(Philosophical tales III) Mysterium (?) disiunctionis
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"Even if you had to live 3000 years or ten times more, remember anyway that nobody lives another life but the one she/he/it is losing and nobody loses another life but the one she/he/it is living" Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - +180 AD
Coming from Tim here: forum.gaytorrent.ru/index.php?topic=13140.80 .
Even if the emperor was, as usual, catastrophically quick, he didn't end against a wall with the chariot this time but to a reflection we could inherit and deem as very modern.
If the life was a thing which you/I/we all live losing it or lose living it, after 1800 years the emperor still invites us all to the practice of applying with our mind activity different but symmetrical categories.
We generally consider ourselves living beings since we live the life we are losing but, symmetrically, we could consider ourselves dying beings since we lose the life we are living.According to the much more common first application, a very common question we happen to find even in not philosophical forums is:
what is the death?
But if we had to the endorse the less common one we should ask ourselves:
what is the life?
This one is really less common and, even in the environments where life is studied from a scientific point of view (biology or zoology), it is generally considered as a low profile or a no profile at all question. Nothing to be worried about I'd say if, after 1800 years, they still act as the emperor. After all he was a very intelligent dude.
Butt… butt...butt...
according to you what is this life? And is the mystery of the separation (disjunction) between life and death a mystery at all?
