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People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity?
#14210087 - 03/30/11 03:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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So which is it?
I know a lot of people that aren't particularly passionate about anything, they seem to just live their lives with the volume turned down, working to get some money, waiting for the next game to come on, waiting for the next time they get to drink beer with their friends, enjoying life at a low intensity.
Then there are people that have strong passions, euphoric obsessions, that they pursue. I don't mean something great when I say excel btw, any type of hobby or activity that is pursued with passion and in the best way someone can. These are people that excel, that are trying to be good at something because they enjoy it very much.
I tend to see it as boring and exciting people...
The question is, form your experiences, which one is "normal", which one is the norm?
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210106 - 03/30/11 03:23 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think many people at some point in their life get a surge of passion at something they know they love, but society puts them down and they get discourage. personally i keep on getting surges of passions i want to follow and do, but society always gets in the way. People may still want to follow their intuition but at a lower level because of being put down.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210121 - 03/30/11 03:27 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Made by whom?
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210147 - 03/30/11 03:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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apparently, both are the norm. humans don't live in the wilderness anymore, a place where the "boring" ones would actually just die.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210162 - 03/30/11 03:35 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I think that so-called "passionless" individuals are victims of a well-established passion-control system, and that so-called passionate individuals are also living with the volume down.
In the absence of well-developed value judgments and existential anxiety articulated by contemporary constructions of the universe, the natural condition is one of consistent, uninterrupted passion.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14210299 - 03/30/11 03:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Made by whom?
Irrelevant to the discussion
Passion control system? Natural state without existential anxiety? Do you mean that as an abstract concept or actually refer to a time before "contemporary constructions of the universe"? A lot of responses seem to be blaming external sources for a mediocre existence, IMO that's just a way of shifting blame. All comes from within, society or whatever doesn't stand in your way if you truly want something because you're not important, nobody really gives a fuck about what you are doing until you directly interact with people, and at that point society's influence is pretty diluted.
meatcakeman - i don't mean the inept ones by boring/mediocre people, just people who choose the path of least resistance, people without drive to do something better
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210328 - 03/30/11 04:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I believe that the practice of laying the blame for any identifiable problem on any single identifiable source stems from broken thoughts. You will never be able to find the root cause of any given mistake or deficiency. It goes back farther than you can see.
By laying the blame for anything upon anything, we perpetuate the problem-solution mentality that has given the modern world so many problems.
IMO, transcending the impulse to blame things for problems is foundational to accepting full responsibility for your own existence.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14210337 - 03/30/11 04:06 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Also would like to point out that I'm not "blaming" the passion-control system for anything. It enables us to do incredible things, but it does have the downside of hiding us from our own animal natures and, for some of us, does its job too well, resulting in a lifetime of doldrums.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210369 - 03/30/11 04:11 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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13.step said:
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Made by whom?
Irrelevant to the discussion
Not at all, if you were asking, "do we excel or are we mediocre?" the question would make sense. As it stands it doesn't.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210382 - 03/30/11 04:14 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Irrelevant to the discussion
No, it is quite germane to the discussion.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Grapefruit]
#14210392 - 03/30/11 04:15 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dang, you beat me to it while I was uploading a picture of Jermaine.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14210395 - 03/30/11 04:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh you.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Grapefruit]
#14210399 - 03/30/11 04:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Grapefruit said:
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Made by whom?
Irrelevant to the discussion
Not at all, if you were asking, "do we excel or are we mediocre?" the question would make sense. As it stands it doesn't.
Well sure it's relevant, if you're nit-picking. If I'm reading it right, the title of the thread refers to the making of meaning in our lives, and begs the question: is Homo sapiens primordially a species of ants or a species of gods? The answer to this question is not in the past but in our future.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14210407 - 03/30/11 04:18 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I guess if questioning one -half of the MAIN ASSUMPTION/PREMISE is nit-picking, then you are right.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14210427 - 03/30/11 04:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well ok, I should clarify, I don't really care about that part, I am interested in exactly what I asked. I said made because I believe it's a way of life that you are more or less born with.
So let's assume two-dicked purple aliens from the pegasus system made us, did they make us one way or the other? Or did they not make us in any way and we just develop one way or the other?
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14210428 - 03/30/11 04:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: I guess if questioning one -half of the MAIN ASSUMPTION/PREMISE is nit-picking, then you are right. 
Do you think it's possible that, in pursuit of semiotic consistency, we may find ourselves disproportionately distracted from realities which exist outside of the verbal consistency we seek to impose (upon ourselves or upon others)?
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14210429 - 03/30/11 04:23 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well I think you need some evidence that something did "make" us before you can find evidence as to "it's" intentions behind the act. Which is what the question is pointing to in the proper use of the english language. If the author means something else he ought to clarify his language.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: 13.step]
#14210447 - 03/30/11 04:25 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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So let's assume two-dicked purple aliens from the pegasus system made us
Without evidence of such, I am going to assume you just made that up.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Grapefruit]
#14210467 - 03/30/11 04:28 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Grapefruit said: Well I think you need some evidence that something did "make" us before you can find evidence as to "it's" intentions behind the act. Which is what the question is pointing to in the proper use of the english language. If the author means something else he ought to clarify his language.
The problem stems not from the original question but from the interpretation of the word "we" made by the reader.
Who are "we"? Obviously he is referring to the human species, but is he referring to "us" as currently living organisms, to "us" as an historic entity, or to "us" as a set of genetic markers?
A full inspection of the clause must confront us with the possibility that the "we" he is speaking of is the "we" that we create ourselves.
I am made to type out this post - by whom? By me.
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Re: People - are we made to excel or are we made to live in mediocrity? [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#14210486 - 03/30/11 04:31 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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That is decidedly unclear in the OP's statement as he doesn't talk on the history of the human race in these terms in any single part.
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