introductory threads a I see it as unnecessary to introduce myself this way; I like to throw myself into things. However, I tried to post a response to one of the threads in the philosophy forum just now but my post doesn't seem to be showing up, though it gives me no indication why. Do I have to have posted a certain amount of times before I'm allowed to post in there? My soul reason for joining has been denied to me. :(
Well, anyway. I've been to this forum before, and obviously I am sympathetic to the kind of ideology that exists here. In fact, I am sympathetic to any kind of ideology seeing as mankind in general to be losing any sense of it. People are happy enough with their toasters and ipads, I suppose.
I'm not overly political, though this government is pushing me to be more active in the political sphere. I am more interested in philosophy, and, more specifically, self-knowledge. Not self-knowledge for the sake of self-knowledge, however. Rather, self-knowledge in an attempt to come to terms with life, death, society and the present day. What mode of life should I be living? For what reason? Before each question lies a gaping hole of potential nothingness, and I suppose I seek to combat such nothingness in order to bring satisfaction to life. This is my project at the moment, though in time I may shift focus onto a more political mode of life should my basic ethic of 'live and let live' be threatened. Of course, 'live and let live' is not enough if the living is superficial, empty, and devoid of anything that gives life richness and flavour.
Hi.
I don't usually post in introductory threads a I see it as unnecessary to introduce myself this way; I like to throw myself into things. However, I tried to post a response to one of the threads in the philosophy forum just now but my post doesn't seem to be showing up, though it gives me no indication why. Do I have to have posted a certain amount of times before I'm allowed to post in there? My soul reason for joining has been denied to me. :(
Well, anyway. I've been to this forum before, and obviously I am sympathetic to the kind of ideology that exists here. In fact, I am sympathetic to any kind of ideology seeing as mankind in general to be losing any sense of it. People are happy enough with their toasters and ipads, I suppose.
I'm not overly political, though this government is pushing me to be more active in the political sphere. I am more interested in philosophy, and, more specifically, self-knowledge. Not self-knowledge for the sake of self-knowledge, however. Rather, self-knowledge in an attempt to come to terms with life, death, society and the present day. What mode of life should I be living? For what reason? Before each question lies a gaping hole of potential nothingness, and I suppose I seek to combat such nothingness in order to bring satisfaction to life. This is my project at the moment, though in time I may shift focus onto a more political mode of life should my basic ethic of 'live and let live' be threatened. Of course, 'live and let live' is not enough if the living is superficial, empty, and devoid of anything that gives life richness and flavour.
Hi.