September 26, 2023
What do people
do for fun? Eat out at a nice restaurant hopefully with a view. Travel
to see strange and beautiful sights. Listen to music, depending upon
one’s taste. Watch movies which are made up stories about interesting
and often beautiful people often in dangerous situations. Go dancing.
Go to a bar and drink and chat with friends. Go to a sports game and
watch a contest and root for your team
. Go for a drive. Have sex.
Go surfing. Go swimming. Go on a date. Read a book, which can vary
according to taste. Take a class in something that interests one,
according to your taste. Go to the gym. Go to an "amusement park” like
Disneyland. Go to the zoo. Have a picnic. Take a hike.
Most of these things don’t seem particularly rational to me. This goes along with my basic idea that reason can help you to find a goal, like looking for a good restaurant, or traveling to an interesting place, or earning enough money to be able to afford any of these pleasures. But the ultimate activities that give life pleasure are not particularly "rational.”
They are pleasant experiences. Just for fun.
Tim adds:
One must ask why we have these irrational pleasures if Darwinian evolution is at work. Seems to me all energy would be expended to improve the situation of the organism in question. That we do all manner of things solely for enjoyment suggests there is so much more to it than a blind, deterministic world and an organism programmed to seek it's own survival and propagation. Pleasure is one of those things, like humor, or love, that cannot be explained materially. In my mind it is proof of God.
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