The unexamined life

Question Everything!

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

--Buddha




Remember the Socratic paradoxes?

• No one desires evil.
• No one errs or does wrong willingly or knowingly.
• Virtue - all virtue - is knowledge.
• Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
• The phrase "Socratic paradox" can also refer to a self-referential paradox, originating in Socrates' phrase, "I know that I know nothing". Socrates believed that the first step towards wisdom is knowing that ultimately you are ignorant; if you want to be a philosopher, remember that you know nothing.

The unexamined life is not worth living
Lately,  I've found myself re-examining stuff. In a quest for knowledge and learning I'm reverting to Socrates and his line of understanding the world around him. Gosh, I know so little! It's new roles and new challenges and also wondering about what my accomplishments I've made in life.

On a lighter note, I always laughed at oxymorons...and thought these were interesting:

1. virtual reality
2. original copy
3. old news
4. act naturally
5. pretty ugly
6. living dead
7. jumbo shrimp
8. rolling stop
9. constant variable
10. exact estimate
11. paid volunteers
12. civil war
13. sound of silence
14. clever fool
15. only choice

http://people.howstuffworks.com/15-oxymorons.htm