Friday, September 26, 2008

Twinkle twinkle...

What does a star get out of its twinkle? It just emits light. It gets nothing out of it. So should it stop shining?
The eye provides vision. Does it get something out of it? Should it stop seeing? It is gaining nothing. Getting nothing.
But these examples are of so-called non-living things. Is this claim correct?
Can I say that my eye is non-living? My arm? My leg? Ears? Hair? Skin? Brain? Are they living things?

1 comment:

SilentThinker said...

Hey everything doesn't happen because somebody gets something out of it. One(humans) usually spends most of his/her life doing things not for himself really but for others.

And what does one mean by "getting something" in a universal sense?? The whole universe "gets nothing" by its existence (i guess :) ). Certain things "just" exist.

This reminds me of a "mallu" joke -

Why did the mallu cross the road...

Simply


Why did the mallu cross the road again....

Just


:D