I believe that being a "successful human" means accepting the fact that there are no "true" answers...

Question

...to any philosophical questions we can imagine...

In other words...we need to accept the fact that "Life" is undiscernible, paradoxiacal, unplanned, chaotic, sometimes orderly, sometimes profound, sometimes kaleidoscopic, sometimes meaningless, sometimes meaningful, sometimes great, sometimes bad, most times non-sensical, forever and always a "mystery," and first and foremost an extremely "horny-yet-intellectual" experience...

Do you relate to what I just wrote...?

Answer 1

I absolutely agree. Just because we can ask questions doesn't necessarily mean there will be answers. The scary thing is how many fools think they have found the truth.

Answer 2

I can relate to you, but I do not agree with you. Regardless of whether it's possible to figure them out, there absolutely are true answers. If you say there is no such thing as absolute truth, even if you're right, you're still wrong - because in that case, is it not abolustely true that there is no absolute truth. In other words, the absolute truth is that there is no absolute truth. My only point is there has to be absolute truth. Maybe science is the only truth there is, in that case it would be true that no answers exist outside of science because there are no questions that go further than what science can explain. So if that is what you believe then you're an atheist. But if that is not what you are saying then you are saying something does exist outside of science, but that there are no answers to it. Well how can you say that? We don't have even the slightest idea of whatever it is that exists outside of science is. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean there's not an explination for it, or that it doesn't have an explination for our existence.

It seems that your definition of a "succesful man" is my definition of a "lazy man".

Personally I believe we can find the answers here in this life. If something exists outside of science, there's a possibility it's a self-aware intelligent being. If that's so, maybe it has answers if we only ask and are willing to listen.

Answer 3

Life is what you make of it. Same is the case with an answer, it might remain the same for the rest of your life, but it is the way we look at it, that might change everything for us; it is more like when we get new eyes we get a new life too, and that is what all Masters do, they don't teach us the Truth ever, they only teach us how to look for it, in our own way, within.

And the beauty is that when we learn new and better ways to look at life, the entire scenery changes around us. It is not the life that changes it is we who do, and the magic is that the moment we do, all life does, or so it seems to us.

Life is what you make of it, and same is the case with all answers, they change as we change or evolve.

It is not that life eventually teach us, any great truth, it will only helps us realize, reaffirm, the same old truths, in new and deeper ways. What we already knew comes to us again, with greater and greater clarity and precision.

Ultimately, there is no end to the vision of life and infinity, as really the Universe is an ever expanding conundrum. It never stop creating new paradigms for us to explore and wonder about, there always will new spaces to explore within as in the without.

Just as with any life, no answer is ever complete as it always is a work in progress. No state is ever perfect, or everlasting, as it all a part of the natural rhythm of life, of a crest followed by a trough, followed by a crest back again. A question is always followed by an answer, and an answer always gives rise to yet another question from within. May be they both reside within one other, we just see them differently.

Answer 4

Timaeus is wrong.....you said "I believe," so that's mean it's an opinion. In many words you are right. To question established ideas means you are open minded and will, of course, have more "success" because you are learning more by questioning. It's very true that "a wise man is a man who knows nothing for certain."

Answer 5

So, The only "true answer" is your definition of a "successful human" and your particular take on "life"? Seems like in your need to avoid an absolute that you have simply created an absolute out of your subjectvity.

Answer 6

I have to agree with Timaeus here...with enough understanding and exposure, what is, can be understood.
our knowledge is "built on the shoulders of geeks".
Philosophy becomes doctrine when it leaves the theoretical to the factual. Does a fact exist? yes, but only in the system of what we have experienced. can that change and confound our limited understanding? yes, but it does not rule out what we have learned. it simply extends our playing field.
Are there any true answers in a theory? those that support it only but truth is truth. theory in and of itself is not a truth, I acknowledge, but now were back to that duck.

Answer 7

I agree with what you wrote. Any "true" answer that someone finds to a philisophical question is their opinion, there is always room for argument.

Answer 8

Partially. Because I believe that if we have sufficient information, we can understand anything. Yes, life is a mystery, but because our knowledge is so limited.

Answer 9

I respectfully disagree, my friend. First, you need to realize that the answers for all of your questions exist. You need to seek in order to find. How can you do that if you don't believe?

Answer 10

Groovy. Now who's joining who's club again? ;oD