I must post this conversation that my sister picked up. The credit, I believe, goes to Max Munton. To learn more about him, go to "graciepies house", which is located on the right of my blog. (I can't figure out how to get a link here - I'm working on it!)


Necessary Conversation

Max says: What's the opposite of life?
David says: Tough one
Max says: Could it be the only thing without an opposite?
David says: It could be Death, but that could be described as the absence of life...
Max says: can't be because the opposite of death, is birth
David says: Or conception really
David says: Hmm
Max says: that would be the opposite of after-life
David says: After life is the opposite of life?
Max says: of conception
David says: After-life could simply be a continuation of life in another form
Max says: i guess a baby in the womb, is pre-life in another form
David says: True, or pre-birth
David says: Because it is alive
Max says: so would that make it the opposite of dead?
David says: Why?
Max says: "Because it is alive"
Max says: (i'm talking about pre-birth)
David says: Which makes it a part of life
David says: ..Which, as we have talked about, may have no opposite
Max says: I don't think we're getting any closer
David says: It's an interesting concept though
Max says: but is the only reason that it doesn't have an opposite because it's an actual thing?
Max says: like there might be no opposite of chair
Max says: or is that table
David says: No, chair has no exact opposite
Max says: ah
Max says: guitar?
David says: I don't think objects can really have opposites
David says: Ideas can e.g. Right and Left
David says: Or right and wrong
Max says: is life an object?
David says: It's a state of being
Max says: with no opposite
David says: It would seem that way
Max says: funny that
David says: It is
Max says: i'm gonna put this conversation on my blog

And I'm out.

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 1/21/2004 10:21:00 PM