IMMORTALITY: A DIALOGUE - Arthur Schopenhauer

IMMORTALITY: A DIALOGUE - Arthur Schopenhauer

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[jerryhello100]

I love how he smack talks Hegel. It's like a Tupac, Biggy, or an, East coast, West coast Rap battle.

[wahnano]

Great mind.

[andersoncouncilpf]

This dialogue is much like that of two teenagers talking about concepts they haven't clearly thought about before...

[ssssaintmarcus]

@EinFremderAusElea +1 for Near Death Experiences

[mintoo2cool]

woah! it was like a awaking in my mind ...

[Karosive]

I adore these namez

[sintissimo]

or a leaf

[eeiiiinn]

@alliant Well said! Alan Watts used to say, "If i am my foot, i am the sun."

[alliant]

@eeiiiinn

so to take the second point more carefully, I would maybe say that the body is one source only in a context where we need to view it as such. and the nature of experience is such that this is an apparently necessary phenomenon, the compelling idea that my body ends here, external world begins here. the more you tune out of ideas and into sensation, this seems to be a harder thing to measure.

[alliant]

@eeiiiinn

the body is 'in reality' deriving from the single source as all other things are. the brain seems to measure and devide the number of sources in the world often as a compulsive habit of mind. I think all philosophy is tip-toeing around this idea. the Absolute, One, God, Nature. And I mean to signify these words with no object, but rather a subjective experience of true wholeness and timlessness. the subjective experience derives, somehow, from this source.

[eeiiiinn]

@alliant -- yes and no.. depends what you intend by God. As to "one source" -- how many sources are in your body? Is your body one, or many?

[eeiiiinn]

S. was heavily influenced by Vedanta and Hinduism, which however had only just begun to be brought into Western culture, and often, badly translated