I think we are really smart animals. Really, really smart. We respond to pleasure and pain, punishment and reward much like the beasts but on a higher plane of thought(sometimes). We are infinite because we reproduce. We evolve.
dj On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me," > Shakespeare instructs us. But do we? Is there a part of us that is > infinite, or is immortality just a longing? There are at least parts > of our beings that are infinite, according to Shakespeare: "What a > piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in > faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how > like an angel, in apprehension how like a god." > > Our infinite nature is not just fodder for the poets. Einstein came > to the conclusion that "the infinite nature of man includes the > universe." Kierkegaard explained our existence in this way: "Man is a > synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the > eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short a synthesis. A synthesis > is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a > self." > > What do YOU think? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
