what is it that makes searching for transcendence of prior assumptions inherently valuable? When is it better to just go with whatever works for you and keeps you happy? Is philosophy always the attempt for the unhappy to find solace? where then is its rational credibility as a pursuit? What when I am simply tired? Is good philosophy only possible at a certain peak state? Is questioning an the pursuit of progress inherent in human nature, or a modern development because of cultural factors? What is the value of being right over being wrong? The value of being happy over being sad? The value of being happy over being right? or right over happy?

    I tend to think that there is no particular dishonor to believing in religions, if that's truly the state you're in. I think many, though, feel deep down that it's missing something, but refuse to allow themselves to explore further because of emotional attachments. When you're conscious that you're doing this, it doesn't work, because your emotions know you're being dishonest. It's just like a loveless marriage. What's the value of love anyways? Is it always an unstable cycle, or can it describe a higher, more stable system of hypercycles that has its own inherent beauty? Can any of life transcend its own cyclical expansion and contraction? evolutionarily? philosophically? emotionally? What's the appropriate behavior in light of all this? What's the appropriate way to think? To feel? What's the de facto situation in this regard? I think mostly what can be gleaned ( mostly from this post) is that at least one beingdoes question, and that emotions are always involved in reciprocal determinism with thoughts. Perhaps the best way is to let your thoughts progress, by way of reason, until they reach a more stable, ordered system, and let your emotions develop in parallel with this. Isn't this what most people do as they mature? Then I suppose stresses would be formed by multiple individual's developed systems interacting, forming the workings of a higher ordered system-> the group. Isn't this what most adult individuals struggle with? Where then does love stand? Is love a being of its own, formed by the interactions of component parts?