We may chase our shadow and never catch it. Even more futile would be trying to lose it.
All words are approximations, and all objects are events.
This is delicious, Faust. Slippery but it feels right. Something about putting objects and events together through aprroximate words. Like a failsafe for Wittgenstein’s ladder and a safe spot for linguists who hit themselves with the most basic of logical impossibilites; that if all words are just approximations, it is possible that what you stated isn’t entirely true, and therefore is either incomplete or nonsensical.
But that’s the “kicking down” of the ladder. How does it go?
“Whereof one cannot speak, …”
Have you ever seen a satire on TV or in a play when one character is attempting to speak and the other is constantly and abruptly interrupting him with quick, short little bursts that I could only demonstrate in person. That’s the extent of philosophy. Monty python has probably done it somewhere before, I’m sure.
For all the ways to “say the most in the least,” that’s a damn good one right there. Well put.
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I have a very simple answer to this very interesting question. This statement…You are not the same self as the moment ago…is a true statement. The next one…does that mean you should not be punish if you broken a law, because you were not your self, is both true and false. let me explain. The verb “punish” involves more than one person. If you’re the only person rationalizing, no need to be punished, so all your statements are true. You failed to mention if there were other selves involved so while your self changed, others also changed proportionately so you cannot tell the judge, “I didn’t kill him because I was not myself”.
perfect justly.
Now say that to those who are dualist are cartians.
Now say that to those who are dualist are cartians.
I apologize.
MAN is a unity of:
- body…which is made of matter… that changes constantly…that experiences joy and happiness one moment, sadness next moment; ills and pains, then relief of pain, etc…but we also have…
- the thinking part of man…we call mind…not seen…but commands man as he chooses, and the body acted and this reaction caused man to experience fear, pain, etc. Some say this is the real part of man, the self, enclosed in a body…this thinking part of man exists only in the living body and exits at death… so then mind is an attribute of life…then
- with the breath, life was observed to enter and depart the body…Genesis 2:7, And the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. This soul must have a superior intelligence and with man’s awareness of self, he begins to experience strong emotional reaction to his behaviors, which cause him to experience pleasure that provides his soul’s satisfaction…and he calls them good…or, their opposite, the ones that do not give his soul satisfaction, evil.
Man cannot glorify one than the others. They are a unit. Man is aunit. The body came from the same source as the mind and soul.
You will always be you. You don’t change so drastically that you become an entirely different person. Like, for example, we do have natural qualities that make us unique such as our finger prints and retina scans. Unless you were to lose your digits and eyes…I’d feel bad for you. O.o Then again…you have so many countless qualities that make you you it’s not even worth mentioning. Basically, change is not creation as it were. Everything has something in common with everything and connects everything together but it doesn’t change its differences.
I apologize for this ------>
to ask this is like to ask is there a soul isn’t it. it seems to me that your question sems voided by the uncertin.
each person seems to posess a presonality even at birth, wether or not it comes from genetics I am not certin, but throught your life this presonality remains to some extent at least. you may change certin aspects of yourself but your basic nature remains the same throughout.
what this intails I am not certin but it seems to remain consistant. for me this dominant trait was my curriosity. because regardless of what I was told. I still want to understand something for myself, and regardless of how much I was told not to ask questions I still did.
I hope this helps to some extent.
the only think it help is to ask further questions.
