I didn't say to stop listening to him all together, simply to continue listening to more music...

Secondly that part of my post was mostly made in jest... Because I don't really care what he's listening to, but, he did ask me to critique him. Anyway lately all I'm listening to is a 1999 bootleg of Tweedy and Bennett playing some of the songs from summerteeth, am, being there and the mermaid avenue albums. So its all w/e to me.

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Aristotle's idea that the purpose of life is to live a life of a given kind (e.g of rational activity) and that our external nature is designed so as to achieve that goal. It is important to note, however, that I think that if this is true I think defying our purpose has certain can be equally as fulfilling.

What you say is thrue, but you're saying a part. I will resume the purpose of life of Aristotle by saying that happiness is the ultimate goal of all human beings. Everybody lives to be happy and continue to live to accomplish actions that will make them happy, and to make those actions you need virtue. The fondamental virtues to become happy are prudence, justice, moderration and courage. Aristotle also talks about the importance of education and the importance of having thrue friends. In fact, "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of my favourite books.

but how will they become happy.it's not by own will because we don't have the power to make ourselves feel happy.maybe we feel like we are but instead we are just covered in material fantasies that make us feel happy.that's just what i think.

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but how will they become happy.it's not by own will because we don't have the power to make ourselves feel happy.

I always used to think this. And the minute I disillusioned myself, I became a happier person.

You are the only person who has anything to do with controlling your own mood.

It is ideal and "recommended" that your mood is dictated by you and only you, but people being social primates we often mirror each other's emotional/mental states.

I believe it's also hard to resist being affected by the situations and environment surrounding you; it takes a lot of strong and conscious desire. I'm not necessarily speaking for myself, but this is what I've gathered from people around me. Friends, family, etc.

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Originally posted by Harmonix-X:
but how will they become happy.it's not by own will because we don't have the power to make ourselves feel happy.

I always used to think this. And the minute I disillusioned myself, I became a happier person.

You are the only person who has anything to do with controlling your own mood.

That makes sense, however, isn't the 'creation' of one's own mood another form of illusionment?

The other day I found myself watching The Matrix Revolutions for the first time in a while, a movie that I like more than most people. In this one Agent Smith goes on another tyrant about humans and says "The purpose of life is to die." I found a great amount of solace in this quote. We are all aware at how incredibly finite our existence is, but to put it in those terms, that the only thing which we can be certain of in life, is that one day ours will end, it makes me appreciate and enjoy it much more. Because sometime in the not-so-distant future, I won't have a life to experience, regardless of what type of experience it is.

the purpose of life is not to spent years trying to figure the purpose of life.

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the purpose of life is not to spent years trying to figure the purpose of life.

yeah, that would be the easy way to go at it.but don't you want to know why you are on this earth?

Well that would defeat the purpose.

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the purpose of life is not to spent years trying to figure the purpose of life.

yeah, that would be the easy way to go at it.but don't you want to know why you are on this earth?

Keep in mind that you have to distinguish whose life-purpose you are finding; an individual's or mankind as a whole? This thread appears to be about mankind as a whole, but have you addressed the issue of individual purposes (I haven't read through the whole thread)? Is a baby born with certain talents and charateristics for a reason (obviously some of it is genes but not all of it)? or is it random? Someone's "purpose" may be to study the purpose of life while mine may be totally different. Does anyone believe in "destinies?" (I'm not saying that I do)

i think everyone should be determined to find their purpose.someone who is living and doesn't know what he/she is living for doesn't really have a point.

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i think everyone should be determined to find their purpose.someone who is living and doesn't know what he/she is living for doesn't really have a point.

None of us have a point.

maybe the whole purpose is to find the point of our existence.

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maybe the whole purpose is to find the point of our existence.

Would you expect a computer to 'find the point' of it's existence?

obviously not because computers don't have the capacity to reason like we do.what kind of question is that?

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Originally posted by Harmonix-X:
i think everyone should be determined to find their purpose.someone who is living and doesn't know what he/she is living for doesn't really have a point.

I agree with you here. Just because you may not be able to define a reason for the overall existence of humanity, it doesn’t mean there is no reason for your individual existence, or that you cannot create your own reason.

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obviously not because computers don't have the capacity to reason like we do.what kind of question is that?

We're highly sophisticated meat-based computers.

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We're highly sophisticated meat-based computers.

I like that sentence....kinda

Everyone needs to watch Blade Runner to really understand Dork's and Mike's comments.

well our brain is a computer.we ourselves aren't. anyway, that was a bad comparison. a computer is a piece of plastic/metal that just processes info. humans on the other hand have more abilities.so you can't compare a machine to its creator.