One (of a few) basic philosophy of my life: If you don’t know bad, how can you know good? (In my work, I see how bad bad can get—I hope I’m the good that balances it).
That’s a common rationalization, Aaron, but in my opinion it falls into the category of “making a virtue out of necessity.” If one’s life WERE nothing but “good days”, would one really NEED to label them as such? If you’re having a good time, does it become better if you tell yourself “I am having a good time now”?
In Western Tradition we look backwards to a prelapsarian period of uninterrupted bliss, as well as forwards to some future age when ill has been eradicated. This would seem to contraindicate the necessity of bad experience to “give savour” to good experience.
It’s an academic question, of course, and I don’t mean to suggest it’s not USEFUL to adopt a philosophy which reconciles one to the inevitability of periodic misfortune, but I still see it as a construct rather than a Truth.
TURTLE about 13 years ago
Making lemonade out the lemons life sometimes hands you!
Phatts about 13 years ago
… craps, I hate it when she’s right …
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Capsule review: good action sequences; poetic script. But the premise, “a quiet moment,” seems to have been deep-sixed by the director….
GROG Premium Member about 13 years ago
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
NE1956 about 13 years ago
One (of a few) basic philosophy of my life: If you don’t know bad, how can you know good? (In my work, I see how bad bad can get—I hope I’m the good that balances it).
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
“If you don’t know bad, how can you know good?”
That’s a common rationalization, Aaron, but in my opinion it falls into the category of “making a virtue out of necessity.” If one’s life WERE nothing but “good days”, would one really NEED to label them as such? If you’re having a good time, does it become better if you tell yourself “I am having a good time now”?
In Western Tradition we look backwards to a prelapsarian period of uninterrupted bliss, as well as forwards to some future age when ill has been eradicated. This would seem to contraindicate the necessity of bad experience to “give savour” to good experience.
It’s an academic question, of course, and I don’t mean to suggest it’s not USEFUL to adopt a philosophy which reconciles one to the inevitability of periodic misfortune, but I still see it as a construct rather than a Truth.
Sherlock Watson about 13 years ago
Two questions: When did Hallmark take over this strip, and how did Ziggy get so ugly?
cybergal29 about 13 years ago
That a girl, Broom-Hilda :-) That is good advice you have there :-)