Would you rather be a mindless 1 celled creature, who doesn't feel, think, love or hate, and whose only thought in life is to survive, or a human being, knowing, feeling and understanding both good and bad things?
2007-02-15 03:56:17 · 11 answers · asked by adarsharon 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
guys, you aren't thinking about the bad things in life...
2007-02-18 02:37:11 · update #1
I have been both, and both have their positive aspects. This current style of incarnation is more interesting.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-15 04:55:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Our two minds .... One is an act of the emotional
mind, the other of the rational mind. In a very real
sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that
feels" (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence,
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1996, page 8).
The Upanishads describe about more components of mind:
(1) Ahamkaara (Self-sense): The need that "I have to
survive" originates here. It is common to all living
beings including the one celled.
(2) Chitta (Emotion): Sub-conscious instincts like "I
am hungry", "I am thirsty", and "I have to sleep"
originate here. Sexual instincts for continuation of
the spieces are connected with it.
(3) Manas (Reason): It deals with rational thinking,
knowing, practical possibilities and alternatives.
Conscious thoughts of will power like "I have to do
this", "I do not want to do this", "I can not tolerate
this" originate here.
(4) Buddhi (Intellect): Deliberation of the pros and
cons (or good and bad) using discrimination to
determine on a subject is it's chief characteristic.
It deals with higher knowledge, wisdom and philosophy.
In English, 'flourit' means the age of flowering or
dawning of wisdom; it also means the age of 40. (See a
multi-volume dictionary in a library). Generally,
Buddhi starts funtcioning after the age of 40 years.
You can not blame a teenager or a youth for not
having it.
I have published a paper on this topic:
V.Siva Prasad, Various states of mind - revelation
through Vedic scriptures, Express Star Teller,
August 2006, p 13 - 18.
For more information, my email id is:
profvsprasad@yahoo.co.in
2007-02-18 11:21:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We humans are pretty much just trying to survive too. We just have the intelligence to rationalize how and why we should survive. Having only been a human, I can't really speak for the experience of a unicellular organism, so I'd elect to stay human. Why chance it?
2007-02-15 04:18:58 · answer #3 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is about feeling ...being. How much fun could you have with no brain? You may as well be a rock, right?! Life is hard, life is short, life isn't fair sometimes, but all in all life is really what you make of it. We have to go through the darkness to appreciate the light. Live and love ...that's my take on it all.
2007-02-15 04:05:57 · answer #4 · answered by Just Me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think i will go with the option of human being, maybe now are not the better days but things will change and my good days will come. Being human is the only option where i can understand world better, where my life can have some meaning.
2007-02-15 04:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophical Answer: While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.
2007-02-15 04:13:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like asking if you'd rather be dead or alive. I hope you don't get too many of the former. Count me in for alive.
2007-02-15 04:00:17 · answer #7 · answered by scruffy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a trick question...its all one in the same
2007-02-15 04:08:08 · answer #8 · answered by MillerTyme 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
DUHHH? Are you comparing rotting apples to SMAShed pumpkins again???
2007-02-15 04:00:14 · answer #9 · answered by romaniascott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough one.
Tough day today:(
2007-02-15 04:03:45 · answer #10 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋