Adrift In A Sea Of Meaninglessness
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts, unable to act on thier superior knowledge.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
Socrates used to tell his students that the unexamined life isn't worth living, now not saying that I don't agree with that, because if anyone invests in that statement it's me, but I think the rest of the world is indiffrent towards it.
I have been observing those around me lately and have noticed that a vast majority favor almost anything over actual knowledge. Those around me choose not to read, citing "I dont have the time" or the classic "I dont want to". Now that is total bullshit, because everyone has time to read, hell I make time out of my day to do it, and no comic books, magazines, and TV Guide dont count, thier just periodicals, nothing absolute is gained from them, no further insight is required to understand them, thier the medium of print for the lazy.
Only with careful insight and self examination do we learn truth, and enable ourselves to truly understand anything. Without understanding thier is no progression, and without progression their is nothingness that we are adift in. We as a species are diffrent from everything else on this planet because we can see, hear, think, AND understand, we have the capacity for rational and insightful thought, but many of us choose not to use it because that would require us to think for once, or stop playing with themselves, whatever at the time they felt was more important.
So in close, next time you find yourself twiddling your thumbs or aimlessly channel surfing, pick up a damn book, go to a museum, do something or gain something from it, lest you be the only guy to see every episode of Sanford and Son.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
Socrates used to tell his students that the unexamined life isn't worth living, now not saying that I don't agree with that, because if anyone invests in that statement it's me, but I think the rest of the world is indiffrent towards it.
I have been observing those around me lately and have noticed that a vast majority favor almost anything over actual knowledge. Those around me choose not to read, citing "I dont have the time" or the classic "I dont want to". Now that is total bullshit, because everyone has time to read, hell I make time out of my day to do it, and no comic books, magazines, and TV Guide dont count, thier just periodicals, nothing absolute is gained from them, no further insight is required to understand them, thier the medium of print for the lazy.
Only with careful insight and self examination do we learn truth, and enable ourselves to truly understand anything. Without understanding thier is no progression, and without progression their is nothingness that we are adift in. We as a species are diffrent from everything else on this planet because we can see, hear, think, AND understand, we have the capacity for rational and insightful thought, but many of us choose not to use it because that would require us to think for once, or stop playing with themselves, whatever at the time they felt was more important.
So in close, next time you find yourself twiddling your thumbs or aimlessly channel surfing, pick up a damn book, go to a museum, do something or gain something from it, lest you be the only guy to see every episode of Sanford and Son.
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