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blitzen

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Mon May 25, 2020, 05:23 PM May 2020

The great Islamic philosopher Avicenna (ca. 1000 AD) on the Red vs. the Blue species: [View all]

"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.

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