The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés life paradox food death kill sustenance food-chain organism
This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highest achievement of his soul. No, it says, life is not evil!
This kindness is both senseless and wordless. It is instinctive, blind. When Christianity clothed it in the teachings of the Church Fathers, it began to fade; its kernel became a husk. It remains potent only while it is dumb and senseless, hidden in the living darkness of the human heart – before it becomes a tool or commodity in the hands of preachers, before its crude ore is forged into the gilt coins of holiness. It is as simple as life itself. Even the teachings of Jesus deprived it of its strength.
But, as I lost faith in good, I began to lose faith even in kindness. It seemed as beautiful and powerless as dew. What use was it if it was not contagious?
How can one make a power of it without losing it, without turning it into a husk as the Church did? Kindness is powerful only while it is powerless. If Man tries to give it power, it dims, fades away, loses itself, vanishes.
Mots clés paradox kindness metaphor powerlessness dew
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.
Ernest BeckerMots clés truth paradox nature death irony majesty
The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both are non-existent compared to the infinite that’s ahead. Furthermore, we cannot change the past, and have no guarantees for the future. We are only in charge of the present. The present is nothing—and it is everything.
John K. BrownMots clés life paradox afterlife cosmology metaphysics spirtuality
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo PhilipsMots clés humor paradox imaginary-friend
A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.
Shannon L. AlderMots clés humor paradox self-discovery drama self-realization rawness openess hypocrisy-in-everyone conudrum dark-angels hyprocritical ratting-yourself-out
We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?
Mark X.Mots clés life paradox non-violence death living killing nonviolence nonviolence-jainism muder ahisma
Ir grūti kādu visu mūžu ienīst, un tad piepeši... nekā, vairs pilnīgi nekā.
Silvana De MariIn order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' — and this is beyond Y.
It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.
A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this — that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge?
Mots clés paradox certainty knowledge facts contradiction omniscience impossibility all-knowing atheist-argument atheist-arguments incompatible-attributes
Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?
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