Comments on: We Are All Here To Do What We Are All Here To Do http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/ One Mormon boy’s iconoclastic quest to remix and rectify his notions of truth, mind, myth, love, life, and transcendence. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Green Oasis » The Humanist Symposium #3 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-526 Green Oasis » The Humanist Symposium #3 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:23:25 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-526 [...] third edition of the Humanist Symposium is now available. A post by yours truly has been [...] [...] third edition of the Humanist Symposium is now available. A post by yours truly has been [...]

]]> By: Black Sun Journal » Archives » The Humanist Symposium #3 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-522 Black Sun Journal » Archives » The Humanist Symposium #3 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:11:08 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-522 [...] Blake from Green Oasis pens a zen-like reflection on the ephemeral nature of human existence, the questions of what defines selfhood, and the [...] [...] Blake from Green Oasis pens a zen-like reflection on the ephemeral nature of human existence, the questions of what defines selfhood, and the [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Blake http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-505 Jonathan Blake Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:57:19 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-505 From a materialist viewpoint, it seems that waves and humans are both part of something larger: the ocean and humanity respectively. When they crash on the beach or die, something that can't be sharply defined comes to an end and we can no longer recognize that distinct wave or human as being operative in the world. Yet there are echoes and ripples which continue even though we don't really perceive them as being part of the individual we knew. The energy of the wave is conserved traveling through the water, the sand, and the air. Each human's life continues to have an effect long after death. So we each seem to have a place in eternity even though we don't continue in conscious experience of the world after we die. The wave metaphor is very instructive to me. From a materialist viewpoint, it seems that waves and humans are both part of something larger: the ocean and humanity respectively. When they crash on the beach or die, something that can’t be sharply defined comes to an end and we can no longer recognize that distinct wave or human as being operative in the world. Yet there are echoes and ripples which continue even though we don’t really perceive them as being part of the individual we knew. The energy of the wave is conserved traveling through the water, the sand, and the air. Each human’s life continues to have an effect long after death.

So we each seem to have a place in eternity even though we don’t continue in conscious experience of the world after we die. The wave metaphor is very instructive to me.

]]> By: NewIvory http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-504 NewIvory Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:20:33 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-504 every wave in the ocean is unique. if that one wave reaches the shore and crashes on to a rock.... then that one unique wave is gone. it will go back to where it had been before and will stay there to merge and flow in the same ocean for a new wave to be born. every wave in the ocean is unique. if that one wave reaches the shore and crashes on to a rock…. then that one unique wave is gone. it will go back to where it had been before and will stay there to merge and flow in the same ocean for a new wave to be born.

]]> By: Jonathan Blake http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-474 Jonathan Blake Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:24:04 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-474 Thank you for your words, Dorothy. Is the wave eternal, or is the ocean? Thank you for your words, Dorothy. Is the wave eternal, or is the ocean?

]]> By: Dorothy Roeder http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-469 Dorothy Roeder Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:42:15 +0000 http://www.blakeclan.org/jon/greenoasis/2007/06/01/we-are-all-here-to-do-what-we-are-all-here-to-do/#comment-469 The wave does not cease to exist when it reaches the shore. It merges back into the ocean and becomes part of the whole which sustains it, gave it form and took back that form then recreates another. The wave does not cease to exist when it reaches the shore. It merges back into the ocean and becomes part of the whole which sustains it, gave it form and took back that form then recreates another.

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