2007-06-16 14:26:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
They are. They are always "ticked-off" all the time.
2007-06-16 14:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you serious? Clocks aren't alive because they are mechanical devices made by man to measure time. Even the way in and degree to which they measure time is man-made. It's like asking why your refrigerator isn't alive. It's an appliance. It's mechanical. They all run off energy completely different from the energy living beings use. They aren't self-sustaining, can't reproduce, don't breathe, don't respirate, don't excrete--you see?
2007-06-16 21:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Purification is what is sometimes called salvation, meaning the spirit is freed from the imprisonment of material corporeality in which it is subject to pain. This does not mean the spirit is out of body, but rather, the spirit is made pure by the removal of external forces that made it forget its true nature. Purity is an idea, one very easy to imagine simply by examining the opposite of impurity. If impurity is imperfect, than purity is perfect. Purity is attained by relieving the soul of its mortal nature. If the soul is initially pure, then it can only become impure through contact with other impure things, for example, a person claiming that his body is who he is, rather than claiming that his true nature is an immaterial essence. And so purification depends on how we define ourselves, either as body and soul, body, or simply soul.
2007-06-16 23:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have a real definition of life. As far as ours goes right now, clocks are alive. They metabolise.
2007-06-16 22:41:14 · answer #4 · answered by shmux 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are man made objects. They have no mind of their own, they only move around a sheet which has the number 1 to 12 on it for our benefit.
2007-06-16 21:29:58 · answer #5 · answered by me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time only exists on the physical plane. Alive is spiritual, physical, mental.
2007-06-16 23:05:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because time is a human invention and we can't create life, at least for the moment.
2007-06-16 22:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. they don't eat or consume any matter
2. they don't produce waste
3. they don't procreate
4. they don't respirate
5. they do not have any dna
6. they do not grow
7. they do not die
2007-06-16 21:59:48 · answer #8 · answered by enigmaticarrogantass 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know! With all the TIME they have on their HANDS, you'd think they would find TIME to live!
2007-06-16 21:30:58 · answer #9 · answered by bailingwirewillfixit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They r just mechanical...no thinking
2007-06-16 21:33:42 · answer #10 · answered by Steelhead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋