Quote:
|
I love that, because it is very simple for me indeed: feeling good (happiness is just one little form of feeling good) IS the most valid indicator of sound philosophy.
|
John, you and I are just not having the same kind of conversation, that's all. You are arguing, and I am expressing what's so for me.
From your perspective, there are "correct" worldviews and there are "wrong" worldviews, and I reckon you believe that "your" worldview is a correct one, because you are arguing for yours and against mine. Right?
From my perspective, (which from yours is "wrong,") there is no "correct" or "wrong," there is just what works well and what doesn't work so well. That seems to be different for each of us, and what I was expressing in my quote above is that it's very simple for me: if I am feeling good, I'm on the right* track -- whatever I'm doing, being, thinking or having is aligned with being in love with my life. I wouldn't presume that the same would be true for you, but I do tend to hang out more with people who are interested in feeling good, people for whom feeling good is a great signpost for a well-loved life. I am attracted to folks who feel good on purpose, and I prefer to spend time with them than people who don't. To me, such people who feel good on purpose are operating with a sound philosophy -- one that works very well.
"Feeling good" doesn't necessarily mean "being happy," so I wonder why you are so fixated on the happiness thing -- I hardly ever talk about being happy because to me it's just one smallish form of feeling good.
Also, as I've mentioned, drinking alcohol or using drugs doesn't necessarily mean feeling good. Abusing drugs and alcohol, I believe, probably does NOT involve feeling good -- not in my experience, and not in what I've observed in others.
Just as you mention, when you're looking at the world through the perspective that my thoughts are creating my reality, it's true that there is not much place for arguing, except sometimes it's fun. And I can also see how it might feel important to someone who is looking through a different lens to argue with me about that -- that it really IS important to be right and show me that I'm wrong. When people believe in right and wrong, they generally prefer to be right and that if anyone's gonna be wrong, it should be someone else.
* I just noticed that "right" for me here means: what I strongly prefer. 