Wednesday, February 10, 2010

';Everything in life is a label';. True or False?

For example: I'm a sister, a friend, a daughter, etc...= Label


When you go deeper: I'm a bad friend, I like to learn, I love animals more than people= they're indirect, but still labels. They classify you as one thing and narrow down who you are. They limit yourself.





When you take away all the labels, then what do you have left?';Everything in life is a label';. True or False?
I am the net product of all of my thoughts and actions. I am most of myself and part of everything and everybody I have influenced.





I'm sorry if that's inadequate, but it's as close as I can get with language.





But aren't labels just our nifty little way of categorizing anything that is. Aren't they still there without us. Does a rock's nature change once we stop thinking ';rock';.


As Shakespeare put it ';a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.';';Everything in life is a label';. True or False?
That depends on how you're using the term ';label';. The first terms you used are nouns, the second terms you used are adjectives. You can't describe anything without using these items. So if you're going to call all nouns %26amp; adjectives ';labels';, then it's impossible. Are there any nouns and such that you -wouldn't- see as a label? If not, then you've kind of painted yourself into a linguistic %26amp; philosophical corner with that one. ;-).
When you take away the labels... you realize that everything is everything else. (The law of dependent origination). And that there is nothing.





And if you actually CAN do that, then you've reached Nirvana.
True, more or less everything is a matter of a certain point of view, if you change the point of view you change and the label.
False. Labels are descriptors for things. The actual things pre-exist their labels and have their own unique natures.
If you take away the labels, then you take away language.
everything has a label,


and when you take them away, you lose what you are completely.


so you lose you
Labels are necessary so we can discern the differences in things. Some labels are not appropriately applied.
When you take away all the labels, you're just you. Period.
True. Nothing.
everything that cannot be explained has a label
That is kind of what language does to everything.

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