Re: Mind's Eye Are You A Human Being ?

Strange question, indeed. I have been raised as a human being by my
fellow human beings. That's why I am a human being. For no other
reason am I the human being that I think I am. Which leads me directly
to your love for knowledge. Our knowledge and our capacity to handle
our knowledge is so limited, that I am grateful that we haven't
deconstructed the meaning of love yet. ;)

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Vam <atewari2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> How exactly do you specify that ? Being Human, that is...
>
> Put aside the biologist telling you of your classification or the scientist
> detailing the features... What exactly tells that you are a human being,
> apart from the rest of the animal kind ?
>
> I know it is easy to go frivolous, or quote the millions of texts in the
> library. But what does it mean to you, that you can vouch for, pointedly ?
>
> What sets me apart is my capacity to know, to engage single-minded in that
> process of discovery of what I seek to know, one after another, and to be
> able to tell myself what I do know, its how and why, and share it with
> others. The knowing leads me everywhere... into the universe, the earth,
> environment, other beings and things, language, arts, economics, values
> system, and myself.
>
> The next important capacity is to love other people, not just my own
> offspring, not just for people's utility value or until they are useful to
> me, but precisely because of the lifetime of knowing they represent, and for
> the values they embody on account of what they know. In fact, love isn't
> just directed towards individuals... it invariably includes the "good," life
> and growth, light, greenery, panorama, beauty, truth, honesty, freedom,
> expression... and much of what the universe itself is.
>
> What else or more, as it is with you ?
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