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"Dost thou love
life?
Then do not squander
time;
for that's the stuff
life is made of."
-
Benjamin
Franklin
What is life? No one knows.
Life is aware of itself the moment
it becomes life, that much is certain - and yet it
does not know what
it is. Consciousness, as sensitivity to stimuli, is
undoubtedly aroused to some extent at even the lowest, most undeveloped stages
of life's occurrence; it is
impossible to tie the emergence
of consciousness to any particular point
in life's general or
individual
history - to link it, for instance, to the
presence of a nervous
system.
The lowest
animals have no nervous systems, let alone a cerebral cortex, and yet no
one dares deny that they are capable of responding to stimuli. You can
anesthetize life, life itself, not just
the special organs capable of the response that informs
life, not just the nerves. You could temporarily
suspend the responses of every speck of living matter, in both the plant and
animal kingdoms, narcotize eggs and sperm with
chloroform, chloral hydrate, or
morphine.
Consciousness of self is an inherent function of
matter once it is organized as
life, and if that function is enhanced it appears
to turn against the organism that strives to fathom and
explain the very
phenomenon that produced it, a
striving of life to
comprehend
itself, as if nature were rummaging to find
itself in itself.
What is life? No
one knows. No one can pinpoint when
life first emerged from nature. Nothing in the realm of
life is self-actuated, yet life
seemed to have actuated itself. If anything can be
said about life, then, it is this:
life's structure is so highly
developed that nothing like it could
occur in the inanimate world. The distance between an
amoeba - a pseudopod - and a vertebrate is minor, insignificant in comparison
to that between the simplest form of
life and inorganic matter, which does not even deserve to be called
dead - because death is merely the
logical negation of life. Between life and
inanimate nature is a yawning
abyss.
What is life?
Life is warmth, the warmth produced by instability
attempting to preserve form, a fever
of matter that accompanies the ceaseless
dissolution and renewal of protein
molecules, themselves transient in their complex and intricate construction.
Life is the existence of what, in actuality, has no inherent
ability to exist, but only
balances with sweet, painful precariousness
on one point of existence in the midst of
this feverish, interwoven process of decay and repair.
What is
life? Life is not
matter, it is not spirit. Life is
something in between the two, a phenomenon borne by
matter, like the
rainbow above a
waterfall, like a
flame. But although it is not
material, life
is sensual to the point of
lust and revulsion, it is
matter shamelessly sensitive to stimuli
within and
without -
existence in its lewd
form. Life is a secret, sensate stirring in the chaste chill of
space. Life is furtive, lascivious, sordid - nourishment
sucked in and excreted, an exhalation of carbon dioxide and
other foul impurities of a
mysterious origin and
nature. Out of overcompensation for its own
instability, yet governed by its own inherent laws
of formation, a bloated concoction of water,
protein, salt, and fats - what we call flesh - ran riot, unfolded; and took shape,
achieving form,
beauty, and yet all the while was the
quintessence of sensuality and desire. This
form and this
beauty are not derived from the
spirit, as in works of
poetry and music, nor derived from some neutral
material both consumed by
spirit and innocently embodying it, as is the case
with the form and
beauty of the visual arts. Rather, they are derived from and
perfected by substances
awakened to
sexual passion, to
reproduction, by decomposing and composing
organic matter itself, by
reeking flesh.
-from The Magic
Mountain, Thomas Mann
See God
See
Jesus
See The Golden Rule
See
I Corinthians 13: 4-7
Revelation
Power of Imagination
!! EPIDEMIC OF INNER PEACE PREDICTED
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