Life

It's silly to write poetically when writing an instruction manual. But this is precisely how many assume the Biblical writers wrote. Not to mention what's worse is that many modern writers believe that philosophy is not inherently poetic and ought to be approached as an owner's manual.

It's silly to write philosophically as if you're writing an owner's manual. In other words, if you're going to write a work of philosophy it ought not to be for the purpose of instruction but rather it ought to convey the way things are, probe the paradoxes of existence, and seek to explain the confusing decisions that confront us by the seconds. For philosophy ought to be concerned with how to live, not on what is life. The question 'what is life" is a wasteful question. It doesn't dignify an answer. Clarity is overrated on manners of life, for life is not the same thing as putting together a computer.