Ummmm I beleive the way White Rice worded his sentence meant that you cannot really plan for the future......you missed the point entirely.
I dont know how more clearly he could have stated it, so I will repeat him again: *It's when your content with all your efforts despite things not turning out the way you plannned*.
You still need goals to acheive for to drive you to do things: which is in essence a plan.
Thus you just rambled on about personal Identity and it's basis for really nothing.
Since you've been suggesting books though, I suggest you read CHAOS by James Gleick, it's about how order can be derived from Chaos.
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Originally Posted by (Impenitent) which never happens... in the words of Aerosmith... "Dream on..."<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Happens all the time in nature, ah the dangers of quoting popular music.......
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Originally Posted by (Impenitent) you were "selling" your belief system in the hopes and vain imaginings that someone else would believe as you do<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
No I was sharing, because the thread asked for input and I did without the need for compensation, whether it be social validity or monetary in form.
But I do have the need to respond when someone twists the intentions of my actions and my words (which of course are synonomous on a forum plain) and distorts what I am saying.
Which you have such a penchance for doing to me and others in these forums.