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Worth

2009.07.23

I can't understand this thing about worth and value; why do I have this belief that out of all of the 2 or 3 billion human beings, only a certain amount of them have value, and the rest, including me, haven't?
I was thinking about it yesterday, and that realisation came to my head.
Why would I think that I don't have value, as well as why other people wouldn't have value neither, and why the ones who had value have it, why can't all humans have value?
But then, how could all the human beings HAVE value? Is there enough value in the world for each, each of us to have value? Is it possible?

When I think of diamonds, maybe there are 3 billion diamonds in the crust of the earth, scattered everywhere. DOes it mean that some diamonds would have more value than the others, and some would be less valuable? Who would judge of that anyway, other than a human being?

To a god, maybe the brownest, crappiest looking diamond is immensely more valuable than the biggest, clearest and with most "carats" or however it is measured, diamond which to a human being would be the most valuable, but to a God would be less interesting, or maybe it would be as equally interesting.

I really, really, really struggle with self-value.

I don't see why I should be worthless, but I feel it. I am not doing poor-me, but just expressing how I feel. No need to pity.
I just need to understand all this.
Why do I think that way.

It is a shame that a human head isn't like a computer.

5 Comments
davids Hi Claude, I’m afraid I disagree with much of this...! Firstly computers are boring and people generally aren’t... admittedly I have met people who are rather less interesting than watching paint dry. But generally speaking I think I prefer people. Also, I don’t think you can compare a person’s value with something like an artefact which only has value because people have ascribed value to it... diamonds for example have no inherent value other than that ascribed to them by people who make use of them. So that begs another question... what actually is “value”? Buggered if I know – this is getting far too philosophical! I need a beer.
davids · 2009-07-24: 09:52
davids Btw, wouldn't it be hilarious if all commuters travelled to work on the tube like that? Can you imagine a carriage full?
davids · 2009-07-24: 09:53
ClaudePechabaden A carriage full of those would be great! (as long as they were respectful towards other's space and didn't take advantage of being happy to touch everybody else!)
I don't have a clue what value actually is, but it does bugger me a bit. Maybe it is a concept and it doesn't really exist, hence all this talk above is useless because it is talking about something I should not be worrying about!
ClaudePechabaden · 2009-07-24: 10:31
nadoune Great shot !!!
nadoune · 2009-07-24: 21:27
stormfish impressing thoughts, claude. i think you are stuck in statistics. get rid of them means to discover any value anything has. statistics are the biggest lie we humans use to fuck up everything.
stormfish · 2009-07-26: 06:25
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