Posted: 3/8/2005 12:48:25 PM EDT
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Philosophical Question of the Day Which is more important - the journey or the destination?? Poll above, discuss below. |
The journey. The destination always leaves you wanting more. The journey, and the anticipation, are the best parts. edit: I assumed that this is NOT a religious thread. |
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The Journey. The lessons learned on the Journey can change the Destination entirely. You may start the journey intending to go someplace, but along the way you may find someplace that you like better, or decide to go back to where you started. In any case, what you learn about the world and yourself on the journey will stay with you regardless of the destination that you choose. |
If "learning" is why you take the journey, then "learning" is the destination. |
But "destination" signifies the end. Ending learning is bad. Continued learning is good. Therefore, the journey is more important. |
My point is that you take the journey to get from where you are to where you want to be, but along the way you may find that you prefer to be where you were, where you are now or someplace else completely. And now, you must walk the rice paper.  |
No, if "continued learning" is what's desired, then that is the destination. |
+1 If you maintain the destination as the most important, then you end up being so focused on it that you pay no attention to how you are getting there. It is the journey that allows you to find out who you are and where you will be most happy, and along the way, you may just decide that the original destination is nowhere close to where you really want to go |
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Its an null question: the two are just different sides of the same coin. One does not partake a journey except in the hopes of reaching some destination point. And one does not arrive at a destination without some internal or external journey. Someone with no destination or no journey is simply existing and wasting their time. And life. I have no time to waste on such people because i have my own journey to attend to. |
Yep. I see the destination as one dimensional--a point. You reach a goal, destination, whatever. The journey is two-dimensional--a line. The destination point is simply the end of one journey and the beginning of another. jim |
Good point. It lets people off the hook for not obtaining any pre-planned goals. Heck, it let's them off the hook for not even setting goals in the first place. Personally, I am very goal oriented. |
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My ex-boss got a plaque one day that said "It's not about the destination, it's about the journey." I said, "That's what losers always say. For winner's, it's all about the destination." His reply, "My son just gave me that." Mine: "Well, teach him not to be a loser and you won't get crap like that from him." 
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And THAT is why he is your EX-boss. He fired your butt. |
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It depends on the destination and what you're driving throughout the journey. Driving a great car or truck while on the road to someplace cool. OR....... Driving a POS while on the road to your mother in laws house. It would appear that state of mind is what matters. 
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Buy Both  I'd like to say Journey, But I like to know where I'm going...The journey is the fun getting there. But without destination the journey could take forever and how much fun can one wery traveler take. So take the journey with a destination. I hate "Philosophical Question of the Day"  |
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You have got to be kidding!!! At these gas prices!!! hinking.gif |