HGFB wrote:Someone told me that if I read the last paragraph of your posts I'd get the meaning without having to wade through the stream of conciousness. If we assume the actual last paragraph is the one before you going on about being picked on it's true!
Why are you shocked to find the conclusion at the end?
That's where it's supposed to be.
Yes. If you're not interested in the discussion and reasoning and following the logical flow then just read the final paragraph where I reach the final conclusion.
Unfortunately, as schools haven't bothered providing children with anything remotely resembling a useful education (especially the criminal neglect in the teaching of English), so few recognise how you're actually supposed to present a logical case in a debate / discussion.
The reasoning, background and progression to my conclusion precedes it because, as you may have noticed, the past comes before the future and cause comes before effect in this universe.
Likewise, reasoning logically comes before conclusion.
If you only want the conclusion then, yes, skip down to the end. That will work (and I kind of expect this to happen - I usually summarise at the end exactly anticipating this - with the less patient people), although I would urge that if you're genuinely interested in the discussion and the topic, you are the poorer for doing so.
The world isn't merely "end products". You are more than a "productivity generator" for your employer. Money is useless unless you spend it on something. What fun is it when the chase is over? What do you do when all your dreams are fulfilled? Where do you go when you've reached the very top of the career ladder?
Reality is far more in the reasoning than the conclusion.
After all, the conclusion - the "end product" - of life is death. Being buried six foot under. Skipping to the conclusion there is called committing suicide and it's generally frowned upon.
Life is a verb, not a noun. In the struggle, we live. Facing adversity, we unite as friends. In msitakes, we learn. Our problems are what define us.
Every advert tells us that chewing gum will give us sex appeal, when it's more likely to rot your teeth instead. That a new piece of hardware wrapped in moulded plastic will cure life of all its ills, when really it only serves to overload us with yet more things to do that keeps forever busy constantly achieving nothing. Every poltiician promises us a wonderful Utopia and delivers nothing.
Therefore, I apologise naught for rabbiting on. There is more life and more said in one of my rambling digressions than in entire threads full of "conclusions" only.
Mind you, as you're only reading this last bit, I might as well make it interesting and educational for you with a nice little poem:
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
- "Leisure", William Henry Davis"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
