Why are we here?I missed the highest possible calling in my life. It felt like a destiny. My subconscious tried to tell me using terror, feelings of impending doom, inspiration, synchronicity & old memories & I failed to listen. Help?What are your thoughts on the classical cynic school? Pros cons on that type of asceticism?Can you justify Jesus as a gate keeper of jungian collective unconsciousness?What's the proper balance of personal ambition (that is virtuous), and family life (including waged and home work for the family)?How would ancapistan build mUh rOaDz? 🧐#checkmateHow can therapy help you change that damn profile pic bro.At times it seems philosophical thought is a form of neuroticism. Neuroticism is built into nature. It’s that part of a living organism that realizes if it doesn’t engage in a consciousness that connects itself to survival followed by precise behavior to assure that survival, it will perish. Thought that goes beyond that is mostly superfluous. But with exception it leads to discovery and invention, some of which can become a means of exchange. This further assuring one’s survival. Whether this thought leads to great truth, or if it’s ever in our scope to comprehend truth, vs. “truths”, is yet to be seen. We always seem aware we can deduce more, and believe despite the jarring solitude of our life filled planet in a barren universe, everything is in our environment and minds to solve all our problems beyond the marvel of us existing in the first place. I’m sure AI will give us the tools to see ourselves and beyond ourselves. It seems our belief there is more is always proving “itself”. The next few decades will be profound in that regard.Is it completely unreasonable if I keep falling or getting involved with women already in relationships? on my mind it makes some sense that the most interesting and attractive women are "taken"... apparently bored and unfaithful, but taken in the end. Maybe after a certain age ppl just cling to loveless relationships. Maybe when I turn 40 they will all be divorced and I will be like 'Pass, it turns out I liked you better when you were just a fling'What is the philosophy of the song ‘The Logical Song’ by SuperTramp? (Lyrics follow):‘When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderfulA miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magicalAnd all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happilyOh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching meBut then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensibleLogical, oh, responsible, practicalThen they showed me a world where I could be so dependableOh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynicalThere are times when all the world's asleepThe questions run too deepFor such a simple manWon't you please, please tell me what we've learned?I know it sounds absurdPlease tell me who I amI said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radicalA liberal, oh, fanatical, criminalOh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptableRespectable, oh, presentable, a vegetableOh, take, take, take it, yeahBut at night, when all the world's asleepThe questions run so deepFor such a simple manWon't you please (oh, won't you tell me)Please tell me what we've learned?(Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I amWho I am, who I am, who I amWhat is your best advise on how to talk to small children about "defoo:ed" grand parents and aunts?My kids (2 an 4) have had a relationship with my parents and my sister before I finally quit contact with them this year, after they tried to actively ruin my marriage. The kids have happy and fun memories of my family members, and occasionally say that they miss them and want to visit them - although it becomes less and less frequent as time goes. Once, during the first month of quit contact, I over-heard my 4 year-old playing with two stuffed animals, pretending that they were grandma and grandpa... and that they were dead. She was very neutral, and matter-of-fact in the tone of her voice. No hint of sadness or distress.I have explained to my kids that my family have done bad things in a manner that I think is understandable for their age, without trying to take away the fun memories they have. I usually will say something like "I understand that you miss Grandma. But she was not very nice to me when I was a child like you, and she made me feel really bad by not listening to me when I was sad", or "I know Auntie was really fun to play with, but Auntie is jealous, and have tried to destroy my relationship with dad". And sometimes I will just acknowledge their feelings, and not say anything more. "I understand that you miss Grandma and Grandpa, how does it feel to miss them?"How do I best balance this? I don't want to put too much focus on it, or transfer my feelings onto my kids... but I also thinks it's really important that they fully understand why we don't see my family anymore. And of course why I was not able to fully quit contact with them as soon as I turned 18, or at least before my kids were born, is a life-lesson that caused me a lot of pain, but that I hope can be of value to them as they grow older. But I don't want to diminish their feelings, which might be that they genuinely miss my family. I understand this is a dilemma caused by my bad choices, and I take full accountability- which is why I am writing this.Any advice and thoughts on this would be most helpful 🙂 Thank you so much!How do somewhat, inalterably-poor (I have a Mental Disability), conservative-leaning white men, find datable white women, especially if they live in a city?Been in this pickle for over a decade.should i just accept being alone and give up hope if I can't change from being poor - crypto may change my future, but I don't like spending money on stuff other than essentials, except when it comes to food)there is a long waitlist for Community activities for people with similar disabilities and most of the women that attend are significantly older,so that option while I'm looking into it, isn't exactly realistic.Hello. How can philosophy help me? I have many questions for your thoughts, however one is always on my mind and tears at me constantly. How are so many people able to torture animals? I grew up in the 70s watching Public Television during a time when censorship was more lax and feelings or empathy and snowflakes were not a consideration. There I witnessed as a child torture to lab animals - the attendants were having fun so brutally torturing baboons to death. I am sickened constantly, every day, by how those lab students (they sounded like college students) laughed and laughed and had so much fun, I cannot tell you what they did and I've never told anyone and I never will. I also have seen horrible torture of animals in The Daily Mail UK of dogs, a greyhound in particular, that was lifted and put into a gigantic boiling pot. It tried to get out but couldn't and was boiled alive. This and much more graphic torture to dogs shown in The Daily Mail UK Yulon festival in China. Most of my life I have been involved with spreading the word through letters and informing some people in conversations if there was a moment that it actually would fit in (doesn't come up much). I've been involved on twitter about all this. I'm now also on instagram trying to spread this information. I've seen horrible pictures of bears being tortured to death, after they had their teeth pulled out, tied up as pit bulls bit and tore at it as entertainment at an Asian wedding - it's seen as fun and what a grand wedding it was. This is all normal stuff, by the way, this is not unusual as I've seen and researched and wrote letters to whomever I could that might help and helped charities when I could, etc etc. All this (animal torture) and so much more I've seen (horrible chicken farms during elementary class trips even) throughout my long life, most recently torture of wild caught dolphins from disgusting Finland hunters while children watched and participated on the beach. I hate humanity. Talking to me in person, you would never know that fact - of course not. I tried counseling, 4 times over many years, and each therapist left me with more trauma then when I entered their doors. They were so uncomfortable when I said I hated people. People, as generally, not everyone! I like good people and I hate bad people = duh! They were not interested in my deep feelings, they were only interested in helping my self-esteem, as if that was truly what was always wrong with me! I never told any of them that I wanted help with my self-esteem. Maybe they saw me as a lost cause and figured it was a self-esteem issue. I know it sounds like a lot. Your philosophical thoughts please, not about me, but the human/torture/animal stuff.As a former white-collar business owner, could you offer some insights into why so many white-collar business owners nowadays expect swiss army knife employees for salaries commensurate with only one of their skills? For example, I might see a job posting for a senior-level marketing copywriter, but required qualifications will also include social media management, several graphic design and video editing programs, coding knowledge, project management software, etc. Often, these roles will advertise below the average salary for someone who is solely a copywriter, despite their desired candidates filling the shoes of multiple employees. As a senior-level professional in my field, I've tried my best to keep up with these qualification expectations rather than complaining because I know they'll make me more competitive, but I've had to turn down several offers by people who lowballed my already lowball salary expectations while expecting me alone to BE the team. Speaking only from the employee side, I cannot see the rationale for why an employer would expect someone to accept these terms.You have mentioned that you, as a child, thought that most other people was more moral and more reasonable. 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