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Life is what you make it, good things happen to good people.
by iancmceachern 4y ago
Life is what you make it, good things happen to good people.
- dumbaccount123 4y agoGood things happen to all people, and also the opposite.
- adastra22 4y agoGood things happen to people with good attitudes. Bad things happen to people with bad attitudes. It was the same thing.
- rramadass 4y agoNo. I will rephrase them as; People with Good Attitudes perceive most things happening to them as "Good Things". People with Bad Attitudes perceive most things happening to them as "Bad Things".
- iancmceachern 4y agoPerception is reality
- rramadass 4y ago... Only for the Perceiver. In as much as there is a Reality outside of the Perceiver, distinct and separate, he would need to adjust his perception in order to avoid cognitive dissonance and live in the "real world".
- iancmceachern 4y agoI am the perceiver, so checks out Also, perception is 9/10 of the law
- rramadass 4y agoI am not sure whether you understood my comment in the way intended. Reality exists distinct and separate from the Perceiver's unique Perception of it (which exists only at a point in Time and might change). Therefore he would need to validate his Perception so that it is in sync with Reality or suffer consequences. Perception cannot be conflated with Reality. This is why platitudes like "Good Things happen to Good People etc." are meaningless. Having a good attitude helps in dealing with bad things but does not change its essential characteristics.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThat's exactly it. Saying "good things happen to good people" to yourself over and over throughout your life helps many people to have and maintain a good attitude. So it does have an effect.
- rramadass 4y agoNot what i meant at all :-) To elaborate; Having a good attitude helps in dealing with bad things in the short term only and many times not at all and one would still need to face up to "reality" and change the "objective bad things" outside of our perception. Attitudes are basically a coping mechanism (short term and context specific) and not a solution to "The Problem". As an example, no amount of "Good Thoughts and Good Attitudes" is going to help a starving person deal with the reality of figuring out how to feed himself.
- iancmceachern 4y agoI know it's not what you meant, I'm trying to get you to open your mind. We are social beings. So imagine two starving people, one has a good attitude, one doesn't. The one with the good attitude is more likely to be admitted and kept in the good graces of a social network that helps them when starving, the other is not. So the good attitude helps in this thought experiment. The issue with your thought experiment is that it takes each man as an island. We don't exist in a vacuum, we are not islands.
- adastra22 4y agoThat's different from what I said.
- rramadass 4y agoFirst part is partially correct (there is a huge element of Chance involved), Second part is wrong.