2006-12-24 10:58:09 · 13 answers · asked by oksana_rossi 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
We are all connected. Both Eastern mystical traditions and aspects of modern science and philosophy support this perspective. Thus, you never act in isolation, but each of your actions ripples through the universe, however subtly. In turn, the actions of your fellow beings and even supposedly "random events" in the physical universe profoundly affect who and what you are.
2006-12-24 12:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by Tyro 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to agree - an island can survive alone for a long time, yet no man can do the same; also, as said in a song by Simon and Garfunkel, "an island never cries" - humans DO cry.
2006-12-24 21:00:28 · answer #2 · answered by MC Wild Joker 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i definately feel like an island. partly lonely but also if you accept the idea that you cannot really be sure of the existence of anything except your own mind, not even your own body. therefore even if that is not true, it still makes me feel seperate to everyone because i am all i can truely know. any less philosophically, even if you have a reall connection with someone, they can't ever wholly understand you unless soulmates exist. but by soulmates i mean an actual feeling of being completed, meeting a part of your mind and vice-versa. which in my old age (of 21!) i am becoming sadly cynical of.
and len - pretty sexist don't you think? you're joke applies to men too
2006-12-24 19:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by PookyBoo 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think I'll fix me a Rum & Coke® - Just one OK?~ I'll be better to answer your question- once I get that "Island Feeling" going!
2006-12-24 19:21:41 · answer #4 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Entire of itself, each is a part of the continent, part of the main.
No matter how badly we sometimes wish to be an island reality requires us to realize that we are part of a greater society. It is our responsibility to that society to contribute to the good of all not secluding ourselves from those responsibilities.
2006-12-24 19:02:19 · answer #5 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If science has taught us anything it is that all life on earth is interdependent, a fact known through and through by the great religions since time immemorial. In the Christian religion it is shown in respendent glory as the Body of Christ, Who, being God through Whom all was made, took upon Himself our very nature, so that He might in Himself restore all things to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. In Christ we are one.
2006-12-24 21:08:50 · answer #6 · answered by Xpi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think no man is an island but a woman can be if she doesn't watch her diet.
2006-12-24 19:02:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
we are all islands in the sense that nobody else can be us, but even islands touch the water...
2006-12-24 21:24:59 · answer #8 · answered by elchavoguapo 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one is an island , for we all have freedom.
we are in controll of no one unless we let them.
2006-12-24 21:01:22 · answer #9 · answered by stuart_slider 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course not. I think it is a common place, a truism, a banality.
2006-12-24 19:07:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋