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Which are the contradictions which allows us to be alive? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by Skipper1402@lemmygrad.ml to c/communism101@lemmygrad.ml

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Mao says that life exists due to contradictions and that once those contradictions cease, we die. But which are the contradictions which cause us to be alive? To me it is more cell cooperation than contradictions. I am not sure to which contradictions he is referring to.

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oxidation/reduction

I’ve always found this is one fascinating, as if to live at all is to perpetually play with fire, flirting with death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

as if to live at all is to perpetually play with fire, flirting with death.

This turns out to be scientifically accurate:

Bhikkhus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning? The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, that too is burning.