"Life is really simply, but we insist on making it complicated"
- Confucius
I've always debated this quote and I still cannot reach a conclusion.
Is life simple? Heck it can be, I mean people don't have to mary or lie or act in a complicated manner.
Then again, is it simple? Atoms and quarks and gluons, etc are all fundamental things in our universe, and they are simply there, but heck, this stuff is clearly not simple.
Personally, I think it's far from it. Sure, a lot of people want to believe that there's nothing more to it that just 'living life to the full' and then dying. It's much easier than actually bothering to consider the strangeness of the fact that we're living on a planet revolving around the sun in a Universe we know virtually nothing of.
life is very complex, if it was simple everyone would do similar things, it would be quite boring. plus so little is known about the human brain and the universe that the question may never be answered properly.
yes i agree, i think this is the type of question that will be answered differnetly from people in different cultures. someone in a poor country whos main aim is to find food, water and a place to stay is likely to say life is fairly simple, as opposed to someone in a big western city
Lafuria, i believe it mainly depends on answering two big questions: What do u want to do with life and how are u going to do it. ofcourse life is not always that simple nor it is that easy going friend. Life journey is mostly full of obstacles, and unknowns.
But i believe it's a fact that someday our lives on this earth would end. Only memories of our relations, deeds and work 'd last. So it'd be very foolish simplfying/complicating everything. Somethings are worth looking after them or if u want complicating them. Other things are only worth dropping them away and it's that simple if u get what i mean :retard:
Of course life isn't simple. At least if you're critical about it. If you wanna pass through life without leaving a mark/accomplishment, then it may be simple.
So, one could say that we Insist on making it complicated.
This quote has diffrent aspects to it.
Like Dorkino(whats your real name?)stated, On one side we have the human element, in which we admit that human beings are complex.
On the other hand we have the universe and life in general which may or may not be complicated.
Interesting comment Naranoc (what's you real name?)....
Does a simply life constitue we being ignorant of things around us? Is seeking knowledge a human desire?
I know plenty of kids, particularly in college, who have everything they could possibly want, money wise, yet don't give a damn about knowledge even if they have the perfect circumstances to become knowledgable people, in a sense, humans thriving for knowledge is not a necesity of our conditions of human beings.
I personally can't understand why some people don't care about learning things, maybe this complicates life....
Nowadays, there's no way to make it simpler. Even kids have all kinds of studies, courses, tests. When you get older, you have a lot to study, career, job, etc. On top of that there are still feelings and love, that really complicates things.
Um, Yes, I did for a while, and am currently doing so, but I find philsophy class to be a waste of time, because frankly, IMO, there are a lot of philosophical sub-sections that are a waste of time....
others are interesting, like this discussion or is God real...
The discussion about if God exists is probably complicated, but the discussion if God exists as presented by religions is piece of cake. Even creationists know that it's logically impossible to prove that.
I guess it depends on the way you want to live your life. You can make it simple aswell as you can make it tough.
The thing is, feelings usually come in the way and they may complicate things, aswell as the need of food and water to survive, you need to get that and in order to do so, you have to do something about it which also complicates it, otherwise you wouldn't have a life altogether.
It's a complex topic really, because it varies for different people in the world, but in general standars, it depends on how you take life, how you live it and what you want to achieve.
1. Life is as simple or as complicated as you make it.
2. Yes, often we insist on making it more complicated than it really is by coming up with rationalisations that obfuscate the point (which you usually realise in hindsight).
1. Life is as simple or as complicated as you make it.
2. Yes, often we insist on making it more complicated than it really is by coming up with rationalisations that obfuscate the point (which you usually realise in hindsight).
Yes, you can also use it to state that an 'ideal gas' exists (Thermodynamics). In the end, it depends on what you choose to believe and not on the logic itself.
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