Are we seperate from everything or one with all?

Question

I know what I consider to be true on this subject. I am simply interrested in what others think. I won't say what I think till the end because I don't want to influence the answers.

I like Auntiegrabs best before bed...Wow, so many answers so quickly...thanks. I will now say that we are all part of one thing (even physically because our skin is hardly a boundary). I like the answer which incorperated the idea that all life fights chaos in order to survive. A great amount of chaos is created when we distinguish the observer to be seperate from the observed. It is also close to Krishnamurti whom I think was the greatest thinker of modern times. In order to be seperate we must create illusionary boundaries that hardly work because they are imagined. I do see how easy it is to think we are seperate from others, especially in times of so much conflict. Thanks all for so many responses. Goodnight.

Answer 1

Net Creativity.
Life all has one purpose: Anti-entropy. We can choose to be useful to the future or we can simply consume ourselves into oblivion. Separating ourselves in any way from the nature which is around us is simply a gimmick to convince people that it is o.k. to exploit our environment or people who are different than us without worrying about the consequences of losing diversity in all Life.
We can never be separate from the life in the soil which provides real food. We need to remember this. Our DNA is connected to the fungi and bacteria. Whether we use it as proof of evolution or not, the dependencies are still there. Whenever we try to separate ourselves from this connection, we start to have major problems. The most common one is disease, but another loss we have suffered recently is the loss of Localism and loss of respect for the Individual as the supporting structure to all species.

Answer 2

I think we were one with all before we are born and will return to the all when we die. While we live this life we are physically separate part of the whole but able to connect to the all. I don't think we can be fully separate from everything because we depend so much on others in ways we don't even think of.

"No man is an island"

Answer 3

We are both without a doubt. Like yin and yang, hot and cold, hard and soft, We cannot not exist without the other. Thus the small cannot exist without the large and, the large cannot exist without the small. Individuals cannot exist an their own without internal duallity.Neither can mass. We are all part of something and that something is also part of us. The duallity of man or within man shall never cease to exist. Questions will always be asked.

Answer 4

Both. We are interconnected with everything else in the universe, but in general, not in a noticable way. From the level of precision we notice things, we are approximately seperate.

Answer 5

I am not a Pantheist.

There are degrees of unity and difference between us and the rest of creation; so in a sense, we are separate from everything; and in another sense, we are one with all.

As mentioned above, I am however not a Pantheist.

Cordially,
John

Answer 6

In a spiritual sense, No.

In a scientific sense, yes. We are all made up of little strings. See: String Theory.

Answer 7

I think that we are connected to everything and I think that everything is God, our spirit unites us to him and because of that we are united to the rest of the Universe.

Answer 8

God is a part of everything, and God is One. (This is why the only place to find Truth is within.)

Answer 9

We're all carbon-based idiots.

Answer 10

we are separate in views, opinions, faith, races.... but we are one in all in pursuing the best in life.