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| Nekavaen | Date: Tuesday, 08.02.2011, 00:01 | Message # 16 |
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| You are definitely right, Miss Jane! Nothing is worse than being a nihilist – a person who curses everything and appreciates nothing, who laughs at eternal values and kills his or her own soul with hatred and odium. To believe in nothing means to have no dream, no goal, no spiritual guideline in this life. At the same time I personally dislike people who know what they are living for, but their system of values is immoral. For instance, there are individuals who “believe in the golden calf” – idolize money. The very sense of their lives lies in the wish to get more and more. Nothing can stop them on the way to the dream income. They are ready to kill, kidnap, rape, torture people and smash down all possible obstacles regardless of laws and basic principles of humanity. Isn't it awful?
It is not human to be without shame and without desire. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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| Former-Teacher | Date: Thursday, 10.02.2011, 10:24 | Message # 17 |
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| Quote (Nekavaen) At the same time I personally dislike people who know what they are living for, but their system of values is immoral.
I feel I would argue with you on the point. I feel that I know what I live for. And this knowledge makes me happy and full of kind energy towards the rest of the world. Another thing is that our life is too short but we often desire to experiment with life options. Be there, do that, feel this, forget here.... And then, when you reach the life's end, you desire to return to innocence because you know what to live for.
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| lovefootball) | Date: Thursday, 10.02.2011, 20:49 | Message # 18 |
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| Then what's to be done with experiments? There's a tired phrase that one should try everything in life, so has it the right to exist or all these tries only mislead people? And is there any certain age or time when a person should have definite ideas concerning his/her lifestyle?
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| Former-Teacher | Date: Friday, 11.02.2011, 08:59 | Message # 19 |
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| Nonsense, personal life experiements may relate to jobs, travelling, education, dwellings, hobbies, tastes, music or movies, dressing styles and hairstyles, dieting or sports, etc. But experimenting should never relate to human values and feelings, laws of healthy living and human love, laws of interpersonal respect and the need to protect your life against the evil.
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| Nekavaen | Date: Friday, 11.02.2011, 10:07 | Message # 20 |
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| I guess my message above has been misunderstood. Maybe, it’s because the structure of the sentence that was quoted by Teacher is wrong and a bit confusing. I didn’t mean to say that I hate self-confidence and can’t stand people who know what they need. I wanted to say that it’s not acceptable, from my point of view, to concentrate only on material values and live only for your own profit. That’s what I consider to be immoral. I think that it’s easy to be innocent when you are a child. But when a person is a grown-up, he or she can rarely be absolutely relaxed and enjoy absolute harmony and unity with nature. And I think that the more knowledgeable and experienced a human is the more anxious and difficult the life seems to him or her. I don’t think that a person should try everything in this life because some “experiments” may end dramatically. I mean those cases when the thing you want to do is harmful for your own health or offends the feelings of other humans. But at the same time I’m sure it’s better to try and fail than to hide your wishes and dreams and become dissatisfied with yourself. This is extremely important when deciding which job to prefer. Sometimes children are forced to choose roads they didn’t want to walk. And it often happens so that those kids who don’t rebel in youth and don’t try to insist on their opinions later have to get second high education to be able to be what they want to be.
It is not human to be without shame and without desire. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
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| lovefootball) | Date: Friday, 11.02.2011, 16:57 | Message # 21 |
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| Teacher, now I see what you mean, thanks for the explanation. But isn't it possible that new tastes may absorb one so much that he/she will palter?
Nekavaen, of course, there're such authoritarian parents but other developments can also take place. I mean that a young person may simply get mixed in the huge world of possibilities without a strong guiding hand. Besides, children's deams and wishes are often so fantastic (they just don't realize what the real turn of things is) that it's better to get some basic education to be secure and then go on studying for choice.
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