Life is transcendental and profound
Posted on: July 30, 2009 - 6:38am
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Life is transcendental and profound
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If you disagree, replace my words with your own.
Both words are rather ambiguous and wooly, please calrify the meaning of the terms you're using.
Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here
- Lawrence Krauss
Would you use those words to describe life? If not, replace them with your own. Simple question.
Life exists.
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The reason I asked for a definition is I wanted to know how you were applying those words to life, without the definition I can't know if I agree or disagree with a proposition.
Without further input, no I wouldn't use those words. Life exists. Life is life. I don't know what else you're looking for.
Transcendental
Profound
Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here
- Lawrence Krauss
Of course I'm being a pedant - I wouldn't agree with any of these definitions - I was just interested to see if you agreed with any of them OM so I could gauge where you're coming from.
Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here
- Lawrence Krauss
Life is what happens while your busey doing other things.
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Life is short.
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Transcendental and profound are both vaguely defined. "Life" is a biological process marked by homeostasis, reproduction, dynamic interaction with the environment, growth, metabolism, and adaptation.
What do you propose that life is transcendent with regard to?
In what context do you propose that life is profound?
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Even the word 'life' in that sentence is ambiguous.
Are you referring to 'life' as
1. the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic;
2. living things and their activity;
or
3. the state of being alive as a human being?
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Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have self-sustaining biological processes ("alive," "living" ), from those which do not[1][2] —either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as "inanimate."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Life is joyous and fun.
At least for me.
Disagree. Life is competitive and playful.
Logically speaking, any sentence starting with "life is" is incorrect. You can only say "my life is ..." or "I believe, live is ... because ...".
So, my life is interesting and natural. Also, I believe, life is powerful and fragile because it is capable of changing the world around us and destroying itself.
OM, are you agree or disagree with me?
Oh, you right-sider.
I thought the "competitive" part was more left-brain. No? Too much special sauce?
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
As for the definitions, I can try some.
Transcendental = we are parts of one greater life.
Profound = the life is behind all seemingly dead things, because life is energy and matter is concentrated energy.
But allow me a question, how do you know that? One doesn't have a nickname of a sacred syllabe just by a coincidence.
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Oh, the twisted irony.
Oddly unprofound. Of course we are.
Strangely, not transcendental. Life isn't just energy.
It's like you were going for a symmetry of confusion.
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Beats me. I'm no cognative psychologist. I was just trying to be mildly amusing.
I do loves me some special sauce, though.
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