Royal
04-12-2010, 11:09 PM
I ask the philosophers of amkon, is the real struggle against ourselves?
If so, what is the win?
To me, this is the win:
Living a life helping each life that requests help directly or indirectly to a goal that holds virtue. To be compassionate for those in need, and the courage to stand-up, and act upon the true nature of things.
anarch
04-12-2010, 11:32 PM
I am my own hero and villain. Its a daily struggle of will as I decide on good or bad actions.
WhispersInTheDark
04-12-2010, 11:34 PM
There is perhaps no winning, but there is waking up.
Snow Crash
04-12-2010, 11:42 PM
Living a life helping each life that requests help directly or indirectly to a goal that holds virtue. To be compassionate for those in need, and the courage to stand-up, and act upon the true nature of things.
That is indeed win. I find the courage to stand up for either yourself or others the interesting one. It doesn't make for being popular in the eyes of mobs, especially mobs with massively deficient attention and memory spans. It also doesn't make you popular if you have a fetish for thinking for yourself, and encouraging others to do as such. Because after all, the machine can't have you discovering the true nature of the way of things for yourself, can it. Compassion and empathy is a tough one. Some seem to have more than others, and there are drastic extremes. In my experience, some people have so much it affects them mentally, and others have so little, they are little more than droids at times when it comes to the wellbeing of their fellow man/woman.
I also feel that to say life is what you make it though is naive on certain levels, to say the very least. Unless of course, you're into delusion. While there are some things you cannot effect, due to power people may have over you, it is essentially your choice to remove yourself as much as you can from that position of subordination, ie resist, or to shut your mouth and get on with it, or to indulge in the whole ignorance is bliss idea.