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Guille · 03-09-2006, 02:44 AM

Sub,

If you wouldn't have considered yourself superior from the start of the thread, you would recieve much more consideration.

You are not the only one (nor the first, nor the best) that came to the idea that right (correct) and wrong can mean morality (good and evil) or truthness (truth and falsity), and that this might be on purpose from those who created our languages to join the idea of truth with goodness and happiness. It might have been like that, or it might not (I'm not a historian). What I know is that goodness doesn't necessarily bring happiness, as is shown by Freud's studies of mental disordered people, and by the relativity not only of happiness, but of goodness (what is good for someone should give him/her happiness (to kill, for ex), but that doesn't mean it's good in principle).

Now, mother nature and father time is simply an automatic assuption by humans. Women give life, not men, I cannot give birth and neither can you, therefore as nature gave us all life, it is said 'mother nature'. But not that mother doesn't represent anything of the nature of nature, simply the analogy between women and nature.

About even and odd numbers, do you mean evens are even and odds are odd in shape, I mean, in the representation of the numbers? If so, then there is no connection. The number signs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) come from the Arabs, and in their form the numbers are quite different. Anyway there are earlier number sings, from romans, greeks, egyptians... If you mean this difference in a different way, please explain it.

I can think of one more example, although it's not quite the same. We tend to think (and is quite classic in western society) that white is the colour of absence of colour. Whiles indeed physics proved over a century and a half ago that white is not the absence of colour but the collection of all colours. And therefore black is the absence of colour.

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Guille The Thinker Status: Offline Posts: 3,278 Thanks Given: 14 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 48	03-09-2006, 02:44 AM Sub, If you wouldn't have considered yourself superior from the start of the thread, you would recieve much more consideration. You are not the only one (nor the first, nor the best) that came to the idea that right (correct) and wrong can mean morality (good and evil) or truthness (truth and falsity), and that this might be on purpose from those who created our languages to join the idea of truth with goodness and happiness. It might have been like that, or it might not (I'm not a historian). What I know is that goodness doesn't necessarily bring happiness, as is shown by Freud's studies of mental disordered people, and by the relativity not only of happiness, but of goodness (what is good for someone should give him/her happiness (to kill, for ex), but that doesn't mean it's good in principle). Now, mother nature and father time is simply an automatic assuption by humans. Women give life, not men, I cannot give birth and neither can you, therefore as nature gave us all life, it is said 'mother nature'. But not that mother doesn't represent anything of the nature of nature, simply the analogy between women and nature. About even and odd numbers, do you mean evens are even and odds are odd in shape, I mean, in the representation of the numbers? If so, then there is no connection. The number signs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0) come from the Arabs, and in their form the numbers are quite different. Anyway there are earlier number sings, from romans, greeks, egyptians... If you mean this difference in a different way, please explain it. I can think of one more example, although it's not quite the same. We tend to think (and is quite classic in western society) that white is the colour of absence of colour. Whiles indeed physics proved over a century and a half ago that white is not the absence of colour but the collection of all colours. And therefore black is the absence of colour.