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Life is full of unaswered question's..
RETURN OF THE OVERFIEND!:
--- Quote from: rhodamagnetics on April 05, 2009, 11:08:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Infinite African AND American West Coastin on April 02, 2009, 07:57:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: rhodamagnetics on April 02, 2009, 06:26:02 AM ---You should know, because you must be brain dead to be asking such questions.
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Well since you know all the answers why don't you enlighten us?
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If we're really going to go into this question, we'll first need to clear up a few things. Momo sees life as being full of unanswered questions. Where do these questions come from? Are they intrinsic to life, or are they subjective and context based?
And most importantly: what is life, and what is death? You can't answer any such question without answering that one first.
If death is the polar opposite of life, and life is existence, that means death is nonexistence. If life is energy and growth, while death is its opposite, death can give you no answers because acquiring an answer would be a growth of knowledge. In fact, a dead person couldn't have any questions, because to question is to be alive. Death is a zero, and there's no multiplying upon a zero.
The only way death can give you any answer at all is if death isn't the polar opposite of life. Either you would assume life doesn't end after your body dies, or life would have to be some mixed state, which death is already a part of. Both approaches basically come down to the same principle anyway, and it's all vagueness and corrupted thinking.
Define life, and define death. You'll see that the principles of one dictate the principles of the other, ruling out the possibility for questions to exist during both.
And in case death would give you all the answers, where would you get those answers from? As if the knowledge about these answers suddenly "is," once you're dead?
Death doesn't give you any answers - it merely takes the questions away.
So long.
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Good. But why would either of those approaches be vague and corrupted?
All we know for sure about death is that it is the end of the body.
We also know that our bodies are constantly dying and being re-born, constantly in a state of death and repair.
Eleven2Three:
--- Quote from: Infinite African AND American West Coastin on April 06, 2009, 06:28:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: rhodamagnetics on April 06, 2009, 04:02:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: Infinite African AND American West Coastin on April 05, 2009, 06:11:35 PM ---Islam spread to most of the world, so Islam is one context in which one can study world history
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Does it matter whether or not Islam spread to most of the world? Why should that make it a better context for studying the history of the world?
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Well if I was studying David Karresh and the branch Davidian your talkin about a small religious group that only existed for a very short time.
Yet if you talk about Islamic history, it is over an extended period of time and deals with Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe: along with their encounters, battles, or minority populations within the Western world.
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It helps to explain some of those parts of the world you mentioned, that's true, but don't overgeneralize.
Eleven2Three:
--- Quote from: Overfiend is the ILLest. ILLuminati Click brrrrrrap! on April 06, 2009, 07:41:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: rhodamagnetics on April 05, 2009, 11:08:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Infinite African AND American West Coastin on April 02, 2009, 07:57:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: rhodamagnetics on April 02, 2009, 06:26:02 AM ---You should know, because you must be brain dead to be asking such questions.
--- End quote ---
Well since you know all the answers why don't you enlighten us?
--- End quote ---
If we're really going to go into this question, we'll first need to clear up a few things. Momo sees life as being full of unanswered questions. Where do these questions come from? Are they intrinsic to life, or are they subjective and context based?
And most importantly: what is life, and what is death? You can't answer any such question without answering that one first.
If death is the polar opposite of life, and life is existence, that means death is nonexistence. If life is energy and growth, while death is its opposite, death can give you no answers because acquiring an answer would be a growth of knowledge. In fact, a dead person couldn't have any questions, because to question is to be alive. Death is a zero, and there's no multiplying upon a zero.
The only way death can give you any answer at all is if death isn't the polar opposite of life. Either you would assume life doesn't end after your body dies, or life would have to be some mixed state, which death is already a part of. Both approaches basically come down to the same principle anyway, and it's all vagueness and corrupted thinking.
Define life, and define death. You'll see that the principles of one dictate the principles of the other, ruling out the possibility for questions to exist during both.
And in case death would give you all the answers, where would you get those answers from? As if the knowledge about these answers suddenly "is," once you're dead?
Death doesn't give you any answers - it merely takes the questions away.
So long.
--- End quote ---
Good. But why would either of those approaches be vague and corrupted?
All we know for sure about death is that it is the end of the body.
We also know that our bodies are constantly dying and being re-born, constantly in a state of death and repair.
--- End quote ---
The vagueness lies in not knowing what death or life supposedly is and means.
That is something that comes naturally with the uncertainty about a miraculous afterlife. It's a state of hoping for life not to end (thus holding on to the thought of a new life after this one -obviously- ends), and therefore attributing characteristic elements of life to the non-life. It's an evasion of death.
Corrupted thinking, made possible through vagueness.
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