It's almost break; thank God. One more test till I go home. Random: I need to learn to be happy by myself before I can be happy with someone else. Well, really do I? Who says that? Is it so wrong to believe that other people can complete you?
I am a soft-determinist. I believe that people's actions are influenced both by happenings in the world and by my own free will. This should mean that I cannot make myself happy, at least not all the time. My feelings are causally determined sometimes, and sometimes are by my own self-created situations. I'm not depressed or anything, but maybe this explains why people are depressed, epistemically. If one, to be happy, must be content by both their own definition, and the universe, through causally determined situations that influence one's motives and therefore actions, then the only way to be truly happy, by my definition (because I am a soft-determinist) would be to be happy within oneself and happy in the state of the world, or at least until the world changes my motives, and by effect, my actions based on free will.
"Faith is but a firm assertion of the mind." -John Locke
I am a religious person, but if I think about this not in terms of God-faith, this is a powerful quote. I can believe something if I truly do believe it, and I will truly believe it if I fully commit my mind to think so. How many things can this apply to? It's infinitesimal.
Three times. It's just so easy.
*Title from "The Christmas Story" by Dave Matthews
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