Posted by alexandra_k on May 30, 2005, at 22:18:57 [reposted on June 2, 2005, at 5:50:41 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Just a thought and a change of subject too, posted by Susan47 on May 30, 2005, at 20:30:08
Man is condemned to be free...
Don't know who said that. One of the existentialists. Sartre, or Camus maybe...
IMO there isn't anything that it is like to be dead. IMO consciousness ceases with the cessation of certain kinds of brain activity.
Stone walls do not a prison make
Not iron bars a cage
I don't know who said that.
If a certain kind of deer normally does not range more than 2km from its birthplace and it is born in the middle of an enclosure 10km wide - then is it free????
Am I not free because I am not free to flap my arms and fly like a bird???
Am I not free because I cannot walk to the moon???
What is freedom anyway???>Because if you would choose, wouldn't you choose to be conscious,
No Susan.
I wouldn't.
I would prefer to have this body doing whatever it is supposed to be doing, say whatever it is supposed to be saying, etc etc
But at the same time
I wish there wasn't anything it was like to be me.
I wish it was all dark inside.
From the outside nobody would notice a difference.
But it would mean the world to me.
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