SamuelRSmith said:
Slimebeast said:
Then what's the meaning of your life? (If you feel playing games, watching TV & movies and reading novels is a waste of time)
Im not criticizing you at all, I'm just wondering how you set your priorities and how you reason about these things.
Knowledge, while it can be entertaining to gain that knowledge, you also have to ask what is it good for? If it doesn't help your career and bring in more money, then gaining knowledge is just as much a waste of time as gaming.
In the past I was a lot into gaining knowledge, mainly politics and society (and at that time I was in a long period when I didn't play video games). But one day I realized it was meaningless. There was no higher value with that knowledge. Actually it was associated with frustration (if you're into politics you know exactly what I mean) and I started to feel better by ignoring world events and instead concentrating on stuff I really like. That's probably why today I'm deeper into gaming than I ever was in my life.
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Well, I do not yet know the meaning of my life. Odds are, there won't be any. I'll have an average family, a typical career, die, and rot. I will, however, try my best to break out of the mould.
I haven't set any priorities, the developments I mentioned in the post came completely naturally, I did not plan for any of them.
Well, my knowledge has already helped me with my career. The fact that I had all this outside knowledge on finances and economics certainly helped put me over the edge in getting my job with HSBC, for example. On top of that, it has also aided my degree, as I've been far more successful in my philosophy modules than I otherwise would have been.
My knowledge has other benefits, too. A lot of people enjoy hearing my opinion on issues. Typically, it won't be a viewpoint that they've heard anywhere else, and they know that I'm not going to be rude, or aggressive, if we don't agree. I've aided my friends on multiple essays for Uni, for business studies, law, economics, and politics. One of my friends even joked that he might just write my name on his dissertation, because everything he's going to write will be something that he's heard me say, at some point or another. I've had complete strangers come up to me in nightclubs, shake my hand, and tell me that they love reading my posts in one group or another on Facebook.
So, on top of everything else, my knowledge helps me earn respect.
As for your final point, my knowledge doesn't frustrate me in any way. In fact, if anything, it calms me, and alleviates any fears that I would have, as I know the world is much more simple than what the TV makes out. I know that everything boils down to a few core fundamentals, and that most actions have easily predictable outcomes.
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