Contentment vs. Happiness

[McGiver]

lucky me.

i guess that is why i am much more successful in nearly every aspect of life than you are.

I don't doubt it at all. Look at Bush. Boethius, on the other hand
was LESS successful.

apples.
oranges.

bottom line is that your thinking is flawed because you do not acknowledge others existence outside of the benefits they can provide for you.

sorry to tell you, but life is a give and take proposition.  we all die equal.  giving as much as we have taken.

1. I don't see the apples and oranges. Success is transitory.
I was probably at least as contented as you are. Perhaps
yours is more stably founded, but fortune is fickle, and has
little to do with one's philosophical leanings.

2. Indeed, this may be the case. I don't know the nature of
reality. I'm just seeking a better way, when I have the fortitude
to do so. Unfortunately, I don't have that commitment to my
ideals that I once did. I've been corrupted by age and my prior
contentment.

3. I'm not sure that I understand what you're trying to say with
the last point. Death is merely a hypothesis.

i can agree that you wouldn't understand in you #3 point.  simply because you are self assured that you are only a taker.  i am here to tell you that that is just not the case.  you have been taken from, equally.

as to the other points; mere points of convenience.  not based in your actual truth. is it?

[Calandale]

lucky me.

i guess that is why i am much more successful in nearly every aspect of life than you are.

I don't doubt it at all. Look at Bush. Boethius, on the other hand
was LESS successful.

apples.
oranges.

bottom line is that your thinking is flawed because you do not acknowledge others existence outside of the benefits they can provide for you.

sorry to tell you, but life is a give and take proposition.  we all die equal.  giving as much as we have taken.

1. I don't see the apples and oranges. Success is transitory.
I was probably at least as contented as you are. Perhaps
yours is more stably founded, but fortune is fickle, and has
little to do with one's philosophical leanings.

2. Indeed, this may be the case. I don't know the nature of
reality. I'm just seeking a better way, when I have the fortitude
to do so. Unfortunately, I don't have that commitment to my
ideals that I once did. I've been corrupted by age and my prior
contentment.

3. I'm not sure that I understand what you're trying to say with
the last point. Death is merely a hypothesis.

i can agree that you wouldn't understand in you #3 point.  simply because you are self assured that you are only a taker.  i am here to tell you that that is just not the case.  you have been taken from, equally.

as to the other points; mere points of convenience.  not based in your actual truth. is it?

 

1. On your view of reality, perhaps. We all seem to have our
own mystical faiths.

2. For the most part. Just trying to express things in terms which
relate to the mundane, which we do seem to share SOME commonality
of perception of.

[McGiver]

1. On your view of reality, perhaps. We all seem to have our
own mystical faiths.

2. For the most part. Just trying to express things in terms which
relate to the mundane, which we do seem to share SOME commonality
of perception of.

1.  own mystical faiths-wtf

2.) don't flatter yourself.



i am finished.

obviously there is nothing that i can learn from you, except maybe a warped view of reality.  therefore i have concluded that you are not satisfying my pleasures.


now your job is to entice me to retaliate.

[Calandale]

I'm sorry to have finished you and your arguments off,
but there really isn't a hell of a lot for you and I to
discuss in these matters. There are others who
might see some flash of the light in them.

[Pyraxis]

Does it frighten you, that I find what you
say sounds like what I would have said when
younger and wiser?

What comes next, "someday you'll turn out like me"?

[Calandale]

Does it frighten you, that I find what you
say sounds like what I would have said when
younger and wiser?

What comes next, "someday you'll turn out like me"?

That would be the obvious fear, not necessarily spoken.

[Pyraxis]

To refute that, I need to know which of my beliefs are similar to the ones you used to hold.

[Calandale]

Not beliefs. You've revealed little of yours.
Mine haven't changed TOO much. Rather
the words themselves, and the veils surrounding
them.

[McGiver]

Not beliefs. You've revealed little of yours.
Mine haven't changed TOO much. Rather
the words themselves, and the veils surrounding
them.

i think that she has revealed that she is willing to adapt, based upon her needs.  she is young and has an open mind.
so i would guess that she isn't as married to her own set of beliefs that most people are.

[Calandale]

Indeed. I was never certain of the
reason for my own veils, except that
my ideas aren't fully formed, and would
be subject to dissection and ridicule. Now,
I just don't care, as revealing them is the only
way I can be bothered to refine them.

[McGiver]

Indeed. I was never certain of the
reason for my own veils, except that
my ideas aren't fully formed, and would
be subject to dissection and ridicule. Now,
I just don't care, as revealing them is the only
way I can be bothered to refine them.

revveal away.

all i want is what you really think.


maybe i am wrong, and you haven't been playing, but have actually been real.

[Calandale]

maybe i am wrong, and you haven't been playing, but have actually been real.

The two aren't always different.

[Nomaken]

The only differences between how I felt about life and existence when i was younger versus now is that I actually have real evidence of my irrelevancy to the world.

[McGiver]

The only differences between how I felt about life and existence when i was younger versus now is that I actually have real evidence of my irrelevancy to the world.

tell us how old you are again?

[Nomaken]

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