alexpgp | Questions...

Just spent a relaxing half hour or so on the couch, brushing Sasha. (It's probably poor technique, seeing as how she chewed up my best set of chopsticks, and the attention may be viewed as some kind of reward, but what the hey...)

So there I am, brushing a very appreciative dog...and thinking.

Somewhere in the past day - this had to be on the radio - I heard someone say that society changed from a nomadic and unstable state to one that was agrarian and (more or less) stable when the controlling question in people's minds changed from "How do we get to the water?" to "How do we get the water to come to us?"

This made me think of Anthony Robbins, and something I heard him say on one of his motivational CDs, to the effect that "the quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself." It would appear that the radio program gave something of an example of what Robbins is talking about.

But then I got to thinking...if chaotic societies became more stable as a result of the change in the questions that they asked themselves, then might not a suitable parallel be drawn with everyone's Favorite Question - i.e., "What is the meaning of life?" - by restating it as: "How can I make my life meaningful?"

Jeez. Give me a day off by myself and I start waxing philosophical, 'n stuff...

I'm going to go for a walk, and maybe pick up some vittles.

Cheers...