Comments on: Contemplations on the Breaking of the Bread http://jim.casablog.com/2005/05/06/contemplations-on-the-breaking-of-the-bread/ All a man needs out of life is a place to sit ‘n’ spit in the fire. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:23:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jim http://jim.casablog.com/2005/05/06/contemplations-on-the-breaking-of-the-bread/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Jim Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:49:09 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/archives/115#comment-79 I don't know. I've said that i think it is harder when there is no deadline, but I don't think it's impossible. Also, I don't necessarily think death plays any actual operational role in life. If we live differently because of death, I don't know if we're not subverting life. I don't know... lots of contradictions. It's important to me though to take in the whole of the experience. But then again if you take it its conclusion (there is NO death whatsoever), I guess that would mean the sun would never go out. The universe would never go cold. It would just go on and on and on. "Purpose" would certainly be elusive after a few million years. It would be like a soccer game that never ended (sometimes it feels like it). I guess you always need some sort of boundary condition to define your system. If you do not have such a condition, then your definition of the system is meanlingless. So, I guess you're right. :-) Death is a boundary condition to the problem of life. I don’t know. I’ve said that i think it is harder when there is no deadline, but I don’t think it’s impossible. Also, I don’t necessarily think death plays any actual operational role in life. If we live differently because of death, I don’t know if we’re not subverting life. I don’t know… lots of contradictions. It’s important to me though to take in the whole of the experience.

But then again if you take it its conclusion (there is NO death whatsoever), I guess that would mean the sun would never go out. The universe would never go cold. It would just go on and on and on. “Purpose” would certainly be elusive after a few million years.

It would be like a soccer game that never ended (sometimes it feels like it). I guess you always need some sort of boundary condition to define your system. If you do not have such a condition, then your definition of the system is meanlingless.

So, I guess you’re right. :-) Death is a boundary condition to the problem of life.

]]> By: Loretta http://jim.casablog.com/2005/05/06/contemplations-on-the-breaking-of-the-bread/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Loretta Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:25:56 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/archives/115#comment-78 True. Life without death would be meaningless, anyway, wouldn't it? True.
Life without death would be meaningless, anyway, wouldn’t it?

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