Choice!
“Life is but a choice”- Bernard Shaw
One important choice in life is having a healthy mind. The key to achieving a healthy mind is to be open minded. Since the day we are born, we are bombarded with information from television, radios, books, magazines, and what we observe personally. The world is filled with a vast amount of information and each individual is responsible for obtaining, understanding, and making value judgments on this information. One must understand the world around him before he can understand himself. Each individual must find where his/her interest lay whether it is engineering or a rocket scientist. Everyone is different and that is what makes our world so interesting.
Another important choice in life is having a healthy body. The key to achieving a healthy body is diet, exercise, and rest. In the world today, doctors are constantly reminding us to watch our body fat, cholesterol, and nutritional intake. In addition, eating a well balance diet can greatly reduce risk of disease and live longer lives.. Also, doctors tell us that smoking and excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages can be extremely harmful to our health. Making a choice to exercise is very important also. Doctors tell us that exercising at least thirty minutes a day will reduce the risk of a stroke and heart disease. Not to mention, exercising is a great way to cope with the stress of everyday life. The most important way to stay healthy is to get plenty of rest. The body needs a break to the mind and replenish cells in the body so the body can function properly. Without rest, one is more likely to make mistakes and even have a higher level of stress.
One more important choice in life is spirituality. Everyone has to question what is this world we live in? Why are we here on earth? , is there life elsewhere? These questions have been around since man began walking the earth. Regardless where one comes from he/she has to make important choices everyday. Whether the choice is as obsolete as which pair of shoes to buy or what television show to watch. Everyone spends every minute in life is making a choice about one thing or another. By acquiring a healthy mind, body, and spirit, other choices throughout life will be much easier.
posted by Kashif Rehman @ 11:04 PM
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Well put together! Its called Freewill. I'd like to cite a quotation by Einstein: I was born intelligent, but the education ruined me. This actually fits perfectly in a bunch of points that you made in this post.
Einstein had to follow some predetermined way to acquire the so-called "education". Are you implying that he was better off without whatever he learnt? ... I agree with what he says completely, that the way we learn greatly reduces the way we come to perceive things and make decisions ourselves, but what would you rather do?
The education you undertake limits your intellect in many ways. When you do arithmetic, you think in terms of the numerals symbols you've been taught. Just imagine how much would it have taken to 'invent' those from nothing. The education one goes through influences one's 'choice'. They say mathematics its logical but the basis of the maths, the graphical representation of the numerals themselves is not logical in any way. I wonder if we had not been taught that since early childhood, someone might have come up with an entire new set of mathematics which would've superceded the maths as we know it today. Just to give a glimpse, to multiply two numbers all you'd have to do combine the two simples horizontally, to add, you combine them vertically etcetera. I guess I often get off the *reality* track.
Reread your post again when you say 'making decisions ourselves', I wonder what you exactly mean... your life experiences and your beliefs etc. influence your decisions. They are making your decisions for you. You might not make a choice that would make today after 5 years (if you could, that is). Time it seems, is the guide! Getting off the track again, are we?
There was this class by Mr. Irshad Hadi in which he said that he would trust the judgement of a 8 months old kid' conscience (if it were capable of expressing) over a 60 year old man. The older you get, the more biased you become to your life experiences and thus it influences your thoughts and decision making process. Actually, he was doing LOGIC vs CONSCIENCE but I was not entirely convinced how the former not depends on the latter.
Perception. Your experiences, and current state of mind influences how you perceive what you see, hear etc. That influences your decisions, too. We make a decision we later regret, often, which supports Faisal's point about the fact that we wouldnt make the same decision at different points in time.
Few people would be interested in philosophy, or the basis of things. Most people are content, "spending" their lives away. The few, have to go through early education to know "what" their is, and then at higher level, question or learn "why" it is so, and answer the "what if" questions.
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The education you undertake limits your intellect in many ways
I wouldn't exactly say it "limits", I would rather say it gives us some direction. Afterall, if everyone started from scratch we wouldn't be where we are today, would we? Why not think of it in terms of a 'head-start', that you start off where others left off. It wouldn't be so easy to come up with a "new" maths that satisfies all the laws of this universe.
Razzu boy, a *direction* is a *limitation*. Where are we today? We're worse than ever... running after money and fame. Reality check... reality check... okay, talking realisitc terms I agree with you that all the advances in science wouldn't have been possible if everybody started from scratch and it'll only become increasingly difficult in future to think about starting things from scartch... the best we can do is atleast understand each and every aspect of what we learn so we do not overlook possibilities and we don't stick to a single direction (this point is also made by Sir Saqib in his comment).
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I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today -- and even professional scientists -- seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is -- in my opinion -- the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. (Einstein to Thornton, 7 December 1944, EA 61-574)
continued>> the key is to remember that the equations do not govern us, we govern the equations :)... what was the maxwell equation again? ;)
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To Sir Saqib:
Exactly. Perception! That is why I don't agree with you when you call throwing trash on the road, playing loud music in public as immoral acts. Norms followed by majority greatly influence perception. Had you not been exposed to a system which is far more organized, you'd probably not think the way you think right now. That actually goes for all the 'reformers' I've seen across the internet. The common factor is that almost all of them have seen a better reality for themselves. People have been seeing and practicing that they can throw out trash on the road or out the window from a speeding car for *years* and they do not perceive it as immoral. That is a perception. You challenge it because it does not match your own.
I wonder if its illegal to throw trash on the road... even if it is, don't worry; I guess 'following the law' is not a legal requirement here. ;)
Someone said: "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups". I am not sure how it fits inw but as Sir Irshad Hadi would say '... by some stretch of logic, we can fit it into our current discussion' <== that was supposed to be humourous! Heh. :)
Sorry about those 'deleted comments'... I posted the same message three times accidently. Whoopsy.
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Razz:
Consider it this way. You're playing a game and you can see 20 doors in front of you. The game has infinite endings and you cannot go back a door once you've entered it; furthermore, each door is unique in its own. Each door leads a larger set of doors, which in turn leads to more doors and this goes on. A *direction* might mean a simple passage to the ending of the game. You close infinite number of possibilites when you take the first door. Which *direction* would you choose? Some choose the 'safer' direction, some 'adventurous' and most don't bother and they just 'go with the flow'.
Check out:
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Free-Will-Determinism.htm
Just read it for knowledge! You don't have to believe it. There might be an invisible door around which gives a direct passage through the game. You want the cheat code? Bad!
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