Why? When my spirit is above animal instinct and my body is below animal fitness standard?
Why do I have to live with two defects that draw each other's elements together into an uncontrollable whole?
Being a latter-day human is just...
2007-10-30 09:22:57 · 10 answers · asked by aetheru 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Any religious answers, quotes, or book-throwings shall be castigated on the spot.
I need rational answers.
2007-10-30 09:23:48 · update #1
because U let it live there
Jane
2007-11-07 06:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is because thats the way it is. Your conflict is because you believe your 'animal' to be somehow inferior. The point that you have apparently failed to grasp is that your body, spirit, and mind are parts of a whole that transcends its components. You curse the very animal that got you to this point. You dwell on a spirit that incomplete.
The advantage of the animal is that it enables you to carry out the desires of the spirit, it allows you to explore the depths of the mind.
Get your head out of the clouds and make a moral inventory of your state of being and you will find that this spirit that you are so proud of is slowly dying because you are denying the rest of your existence and not unifying it.
2007-10-30 09:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gee Whizdom™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No scientific evidence for consciousness?
Sorry, but you're wrong Mad Mac.
There is little agreement on how to define consciousness (what is and isn't a part of consciousness), but there is overwhelming OBVIOUS evidence that it is real, and more importantly is a function of biological endowment.
After you google Mad Mac's nonesense, check out some real science and google:
Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Septum, along with Parietal & Temporal Cortex.
2007-10-30 16:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by Feelin Randi? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no rational answer to an irrational query. The answer is simple: It's what we got, kid. Make the most of it. Improve both halves of yourself as much as you can. Maybe you'll come back more evolved next time round, right?
2007-10-30 09:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consciousness is the result of having something to be conscious of. Without the body, your mind would have no input. No input, no consciousness.
2007-10-31 02:27:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just be contented that you came into this world and had the chance to be aware of your surroundings, to enjoy the beauty of nature and to be with your loved ones.
2007-10-30 23:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's the challenge of life, to learn to be whole with animal instinct and spiritual heights...somehow to become ballanced and grounded in the realm of both.
2007-10-30 10:43:12 · answer #7 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is fully covered in the free books on this site:
http://www.ramana-maharshi.info/books.htm
Freedom results when the 'I' is found.
2007-11-05 03:49:45 · answer #8 · answered by A.V.R. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because consciousness itself is not understood. We know only our own awareness and can only suspect there are others with like awareness based on the facts that their bodies are like ours and they interact with us There is no scientific way of proving consciousness exists. There is no reason, that I know of apart from imaginative speculation, to assume a conscious awareness could exist apart from an animal body..
2007-10-30 10:16:09 · answer #9 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Don't despise the knowledge of the body - it has a lot to teach us!
2007-10-30 09:40:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋