We humans, the more we get the more we want. The farther we go the farther we want to get. Like we always want more and more. Rich people want to make even more money. Famous people want to be moe famous. When we get something good we want something even better. We always want more and we base our happines in getting that. How far can you get? how more fortune can you make? But will it matter when you're gonne? When your life is over?
I might be wrong and I'm only 16 but I just wanted to hear your opinion. lol.
Thanks for answering!!
Have a great day!!
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2006-10-05 11:25:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hi, Josh,
One, has not to be a :"philosopher".. to realize that...!
A bit of coming sense..and respect for human nature..will do it..
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Everyone who lives.. like they don't even care..
are most likely the first ones.. who "lead" a debate.. but not "act". .Mostly to prove : to the not so reach and famous.. that they care..."publicity", that is what I call it ...
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Things are never going to change, unless people start opening their eyes..and see : "what" is wrong....with human nature...
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I am glad with what I have.. and do not want more and more.... to be "happy" ...!
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"More caring", that is what counts, to me...the reward is priceless... and that is the best thing anyone can treasure..for always...heart/soul...
Money cannot buy someones health.. (even not the rich and famous)
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Thanks, for the question!;)
My regards!
2006-10-05 18:07:09 · answer #1 · answered by Kimberly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read Jorge Borges.
There is you and the you others see. They are both you but when you die the you that you know is not the you others will remember. they will only remember the you that you showed them and even then they make stuff up about you.
In the meanwhile, do what you want, but be aware that doing the same thing over and over again is boring. more is just a direction. Less is doable but less challenging than more unless you want to be a religious person in which case less is actually more. You just don't realize how much more it will be until the struggles set in.
2006-10-05 12:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, yea, human nature is that way. I personally don't know what I would buy if some day i became a millionaire, but some people wouldn't stop there they'd want more. As far as when we're gone, well, our purpose in life was initially because God put us here to praise and worship him, so we're becoming more and more materialistic, and when we are 'gone' we can't take any of that with us, so becoming so materialistic to make us happy for the short time we're here, really doesn't do us any good, because we're going to be spending eternity somewhere else, and we can't take the stuff with us to either place we end up.
2006-10-05 12:01:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ann B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations for your awake and questioning intellect, this is the way to true wisdom. Don't let it burn down or be put out by conformity or by what the "authority" whichever it might be, wants you to believe. Always process evrything by teh filter of reason before taking it at face value.
The remarks you have made are all true. Most men value their worth in thingts external to them, and this is the reason why they always want more, because the need is unsatisfiable, unending. By placing the satisfaction in things outside of us we become slave to circumstance, which we can't wontrol...and when we don't get all that we want, we get disillusioned, we judge and we become unhappy, and the cicle starts again.
There have been many philosophers who have had the same questions you have and they have come with great answers effective and practical about how to live today the good life.
The best i recommend to you is Aristoteles in his Nichomachean Ethics, and the Stoics: Seneca, marcus Aurelius, Cicero...YOU are gonna love it, GUARANTEE!
It feels good to encounter someone with your intellect, keep it up, fight the good fight and live the good life!
...and choose philosophy for college, you are apt for it.
2006-10-05 11:38:41 · answer #4 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people work hard for what they have. Then they feel like because they work hard, maybe they deserve a little more so they want more.
By nature we have a sense of 'Entitlement'. This is where we get saying like 'never too much of a good thing'
2006-10-05 11:43:33 · answer #5 · answered by Pixie Dust 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Augustine has a famous saying:
"My heart is restless, until it rests in Thee."
He lived a wild life when he was younger. What he means by the quote is we are always looking for something to fulfill us, until we find God.
2006-10-05 11:38:27 · answer #6 · answered by terraform_mars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Action springs not from thought,but from a readiness-will & willingness.It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make it and realize how much he deserve and how much he/she can get it.If life was so easy that you could just go and buy it?
2006-10-05 11:40:13 · answer #7 · answered by precede2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who want more are stupid.they just want to be more powerful and be more famous.although people who are rich and famous give back to less fortunate then there not bad.people who are rich then suddenly lose everything it will matter to them.you can't spend money when you're dead.at least give it to organizations helping less fortunate people.
2006-10-05 11:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by ALESANA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Jewish proverb states that the eyes of humans are never satisfied. Acquisitiveness as such appears to be an irreformable trait of infralapsarian humanity.
2006-10-05 15:37:01 · answer #9 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, human nature i'm afraid. you always want what you can't have or shouldn't have. it's ambition, probably why the human race is doing so well... (from an evolutionary perspective). growing up requires learning to appreciate all you have not all you haven't got (yet!), amongst the harder lessons in life.
2006-10-05 11:32:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋