I have no interest in talking about things that aren't solid. What's the point?
No, it's not worth speaking about liking a film. I don't even think about it a minute after I walked out. Ask my daughter - two days later, I wouldn't even know what the story is about. I also don't care. It's fiction.
I am 70 this year. I have never discussed a book, a meal, music, a movie, or any of the arts with anyone. Occasionally, I will write an article about a book or a movie - not because I'm interested, but simply because that's what the market is, and I get paid.
What is moral is easy. It's not an absolute. Basically, whatever brings the greatest good to the greatest many over the longest period of time. So war might be good in one situation because a country is being attacked and its people murdered. So the greatest good is to defend onself, and the best means of defence is offence. And other times, war is bad because one is invading another country for power and profit.
I have no beliefs. When one is a designer or decorator, colors have numbers, so the exact shades are easy identifiable. No belief involved.
For the record, I don't actually enjoy talking much. And I get agitated when people want to have a conversation with me when it's about my interests, my beliefs, me. I don't think any of that has any relevance, and it bores the hell out of me.
I'm interested in preventing climate change, finding a better system of production and distribution (economics), etc. Systems, really. I'm interested in systems that work.
I had to come back to write this. I have to question you. Why on earth would you want to waste your time talking about things that have no hope of ever been answered and where you can't do something tangible with the information.
I wasted close to half a century on that shit, and I'm still angry about the numerous people who thought that if I felt better about myself, thought positively, believed that there were 10 angels on a pinhead, etc.that this was all valuable advice that would help me.
It was a complete and utter waste of my life, my time, my energy, etc. I am only, and have always only been interested in the tangible, the material, etc.
Should there be a life after death, I'll focus on it then, but for now, I'm on earth, and I prefer to deal with the material things.
