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fiorinosulaco In reply to IAmThatStrange [2020-09-08 23:01:36 +0000 UTC]

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fiorinosulaco In reply to ivettk [2019-09-25 22:29:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your kind words!

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ivettk In reply to fiorinosulaco [2019-10-19 11:38:57 +0000 UTC]

 You are welcome, as always!      

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fiorinosulaco In reply to ivettk [2019-10-19 17:45:16 +0000 UTC]

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fiorinosulaco In reply to undefinedreference [2019-06-20 14:01:34 +0000 UTC]

About the meeting between these two legends?

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undefinedreference In reply to fiorinosulaco [2019-06-20 18:13:50 +0000 UTC]

About knowledge being the only thing that's immortal. Which implies that (a) knowledge is immortal and (b) nothing else is. But knowledge relies upon a context in order to have meaning, i.e. in order to exist at all. Therefore, if knowledge is supposed to be immortal, so must at least some level of context be as well. Therefore your statement contains a contradiction. Which is ok, because the contradiction is the mother of all Existence

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fiorinosulaco In reply to undefinedreference [2019-06-21 15:21:34 +0000 UTC]

You're right about knowledge isn't the only immortal thing. When I have the inspiration for this art, I wanted to create an association between the two legends:

- Prometheus who stole the fire of knowledge

- Phoenix the fire bird

Both are immortals: Prometheus never dies and always has a new liver despite a bird every day comes to eat his human organ; and Phoenix has the ability to reborn from ashes.


At first sight, these ideas influenced me, but now I can see that the concept of immortality is complex. And this fact is important for the concept of contradiction and then, the dialogue of ideas.


Maybe this is another form of immortal knowledge: the eternal search for knowledge?

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undefinedreference In reply to fiorinosulaco [2019-06-23 19:51:49 +0000 UTC]

Of course words and concepts are just reflections of the very limited capacity of us humans to understand what's going on around (and inside) us. Words in particular are both very crude and highly elusive tools. I like a bit of juggling with them, but please don't attach too much meaning too it. "Words are whores" a French writer or thinker once said, can't remember who exactly. Immanuel Kant has made some phenomenally meaningful observations about the limits of our understanding, as well as showing that they are hard limits. The reality we see is a reflection of the organization of our minds at least as much as a reliable picture of what is "out there". Maybe meditation (what the person in this picture seems to be doing) can indeed offer an escape, a different view, I don't know because I don't meditate. I'm not too familiar with Prometheus either, didn't pay much attention to the classics in school, I'm afraid, but the Phoenix has always fascinated me. In particular the part where it chooses to descend into the fire. That is indeed a very powerful image. The Prometheus story is rather cruel though

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fiorinosulaco In reply to undefinedreference [2019-06-27 22:07:19 +0000 UTC]

Like your observation about words and limitations (at first sight I remembered the fact that we are talking only using alphabet signs, I mean, it's different when two people are talking each other in real word when there are sounds, gestures, facial expressions, for example).

"Words are whores" is a crazy and funny expression with multiple interpretations!   

Agree with you about meditation: an escape to another interpretation of the complex life? Sometimes I think that our brain needs sometimes a moment to reset (and to reorganizate itself).     


Carl Gustav Jung believed in collective unconscious and he used greek mythology to associate with human behavior.  I think that we can't run from the greek myths!


I don't know much about Kant's beliefs, someday I will explore the brain of the classic thinkers! 

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