Name-dropped the Vonnegut...
So I was having this convo today, getting all deep and meaningful, when someone name-dropped the Vonnegut. Oh, boy. Love the Kurt. Anyway, we started going on about how Kurt said we should be careful about how we imagine our lives, because that will be what our lives become.
I am fascinated by this, because it asserts the theory that our reality only exists because of how we imagine it. Those of you who knew me during *cue the ominous cellody music* the grad school years, know that this was the foundational theme of my thesis. The idea has been around way before Vonnegut, but basically Kurt underscored that there is no such thing as the human brain ever having the capability for true objectivity. Everything is subjective.
Whatdya think? Are we governed to reason based on what we become as a result of the sum of our experiences?
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Journey Infinite -- Intellectual musings (and some - not so much), satire, insights, analysis, current events, and a sweet hangman game. I'm also @ myspace.com/journeyinfinite and under my name on Facebook :-D
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It is not so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by concern for others. We find that not only do altruistic actions bring about happiness but they also lessen our experience of suffering...the sufferings which undermine our internal peace -- anxiety, doubt, disappointment.
Since our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness. --Ethics for a New Millennium, by the 14th Dalai
Since our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness. --Ethics for a New Millennium, by the 14th Dalai
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3 comments:
Moist robots, I say, moist robots!
Not only do I agree with Vonnegut, I witness the evidence of his truth every single freakin' day in various forms... at school, at home, with my mom...
Bet your dissertation is a great read!
Shelly
I like to think it's a great read, tho admittedly you have to trek about through a bunch of lit. nerd theatrics...hey man, that's what lights my fire...heehee :-)
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