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Is Contemplating ones non-existance while depressed similar to suicidal ideation?
What if my mother and father never met?
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but i will counter your philosophy with my own argument using einsteins theory of relativity melded with a bit of Descartes.
Ok, so einstein says, basically, that thigns are different based on your perspective. not that they seem differnt, but that they actually are different.
and R. D beleives that thinking is being, and a persons own existance is known only through ones ability to reason.
taking these two thoeries together, leads me to come up with the following.
although i agree entirely with C's view of the world, a fleeting blink in an eternal snowstorm, the since reality is relative, and thinking is waht makes existance extant, then sine after our ability to perceinve and be cognisant leaves us, existance is for all means and purposes, over.
that would imply that our fleeting time on this earth, is actually eternity itself, assuming we are done when tbe ol' ticker stops.
because it is a relative issue, no?
teh books biggest lesson that i took away is that if you want to be hapy in life you shouldnt desperately try to be yourself and you sholuldnt desperately seek "not be yourself" either ... entiendo? - modeeration again. hes a very religious writer. awesome.
whats the deal with that??? i'm directly connected to ML dammit.
it's been like this for days now.
ggrrrr...
Suicide is no longer having a desire to live in this world and hence fantasizing about taking action. pondering one's non-existence-while depressed is more like wishing you were never born... slightly different :)
Now if the soul exists before the physical form... does that mean God has already made a finite number of souls that He intends to distribute from the time of Adam to the day of judgement?
celestine - what is it about? I'm not good with titles - but i really love a lot of that guy's stuff. :)
hey have you read the sickness unto death by kierkegaard?
nice one, im sure its not ALL goodo but anyway .... .... the books awesome ... you know abouth the myth of sisyphus right? (fgreek i think) about a guy who rolls a massive rock up a hill only to roll it down again and do it the next day. that is his life. allegorically - for the majoprity - that is also ours.
its a massively philosophical book. recommend it big time.
no, i haven't read that book. seems interesting though.
i'd like to get into quantum metaphysics too - explore their answers as well.
but u can have pancho villa, i'm going to hang with Zapato (his partner in the revolution from southern mexico - they met in mexico city). Pancho was a bit too... rough... for my likings. plus, i prefer southern mexico. ;)
you, can join me, i would love nothing more than to do so with friends (we can tag team Hobbs) leviathen.... idiot....
*sigh* i loved those philosophy classes in undergrad in mind-body dualism!
honestly, i think it comes down to faith for a bit... that Kierkegaard-ian leap... that such a thing as a soul exists outside the body at all... and further, that souls are specific and individual.
as someone raised Roman Catholic, i believe along with the Church, that souls do not pre-exist the body... although Plato's theory and the gnostic idea of pre-existence is interesting - i just dont buy it.
i do hope heaven and souls exist - and that if they do... i still can "think", analyze, etc - even without my physical brain. so... if so, i'll meet u in heaven, razi, (inshaAllah) and we can discuss the answers to all of this. lol. until then, .... i guess we keep pondering?!
anon - get in here and discuss. ;-)
there is no question that had i been raised differently i would be a different person, but that doesn't nullify my existance, only changes the experiences, and my perspectives on them.
Assuming a soul exists outside the corporeal vessel (which i do) my question is, does it exist prior to the vessel, or is it developed out of some higher consiousness actions. is it created along with the spefic DNA plan? assigned, tagged and bagged to my body, or could i have just as easily been traveling through the world as your brother (genetic Actual, not islamic) or a new guinean highlander?
basically, if this body wasn't created, would the essense of me, exist anyway, free floating, or in another body.
would i be me, with a different mom and dad?
or would i just not have come into being?
nature vs nurture is one caboose further up on this train of thought .
Would i exist in a similar (but not exact) fashion if i had been raised in a different time and place?
i wonder....