I get to three lines, then fell asleep.Ferdi wrote:Spitting the dummy shows anger; is your free will. History is rife with wars caused by failures of humans to discuss, listen, negotiate, live and let live, and by fanatic interpretations of religious beliefs.Hobbes' Choice wrote: You are becoming a waste of time.
I’ll state again my answers to what the difference is between having LIFE and being ALIVE.
Life is what drives the body and mind of an individual. One can sense when the individual is still present in a dying person, and gone a moment later when the body without its LIFE still looks like the individual but in fact has become a useless corpse. The corpse consists of ALIVE cells that have lost their coordinating driving force and are left to follow their chemical decomposition phase, falling apart into the earthly elements from which they were built. While fresh the corpse can provide spare parts for organ transplanting. The organ’s cells can be made to re-function again by re-connection to the driving force of LIFE in a foreign body.
The corpse, without its individual, is usually subjected to funeral ceremonies, speeches to the coffin and burial rituals. Grave stones, statues, mausoleums, pyramids and their contents are also solid evidence of humans respecting the INDIVIDUAL. This is evidence of a natural sensing that there is more to LIFE than meets the eye. Man has found, and science has increasingly confirmed, that everything in the universe appears to have a purpose. It is logical that an individual’s earthly sojourn, although astronomically of insignificant duration, will also serve a purpose. We can only guess what that purpose is. Life is not of our dimensions, we cannot analyse it, but we can definitely sense its absence on death and its presence after birth.
Unlike the point of death, pinpointing the start of one’s life, the start of a new individual is not readily sensed. This has led to the abortion controversies with drastic actions when some fanatic minds are driven by religious and/or popular beliefs .It is the subject of a separate thread.
Re your reply to “nodak”, do you honestly believe that a living virus has LIFE, is an individual like an intelligent human? You still can’t see that there is a vital difference between ‘being alive’ and ‘having life’. Life IS ! Indeed as nodak suggested I consider life to be part of the universe; it exists like gravity and infinity.
You move from a confusion to an incoherence and back through incomprehensibility to more self deception