I think that it is important to have a sense of perspective and understand that life will not last for ever as we are just passing through
That in no way means one should not strive to make the most of ones own life in the meantime while one still has the chance to do so
Then unlike me, perhaps ,You don’t read widely on ILP ,but don’t worry that consists of no more then 2 or 3 forums.
Faust was much more then bartering wisely, betting on being able not to come up with his side odnthe bargain.
He was more , therefore filling his persona with much more, defining a whole historical essence of MAN. That he bet right ,has become a historical venue of epic proportions.
His persona posits hope to all big time gamblers of the spirit, and it defines an age, within which battle lines are drawn on the battle ground between good and evil
How bold those lines are depends on the nature of barter and negotiation. We are the products of those exchanges, and whereby the threat remains undiminished , the results can be viewed as predictably for the better in any case. Just because third world countries have not developed Faustian conscience, does not mean they cannot learn.
Conscience is not.based on superstition, within unlearned people a mystical participation develops out of sheer necessity.
We can not afford to examine a life worth living apart from early social bonding, it is too late in the day for that.
Not in an age where reality and meta reality are being re-integrated
I know You did not bargain for a long narrative, but Faust is a big page turner.
Like 99% of all people will paint an unrealistic picture of themselves, because of low rationality, exactly why no one can do lawsuits without a lawyer education.
What is depressing is that you claim your myths are truths. And relentlessly so, you’ve been claiming the same myth as a solid truth for years now, immune to logic and reason.
That is certainly something to ponder.
If, in my loneliness, there is this other, wouldn’t that be just the same as when I console myself?
What need would I have of someone who is another self but the same self to me?
Could I even wish for something like this? Quite frankly, I don’t know.
But I would suppose that it would be like looking into a mirror or a crystal ball and having something to focus on as I tried to Know Myself.
But it really is an interesting thought to gaze on.
The re-introduction is minus the hindrance of the cloak of modernity’s schoolings, so not so much painful, as swift… the mental progressing swifter than the physical, so not ideal.
Actually Arc, he did prove it to me, but only philosophically because he implied that you needed higher math for it which I couldn’t grasp. I will try to find his proof though.
I have sent this material to afore mentioned mathematician , and awaiting her comments. Will relate, if she takes it upon herself to comment.
My initial response would require a modality to establish a necessary structural link of between the logic of math and logic , to give sense to this type in investigation.
Well, I read what Mithus inserted but it was kind of like all Greek to me, Meno.
If someone could put it into layperson’s terms, though I am not sure if that itself is even possible, I might be able to think about it.
I still find it difficult to believe that this could ever be true in light of the complexity of each human being ~~ our genes, our memories, our life experiences, our personal psychic lives and the ways in which each of us experience and respond to our own environment, so many of those environments being different, etc.
Even identical twins are not completely identical to one another, not even facially completely identical, I do not think. That particular something which could even make identical twins go in two different directions in life. Wouldn’t that alone speak of us as being more like the snowflakes rather than tools off an assembly line?
I would need strong, strong evidence for it. I would need to observe and examine another me for a very long time and even then I would be skeptical. Okay, I am now rambling.