Has anyone heard of Epicurus' Philosphy on Life? What do you think of it? According to him, we only need 3 things in life to be happy. 1) Friends, that are always around you 2) You work by yourself, no higher ups/bosses 3) Find calm in your own mindset, meditate, write things down, think Another interesting theory is about god Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
You might be happy if you have all three of those, but you can't always get what you want. For example, I want to be an immortal billionaire, so I don't have to work, thus no higher-up and since I don't die, I can have as much time to write, find friends or whatever as I want. Though in reality, I'm only a youthful looking millionaire... in a game... that I cheat ;-;
How to be happy in life? The question many asked, and many answered. Happiness comes from within. We attach this emotion with an external element as a trigger for it to awaken. And we spend our lives finding these external elements rather than looking within. What is God? A question everyone asked at sometime, each had their own answer. For me, I admit that I am unable to understand the working of God. And this only proves to me that there is God. The moment everything is going as expected and something that I would never imagine, changes my plans, that is the moment I realise that there is God. As for why he does what he does? He knows the best. If we could understand his reasons, would we be humans? These questions are quests that everyone would try to accomplish at some point in their life and each of them will find their own answer, whether the answer is copied, found or invented.
Yeah to achieve the happiness he talks about you need to plan ahead, work really hard and smart so that you can retire earlier at 40s
I'd be more interested in understanding how Epicurus came to those conclusions than the conclusions itself. They are not self evident. On on the second one. That is not a theory. It is an argument against the existence of God, called the Problem of Evil. It is a fun problem. The most interesting solution to it is to take freewill into account. The amusing aspect of that, is that if one assumes freewill exists, then by using that axiom one can conclude that God does not exist.
Same here. Unfortunately from my understanding, almost all of his writing has been lost to time. What a pity. He seemed to be an smart and interesting fellow, for his time.