This includes money, housing, relationships, ..everything.
2007-09-24 08:19:16 · 17 answers · asked by jasper 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If it includes debt than I would be happy to start from scratch all over again. Monetary possestions are not that inportant and a strong relationship would be built again.
2007-09-24 08:27:27 · answer #1 · answered by puggylover 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be completely stripped of everything would be bewildering. In our modern society it would be a challenge that is hard to comprehend. I am afraid I would not be up to facing the challenge.
Others have been stronger. Scarlett O'hara virtually had this happen to her and had the fortitude to hold on. "Gone With the Wind" was first titled by the author "Tommorrow is Another Day."
On that same note Platonists see their existence basically as a spirituality, rather than materialism. Socrates, for example, felt he could afford to lose everything but his integrity. Thus, he drank the hemlock to depart from an unjust society.
Job, on the other hand, lost almost everything. He did want to know why, but he did not lose his faith in God. Job, would have preferred the peace of death, to his tremendous test of suffering, but did not ever in his long discourses indicated he was suicidal.
Therefore, I believe if a person has enough hope and faith, he or she can survive such losses. I know I would complain like Job, but not have his faith.
2007-09-24 15:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Dr. Glen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do relationships really count as _things_ ?
So, I'm plopped in the middle of Europe in 1237. Well, I'd try to learn the language and look pitiable and not get mugged. Hopefully someone would take me in, and I could offer to be a servant or something and sleep in the attic. They'd give me my clothes and food and such. I assume I would form some relationships, but I don't know if I could ever make the kind of interpersonal connections I have now. In essence, I would start over: try to build those things back up.
2007-09-24 17:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pray to G-d that I never face the challenge. This question is hypothetical and no person will ever know how he/she would deal should a catastrophe of such proportions arise. Although I cannot answer your question for myself I can for my grandparents. My paternal grandparents were stripped of "everything" in the Holocaust. Yes, everything materialistically like their jobs, housing, and savings and were forced to work in the Concentration Camps. They lost their loved ones and were left alone out of an entire famly. But they could not be stripped of their strenghth and will to outlive it all. They struggled from peniless to moderate, from bereft to growing a family of their own... They built their lives again in the Home of the Free Land of the Brave.
2007-09-24 15:54:28 · answer #4 · answered by knowitall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything? Does this include my knowledge and education? If I still had those, I would start over. I've done it before; I can do it again.
If I start again without my knowledge or education, it will be much more of a struggle, but I'll make it again.
You didn't mention potential. My potential and capability to learn are the most important factors for me in making a success in my life.
2007-09-24 15:39:32 · answer #5 · answered by diannegoodwin@sbcglobal.net 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been stripped many times. So I have to say, That I would do the same thing as I always do. Wake up and try to take over da world!
Really, your not alone, you at least have a comuter which means you have a place to pee..... you must also have a table for your computer which means you have a place to hide. You have never been really stripped so please don't play it like your one of us. Thank god for that.
2007-09-24 16:35:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
money, houses, and relationships are replaceable - the first two being tangible and the third being of value but not necessity.....and they may come back easy or they may come back hard but the one thing that i would not want to be stripped of is my self esteem/worth/value....its the hardest to recover from.....i suppose that like anyone else i would start again and believe me i have done it - several times...in retrospect i suppose you could say im a pro
2007-09-24 15:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by cookiesmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start again. It's not the end of the world.
2007-09-24 15:36:07 · answer #8 · answered by ohioan_femme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this could be an epiphany
sing and dance
i would then realise how lucky i am to be alive and how unimportant material possessions are
2007-09-24 15:37:10 · answer #9 · answered by tongasurfer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would either shrivel up and die or learn and grow a great deal.
2007-09-24 15:41:58 · answer #10 · answered by Angelique 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋