(September 8, 2012 at 4:18 am)Red Celt Wrote:(September 8, 2012 at 4:16 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I think he loosely uses the term in relation with the past and future. So in a nutshell he says pondering on the past is useless and worrying about the future isn't much better.
If your ancestors hadn't worried about the future, you wouldn't be here reading these words.
I doubt a less powerful brain would have the capacity to understand such a concept. They would have actually been worried about the 'now' ironically, like don't starve, don't die in a fight...
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
