skakos wrote: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.
