Monday, July 12, 2004
Mitch's blog
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In a world of blogs, which are the equivalent of hollywood popcorn flicks, enjoying to read at the time, but do little
to stimulate the mind, its nice to see mitch's blog stand out as the mike moore blog. A blend of stories about piss and interesting issues :)
re: theories of mitch: perspective - interesting to
note that kids can not see other another person's perspective. In some ways I find that misleading, because may be that test only serves to show that children can not visualise what other people see, however perhpas they are more in tune with other people's feelings than adults.
Perhaps adults as they grow older become more stubborn and set in their ways, and even tho they may be aware of other people's opinions, they disregard them. So to say an adult is behaving like a child is not quite right. George Bush, whom we both dislike, is always an interesting issue. I doubt George Bush as a 6 year old, would be that inconsiderate to other people's human lives, especially those in Iraq. I think that is a quality we develop as we grow into adults. After all when your kids, everyone your age is pretty much your friend.
kid1: Do you want to jump on my trampoline ?
kid2. Yep !
kid1: lets be friends !
kid2: Yep !
As we grow older we find more and more reasons to distinguish and differentiate ourselves from other people. Embracing these differences, is what causes problems.
re : mitch's internal debate - I believe the crux of his conundrum, is that there are a lot of important events which are out of your control which can have a dramatic impact on your life. By thinking about this and realising that there is little you can do about this, it only leads to depression, however the optimistic approach on "free will", even if it is somewhat misguided leads to a happier state of mind. So the question - is by Mitch cheating himself into believing that he has free will, an adequate resolution to his problem? After all thinking about it only leads to unhappiness.
However what if there was more to life than simply our physiologocial make up, the beating of our heart. Perhaps the power of our mind (free will) is all that we need. Im not doubting the lack of control we have over certain events. But Im skeptcal whether these events are all important. Should we be thinking about the human collective or the individual? Doesnt the rapid human technological advancements in some ways facilitate the possible preservation of our species. The dinosours failed to survive the metorite crash, but we might? I wouldnt underestimate the power of one and i wouldnt want to waste the limited time that I have, odds are we are all going to die, but its what we do with the time here that counts. And belive me it can count!
In a world of blogs, which are the equivalent of hollywood popcorn flicks, enjoying to read at the time, but do little
to stimulate the mind, its nice to see mitch's blog stand out as the mike moore blog. A blend of stories about piss and interesting issues :)
re: theories of mitch: perspective - interesting to
note that kids can not see other another person's perspective. In some ways I find that misleading, because may be that test only serves to show that children can not visualise what other people see, however perhpas they are more in tune with other people's feelings than adults.
Perhaps adults as they grow older become more stubborn and set in their ways, and even tho they may be aware of other people's opinions, they disregard them. So to say an adult is behaving like a child is not quite right. George Bush, whom we both dislike, is always an interesting issue. I doubt George Bush as a 6 year old, would be that inconsiderate to other people's human lives, especially those in Iraq. I think that is a quality we develop as we grow into adults. After all when your kids, everyone your age is pretty much your friend.
kid1: Do you want to jump on my trampoline ?
kid2. Yep !
kid1: lets be friends !
kid2: Yep !
As we grow older we find more and more reasons to distinguish and differentiate ourselves from other people. Embracing these differences, is what causes problems.
re : mitch's internal debate - I believe the crux of his conundrum, is that there are a lot of important events which are out of your control which can have a dramatic impact on your life. By thinking about this and realising that there is little you can do about this, it only leads to depression, however the optimistic approach on "free will", even if it is somewhat misguided leads to a happier state of mind. So the question - is by Mitch cheating himself into believing that he has free will, an adequate resolution to his problem? After all thinking about it only leads to unhappiness.
However what if there was more to life than simply our physiologocial make up, the beating of our heart. Perhaps the power of our mind (free will) is all that we need. Im not doubting the lack of control we have over certain events. But Im skeptcal whether these events are all important. Should we be thinking about the human collective or the individual? Doesnt the rapid human technological advancements in some ways facilitate the possible preservation of our species. The dinosours failed to survive the metorite crash, but we might? I wouldnt underestimate the power of one and i wouldnt want to waste the limited time that I have, odds are we are all going to die, but its what we do with the time here that counts. And belive me it can count!
