siegfried said:
hey perfect exits.look at the solar system it is perfect.the books say "if sun were a centimeter closer to the world there would be a huge chaos.human wouldnt survive." the whole universe is perfect.actually human body is perfect too.can you think of anything to add to your body that will make your body more convenient?when microbes comes into the body,your body always find the best way to disinfect them.
Is the universe perfect? You say so, but is it so? Whose decision is it whether it is perfect or not? What is the definition of perfect? In Greek the word is ancient Greek and related to the words "end" and "purpose", so I've heard a professor say that perfect is that which has reached the end of its purpose, that it can't get any better. So who decides what has and hasn't reached its purpose?
As for my body, it does age doesn't it? I will die won't I? Did anybody ask me if I want to die? Germs? Our body can't always fight 'em off and in the end they kill us. Do they care? Without us they die as well but they don't care because their averege life span is a few dozen hours. Even if some generations of germs kill me, some of them will live to kill another person or animal. If you see individual living entities as cells of their species, and the species as an individual then we all die for the greater good! Each new generation of animals is stronger and better adapted to the world, so that the whole species will never die. Humans? I think we are a twisted exception since only we make wars among other things no animal would ever do. What are we? An infestation perhaps... Of course that's just a personal view
In the game of life and death I see around me there seems to be a constant exchange of energy for the sake of passing down your DNA to the next generation... We strive to live so that we can die after having children so that they can do the same in an endless meaningless cycle. The humans seem to be an exception like no other, doing all sorts of meaningless things, from helping other entities in their own meaningless cycle, to massively killing their own... Does this make sense? Is there any point? Who am I to decide? What I know is what "feels" right and what "feels" wrong. Of course smashing someone's head after they have hurt you does "feel" right but that's another story.
On a side note, inspired by Leen's LS no Jutsu, I was thinking that a lot of people are approaching Yoga or sports as a means to feel good... chemically. You see there's a number of lovely chemicals produced by your own body called
Endorphins that are released into our blood stream during such actions as sex or physical excercise and I think during meditation (relaxation). I've heard that
Serotonin is a hormone that affects our mood and our sleeping pattern. So, in the morning, when the sunlight hits your eyes serotonin is what tells your body "rise and shine", it makes you all happy and perhaps it is what makes men horny in the morning. Wikipedia doesn't say the things I've read elsewhere unfortunately but it has so many other info that it's ok. Anyway, what I'm (sadly) trying to say here is that a number of chemicals in our brain affect us more than we want to admit (because that would mean a whole lot of nasty things).
So... why do we do what we do and why do we see things the way we see them? Are people thinking of sex so much because it's a natural drug? Do we do what we do just to feel good? It certainly seems that way to me although it's kind of scary... the things that make certain people feel good that is. In the end, are we but a cell that lives it's short life doing what a bunch of chemicals dictate so that the species will live on? And what does it matter if the species does live on? Is it because the species likes life and wants to live? Is it that simple? I really can't tell...
[br]Posted at: 29 April 2006, 02:25:47_________________________________________________I like the word "if I had known sth,it is the fact that I dont know anything." but did you know this was wrong?.it should be "if I had known sth,it is the fact that I only know one thing"
From what little ancient Greek I know the ancient "Εν οίδα, ότι ουδέν οίδα" would translate (word for word) to: "
One knew, that nothing knew". This of course makes no sense in English =p The verb used is also irregular and if memory serves this version is a Past Tense beta, as we call it. I think it could be perceived as "I learnt one thing, that I learnt nothing". Personally I don't think that phrases that have come to be almost worshipped around the globe should be overanalyzed. Either way I hope that was usefull input.
think about this.all the things that you know comes from your senses.what if your sense is misleading you?think a world like "the matrix" can you still be sure that there is an absolute truth?what if everything is just an illusion?
Check what this man said!
Parmenides... and yes, he is Greek =p
this will be offtopic but did you know aristotales and socrates and all those big greek philosophers were gay?
(no offense anax)
I wonder if does gays think deeper.it is very interesting.
I don't know if they were gay for a fact, though what I have read is that the people those days thought of love as such a higher feeling that gender was unimportant. In Hagakure, Yamamoto has a passage on love and mentions both heterosexual and homosexual relationships alike. I guess people in the past where more open minded.
