zoe

Undercover Discoverer
2005-03-07 15:38:23 (UTC)

plato

plato said that there are 2 sides to reality: what we
see, and what our soul has knowledge of, but we can not
comprehend until that knowledge is woken up inside of us.
i tend to believe that. our souls, according to plato,
were sitting on a shelf before it was given to our bodies.
while on the shelf, our souls have learned all ther is to
know about life and reality.
so what happens when we become "human"? supposedly, when
we see something, inside of us, something is woken up and
we learn what it was that we learned as our soul on a shelf.
so i guess what makes us all different is that we each
learn something different, not everything i learn is
something another person will learn.
science is what makes us look different, so what makes us
act different must be the knowledge we gain as a human
being, or, what knowledge we gain from our all-knowing soul.
some of this sounds dumb, i'm aware of that. but
philosophy is interesting, at least to me. philosophy
should be interesting to everyone, it asks you questions
about who you are, where you came from, what the purpose of
life is.
but in truth, these questions can not be answered by us
humans. we do not have the brain power to know what "truth"
really is. we only see what we want to, not what really is.
i guess there's truth in that.




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