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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe great Islamic philosopher Avicenna (ca. 1000 AD) on the Red vs. the Blue species:
"Avicenna makes a fundamental distinction between two human essences and two human destinies. The chasm that separates human intelligence from human lack of awareness seems to him so profound that he comes to consider the unaware as a different species of humanity. In his view, humans do not so much share a common essence (even if only to varying degrees) but rather are divided into an intellectual elite and an unaware religious mass--each of these two groups constituting a distinct species of humanity."
[Quote from a French book on Avicenna by Jean Michot]
Also, Avicenna says that only the Blue species gains a blissful eternal afterlife. The Red species has at best an imaginary afterlife--and never one that is real.
elleng
(130,732 posts)safeinOhio
(32,641 posts)blitzen
(4,572 posts)BComplex
(8,017 posts)The ones who aren't one way or the other by nature, eventually choose the direction that feels best for them.
I never used to think like that, but more and more lately it feels like there are two separate species of humans.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)Human species sociopath b personality cluster and the people with empathy that care.. There are two gods.The archon authoritarian god. And the goddess who was before the gods were.
Dualist,maltheist ,eclectic gnostic explorer of the unknow. Searching without Jesus messing it up. It's not popular belief it's just how I look at reality and other stuff.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)If you observe reality and notice as above so below,or is it vice versa?
Either way it's a duality.