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What would be some "stand alone" qualities? (read on)?
Not much luck in the philosophy section...This may confuse many but letmme try.....
Imagining someone was all alone on a distant planet......

love----not a "stand alone" quality because "what would I love if there is nothing to love?

thought-- not stand alone because what would i think about if there is nothing to think about?

humanity-- A Stand alone quality---because i am still human wheater or not you exist

God-- a "stand alone" quality because by defintion, god is god weather or not we exist.

What chacteristics in and of themselves are able to exist apart from humans? Which one of them cant? These are examples can you come up with more?

2007-02-18 18:55:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

7 answers

Truth exists with or without our knowledge.

Love is a stand alone quality, because God exists, and God is the quality of Love. The quality of Love cannot be separated from God, and so it exists with or without our knowledge.

Light, heat, space, darkness, and sound all exist with or without our knowledge. Thought also exists with or without our knowledge. Thought was existing before you, and exists after you.

There is nothing that exists that depends upon humanity, except for the propogation of more humans. Everything that is existing now was existing before the appearance of humans, including thought, love, and God.

2007-02-18 19:08:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hrmm... you really ought to read some Descartes as you have made quite a few assumptions.
Allow me...
love----A stand alone quality because I love myself, often. But is it a real quality at all to begin with?

thought-- A stand alone quality because I think therefore I am. Alone on a planet or not would not quash the human curiosity.

humanity-- A Stand alone quality---because i am still human wheater or not you exist

God-- not a stand alone quality because god is a creation of man. But then since thought is a stand alone quality perhaps one would simply reinvent god elsewhere. *shudders*

2007-02-19 03:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

i think the existence of mortality has a sufficient Example of what God wants us to be. TO stand alone.
We are born, and as babes, we have to be cared for and nourished. as a small child we learn to walk and become able to stand alone, as we grow older we learn to run and our choices show us how good and evil work consequences. in the scheme of Eternal matters we are called to overcome all things so that we can STAND ALONE as a Son of God. The sons of God become saviours and creators, and then are welcomed to be part of the godhead. Athough in the godhead we truly dont stand alone, WE have OUR saviour ALL the time, but by the time we overcome all things, we are able to stand and have our OWN throne to Rule and Reign over the sons of men. Even unto whom God will give us.
i truly dont see a world where we stand alone and SEE NOTHING like the movie "the little princess". Although that movie had a large influence on my boyhood years.
The garden of eden had depth, width, and many trees and shrubs of flowers and lots of animal life form. And clearly it was accessible to Satan who influence both the serpent and the snake and beguiled Eve.
God himself said it was not Good for man to be alone. This is prequisite for God ordaining Marriage, that when God gave Adam His Wife eve, and said be fruitful and multiply.

2007-02-19 03:06:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think "thought" might be eligible, because a being could always think about thinking. While it would be a boring existence, they could think about, say, the planet they're on, or how they feel physically.

2007-02-19 03:00:17 · answer #4 · answered by drink_more_powerade 4 · 0 0

By you example of "quality", I have to list all of the senses:
sight
smell
taste
feel/touch
hear
and speech

2007-02-19 03:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 0 0

Well any individual or thing could stand alone, but to do something it could not stand alone.

2007-02-19 03:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by rezany 5 · 0 0

soul, soul exists whether you believe it or not

2007-02-19 02:59:45 · answer #7 · answered by David H 3 · 1 1

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