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What is the measure of a man? That which lies in the heart and soul of a man, or perhaps it is his actions, or that which he leaves in this world upon departing it for the great unknown. Perhaps its what he takes with him that he should be measured upon, though this solution troubles many. For if a man is measured by what he takes, and not by what he leaves, how do you measure up. The thought of the unknown drives the human mind. Its our fuel in every persuit we do. Sports is the search of doing that which our bodies and minds don't know that we can do. The arts is express emotion, something we have great unknown about. Science is always trying to solve the riddle of the unknown, and has only unearthed more and more. Religion brings known to the unknown, and yet still only shows us something that our minds find lacking. What is the divine truth, do any of us really know, though I know many that feel they do.

We are lost in this world, forever seeking answers to questions that haven't even been asked yet. We are looking for answers to problems that haven't been caused yet, and we are looking for paths, in a land where no paths have been cut before. That is the nature of this world, the unknown. Its the solution to all of our woes and all of our wisdom, nothing. Long has mankind searched for answers in this world, though nothing has ever been found as a full truth, and everything that has been found has also found failure within itself.

Out logic is flawed in our persuit of answers. We think that if there is a problem then there has to be answers, and if there are answers, then one can find them. What if their are no answers, what if the world is an infintie enigma, and that our quest for answers is done in vain? What would mankind do if they found this to be truth? What would happen to the world if that absolute truth was uncovered?

We would stop, and be no more. Our drive would be broken and our hearts would know no direction. All light would be lost from the world, and the cold darkness of death would be all we could ask for. Is this the fate of the world to come? Is this the fate of mankind? That our search for truth and understanding will be our final damnation? Are we our own angel of death, and bringers of our own hell?

Life passes on, as does death, a circle that we lack the understanding to see. We see its signs, we see its effects, but the understanding is still shadowed in the unknown. Mankind is lost, and its only solution could very well be its own demise. Is it fate's cruel way of showing us that we all fail or is it just there is nothing more to us then death?

Nice try. You had a couple of good ideas in there, but you lost in me in all of the high-sounding language. Figure out how to say it without putting me to sleep, and you could make a million.

I don't know, Hamlet. Ask your uncle....

Nice try. You had a couple of good ideas in there, but you lost in me in all of the high-sounding language. Figure out how to say it without putting me to sleep, and you could make a million.

I was in an odd mood at the time I wrote that up. I had just heard part of the movie Hellboy where the older priest guy askes what is the measure of a man, so I kinda went with that way of talking.

I thank you for your time and your comment though

I don't know, Hamlet. Ask your uncle....

...you know my uncle?? which one? the druid?

I don't know, Hamlet. Ask your uncle....
Its really hard to get a hold of hamlets uncle these days tho, he is very busy sueing some dudes for plagiarism.

Its really hard to get a hold of hamlets uncle these days tho, he is very busy sueing some dudes for plagiarism.

I don't think he would sue, just slay them in their sleep and get a ghost to haunt them until someone avenges the theft

well, so far half of you have said I did a decent job of it, so that gives me more faith in my ability to be philosophical, lol :gundge:

It was very good, I don't agree with most of it but it was pretty good.
Someone once said "I am driven by the unknown, not by that which is unknowable" it think it is in the Gita , I am not too sure.

It was very good, I don't agree with most of it but it was pretty good.
Someone once said "I am driven by the unknown, not by that which is unknowable" it think it is in the Gita , I am not too sure.

Thank you, even though you don't agree with most of it you can still respect it. I wish that was a trait found more often.

I think you've been watching too many episodes of Full Metal Alchemist. :p

I think you've been watching too many episodes of Full Metal Alchemist. :p

I have not heard of that which you speak of...what is it?

-=gets mental picture of a wizard wearing a bullet proof vest=-

Where's the choice: "I can't read something that long. One sentence please"

Where's the choice: "I can't read something that long. One sentence please"

its called the back button. one word, and it gets ya gone.

I liked it, it's very good - a few grammatical errors, but otherwise fine. :)

well, so far half of you have said I did a decent job of it, so that gives me more faith in my ability to be philosophical, lol :gundge:

You are being rhetorical, not philosophical. The use of language to paint tje images that you want to present is something that most philosophers hold in disdain. It is something that rhetoricians do and in some cases they have taken philosophical subjects. (Neitzsche come sto mind immediately)
Philosophy is about constructing and examining arguments and theories, not about a poetic style of prose.

You are being rhetorical, not philosophical. The use of language to paint tje images that you want to present is something that most philosophers hold in disdain. It is something that rhetoricians do and in some cases they have taken philosophical subjects. (Neitzsche come sto mind immediately)
Philosophy is about constructing and examining arguments and theories, not about a poetic style of prose.

That said, most good philosophers admire good rhetoric. ;)

Something God has given us was the ability to choose. The ability to choose is how you become something in the eternity of time. If you never choose and just think about it, you will never become anything.