Originally posted by Gregory
I've told you. If my example was a little too trivial, I can give others.
I did not read your 'trivial' example. I was responding to something else at the time. Your example does have validity to it, however. (By the way, you used trivial in a very odd tense. There was a plethera of others you could have used. Why trivial?)
That is a very spacific example. I was talking a little more universal then choosing a course for school. I understand what you are trying to say, but my question is very simple:
"Why look back? Why not enjoy now?"
We only live once. Why bother reflecting on the past? Why not divert the energy you are expelling wondering why when you can use it for so much more?
Originally posted by TheProgramSmith
I did not read your 'trivial' example. I was responding to something else at the time. Your example does have validity to it, however. (By the way, you used trivial in a very odd tense. There was a plethera of others you could have used. Why trivial?)That is a very spacific example. I was talking a little more universal then choosing a course for school. I understand what you are trying to say, but my question is very simple:
"Why look back? Why not enjoy now?"
We only live once. Why bother reflecting on the past? Why not divert the energy you are expelling wondering why when you can use it for so much more?
I used it because it was the first thing that sprung into my head.
To a certain extent, I agree with you. As the old saying goes, there's no use crying over spilt milk. But there are advantages to looking back that should not be ignored. For example, suppose you break up with your girlfriend. Thinking about it is not pleasent, but if you can discover the cause of the break-up, you may be more successful in future relationships. It's no good spending your entire life looking back at the past, but if you look back sometimes, you can make your present much more enjoyable.
I must use an example for this. Otherwise, it would take me much longer to express my point of view.
I will use the girlfriend example. You broke up with her because she did something wrong. Who really cares what it was, it does not effect anything. You decided to stay friends, but there is still that rift between you.
FORGIVE, BUT DO NOT FORGET.
Looking to the past can give you warning signs of whether or not she is going to do something again.
Is that the extent of what you are trying to get across? There are advantages to reflection?
Originally posted by TheProgramSmith
I will use the girlfriend example. You broke up with her because she did something wrong. Who really cares what it was, it does not effect anything. You decided to stay friends, but there is still that rift between you.FORGIVE, BUT DO NOT FORGET.
Looking to the past can give you warning signs of whether or not she is going to do something again.
Is that the extent of what you are trying to get across? There are advantages to reflection?
No, my point was something like this. Suppose that you and your girlfriend break up because, for example, she thought you got overly jealous about her male friends. The next time you try dating, if you remember the problems it caused the first time, you can make a conscious effort to surpress whatever jealousy you feel, and thus not repeat your mistake.
Time DOES exist. As lil said, it prevents everything from happening at once.
If you've ever read the time machine, you'd remember one of the first passages saying "an object needs length, width, and height to exist...but if this object has not existed for any amount of time, it hasn't existed, period." Time is a dimension, because if time did not exist, we would be frozen like statues.
Originally posted by §pearhead
Time DOES exist. As lil said, it prevents everything from happening at once.If you've ever read the time machine, you'd remember one of the first passages saying "an object needs length, width, and height to exist...but if this object has not existed for any amount of time, it hasn't existed, period." Time is a dimension, because if time did not exist, we would be frozen like statues.