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Originally Posted by Waarnemer
the intangible, the nothing and the vague that is
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Of course you are entitled to believe that your very existance is nothing and that there is nothing to search beyond your physical being.
I imagine that you will be able to explain emotions as a combined reaction of the nervous system, muscles and the brain. However, you can't explain why seeing a child crying provokes one reaction in you while it doesn't provoke the same reaction in others. Life is not an egalitarian universe.
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and what is the answer you think to those questions?
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I can't search for answers to
your inner questions. It is you who should search for the answers, assuming that you have a soul that enables you to pose the questions and search for the answers.
The question if certain individuals had a soul or not was already formulated a few hundred years ago, and I'm not sure that it was correctly answered.
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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