Cosmic sympathy, One.

[skakos]

Everything affects everything.
Everyone affects everyone.
How can we NOT be One?

Could it be that our mania to overanalyze everything has deprived us from the simplest and most essential truth in the history of philosophy?
Could Parmenides be right and modern CERN-lovers wrong? When will we stop searching for particles making up other particles making up other particles...?

[WanderingLands]

Everything affects everything.
Everyone affects everyone.
How can we NOT be One?

Could it be that our mania to overanalyze everything has deprived us from the simplest and most essential truth in the history of philosophy?
Could Parmenides be right and modern CERN-lovers wrong? When will we stop searching for particles making up other particles making up other particles...?

I most certainly agree with what you said, and it is unfortunate that many do not take the time to try and connect and deduce things to come to a simple truth, that the All is One. As unfortunate as it is, it is on the other hand what makes reality continue on, as we are always in the cycle of "up" and "down", and so it does not mean that we should fret and be miserable, as we can cultivate between within ourselves and cultivate peace and a communal relationship with the people around us.

Anyways, I like your information!

[hammock]

How can we NOT be One? Could Parmenides be right and modern CERN-lovers wrong? When will we stop searching for particles making up other particles making up other particles...

What difference does it really make? We live in a world of "the changing many" that consciousness outputs, interprets, or presents such as. To become or return to "the one" you've basically got to be dead or non-conscious. Which then isn't even the uniformity or homogeneity of an empty blankness being exhibited.

[Skip]

Everything affects everything.

Maybe.... even probably. But not equally, uniformly, continuously or concurrently.

Everyone affects everyone.

Unproven statement in an unspecified time-frame of an undefined class of beings. Does every "one" mean all living things in the universe, all self-aware creatures, just the sentient "ones" on Earth, just H. sapiens - or whom? Arguably, people living at the same time affect one another to some degree - however slight or casual. Arguably, every person who ever lived on Earth affected - if not the people living now, at least the circumstances of the present in which we live. But if anyone not yet living affects those who are now alive or have lived in the past, or if any eight-headed aquatic being on Ursa Prime affects Plato, show how.

How can we NOT be One?

Most obviously, by experiencing life as multiple, separate entities. Less obviously, by being diverse. Most significantly, by disagreeing on a vast and diverse selection of topics. Most convincingly, by killing one another.

Could it be that our mania to overanalyze everything

Your manias are unlikely to be my manias. I doubt we have a single one in common to call our mania.

has deprived us from the simplest and most essential truth in the history of philosophy?

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."?

Could Parmenides be right and modern CERN-lovers wrong?

CERN-lovers? There's - what? a fan-club?
But what if they're both wrong? Or wrong about some things and right about some things?

When will we stop searching for particles making up other particles making up other particles...?

When we've found and made all the particles we can. It's not about the particles - it's about discovering how much we can know and do.