Why do anything?...Like write this.

Because you can.

In a million different realities, I could write the perfect sentence to harvest the perfect responses. This is not that reality.

How can you be sore sure this is not perfect?

In this reality, you may or may not answer my question. You may not have an answer that is wholly suitable, although you will try deliberately to argue your case.

It's rather clear I'm arguing for your case not for mine.

Chances are, you have not been endowed with the answer anymore than your fellow thinkers.

Answers are not "endowed"; the kind of answers you seek come from a great deal of thought.

You will make a response in vain, possibly wholly believing in what you're saying, possibly skeptical, and possibly clueless. The majority of you want to assess value within yourselves; value is important in a rat race like this.

Then you ask in vein because you do not wish to understand.

You will be wholly disappointed knowing that your value is an illusion, created for biological purposes solely.

Then you must come to understand the power of these illusions.

You will doubt the legitimacy of what I am writing based on your own perceptions, which is wholly acceptable, to a degree.

What you say is legitimate, but you have said precious little but asked a great deal, it is you who is questioning legitimacy.

I don't believe Truth is what you're searching for, instead, you search for something you can make your own. You search for a utopian society, earth will never be able to yield you that. You search to be like God, to know all.

A truth we can all make our own, in our own utopia.

Don't deny it, you're only doing yourself an injustice with your pride and your ego stopping you from true discovery.

Thats a false accusation if you can't answer this question of yours.

I am no one significant, no accolades to show, no real point to prove.

If that is the role you choose than so be it.

I await your response.

You messed up the quotes a bit...

Ecstasydeprivation wrote:Is will the means to act? If I can, does that mean I will? Why will I or wont I?

It can be. "I will" means that you will do this thing in the future. "You will" because you want to, self referencing as it may be, without a specific case that's as good as the answer gets.

To me, it is imperfect, it is not the sentence I would write if I could write one better.

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a would chuck could chuck wood? But in all seriousness: you decide what perfect is for you.

You exceed the norm

Why thank you, thats because there is no "norm".

I understand well enough, unless I am proved otherwise.

"Well enough" is not the same as well, if you are ready to dismiss this proof then you simply have no will(there's that word again) for finding value.

I am sure you have some ulterior motive I am not picking up on, I wish I could, but I am unable. Thus, you will perceive me as incompetent and identify me as useless.

I may well have an ulterior motive(I don't really) that does not mean you won't be the primary beneficiary of this exchange.

Truth is only the stepping stone.

Not only but; so now you see that we lay our own path.

Ecstasydeprivation wrote:Don't deny it, you're only doing yourself an injustice with your pride and your ego stopping you from true discovery.

wanabe wrote:Thats a false accusation if you can't answer this question of yours.

Ecstasydeprivation wrote:Why?

You didn't know what the answer is going to be so you couldn't have properly made that accusation: that we our doing ourselves an injustice.

Ecstasydeprivation wrote:Any other role would prove inauthentic and just as valueless in the search for answers.

Authenticity, humbug. life is not a legal ledger, or a play. You decide your "role".

That's your problem: you "know" all these "facts" but can't decide what to do with them. You are not as certain as you try to convince your self you are.

Why do you want to do an action? : Depends on the action.

What if the perfection I perceive as perfect, is always something of disappointment in the end.

Then perceive something else, forget about "the end"

Value has no purpose but what you give it. You decide what is valuable for you.

I value any exchange with another human being as valuable because I learn. Knowledge is power, no matter how seemingly trivial at one moment it may be. Hence it is my primary objective.

You don't have to be sure of what you see, only of what you want to do.