ckmlb said: @Fksumot: It's clear to me, events important to me are important. Not personally important means unimportant.

 Sure. Relativism. Man is the measure of all things. You picked a very arbitrary incident to make an unimportant point. Or was your point important? And if so, what was important? It's your personal viewpoint, so I guess you thought it was important. But there's no reason that should mean anything to anyone else, is there? There are no absolutes. We go over this every time there's a discussion about review scores.

You can see things around you, they don't affect you, not personally important. Doesn't matter what it is.

Stub your toe and it hurts a lot, personally important.

Anyone can understand that viewpoint and everyone has had some experience with that type of thinking. Having a relative moral code is not very interesting since you have to argue that everyone has a relative moral code, there can be no absolutes. Or you can just retreat into solipsism.

What a person actually thinks is important or unimportant is what guides their actions. You thought it was important to make a thread about a fortune cookie. The cookie was wrong if you can pick and choose though, because you could choose the "personally unimportant" option every time. If you can't pick then there's something you don't control that determines what is personally important to you and what is not.

In a certain type of relativism there's no accountability but that doesn't seem to be your brand of relativism. Do you think something is wrong because it is a priori "wrong" or is something wrong just because at the moment you think it's wrong? You can stick any qualifier in your important/unimportant viewpoint and it remains just as valid.

lol

For a second, I thought you posted in the wrong thread, cause I was going "how the hell did this come out of a conversation about fortune cookies?"

nevermind me, carry on.

Grey Acumen said: *gives Flow a Fortunemo Cookie. It reads - "in pursuing your fortune, all your hope will shatter, just like the cookie you opened to read this"

 Yeah, i feel like killing myself now :D

 

I want to order more, to distribute to everyone i know 

Grey Acumen said: *gives Flow a Fortunemo Cookie. It reads - "in pursuing your fortune, all your hope will shatter, just like the cookie you opened to read this"

That was awesome.

@ fkusumot - admit it, you're just doing this to get some use out of that college degree.

But as for one thing you said: I think that the personal importance of things that happen to you depend on your personality/character, so from moment to moment you can't control the personal importance of things that happen to you (though you can control your reactions which to some extent dulls that importance [edit:  or sharpens it, I had meant to make that edit but forgot about it]), but you can help determine how important past events are to you and how important future events will be to you.

Was that consistent?

Lol thats like a fortuen saying you are not going to reincarnate as a Panda.

Etech7 said: Lol thats like a fortuen saying you are not going to reincarnate as a Panda.

 You better not, or d21lewis will beat you hard.

Final-Fan said: Grey Acumen said: *gives Flow a Fortunemo Cookie. It reads - "in pursuing your fortune, all your hope will shatter, just like the cookie you opened to read this" That was awesome. @ fkusumot - admit it, you're just doing this to get some use out of that college degree. But as for one thing you said: I think that the personal importance of things that happen to you depend on your personality/character, so from moment to moment you can't control the personal importance of things that happen to you (though you can control your reactions which to some extent dulls that importance), but you can help determine how important past events are to you and how important future events will be to you. Was that consistent?

Well, yes, in as far as that's how it consistently appears to be how things happen and you qualified it with "I think". Your statement wasn't tautological so there are ways to question it. One thing I would have to take exception with is the phrase "dulls that importance". It wouldn't necessarily be "dulling" as your reaction might just as well heighten the importance. So instead I would replace "dulls" with "changes".

Besides that though, try replacing the words "important" and "importance" with other words like, "viewpoint",  "reality", "smell", "taste", "perception" and "meaning". So we would have:

 "I think that the personal meaning of things that happen to you depend on your personality/character, so from moment to moment you can't control the personal meaning of things that happen to you (though you can control your reactions which to some extent changes that meaning), but you can help determine what the meaning of past events are to you and what the meaning of future events will be to you."

The dodge of using the word "personal" is to deny objectivity.

always add "in bed" at the end of a fortune.

I love fortune cookies...adding "in bed" in your head is mandatory. My friends and I save all the good ones.

I had Chinese food on Monday and it said "You are the mast of any relationship." o.0 I saved that one hehe.