New philo on life

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new philo on life

the adolescent spirit and wonderfully creative imagination of children could exist for a life time if not for the savage demands of a structural society. The key is to not let the expectations of a conditioned mind ruin the child in all of us. It is true that we must work and pay the bills but that shouldnt destroy our souls. I'm entering the new realms of adulthood and its demands but the fearless child inside me will never die If we were born free, shouldnt we live free and die free?
 
Someone just read Catcher in the Rye. If you didn't, you should. That's essentially the idea behind the book. Someone is in their late teens, entering the adult world and is confused and uncertain. He's becoming aware that the innocence of youth does not last forever and is frustrated by this realization. He wants to protect this innocence but it is futile. It's also a very well written book which popularized stream-of-consciousness prose style. Check it out.
 
I hated Cathcer In the Rye. I figure it's because I could relate to it too well. And I just don't like how Holden deals with his problems.
 
Also similar idea to To Kill a Mockingbird. The first part focuses on the children who are innocent, imaginative, and somewhat ignorant. The second part focuses on the adults of the society and how they are hypocritical, violent, and racist. And overall pretty much states that the innocent, good children are corrupted by the bad adult society in which they live.
 
Now that you've identified a problem, how do you plan on changing the system to fix it?
 
That is a very good philosophy. I hate how you see kids having fun and adults always saying things such as "enjoy while it last" but thats crap. I'm not believing that being mature means not having fun.

Heres a very good quote that speaks along the same lines:

"Observe the persistence, in mankind’s mythologies, of the legend about a paradise that men had once possessed the city of Atlantis of the Garden of Eden or some kingdom of perfection, always behind us. The root of that legend exists, not in the past of the race, but in the past of every man. You still retain a sense-not as firm as a memory, but diffused like the pain of hopeless longing-that somewhere in the starting years of your childhood, before you had learned to submit, to absorb the terror of unreason and to doubt the value of your mind, you had known a radiant state of existence, .... That is the paradise which you have lost, which you seek-which is yours for the taking."

- John Galt in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
 
growing up in this modern age really sux. I day dream alot about just living free on an island or in some tribe in the amazon, living off the land. The older you get, the more responsibilities pile up, more bills, more insurance, more bull shit. I think the way we live is so unnatural, we live like aliens on our own planet, and maybe we are.
 
I disagree, the so called freedom and creativity of a child's mind is caused by their naivety and lack of explanation for whats happening in the world around them. You begin to lose this as you grow older and learn how the world works. However, you can still have creativity when you mature, you just lose the naivety.

 
good point....this thread is pretty good for ns as in reasonably short so as to easy reading, and actually good input.
 
I enjoyed this thread because I was already thinking about how much growing older sucks a while back and I told myself I would try to make it last as long as I can, while still living a normal adult life.
 
wurd thats a dope book it was the first time i read a booka and got like the true meaning it felt pretty good
 
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