John Donne. No man is an Island unto himself. Are we all part of the string of life?

Question

77.8 years is nothing in the cosmic world. Can you buy holiness, or is good works the way to gain supreme happiness?

Answer 1

I could swear I've answered a "no man is an island unto himself" question for you before. But then again..... it could have just been a Gilligan's island question instead. *cough*

I see two different points here. Let me attack the island first. No....... I come in peace. No arms.

No man is an island unto himself. As much as we say that we want to remove ourselves from society and become a hermit, it is too late for such a thing. The effects we have had on others through time will contribute to a chain of events that even in our absense we are still a part of.

If you just disappeared from us...... do you honestly think we would accept it and go on? If you pulled away and went off into your world? You'd have at least two school teachers and a condiment coming searching you out. And as we leave our homes and responsibilities to search for our friend....... our kids are affected...... their friends are affected. Our jobs are affected....... our homes are affected. Not to mention that once we find you laying in a fetal position sucking your thumb saying over and over again, "make the president with the big ears go away!" you TOO will be affected.

So that leads me to "awareness." Once we figure out that our actions determine the actions of others..... it truly makes us stop and think before we do. The problem is..... that so few people can see "beyond." They live for the moment and see how it will affect them. I love for tomorrow. You have to see that what you do now....will have effects down the road. That's not buying holiness or happiness...... that's investing. You think of what it takes to create that peace and harmony and you move toward it with awareness that everything you do will have a gradual and eventual effect.

With this sort of thinking..... I suppose I have to agree that all we do is part of a string of life. Just call me domino!

Answer 2

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John Donne. No man is an Island unto himself. Are we all part of the string of life?
77.8 years is nothing in the cosmic world. Can you buy holiness, or is good works the way to gain supreme happiness?

Answer 3

Ok, english isn't my mother tongue but I thought I could understand all the questions clearly. There is always a first time :-). I apologize if I am way off in my answer.

Happiness is feeling with changing definitions as life goes and I am not sure of supreme happiness. Good usually works its way by making you think and be confident that you are gaining that supreme happiness, IMO. We are part of the string of life, because we choose to be and we aren't islands of our own, because we choose to live with others.

I don't think I can buy holiness. And 77.8 years in my opinion is a long time for one person, even if it is nothing in the cosmic world. Just like a person i loved a lot meant a lot to me even though she is almost nothing when she was just one of six billion people in this planet.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

no man is an island to himself, is true,, even if you put yourself in a situation where there were no other humans, you would still need the earth to survive,,,,,,,,,
the world is all interconnected,,, earth ,, other animals, humans,,, the sun,,, moon,,,, etc etc

i dont think you can buy holiness,,, you are born with it,, and you can maintian it by good works,,,, you tarnish it by bad actions...... as to happiness,, i think that is a by-product ,,,of us living good lives, striving for spiritual calmness and enlightenment,,,,, learning/growing,,,,, basically it comes from living life ,,, and you can have total (supreme ) happiness in some areas of life, while not being so happy in others,,,,,,,