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we gotta understand that life and death are two aspects of only one real thing. it is only our language which separates them into seemingly contrasting opposit
by naringas 6y ago
we gotta understand that life and death are two aspects of only one real thing.
it is only our language which separates them into seemingly contrasting opposites. language is not reality, it merely has the ability to mirror reality.
- xdavidliu 6y agothe difference between "life" and "death" is greater (many would even argue significantly greater) than the difference between "different" and "two aspects of".
- naringas 6y agoI insist, both life and death refer to the same real underlying phenomenon of existence along time. the words are not the meaning. but I suppose I have also wound up believing that "everything" and "nothing" are more similar than one would initially guess. though not as similar as life and death.
- s3krit 6y agoLove DMT, me
- naringas 6y agohallucinogens in general indeed forcefully show one things like this. but it's really about realizing and acknowledging a separation between what we are, our language, and the way in which the elements of language (symbols-vocabulary) are representations distinct from what they represent, with this, one can realize that life and death, while distinct concepts within language, are in fact aspects of a whole which cannot be logically fitted into languages such as ours.
- xdavidliu 6y agowhat about "different" and "two aspects of"? Are those two phrases also two aspects of the same thing, or are they distinguishable in some way?