the way our visual field is without limit.

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[Perna]

Yes, I love Carly Simon's song "Life is Eternal":

Here on earth I'm a lost soul
Ever trying to find my way back home
Maybe that's why each new star is born
Expanding heaven's room
Eternity in bloom
And will I see you up in that heaven
In all its light will I know you're there
Will we say the things that we never dared
If wishing makes it so
Won't you let me know
That life is eternal
And love is immortal
And death is only a horizon
Life is eternal
As we move into the light
And a horizon is nothing
Save the limit of our sight

Save the limit of our sight

[Niky]

I agree with that poem.

6.4311 Death is not an event in life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless the way our visual field is without limit.
The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say, its eternal survival after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one?
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6.432 *How* the world is, is completely indifferent for what is higher
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6.44 Not *how* the world is, is the mystical, but *that* it is.
6.45 The contemplation of the world *sub specie aeterni* is its contemplation as a limited whole.
The feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling.
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6.52 We feel that even if *all possible* scientific questions be answered, then problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer.
6.521 The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem
(Is not this the reason why men to whom after long doubting the sense of life became clear, could not then say wherein this sense consisted?)
6.522 There is indeed the inexpressible. This *shows* itself; it is the mystical.
6.53 THe right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e., the propositions of natural science, i.e., something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he has given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but that would be the only strictly correct method.
6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognises them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it).
He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.
7 Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

w. Tractatus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractat...-Philosophicus