I am a simple person, I cannot tell...
A few interesting stories I hope to share...
.Story 1.
Can you believe both Pythagora and Plato's theory are thought to be influenced by Orphism - a set of religious beliefs and practices in the ancient Greek and Thracian world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into Hades and returned. According to Orpheus, the 'staffs' work in the Hades are animal-headed with human body....
Pythagora and Plato were influenced by this religion...
.Story 2.
Our great Philosopher - Nietzsche used to research into Greek Mythology. He loves Greek passion to create these mythical feathers! He used a rise a question that there was a period of time, Greek God and Goddest were featuring 'horse head'... He wonder what influence them to have such imagination, and posed a question that if at that time people were ALL infected by some sort of disease to either look like a horse or some sort of psychological problem to imagine others look like horse all together...
I love these 2 stories. Hope you find them interesting as well...
2007-12-31 18:51:47
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answer #3
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answered by CHIASIDA 2
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If you have the patience to read this- it's a few minutes long- it will tell you.
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Existence
by Melissa Horton
June 25, 2004
"Where is this God, your Creator?" he said.
And the conversation continued many hours.
"Where is your God or is he only in your head?"
"Oh, I don't want to talk so seriously anymore," I replied.
"Seriously, I think simplicity is where it's at."
"Or is it the other way around? Did you create him---
To soothe your fears, give death meaning and bring to your life a larger scope?"
"Oh, such weariness," I sighed.
"To prove the existence of God? No one has done that---
no one who has ever tried. "
"Then who do you cling to him so?
The mere concept of an invisible Creator is absurd," he brandished.
"Concept?
Who wants to talk concepts ---
that's far too abstract for me."
"Well, it's your concept.
It's your responsibility to back it up
since you brought it into being.
Back it up or shut it up."
"You sneezed and I said 'God bless you' and now we have dwindled down to this? I thought we were supposed to be having fun?"
"Fun? I am having fun," he exclaimed.
"It's fun for me to try to expand your narrow mind."
"Fun? This is not fun."
"I know, let's play a game!"
"A game?" he queried. "A game?"
"Why do you always try to side step the lack of proof?"
"This is much too tedious for me.
Only God himself can answer such questions."
"Well, maybe you can ask him for me ---
I don't seem to be able to find him to ask," he snickered.
"Okay," I said.
"If you'll lighten up and be fun,
maybe I'll see about asking for you."
"Okay," he agreed.
"Lightning up."
"Let's play a game --- a game of imagination," I said.
"I far prefer creative conversations to scientific ones."
"Yes, I can see that," he said.
"What's your game?"
"Let's imagine we're unknown artists and we're going to paint with colours never seen before by human eyes and become famous for our original artwork."
"Sure," he chuckled.
"Where are we going to get this special paint?"
"Our imaginations! We'll make it up! Let's see --- a new colour that no human eye has ever seen? Hmm --- well, we could have silver, bright silver, that shimmers and when it shimmers it ... gives off ... a pink hue!"
"Wait," he interrupted.
"Both silver and pink already exist--- human eyes have seen them--- try again."
"Well, it would have been cool... Okay. Maybe... blue-green, that keeps increasing or decreasing in hue, more blue then more green, so that you can never be sure if it's blue-green or green-blue."
"That still isn't a new colour," he said pointedly.
"You're still relying on colour concepts that already exist."
"Well, help me, then," I said.
"If you're so smart."
"I don't think you can come up with a new colour that no human eye has seen. I think the whole colour spectrum has pretty much been explored," he explained.
"Well, " I pursued,
"I guess we could use the usual colours but create new shapes to draw with."
"Such as?" he probed.
"Hmm... squares that turn into triangles on the end. Hmm... circles that have long straight lines shooting through them and so create little compartments within..."
"Nope... go on," he said.
"Uhm ... thinking ... thinking," I said.
"I'm stuck."
"This is so not fun," he lodged.
"Can we play another game?"
"Wait, I know!" I exclaimed.
"We won't come up with new colours or new shapes ... we'll come up with a new emotion that the painting will evoke. A whole new emotion that no human has ever experienced before!"
"How are we going to create a new emotion?" he sighed.
"With our minds," I expounded.
"We'll paint with the new emotion as our inspiration --- and won't people be amazed when they look at our painting and experience a whole new feeling!"
"So, what kind of new emotion are you wanting to evoke?" he questioned.
"What will it feel like?"
"I guess we could mix up glee with guilt," I laughed.
"It would be a kind of wild fizzy feeling," I ventured.
"Or maybe we could mix happiness and hysteria.
Wouldn't that be something? We could call it 'hapsteria'."
Interrupting, he said, " Yes, but those are emotions that already exist. You merely intermingled them. You created hybrids --- not a whole new emotion."
He sounded annoyed as I stopped to consider his words.
"I have another idea," I declared quickly, fearing that with the death of my game, the conversation would turn back to a religious showdown.
"We could paint with the usual colours and shapes and evoke a familiar emotion but the painting itself would represent some new idea."
"I'm not sure I'm following you," he moaned. "I'm not sure I want to."
"Well, the painting could portray some abstract thought, a new thought, that we will have created. You're intrigued by abstract ideas --- this one should appeal to you," I pleaded.
"What would you want the painting to portray?" he ceded.
"Well, something grand, like Justice, or Beauty. Gratitude. I don't know. Maybe something poetic like Jealousy. Only, a new idea that is all ours that we come up with. We might have to explain it a few times to our patrons --- but it would eventually catch on."
"I understand," he replied, " what you are saying, but I don't think it can be done."
"Oh come on, this is fun, this is imaginative --- this game is mind expanding. Free your mind!" I quipped.
"I've been sitting here thinking about the colours and shapes. I mean, do you think you could have come up with the idea of a sunset, all the colours smearing and bleeding together, if it hadn't already been? And even the concept of human emotions... I think the range of human emotion is what it is. Actually, I can't come up with a new concept that isn't built off an existing concept. In all truth, I don't think it's a matter of human imagination. I think it's a matter of human limitations.
I find that our minds don't have the capabilities of creating new concepts --- only exploring and rearranging what already exists. "
Puzzled, I asked,
"How is it then that you believe I have created God in my head?"
2007-12-31 16:26:24
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answer #8
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answered by Devoted 3
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Hold on, let me check --
Nope, sorry, no gods. There's a Bible but that's mostly rubbish, and that whole scenario was cooked up by the great pervert Moses and his syphilitic half-brother Aaron, two of the most bloodthirsty creeps in history.
Sorry to have to tell you this.
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2007-12-31 16:25:33
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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