billwald said:
"13: No man is an island
Donne suggests that no man can exist by himself. He states that we are all interconnected, and someone else's loss is a loss of our own. In the same sense, someone else's death is a death of our own. Each time the bell rings, mankind loses."
(quoted from billwald's link.)
don't you find this more dreadful than the idea of man being an island?
Donne's view seems interesting. i mean according to the story of the Garden of Eden, Adam existed utterly alone. sure the story says that God was right there, but Adam suppossedly existed just fine being utterly alone. he wanted a helper (ie...helper being the keyword here. doesn't mean any loneliness is truly eradicted out.) and the story pans out from there.
so with Donne's view, i find in comparision with this to be a bit odd. sure with the creation story it could be seen in many ways, at least the Creation story wasn't based in so much loss and dread.
Donne's view seems to be interpretated in that explanation, so if it is true/right on, that's really sad. in replacing our loneliness, we have the feelings of loss and sadness to make us feel that we aren't alone. sure the opposite is true, meaning that to make us feel that we aren't alone we can use the good and accomplishments of human beings. but why take away the loneliness that has existed since the creation of man with emotions of sadness and happiness?
(coming from my own personal view in my faith) we were created by God, alone as seen in the creation story or coming from a scientific view without seeing it from a religious perspective, we evolved from a single cell organism/alone. then we go into the next life/state (whatever that will be) alone. we find our helper in the meantime, or for some helpers, and it doesn't mean we aren't alone, just means we found another part of our pinnacle of being human. the starting point doesn't get changed.
i can go on on the opposite side of what i'm saying here very lengthy, but realistically, this side is all that i can personally because in the end, no matter what we have in connection, we always come/go back to a point of being utterly alone until our life here has passed.
(if i have gotten off topic, please let me know and where and i'll back track
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