(July 16, 2020 at 11:35 am)tackattack Wrote: You don't expect to have time in your entire life for more than 10 meaningful relationships. I get that. 10 out of how many possible relationships could you have 100,000? The ting about a "meaningful relationship" is it's not an object that starts that way. It starts off as a relationship and grows more meaningful.
It's not which of those 10 meaningful relationships was the perfect/best one. It's which of those 100,000 relationships did you invest enough in to make it meaningful.
Thank you for the thoughts but I am still not following. I still would like to know if it's a fair assessment of what you're saying to point out that you see the 10 relationships branching off into 100,000 possible ones because you're not a determinist.
Because to me, as a determinist, if I can expect to have about a maximum of 10 actual relationships then I can expect to have about a maximum of 10 possible relationships.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
