"How was the world created? Is there any will or meaning behind what happens? Is there a life after death? How we can answer these questions? And most important, how ought we to live? (...) Today as well each individual has to discover his own answer to these sames questions. You cannot find out whether there is a God or whether there is life after death by looking in an encyclopedia. (...)
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician suddenly pulls a rabbit out of a hat which has just been shown to them empty.
In the case of the rabbit, we know the magician has trick us. What we would like to know is just how he did it. But when it comes to the world it's somewhat different. We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because here we are in it, we are part of it. Actually, we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference between us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit doesn't realize it is taking part in a magic trick. Unlike us. We feel we are part of something mysterious and we would like to know how it all works.
P.S. As far as the white rabbit is concerned, it might be better to compare it with the whole universe. We who live here are microscopic insects existing deep down in the rabbit's fur. But philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes."
In the case of the rabbit, we know the magician has trick us. What we would like to know is just how he did it. But when it comes to the world it's somewhat different. We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because here we are in it, we are part of it. Actually, we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference between us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit doesn't realize it is taking part in a magic trick. Unlike us. We feel we are part of something mysterious and we would like to know how it all works.
P.S. As far as the white rabbit is concerned, it might be better to compare it with the whole universe. We who live here are microscopic insects existing deep down in the rabbit's fur. But philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes."
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
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Es obvio que tan solo somos insectos en un gran universo,por ello nos preocupa descubrir el verdadero significado de la vida tal y como queriamos que fuera, y cerramos nuestra mente a suposiciones que no entran dentro de nuestras creencias. El ser humano es miserable por naturaleza, hipocrita y egoista, pero muchas veces esta actitud nos ayuda a poder vivir en este mundo misterioso donde nadie sabe el por que de las cosas y tan solo las vive, por tanto la conclusión que saco yo es que el echo de no preocuparse del porque de las cosas nos proporciona una falsa felicidad que terminara acabando con el mundo, por que llegara un momento en el que seamos tan miserables que nos destruiremos solo por no opinar lo mismo que el resto.
No sabía q entendieras el inglés. Y lamento decirte q no estoy d acuerdo con tu opinión. No puedes afirmar con rotundidad tu teoría. No niego q hay gente q es así de egoísta e hipócrita... Yo busco la felicidad como cualquier otro y no vivo constantemente sin preocuparme de las cosas o analizándolas continuamente, es una mezcla de ambas. Por otro lado cuando alguien es feliz por un momento sabe por qué es, estoy convencida. Y no es una falsa felicidad, es una felicidad genuina y verdadera; si esa persona se siente feliz, no tienes por qué juzgarla en cuanto a si su felicidad es verdadera o no; ella es feliz, por tanto su felicidad es geniuna y única, aunq tú no lo entiendas.
Por último, no entiendo la relación de la felicidad con el día que dices q llegará en el que nos destruiremos por opinar de manera diferente. Mira nuestro grupo de amigos, todos diferentes y la unión fuerte como el acero.
No estoy para nada de acuerdo contigo, sorry!
Admiro la diferencia de ideales, es lo que hace a mundo diferente si todos pensaramos iguales, seriamos poco mas que maquinas. La capacidad de razonar distinto al resto nos hace unicos, y me refiero que debido a esta diferencia de opiniones, algunos seres piensan que esto es peligroso y destruirán al humano con sus guerras y sus formas de sublemacia hacia el resto.
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