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Re: On the Charade Called Human Condition         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Immortalist
Date: Aug 8, 2008 21:59

On Aug 8, 7:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:
> The Human Condition :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition
> The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal
> entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common
> to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in
> which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. However,
> understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by the human
> condition is itself a philosophical problem.
>
> The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror,
> humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence.
> Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware
> of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are
> intimately aware of their own mortality. Only human beings are known to ask
> themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for
> survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent:
> What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go
> when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very
> fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human
> condition in this sense of the term.
>
> Although the term[1] itself may have gained popular currency with The Human
> Condition, a film trilogy directed by Masaki Kobayashi[2][3][4] which examined
> these and related concepts, the quest to understand the human condition dates
> back to the first attempts by humans to understand themselves and their place in
> the universe.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Charades :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charades
> Charades or charade (pronounced /??'ra:dz/ sh?-rahdz or /??'re(?):dz/ sh?-raidz)
> is a word guessing game. In the form most commonly played today, it is an acting
> game in which one player acts out a word or phrase, often by pantomiming
> similar-sounding words, and the other players guess the word or phrase. The idea
> is to use physical rather than verbal language to convey the meaning to another
> party. It is also sometimes called Activity, after the board game.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> In this context :
> Evolution :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
>

Therefore we might be a "means to the ends" of what works in nature?
We could respond in about three ways, A deal with it, live work fuck
and die, B ignore it and the rest of A, or C, my favorite, fight
against it and see if we can resurrect ourselves in the longrun.

Maybe its like "The Matrix" where our desires and goals are really
only as you say charades for evolution's seeming ends.
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> --
> Frederick Martin McNeill
> Poway, California, United States of America
> mmcne...@fuzzysys.com
> ******************************************
> "I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe."
> - Leo Rosten
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