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by zupatol 18y ago
He seems to define religion as "stories you make up to convince yourself you won't die". Religion is a lot more than that, but this part of religion does seem a bit dumb.
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3) Finding value in what you're doing right now. Life should be like running a profitable business, which you know will not last forever. The point of your business is giving a value to your customers today. Eventually a competing business
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I read that again and I'm not sure that summary helps a lot. I'll just write about what I've read turned into in my mind, where it merged with my own experience and other things I've read. Schopenhauer's main point is that death doesn't exi
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I understood it was the time it takes to calculate the price of the financial instruments.
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If people stop dying, won't other people have to stop getting born? I'm just reading something by Schopenhauer on death, and he thinks it doesn't make sense to fear it. Here is a better summary than I could write: http://darwiniana.com/200
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I try hard to avoid judging people by their tastes. I try to judge films by how I react to them, but this is difficult to do if at the same time I'm asking myself how others will react to my opinion of the film. There are films I don't want
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I am not sure if advertising can be ethical. Most advertising aims to mislead or manipulate people. Even the unobtrusive ads besides google searches are nothing more than less relevant search results forced on the user. Advertising is even
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If this is the story I am thinking of, then Gandhi didn't even know he wasn't allowed to be in the first class. (The different links to the negotiation book don't seem to work, so what I am talking about is the story linked to by sfk, which
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Being thrown out of that train is what motivated Gandhi to spend his life defending the rights of the underprivileged, and giving up anything of luxury along the way. I remembered this as the story of someone who finds his vocation. It's we