Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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The image of the marble in the sun is from http://100musicalfootsteps.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/the-five-traits-of-a-successful-writer/.
it's just an expression R.J. stop taking everything so seriously
ReplyDeleteIf practice makes perfect but nobody's perfect, does that make sense?
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE TAKING IT LITERALLY! STOP IT.
ReplyDeleteIt's figurative eating. "Things or ideas that are taken in your mind and that shape and mold who you are" kind of eating. What you take in is what you will be.
Well, by your reasoning since regular cannibals would eat people who ate something such as vegetables, those people who ate vegetables would technically be vegetables, and then the cannibal would be eating the people who ate vegetables and therefore would be eating vegetables, so he would be a vegetable himself. But then, the cannibal who ate that cannibal would also be eating vegetables would then also become a vegetable. Therefore, "you are what you eat" does not work no matter how you look at it. It is NOT "figurative eating", it talks about healthy/unhealthy foods. Eat right and you'll be fine. Turn to high fructose corn syrup and soon you'll become a couch potato. There is no "figurative eating" in that phrase.
ReplyDeleteAlso, people say that nothing can be perfect. However, many things can be perfect, just as long as they achieve the goal you want it to do. For example, you're playing any sport you can think of; soccer, basketball, football, hockey, etc. Lets say you score a goal, a basket, a touchdown, whatever. That goal, as long as you score it, is perfect. Sure, the puck could have suddenly levitated in midair, did a triple flip, hit every player on the opposing team in the head for good measure, and then soared at 1,000,000 mph into the goal! But did it get you any extra points? No! As long as something achieves exactly as it is supposed to, getting a point or a goal or whatever, it is perfect. As for people, no one was created with an exact purpose in life, and therefore, they cannot fulfill their purpose. I believe that, while many THINGS can be perfect, no ANIMAL/HUMAN could ever be perfect.
ReplyDeleteBut remember, something is only truly perfect if it achieves what it's supposed to do EVERY TIME IT IS DONE. Therefore your reference to scoring goals in sports doesn't work, unless there's a player with a miraculous ability to score every time he shoots. (which is impossible)
ReplyDeleteAlso I have another oxymoron in sayings. There are two sayings:
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"
and
"Better safe than sorry"
Don't those contradict eachother?
But a shot in soccer is only made once. The technique of the shot can be used more than once, and more than often it fails, the technique is imperfect. But that one shot itself achieved its only goal and, of course, went into that goal.
ReplyDeleteThe two quotes, on the other hand, are two different opinions. One man believes taking the risks in life is worth it. The other one has a more cautious approach and balances out the risks with the rewards, and takes the risks more seriously. I bet the second man was probably out there doing fine in life while the first immediately grabbed a parachute and started going BASE jumping. It's whatever you think, and although the two contradict the other, they can both be used in tandem: okay, I'll try this new, exotic dish that you say is tasty, but I will not be drinking five bottles of beer and then going out to race my car on the streets of Manhattan.
Aragorn
ReplyDeleteThe dictionary defines perfect as "as good as it is it possible to be". So nothing can be perfect because it could always have been "better". For example even a goal scoring shot can't be perfect, because even though it achieved it's purpose, making it at least adequate, it wasn't as good as it is possible to be. Like you said above, it is possible that ball could defy the laws of physics, levitate into the air, hit every player on the opposite team in the head, then soar into the goal, so anything less is not perfect, and even that is not perfect because that ball didn't, grant your every wish, then soar around the planet and bring peace on earth. And even if it did there would still be something it didn't do. Therefore perfect can not exist since it is always possible to be better.