Shattering Confidence (Book Idea)

play out the many reasons you have to not be confident....such as:

"Imagine a world were sex was everywhere, the opportunity for sex was everywhere. The hard-workers the suceeders in life would be the one's who weren't predisposed to be sex-crazy and sex-distracted: we would be lead by asexuals."

imagine all the other possible combinations, each one would produce a different world, a different value system, a different justice?

"Ethics" book abstract

First, before anything, we must ask ourselves what it means to have a successful life. Everything is on the table. This is each person's own task. The method about going about this task, a how-to, that is what philosophy can be, that is what this is.

It seems a natural way to start would be to examine the experiments. Look at the world, how different people are leading their different lives. See if you can who is the most "successful." What is it about them that makes them successful. What are the presuppositions of their success (I doubt it will be their "truth" or "rationality").

Don't be afraid of the absence of "common-sense morality." Besides the fact that no-one is listening to me to us, there is at base something functional about this morality (perhaps it has never been anything but functional at a certain level).

The final product, if there is one, will be a theory about how to best live in this world, with these people. 2009 - United States - Atlanta. How is it that such an obvious point is so obviously overlooked. It is fun to fantasize about what ethical theories would work if everyone was like you and followed "the" ethical theory, but wake up from your wet-dream, this won't happen.

Life is an experiment. Draw conclusions, try them out, experiment with life! Just think about all the many many different ways of life never even tried - true experimental philosophy. How is it, why is it, that we have only so far experienced one narrow sliver in the woods. But there are no other roads you say? well roads are the problem, we should be swinging from treetop to treetop!

Quiet Section of the Library

this just seems wrong. Someone who takes advantage of the benefits of the quiet section, while themselves not obeying the rules which make the section quiet.

what is it about me, about the way I CARE ABOUT what they think about me if i speak up and tell them to be quiet...they seem to have this QUALITY of not caring about what others think, or are they compeltely unaware of how other people are despising their cell-phone usage in a closed "quiet" space...

this inability to speak up for fear of being "disliked" is something i have battled with for so long. Is it a fundamental part of my being??

Libertarians, why are you so hard to love?

the ideas are convincing and appealing to me, I want to own them for myself, but the culture, it almost seems cult-like. This has served to make it less popular than it otherwise should be.

Oh, if only you didn't speak with those words and passion characteristic of what most believe is an unattainable certainty..

ahh yes, my calling, my VISION

Create my own perfectionsim, virtue ethics, my own view of the good life, defend it, as a creation of my own...then preach the only thing one can with this type of individual theory, the method, The Starting Point, the conditional truisms (if you care about the good life of understanding, insight, wisdom, then these are the steps...)