Sir Rounded asked:


Here’s mine, and it explains my mania (over-the-top spontaneity coupled with immature behavior) and depression (pensive thoughts over a certain coming of age tale);

“The irony in developing one’s own philosophy is that it should lead one to enjoy the moment more minus the questions. Spontaneous, impish, crude behavior is not the result of naivety.”

I understand that philosophizing should (sometimes?) be the result of tangential thinking but why do you guys think you do it?

Or is the reason pretty much empirical as in it’s been clarified by the Greats of the past (or by professors still professing philosophy)? If it has, please enlighten me. Thank you!
you brought up the unconscious…..thats a cop out.

i lean jungian but i would never argue for it let alone find ppl to agree with me in order to justify it…..its a nice study for objective thinkers i guess

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