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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eddie38
Who decides what's worthy and what's not? I suppose it's up to me to decide what I deem worthy. But then, if worthiness is self-realized or self-determined, then I guess the crackhead down the street is successful. For him, robbing the old lady and buying a nice fat rock is his progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Or what about Bernie Madoff? He had his worthy ideal. Hitler had what he considered a worthy ideal.
I guess the point is, 'worthy' is a term that's too subjective to be of any use.
You know, I've always found ideals to be very subjective and shallow because they're always imposed on us by someone else, some religion, philosophy, or by society or government.
I don't know, I don't want to come off as some contrarian. Am I missing something here, Baraka?
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You get to decide. That's the point that you're missing.
But so far at the very beginning of this discussion in the OP and for a number of the responses, you weren't willing to make any decision or take any action that you were willing to even share or discuss here.
Suddenly last week you made this plan to go to Africa, and suddenly you had a contract.
Things really kind of don't happen as suddenly as you make them seem, they germinate as an idea and turn into something.
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