tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post471995050165545585..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: "Life, in short, just wants to be"Abihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-62385065677507445092008-05-24T15:59:00.000+05:302008-05-24T15:59:00.000+05:30Good post. Perhaps you may be interested in this ...Good post. Perhaps you may be interested in this link on survivors of recent earthquake in China: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_re_as/china_survivors. At one place it says, “Peng Guohua, a miner, survived 170 hours by eating clean toilet paper and drinking his own urine, Xinhua said citing unidentified military sources. He was in stable condition”. Peng Guohua (or for that matter none of us) would not have imagined that in normal everyday life. Perhaps there is one philosophical lesson in all these: Misery is not as miserable as we imagine it to be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-46283332544067800592008-05-23T21:01:00.000+05:302008-05-23T21:01:00.000+05:30Although I've only read part of it, I absolutely l...Although I've only read part of it, I absolutely love that book. Need to buy it soon.<BR/><BR/>Also, this reminded me of a quote from one of my favourite fantasy/fiction series, the Bartimaeus trilogy, where the lead character says, "purpose is a human concept. We never needed that before."<BR/><BR/>I think it's very easy to misunderstand ideas, when we anthropomorphize and try to apply our human concepts to other lifeforms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com