Antithesis
Opposites attract in Chemistry. Opposites Repel in Social Science. Hence chemistry is the opposite of social science as proved by the opposite definitions of opposites in these opposing sciences. Not quite. Red-Blue. Faith-denial. Impulse-Reason. Matter-Antimatter. Each a part of the other, and each the opposite of other.
Antithesis can be interesting. I asked a friend for an opposite of life. Death. Impromptu. But is it?
Death, in itself, is a process as complicated as life. Both occur instantaneously. You seldom have control over that instant. When does life begin? When you’re born? Conceived? Thought of being planted? Half way into that? Nobody could say for sure, unless ofcourse he doesn’t differentiate the inseparable opposites – Reason and Impulse. Who knows when a dying man has moved on? Are you dead when your heart stops beating? Or is being brain dead being dead? Or when you lose the will to live? Stop the hustle to ‘just survive’? Origin creates life. Death ends it. Origin and death – the opposites? Can’t say. But if origin is the opposite of death, I have fallen into the circle….
That being said, isn’t it logical to consider that inanimate objects like this camera are just absent of life, and still not the reverse of it. Wait a second… what’s the opposite of my mobile phone?
After putting quite a lot of thought.. the only logical conclusion I could offer myself was that a mobile fone or the camera are not singular objects.. they’re complex union of several simpler objects, that, in turn, are a smaller but an equally complex union of even smaller objects. So it having an opposite would be something intricately complex. So for a camera, it’s opposite might be a projector. Life, on the other hand is something so indivisible, so important to the cosmology of existence. But still, should and can not exist without an opposite.
On second thought.. what if origin is not life itself. What if origin and death, the opposites are merely transition processes into and out of life’s opposite? The Anti-life? Or the inlife or something?
Someone help me out of this unending circle!
a different frame of refrence to understandthe meaning of life....and ya my friend thats death what u hav tried to do over here...there is always a frame of refrence for analysing the things...death may be one of them to define life...cause its a vicious circle whose answer is rather difficult to find....life-death-life-death and so on....u made an honest attempt over here...might be considered as an elegy...keep on the work man and try finding the answer as i'm also doing so...lets find the end point or rather the starting point of this vicious circle
Bhuwan Gupta said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 2:08:00 AM
err..i know the pope
:-/
we played checkers in school.
oblique-skeptic said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 2:16:00 AM
what is the opposite of a miracle?
the walker said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 2:41:00 AM
@bhuwan
how can the opposite of life be found out from the frame a different frame of reference?
@oblique Skeptic.
We aint playin eurotrip!
@the walker
A miracle isn't very basic... as life, but very abstract much unlike life. Life can still be defined by describing its observable functions .
think over it.
The Acid Tongue said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 3:11:00 AM
maybe it is "REALLY" a vicious circle u dont have a starting or ending ..
ummmmm ....
>on a second thought wat i cud make out of it was tat the only origin & end is GOD ... so the point of any opposite vanishes... the only truth being God ... makes every other thing False and Virtual .......
So the only opposite that really exists is Real & Virtual
darshan said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 5:38:00 PM
Sumit,
Gud one man.. Thought provoking..:)
Everything in "life" has an antithesis.. But LIFE, probably, got a lot of antitheses. I don think, it is possible to carve out one definite antithesis for "Life" with 100% justification.
Anywayz, gr8 post... Too gud.
Keep it up.
Cheers
Ravi..
Ravisekharan said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 5:50:00 PM
HEy, thanx for ur comments in my blog dude!!
Ravisekharan said...
Monday, June 25, 2007 8:08:00 PM
When i started to read ur post, i believed I would be safe when i finish reading this...but my belief died half way thru it..:D..lolz
ur thoughts are murdering my neurons into bits of fibres...
Gr8 post...And I would say...its almost impossible to explore the mystery revolving around life n death...if u wanna explore u need to be a zombie the living dead...lolz...u need to be dead and at the same time ur consciousness need to be alert to knw exactly wats death and wats life..And i believe thats probably not possible atleast in our lifetime....wat say???:)
Jeya Anand said...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:14:00 PM
@darshan
try explaining that to an atheist like me when i call u up. ;)
Best of Luck.
@ravi
glad you liked it.
@jeya
i wish i could turn into a zombie, for life's been so boring lately :p
And sorry for the neurons :D .... Tel me a way to fix it lolz!!
The Acid Tongue said...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:39:00 PM
GREAT POST AND THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG:D
KAYLEE said...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:12:00 PM
circles to circles.
still we're like this only ;P
Mohit Rodeja said...
Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:35:00 PM
@darshan - what smitz said :)
Mohit Rodeja said...
Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:53:00 PM
For one Dude..U werent be writing this blog...n I wont be commenting on it..of wither of us could put an answer to that....!
StandbyMind said...
Friday, June 29, 2007 1:15:00 AM
@standby mind
haha.. sai bola.
but king bruce inspires me!! i'll keep trying lolz
The Acid Tongue said...
Friday, June 29, 2007 1:25:00 AM
I question my existence a lot ...but you are too much of a thinker...
P.S: Do u believe in reincarnations??
Vandana Appaiah said...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:11:00 PM
Death is opposite of Birth as dead is opposite of alive.. but death can't be opposite of life.. hmn.. well as per my belief the opposite of death is decomposition or decaying as it proceed to nothingness..
Babita Tiwari said...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:21:00 PM