i think i found a bias for answering your question kiya...

i'm not content with this question. why? because it shows that i wasn't clear enough. i didn't accomplish (fullfil?) the expectations others can have. so it is due to Outer World even if it stays a feeling, something that belongs to my internal life.

on the other hand, i'm happy with this question. why? because it gave me an opportunity to try to do better (not sure i can but anyway...). and that's a choice i've made for accomplishing myshelf, even if it is still related to Outer World, as my own representations are in a way related to the Outer World (well i hope so anyway), this orient is secondary.

so contentment is more based on satisfaction and more exactly on self satisfaction (in the case of koz, it seems to be even self congratulation <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />)... and what can really satisfy myshelf except the feeling that i have fullfiled (accomplished?) ... what? i don't know how i could called that... my purpose (not self made here), my fate, my ends... anyway that i have fullfiled/accomplished the place that was made for me in the Universe ("kosmos") as A Great All (whole?).

Now if i can't anymore reach the definition of that place because some aspects of the World are too complex to be reached (i mean here defined) as the physics aspects and that the World appears as fragmental (i mean there is no real way to link physical representations with psychological representations with social representations... etc...), i have to renounce to search for real satisfaction (the higher form of contentment)...

Am I condemned to be unhappy then? fortunately not. well at least i may be find many ways to be less unhappy... i can't give recipes for that... but in my own myshelf i know what to do to be less unhappy because it is fullfiling rules i have given to myshelf. so in a way happiness is the exact contrary of contentment it is a move where contentment is a fullfilment, more exactly it was a perpetual state of contentment for the Ancient Greek and it is an undefined move for us.

ok all this is still really abstract... i'm not sure i have really managed to be much clearer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

kyra_ny i think i've incidentally just answered your question about the 'what then' question. that was not exactly what i meant. Well i have really appreciated your text there but for me it is more a greek paradigm than a modern one.


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