Mr.Gveranon,welcome! You said philosophy interests you-would you be kind enough to tell us what kind of philosophy ( and philosophers)?
Herr Hauser & Senor Raul,
What I try to do is not to understand the meaning of words but the nature of things.Infirmity in checking the emotions is bondage.The idea is to look at passions and perturbations not as vices but as properties ,as is storm to the nature of atmosphere.
We have only confused and fragmentary knowledge of ourselves,of our own bodies and of outside bodies.There is no personal immortality.
Senor Raul,you stay in the hospital-you see at pregnant nurses and doctors. You also listen to the cries of the patients on their death beds-just the way the things are supposed to be. That is how existence has always been. The mental acts always have a correlate in physical states ,then when the physical states turn to dust ,so,too,does the mind. In other words,inasmuch as the mind is the idea of the body,then when a particular body ceases to exist ,so,too does its mind.
Senor Raul, you might have seen naked pregnant models on magazine covers. The bugling womb is a matter of pride and joy for them. Why? Because it is life affirming.Herr Hauser mentioned that his cousin is with some sort of police force & that he has got a lot of kids-what happens is this-when people look at his cousins and his kids-his kids who might have ruddy cheeks and maybe in the first flush of youth-all very life affirming things. His cousin might be cutting a rather dashing figure in his official uniform-again very life affirming.
People instinctively like these things.My own first cousin is a doctor & she has two kids of about five(twins).Both of them are extremely fair for this country & can easily pass for a Greek (though I ,like Herr Hauser ,am very shy as regards photographs or having an kind of on-line profile,I did have a linked in profile once-I deleted it long back,but if it interests you-I guess I could describe my complexion as being pretty close to your own).
Anyway,my nephews are very chubby & great to look at -so obviously they get lots of gifts and lots of attention. I was never a good looking kid-always kind of sad looking.Anyway, in the pro-life rallies they put pictures of dead foetuses on the placard-that is for a reason.Because such pictures do not look very life affirming.It is instinctive.
It is only when one attains the philosophical perspective that one can ,to a degree, dilute such instincts.People certainly won't enjoy looking at my ascetic body and my thinning hair(yes, my hair is thinning,I not bald-but people suggest me to get some kind of medical treatment or else women will find me repulsive,well,first of all I think they already find me repulsive & I am not so vain as to spend a single penny on my hair-I say,good riddance.).