I honestly do not agree with Socrates statement "the unexamined life is not worth living for." I don't really understand why in order for me to live I have to examine my life. Why couldn’t people like Socrates forget about everything and just live? I don't really care why the earth is round, or why I have two legs etc. Even if or when we find reasons for all of these stupid questions, how is it going to affect me? Yes I will think about the world differently but in theory nothing really changes.
All of this questioning and searching for facts is a waste of time to me. First of all we are never going to get answers for half of the questions we have. Secondly, usually when we find an “answer” how do I know that that “answer” isn’t something that someone made up, which brings me to the question Why?, which will ultimately leave us in an eternity of us trying to figure out this problem.
Actually, there not even problems. There just stupid questions. So to me I feel like asking unsolvable questions that waste my time is not worth living for.
I must say that the many questions that people have about life are interesting, and me myself would like to figure these unsolved mysterious. But I have accepted the fact that we are never going to get a 100% answer for anything. For all I know everything that I have ever learned could all be a lie. It’d be really funny if the earth was actually flat, but I guess we will never know.
really really good lauren. you proved your point very well.
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i love you.
y thank you jess.
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I'm confused, does this mean you do not believe in philosophy? Philosophy mostly deals with questioning the world, just curious :)
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