Professionality

[AnotherSpin]

It's a hobby, and you never know when it might come in handy.

I've come to suspect that thinking too much is a very dangerous hobby. As that cheerful fellow in Ecclesiastes once said: 'With much wisdom comes much misery; the more you know, the more it hurts.' Absolutely uplifting, really.

[AnotherSpin]

The Bible really is full of fascinating bits. Take this one, for example. Jesus says, "Before Abraham was, I am." Now that's a line. Stunningly concise and impossibly vast.

He's clearly not speaking from the ego, or from the body and its busy little mind, ticking away inside time and space like a nervous wristwatch. No, this is the voice of the timeless Self, the quiet presence humming behind absolutely everything. Pure awareness. Sat-chit-ananda, existence knowing itself as bliss.

The phrase doesn't so much sit in time as slip elegantly out the side door. I am isn't a historical timestamp. It's now. Always, eternally now. Not in a mystical sort of way but in a slightly inconvenient, impossible-to-avoid way.

And here's the twist most people politely ignore. This realisation isn't reserved for one divine celebrity. It's not exclusive. The same truth is lounging quietly inside each of us, waiting to be noticed. No one, in essence, is different from Jesus. What he pointed to is precisely what we all are. Just takes a bit of looking .

[Henk]

I've come to suspect that thinking too much is a very dangerous hobby. As that cheerful fellow in Ecclesiastes once said: 'With much wisdom comes much misery; the more you know, the more it hurts.' Absolutely uplifting, really.

Justin Gregg - 'If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal'

https://www.amazon.nl/Nietzsche-Were-Narwhal-Intelligence-Stupidity/dp/1399712500/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_nl_NL=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2U353FV76615P&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.euZ3OkJvu1PHNE1d9qF0mgd7OITVRPjpMIixGGsP0NLGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.Glnbnwltmanp-_LSpD7XHQhOJxUxf4kzj0FSdYpv39s&dib_tag=se&keywords=if+nietzsche+narwhal&qid=1753093213&sprefix=if+nietzsche+narwhal%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1

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[Henk]

I've come to suspect that thinking too much is a very dangerous hobby. As that cheerful fellow in Ecclesiastes once said: 'With much wisdom comes much misery; the more you know, the more it hurts.' Absolutely uplifting, really.

Not my experience. One must be a modest knower and a modest soul.

Wisdom and ethics is imo another word for intelligence.

I can understand your sceptism towards philosophy. Esposito argues that 'thought' belongs to the human species. I disagree, a lot humans are perfectly fine without philosophy. Esposito's wish is an insult to them. Also there's bad or mad philosophy which is a danger.

For those who don't know how to live philosophy or just like philosophy and that kind of thinking and reading philosophy is an outcome.

There are imo many beautiful philosophy books. I would have a poor life without.

[Henk]

Besides ethics philosophy is imo also highly important for criticing politics, science, morality, it provides solutions, invents new stuff etc.

Philosophy complements other fields of inquiry.

[drogulus]

I've come to suspect that thinking too much is a very dangerous hobby.

     That's the purpose of cat videos.

     Q: Do you choose your thoughts?

     A: I have an app for that.

[Karl Henning]

Information is not knowledge
Knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is not truth
Truth is not beauty
Beauty is not love
Love is not music
Music is the best!
— Frank Zappa

[AnotherSpin]

Not my experience. One must be a modest knower and a modest soul.

Wisdom and ethics is imo another word for intelligence.

I can understand your sceptism towards philosophy. Esposito argues that 'thought' belongs to the human species. I disagree, a lot humans are perfectly fine without philosophy. Esposito's wish is an insult to them. Also there's bad or mad philosophy which is a danger.

For those who don't know how to live philosophy or just like philosophy and that kind of thinking and reading philosophy is an outcome.

There are imo many beautiful philosophy books. I would have a poor life without.

If it works for you, I'm glad. It doesn't work for me anymore.

[Henk]

In 'Two Regimes of Madness' Deleuze calls Anti-Oedipus a good start. Further commitment is needed. I'm finding out how to do it, Deleuze only gives a few pointers.

[Henk]

In 'Two Regimes of Madness' Deleuze calls Anti-Oedipus a good start. Further commitment is needed. I'm finding out how to do it, Deleuze only gives a few pointers.

Maybe the difference between a amateur and a pro. 🙂

But he writes as well that it's a modest, even a humble task.