Why would understanding how things work make me want to be a retarded person? Your reason for living is imaging that you had some sort of control over who you are? That's a weird reason for living.
You've got it backwards. My point wasn't that controlling who I am is a reason for living. My point is that if your future is predetermined, life is pointless. They are not one and the same.
You said that I have no reason to live because everything is set in stone. It makes life quite a bit easier to know and accept this basic fact of existence, especially if you're a regretful person I assume.
Nice projection. What you wrote here is exactly what I wrote and your response reversed what I said, implying that it makes it easier for me to live believing that I can change my future. So, you got it right this time, but not in your last reply. Knowing that you have personal accountability and that it is up to you to succeed, not some unseeable force, makes life harder, if anything.
And it is that pressure that causes you to believe that you are unmalleable and have no choice in what you do. It makes it easier to be incompetent and a failure and look in the mirror each morning. I get it, but I don't subscribe to it. Which is why I'm successful.
Why would understanding how things work make me want to be a retarded person? Your reason for living is imaging that you had some sort of control over who you are? That's a weird reason for living.
You've got it backwards. My point wasn't that controlling who I am is a reason for living. My point is that if your future is predetermined, life is pointless. They are not one and the same.
You said that I have no reason to live because everything is set in stone. It makes life quite a bit easier to know and accept this basic fact of existence, especially if you're a regretful person I assume.
Nice projection. What you wrote here is exactly what I wrote and your response reversed what I said, implying that it makes it easier for me to live believing that I can change my future. So, you got it right this time, but not in your last reply. Knowing that you have personal accountability and that it is up to you to succeed, not some unseeable force, makes life harder, if anything.
And it is that pressure that causes you to believe that you are unmalleable and have no choice in what you do. It makes it easier to be incompetent and a failure and look in the mirror each morning. I get it, but I don't subscribe to it. Which is why I'm successful.