Three Random Questions

And most likely little attempt to answer them.

Published on June 24, 2004 By RandomPhilosophies In Philosophy

Question One: When one keeps a planner for some extended period of time and the pages become filled, scribbled on, scratched out, reused, and completed in all aspects, it becomes time to buy new pages for the little leather-bound friend... Can those old pages be thrown away? Or, despite their uselessness, should they be saved? This was your life.

Question Two: Is it better to watch someone change from a superhero into a human being? Or rather, does seeing a normal human being cry turn them into a divine and beautiful creature, above that of any superhero? I guess I mean... does humanity at its most raw make us more or less human?

Question Three: In a routine world, do those very few elements that can actually be called constant become increasingly important, or do they lose importance?

It's all nonsense anyway. Goodnight.

Comments

Floozie

on Jun 24, 2004

I like these... I'm not a great philosopher - or even a random one - but I'll give it a go.

Question One I can't even throw these out. There are too many memories contained in the pages. While I may not look back over them constantly, it still seems as though you have a grip on the year past if you hold on to these. And as one of my paranoid friends would suggest - it is good to keep in case you need an alibi (for what, I'm not sure, but that's paranoia for you)

Question Two I have always believed that the truly strong are those who can show us their weakness. So seeing someone crying makes them much more human andmuch more of a 'superhero' than anyone with a facade of amazing powers who never let the mask slip.

Question Three I'm not too sure what you mean by this one. Which elements are you talking about? If you mean scientific things like gravity etc, they are very important. However, the way our scientific method works is a method of something being accepted until it is proven wrong. Nothing is an absolute constant because it is never proven to be correct - just not wrong.
Anyway - aside from that issue, I think that the constants in our lives are very important to give us some ballast to even out our lives. No one likes to feel completely out of control of their world, so these few reliable elements give us a sense of security.

There we go - I've just woken up, so I'm thinking I'll be back to edit this is an hour or so when I am actually awake

Sally jacobs

on Jun 24, 2004

Ooooh this is good, I'll apologise before i start incase anything I say makes no sense!

Question One: When one keeps a planner for some extended period of time and the pages become filled, scribbled on, scratched out, reused, and completed in all aspects, it becomes time to buy new pages for the little leather-bound friend... Can those old pages be thrown away? Or, despite their uselessness, should they be saved? This was your life.

They have to be saved, I don't even have a rational reason for this, but throwing them away would be like throwing part of my life away, and I couldn't do that. It's like keeping a diary over time, what you wrote years ago becomes irrelevant, but it is still part of you, and for me things like that will always remind me of who I am

Question Two: Is it better to watch someone change from a superhero into a human being? Or rather, does seeing a normal human being cry turn them into a divine and beautiful creature, above that of any superhero? I guess I mean... does humanity at its most raw make us more or less human?

This is a tough one, when I realised my parents weren't superhero that was a tough pill to swallow, for a long time it kind of made me lose hope, that there wasn't such perfection out there. That people no matter how much they care about you were capable of letting you down, that none of us have superhuman qualities and we will let each other down, and when I was younger i thought this was a bad thing. As I've got older, I've realised that many people try to hide these weakness's and they try to appear superhuman, and though that may appear to be brave, honesty is alot braver. To show the person you really are, weakness's and all, that's so much braver, and will earn my respect alot faster, we want realness not an act that makes you feel better.

Question Three: In a routine world, do those very few elements that can actually be called constant become increasingly important, or do they lose importance?

Oooooh this is a deep one, i don't actually know how you mean this one, but I think a part of it is how I interpret this, so, do the things in my life that are constant lose importance because they are a constant fixture. Some things do, that is the honest answer. We get so used to them been there that we take them for granted. The important constant things, such as family and friends they never lose importance, they will never be taken for granted, and I will always know that without that constant in my life, my life would be nothing. Even though these constants hold such significance, the things that jump up and surise you are just as important, these are things that could become constants if we let them, and as I said, it's the things that become significant enough to become constants that will always be the most important to me.

Sorry for the waffle, but I really enjoyed that!

Poetmom99

on Jun 24, 2004

I used to be a terrible packrat, but I am working hard to break myself of the habit, so I would have to say throw them out.

Question Two: Is it better to watch someone change from a superhero into a human being? Or rather, does seeing a normal human being cry turn them into a divine and beautiful creature, above that of any superhero? I guess I mean... does humanity at its most raw make us more or less human?

I think it's more important to see someone's weaknesses than to keep them hidden. Someone who can't show their emotions would, to me, be seen as more cold, stonelike, and totally unapproachable. Not at all someone I would want in my life, you know?

Question Three: In a routine world, do those very few elements that can actually be called constant become increasingly important, or do they lose importance?

I'm not sure I can answer this one, especially when I'm not fully awake this morning!

I'll give it my best shot, though.....I think many times, we do tend to take those constants for granted, but it's something I make a conscious effort NOT to do, especially when those constants involve other people.

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