Smiles,

As I read your words above, someone (one of my personalities) inside of me said this:

"It is not important nor does it matter who is believed to be correct or incorrect. It doesn't matter!"

The question was posed to me, "Why are people so consumed with whose thoughts or ideas are correct or incorrect? That is such a silly waste of time to argue and a silly thing to worry about.

"It does not matter. It really does not matter."

Now this is me speaking: I don't know why it does not matter. I simply trust this voice. I believe it does not matter.

What matters, I think, is that we do think and that we do imagine and create and that we do have opinions. That is the miracle after all. That we exist to do these things and that we are thinking centers.

JB

I exist because I feel.

Jeannie


You exist because you feel what? Feeling's?

and just what are feeling's?

I feel therefore i am?

Hmmmm??

I feel joy.

We feel what we feel what we feel and what we like to feel.

Quote: Rene Descartes, a philosopher of the enlightened age in Europe some 500 years ago... while I respect the intellectual capacity of this man, I must disprove this theory as incorrect! For, a blade of Grass, a single blade is incapable of thought! It merely carries out its task, growing, obtaining carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen, burrowing into the soil to feed on nutrients, and eventually withering and dying.

At any point, does it stop to reflect?

Does it consider the delight of the warmth of the sun, the coolness of water?

Does it perceive that it EXISTS as a being, as a solid object, a tangible plane, that is born, grows, and dies?

The answer, of course, is no or is it yes for you? If so explain.

If that is all you feel then -

I experience emotions.

There are many emotions involved with being human, but emotions are not what I consider to be 'feelings.' I can experience emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, pain, anguish, worry, fear, infatuation, excitement, etc. but there is always, at all times, at the core of my being a feeling of great joy that is equivalent to a love for existence and being alive.

JB

OK Creative,

Your post was so long I have to answer it BEFORE i read what others have written or I'll loose my train of thought.



There are a lot of problems with the Philosophy of Descartes, however, at the time he brought us back to a more realistic and logical world. Today there are many who have dispelled what was once thought to be the greatest philisophical understanding of all. It wasn't.

Anyway - you put words together and use them as if they were interchangable. And then you ask questions without first reviewing how you have used the words.

Existence, life, birth, perception.

What is existence; physical, conceptual, visible, biological?

What is life; must it encompass or embrace the properties of the "existence"?

What is birth; the division of a cell or cells as in a worm or an ameba? Or is it the hatching of an egg or the germination of a seed? Or simply the regeneration of something extended from the original?

What is perception; does it require a brain, does it require thought, does it require anything physical? For example can an invisible undetectable god with no clear brain identity in which to have thought processes, PERCEIVE?
If so could it perceive itself?

Before you ask questions using these words, there must first be a clear understanding of how you are using these words, what they mean to your reasoning.

Want to try again?

As far as what I ask myself - from the time I was little I asked "What do I want?"

I ask it still and from the answer determine the value of my desire, the cost and the consequences and then I ask, "Do I want that?"

And then I determine the best course of action.

Who I am, is not yet determined, I'm still in process.

never took it as you meaning emotions, or i would have posted such as you now have, i understand the diff. that's why i resonded such

I misread your post. I thought you had asked me if that was all I felt. I guess I am tired today. Time for a nap.

I am glad you understand the difference.

Smiles,

As I read your words above, someone (one of my personalities) inside of me said this:

"It is not important nor does it matter who is believed to be correct or incorrect. It doesn't matter!"

The question was posed to me, "Why are people so consumed with whose thoughts or ideas are correct or incorrect? That is such a silly waste of time to argue and a silly thing to worry about.

"It does not matter. It really does not matter."

Now this is me speaking: I don't know why it does not matter. I simply trust this voice. I believe it does not matter.

What matters, I think, is that we do think and that we do imagine and create and that we do have opinions. That is the miracle after all. That we exist to do these things and that we are thinking centers.

JB

I have the capacity to think and feel therefore I am.

So if a person is brain dead and still breathing they do not exist? But they affect their environment still. They affect other humans still. So to them they do not exist anymore but to others they still do. Just pondering here