Wednesday, April 20, 2016

On the Meaning of Nature

No one has formalized that yet.
We still exist in the continuum of 'history's best ideas'.
We are mixed up between the ideal and the material.
Let's say the important questions come first: 
Ask yourself, what would it mean if material were infinite?
What would it mean if there were only one ideal?
What would it mean if the material was ideal?
What would it mean if there were more than one ideal material?
What would it mean if ideals were immaterial?
What would it mean if there were no ideal material?
How would it be if nothing were material?
How would it be if the question of materialism were meaningless?
How would it be if meaning mattered more than matter?
How would it be if matter mattered more than meaning?
How would it be if there were two interpretations?
How would it be if matter remained?
How would it be if meaning remained?
How would it be if what remained didn't matter?
How would it be if meaning didn't matter?
How would it be if matter was meaning?
How would it be if you disagreed?
How would it be if someone else was right?
How would it be if one answer was best?
How would it be if something was wrong?
How would it be if no one was right?
What would remain without right and wrong?
What would be real, what would be song?
What is the end of a question of all?
How do we be? How do we be?
How would it be? How would it be? 
Perhaps that answers your question. 
A question of nature is a whole, rounded question. Unless our lives are whole and round, we do not see the complete answer. Many of us would settle for less. Some of us want philosophy, and some of us want an explanation of evil, and some of us want agreeableness, and some of us want laws and precepts, and some of us just want something written well.

Originally posted at: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-nature-of-asking-What-is-the-nature-of-___/answer/Nathan-Coppedge

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