Nope, won't shoot - but think about this, Janggut: What if we wouldn't need to define? I'll try to explain what I mean:
if we would take our environment, ourselves as we are - without having to use "words" or "definitions" to create little boxes where we put our definitions in and then judge everything around us by using these little definition boxes. Why? Because EVERY definition excludes something.
Example: I define something as "white" - this excludes "black", correct? Why can't black just be a different (not darker) shade of white? Why do I have to use black/white in the first case? And if you've got a very tolerant large box, from what colour shade on will grey exist? Does it fit into the box or not?
Back to beliefs: Why do we need beliefs/philosophies/religions in the first case? Why do people need this to define themselves and define then what "good/bad" is in the first case? Isn't it just the fear of a little child trying to understand the whole large world via definition? Via virtues? Via whatever? And WHY do we, when we have overcome our child age, still stick to this (and many even do this without questioning)? Why can't we use our brains and then find out our own paths? Why do they have to be labeled with Christianity/Islam/Hindu/Democracy etc?
I think speech is a helper and a great seperator as well. Maybe you know this little fable:
3 blind men are lead to an elephant. Everyone of them is put at a different part of this animal. They are allowed to touch/feel and then describe it.
Result: 3 definitions, 3 different opinions, quarrel. Every blind man was convinced he knew the elephant by just feeling one part of it (fragment) - now: what would have happened if they would've just combined all 3 definitions? Yep, they would have had a more complete of this animal - and? Well, these 3 men were still not enough, maybe 10 blind could have gathered more information to describe the animal - maybe 100? And no one of these blind men could have still described the colour of this animal.
Kiya
Shoot me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> - remember my dodge skill.... hehe... this elephant could be a metaphor for the world/beliefs/the human kind/philosophies/political systems <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> - and this elephant could be a metaphor for a single human being as well (you, me everyone...) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" /> <kiya tapping her decoder, looking at her spaceship entrance hatch>
