What is death? (Hint: the question can't be answered)
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What is death? (Hint: the question can't be answered)
Death simply means a change or transition...
The Universe is in constant change...
Every change brings with it the death of some form or shape to bring into form something more complex and novel...
Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life...
One should look at all opposites as necessary complements...
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/...yclicsnake.jpg
Death is the process that gently warms the orphic egg of Life during it's most sensitive phase before birth. If we were to look into the cauldron of the Art card, we would see that process bubbling away as the egg grows stronger through death by taking the Life of others and making it it's own...
In truth... Death is the first creative god...
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/.../Art-tarot.jpg
Death is something to be revered... not ever feared or rushed...
To fear or expedite death... is to misperceive or misunderstand life...
Look here as our vivacious and flexible version of death uses his scythe to stir up bubbles of new lives from out of the seemingly dead and decaying sediment.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/...48/death13.jpg
What is change?
In this sense... a transfer or shifting of energy
What is energy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclic13
Get him Drew!
A vibration of subatomic particles which are currently undefined...
Some call it Higg's boson... some call it God... some call it Pi...
Does it matter?
Does matter really matter?
Ahh... Gotta love the mystery... The uncertainty... Bask in it...
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Originally Posted by freak
listen to the commentary.
That's....interesting? A white square.Quote:
Originally Posted by ranma187
lol, Ranma you need to fix your youtube code. I'm not sure what you did wrong.
lol, how ironic... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Cyclic13
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I agree, but I'm not sure about 1001001001111001.
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Originally Posted by Cyclic13
What is Pi?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclic13
More importantly...
What is the last digit of Pi?
;)
What is importance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyclic13
What is what?Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
fixed.
Let me try to explain how I see things:
(the following is an analogy - don't take this literally!)
Let's say you have -5-4-3-2-1 0 1 2 3 4 5.
You would say that -3 and 3 are opposites.
Zero in this case if what I call the reference point.
But what if you move this point from zero to -4? People have different "points of view" so this DOES happen. Then you get -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.
-3 and +3 become 1 and 7... Not opposites.
I'm just trying to say that people are different, and not all people think black is evil, or killing = bad. It's depends on your point of view.
Everything is relative.
Just like softness and hardness from the video - who gets to decide what "balance" is? What is the "hardest"?
What is "biggest"? Ya the sun is big but look at the milky way!
The notion of "opposite" only just barely makes sense in a one-dimensional space, but life is of infinite dimension, so there are no opposites.
That sounds about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
So you wouldn't consider yes and no or male and female opposites? I would agree that there are no objective or absolute opposites, but if you put things into a context (put limitations on things) then you allow for the possiblity of opposites.Quote:
Originally Posted by drewmandan
It is also possible to take the same things that are opposites in one situation and put them into a different context and have them not be opposites.
Life is of infinite dimension, but there are common things that connect all humans. There are common circles we all run through.
Ok, so you can make things look like opposites given the correct context, which you must know ahead of time. So what's the use of all of this? As a philosophical pursuit, what knowledge or truths can you extract from a dualistic treatment of the universe?
It's helpful with finding balance(like mental balance). The better you are at balancing your own mind the more control over it you have. If your mind is not very balanced you will be more likely to jump to conclusions rather than carefully analyzing the situation.
You can also gain a better understanding of a given situation or experience when you look at the opposites in it.
You missed my point. To see opposites, you must first assign context. But to assign context, you have to already understand the situation in its entirety, or in other words, you must already have the knowledge you want. This line of thinking can't give any new insight.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonedape
I disagree that you have to understand the situation in it's entirty in order to assign context. If you have a partial understanding you can look at the opposites and come away with a more complete understanding of the situation. Things are rarely understood entirely.
I think your trying to say "What good is it to know what opposites are". If so then I say again balance. How would you find balance(middle) without understanding what the opposites(sides) are?