Re: Mind's Eye Re: Life's Purpose

After 75 years of experience on this earth plane here is my conclusion as to the meaning of -at least - my life: 

Living from day to day confronts us with a never ending array of problems ranging from practical issues such as 

what is on the top of my to do list - to philosophical such as why am I bothering to get up at all - to urgent: I have to do something 

about the pain in my tooth- 

Since I am preoccupied with one or more problems to be solved and it gives me satisfaction to master each and all of them --it follows

 that the good life must be concerned with becoming an expert problem solver. 

Adopting this ethic reinforces my interests in science (particularly scientific method); philosophical theory and discourse (particularly 

Spinoza, the Pragmatists, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle); continuing to examine the implications of viewing the nature of meaningful

 coincidences from two alternative perspectives (Jung: mystical magical transcendent collective unconscious and G Williams

 naturalistic, personal unconscious, by products of the idiosyncratic creative process); depth psychology notably Freudian

 classical psychoanalysis, British Object Relations theorists especially Guntrip, Winnicott etc); continued learning about the nature of 

psychodynamics; continuing learning about the nature of the self and how it develops (particularly Spitz, The First Year of Life) - Freiberg:

 The Magic Years; and adopting the seminal incite that the key to emotional success is adopting and practicing the discovery that the

 best attitude to coping with the daily experiences of anxiety, depression, frustration and stress (tension) is an attitude of bring them on

 and I will tolerate them the best I can which is essentially the concluding message of Molly Bloom in Joyce's must read classic: 

Ulysses - that after a life time of experience much of it traumatic she sums up with yes, yes, yes, yes yes yes, again yes. Top that ethic

 if you can. 

Gibbs A. Williams   gibbsonline. com 

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From: pol.science kid <r.freebird@gmail.com>
To: minds-eye <minds-eye@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 11:53 pm
Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Life's Purpose

Do you mean ... to always do the right thing?....

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:37 AM, gabbydott <gabbydott@gmail.com> wrote:

I understood that Erica meant it was our cognitive abilities which had made us aware of better streamlining ourselves. 

I hope this opens up for a more mortal and less moral interpretation, yes.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM, pol.science kid <r.freebird@gmail.com> wrote:

yes... thats such an interesting thing... happiness is a choice....  but we dont quite know about it do we.. nor do mot of us care....
sometimes i hate happiness ... but thats really not possible is it... it only exposes the essentially morbid mind...

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Erica Moreau <ericamoreau@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought happiness was the purpose [not that people can recognize
that happiness is not a feeling, but rather a choice...]

On Feb 5, 10:55 am, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Life has no purpose except evolution ; a person has to search his own
> purpose in life and live for it. Some live for the attainment of wealth and
> fame , some for the freedom of their country , removal of corruption , some
> for the attainment of wisdom and some for the happiness of their children.
> You have to set your own priorities.

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