i cant imagine love not existing as love is what makes the world go round
2007-09-17 00:26:11 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i cant imagine life without love.... love is totally the stuff which makes the world go round... by the way, excellent question!! i haven't seen such a beautiful question in a long time!
2007-09-17 00:48:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anahita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~~~ No Santa Claus? Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.~~~
2007-09-17 05:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by donelle g. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I Have trouble imagineing that none of it really exists.
This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.
This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.
At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.
We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.
These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.
From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.
I hope that helps to answered your question.
Love and blessings Don
2007-09-17 01:54:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I can not imagine life without electricity, no electronics (computers, radio, TV, gadgets), no washing machines, no electrical appliances (toaters, showers). Life will go back to 18th Century!
2007-09-17 00:48:16 · answer #4 · answered by Zee99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagination. every time i try to imagine not having an imagination i start imagining. i actually can't imagine not having an imagination!
2007-09-17 00:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine a world without sadness...
2007-09-17 00:43:36 · answer #6 · answered by Cosmin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't image not having imagination. This place would be boring without it.
2007-09-17 00:37:50 · answer #7 · answered by St.Anger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine chocolate not existing..
2007-09-17 00:32:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think life, because if we don't have life how could we live in this world... and everything is an extension of what we have now in life...Really!
2007-09-17 01:04:32 · answer #9 · answered by Dawnz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It exists forever, just relax and love
2007-09-17 01:40:25 · answer #10 · answered by bunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋