HW 3? Comments

Jia Min!

Thanks for commenting on my post.

This whole happiness thing... I agree with whoever brought up the point about how are we able to tell the difference between happiness and love. Now that I think about it etymologically, I think love is word to describe the feeling and a situation. Happiness, is a broad word to describe a feeling. Bottom line, let us say that happiness is a good feeling.

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Charles!

Your ffirst paragraph strikes me, except for the spelling of "all" which you spelled "amm". Anyways, I alwayys wanted to disagree with Banach with that point of his but I could not put my finger on what was wrong with his point until I read your post. You are absolutely correct, there is no golden rule to follow. How can we really be free if we have to worry about whether or not other people are free? We are individuals and we have the freedom to choose what to do!

To answer your question, I still think that mentally and/or spiritually, we are free; we are free to think what we want. However, we are restricted to what we can do physically and this, is where our freedom no longer becomes freedom.

Thanks for your post, it helped me clarify my own thinking.

Carrie
Thanks for your post Carrie.

Your post cleared the fog I had about Sysiphus. At first, I was in the same position as you were; what was the point of Sysiphus? But after reading your post, it the story of Sysiphus actually did make sense. As I read half way through your first paragraph, it started to remind me of Snyder's class. Half way through the first paragraph, it seemed as if Sysiphus was doing the same thing over and over again and yet he was still happy. It also seemed you were trying to say that rolling up rocks were better than sitting at the bottom of the hill and doing nothing. I was going to ask you whether yu thought sitting in front of your computer and doing the same thing over and over again waas a happy thing. But as I read on, it seems that there are more to just rolling up rocks over and over again; there is the challenges you meet when doing so.

But really, does sitting in front of your computer doing the same thing over and over again make someone happy? On one hand, I think it makes me happy when I am chatting with friends on AIM or writing a comment on your post. But on the other, it really does seem like a waste of time to stay on the computer.

I think it was worth it to tangent away from Banach. Your post was really optimistic, really inspiring. What I was thinking though, iis that we all have something to live for; what happens, when that thing is no longer there? Do we just give up on life like some people do? Or do we find something new to live for? If we find something to live for, how do we go about looking?

I really loved your post; as always, really inspiring.