Happiness Goal Fulfillment

Create a plan where you establish goals that will involve you creating something, go after them full force...having a goal and plan that is the key to happiness...having things to look back at on your life that you have accomplished this is important. Keep it varied. First goal right now is establish a good understanding of Nietzchean Agency such that you can say this is the type of agency you should have in the background when you are reading his work.

My Own Religion

I really want to develop my own religion full or daily rituals to remind me of great things I need to do. It would also be important for raising a kid if that ever happens. I would try to guide his youth education by the idea (turned into a pithy mantra) that the world is harsh and chaotic unless you get off to a fast start, learn all the classics that are debated, the way the world operates, and are in a position - as soon as possible, to make up your OWN mind about things (which is really, really hard to do in a satisfying way)...that is what makes modern life so hard....for the first time in human history a large majority of people are expected to make important decisions of meaning and value on their own. Also this is what freedom is.

what we have now...

people in their rooms, all by themselves, holding a camera in front of them and making a beautiful representation of themselves....

Self-knowledge Book idea

to learned, life-experiencing, psychoanalytic philosophers write biographies of themselves and one of the other person...then they each respond to the other person's characterization in both cases, and then they respond again...and again??

mostly something for personal gain, but maybe more??

"virtue of privacy"

Am I wrong, or did Stanford educated Tiger Woods misuse the word virtue in his thought-out tirelessly prepared apology....

"But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family."

Shouldn't "I value privacy" or "the value of privacy" or something.

If I'm right, it is the worst transgression I can see in this whole ordeal...

writen not done

it has always been characteristic of me to be able to much more easily write and tell people about the way I am the things i do (that are controversial on moral terms, or PC terms), than it is for me to actually commit the actions???

what could this mean...

New Nietzsche blog

Each Post an Aphorism or section one for every section....

Each has a comment section - vote up or down for each comment, the most popular will be shown first...open commenting...

Other features - each could have the original german, alternate translations, cross references (themselves with thumbs up and thumbs down ratings) related thoughts by other thinkers....

I am no philosopher

I am not morally good enough.

I want to be a writer and filmmaker...NOTHING ELSE!!!

think about a horror movie....someone is locked in the dungeon and tortured for fun, slowly over a really long time...this has to be an analogy for something...

VIRTUE ETHICS
FREE WILL
MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD
MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

make the most of these learning opportunities...must prepare oneself to the furthest possible extent...

movie idea

group of angry minority planning to do a library shooting, one of the, who earlier has to be reminded why they should do it, goes to the top floor, he is supposed to just hang out in the stacks, look like he is reading until he gets the signal....he picks up a book, he begins to read, he is transformed he stops the whole thing b/c of the power of the words....

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...)

places to live

nice quiet space and land in the country...

small, functional place in the city...

addiction

I need to get addicted to the right things....to HEALTHY things, to PRODUCTIVITY, to ORGANIZATION.....not INTERNET BROWSING (like automatically opening my web browser when i turn on my computer and drifting where my mind takes me), not CIGARETTES, not SPORTS/SHOCK ENTERTAINMENT (college/pro football, golf, Kanye)

tausend reasons

The truth is that I can give a thousand reasons each to believe a thousand different ways of life....they all can't be right though.....how do we know which reasons are the right reasons?? well it involves understanding our biases, it involves understanding the character of truth.

reason i am into philosophy

when i was told right and wrong meant EVERYTHING and it was a question of HEAVEN or HELL I questioned the "good" of everything, every social interaction and realized all the thought that went into determining the good...was the good even more important to me than Jesus, did the "figuring out of the good" lead me away from Jesus?? it was definitely a truth drive, but a truth drive in an ethical sense/light..

Method reversnce for past and history Krigman