Friday, 17 April 2015

A Question Begets Questions

Greggory in his introduction asked the question,

if it was truly necessary to be socially content, what can be discussed to cook up better conversations?

Of course our wise and critical readers would stop reading for a moment and reflect on the conditional that the question posed. So the statement "If it was truly necessary to be socially content" makes the readers think of what is meant by being socially content. At least that was the first question that comes to my mind. What is social contentment? Is it a satisfaction that we derive from social connections (What really do we derive, do we derive an object or a change in our being)? Or is it a satisfaction that we derive from the knowledge of ourselves having social connections? After all what is social connections, does it exist as an object and hence can be possessed (if it does not, the satisfaction we derive from the knowledge of having that is a mere illusion don't you think?) , or is it just a man made idea describing existing things named persons? Of course before we ask all of this we must ask, what is contentment? But that would be a really hard thing to define, and we still have a huge number of questions even if we accept on the surface that there is such a thing called contentment that all of us have the same idea of. 

Well, moving on to another part of the conditional, "if it was truly necessary". Why do you think that social contentment is necessary at all? Is it because we are social beings? Is it because we exist in relation to others? And more perplexing still is the phrase "truly necessary", it is a grand statement don't you think? Does necessary mean that it is not contingent, not contingent to the human nature (while humans themselves are contingent being)? Maybe not that necessary, not as necessary as a necessary Being? Well, to what level is it necessary then? Do you think the word Truly here imply a connection to The True itself? So many questions did this one question beget. And we have not even look at his sons from his second wife whose name was "what can be discussed to cook up better conversations", maybe next time.




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