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From: am88@unix.brighton.ac.uk ( AABS )
Subject: Re: life
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:05:32 GMT
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Voland (voland@clark.net) wrote:
: Life is nothing. Just nothing. It does not worth anything. I, and you, 
: people who read this article must understand that we are the smallest 
: particles in our universe, and the deffinition of existance does not 
: follow Decardus(cogito, ergo sum.I'm thinking therefore I am.).
: The way the life exist is not the way it supposed to exist, nor the way 
: it might have existed. Human nature definds theirselfs in the life as 
: suprime..
: That's might be just one reallyty to imperialistic nature of human. 
: However, there are millions of different reallities.
: Life is nothing. Just nothing.
: I want to ask a question to everyone who reads this article. HOw do you 
: defind existance? What IS a life? How suprime ARE WE? What do you thing 
: about other realities? 


I think that before I could answer questions like that I would have to decipher
what on earth you were going on about old chum.

If you meant that life is nothing just nothing because you feel that it
is really a rather unpleasant thing on the whole then I might be inclined to agree but that is not a very philosophical point is it?

if on the other hand you felt that life is nothing just nothing because it did
not rate very highly in the universe. then I might be inclined to disagree!
life may seem insignificant on a cosmic scale because it does not occur in
association with titanic force, gigantic distances or huge timescales
but on the other hand a human being (or even a seaslug) is astronomic in
it complexity. That is to say that the number of arrangments of atoms in a star
are huge but that does not mean that the star is complex , far from it, the staris very simple in comparison to a human being.

therefore it might be more worthwhile to say that life is everything just everything!

I'm not sure what suprime means but I guess it mean supreme in which case
I'd say that mankind IS SUPRIME because of the uniqueness of that class of structures which it is the formost representative (LIFE)

aabs

