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What Determines “Life”?
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What Determines “Life”? |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
An abandoned plastic bag dances ‘round and ‘round in the Autumn breeze: Is there life in this dance? No, some would assert – life begins at the biological level or they’ll say it begins in the realm of self-motivation. This begs the question: what is “self-motivation”? Is the wind not self-motivated? Movement and air – movement with air – and air gives life: can something “dead” instill life? It’s easy to buy into facile explanations: easy to think of “life” as not being part of what is consumed; what we ingest, step on, build with: If we do not know life at its basic source we don’t have to feel responsible for destroying a “lifeless” world, do we? If we knew “all of it” as life, we could interact with it all as if it was all a part of ourselves we could be empathic; but wouldn’t that destroy the basic assumptions required to live the life we currently enjoy? Wouldn’t that tend to spoil the fun and the games? Yet, is it not true that our fun and games are destroying this world? When it’s dead and gone, where will we be? Miraculously moved into another game? Or simply very dead and very gone? |
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Seoulair Senior Member
since 2008-03-27
Posts 807Seoul S.Korea |
"An abandoned plastic bag" What a beginning verse. My first reaction is oh, we ugly human!!! Wonderful poem. love the read. sigh, sigh, sigh. |
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gilead Senior Member
since 2008-03-10
Posts 1067nevada, USA |
There is a strictly empirical and scientific concept of life, and there is a metaphysical view. I try to remain open minded and see life on both a physical and spiritual level. I really like the way your wonderful poem sets forth the question. Art |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Well, if this poem doesn't start one thinking I don't know what will. I greatly enjoyed this thought provoking write and found much in it that agrees with my own thinking. Ida |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Wonderfully ponderful LIFE write, WW. Indeed, we cherish it, use/abuse it, discard it even as we cling to it in our final moments, begging it not to depart. And even in the end, we tend to believe we OWN it. |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
That is a perceptive comment, Midnitesun, and yes, this is a write to turn around in one's mind like a prism. |
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Larrysmom Senior Member
since 2008-04-03
Posts 533Florida, USA |
Windwalker, Your poem made me want to hug the Earth… Tammy<333 |
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