Are we living in the land of the dead?

Too expand on each:

The Dead only Make Room for new life to evolve.

Only the 'Living' can 'give physical life'; whereas, Death only takes it away.

Death to the Body, is only the cessation, and departure of Biostatic Charges contained within; the essence of 'You'; or, the 'Self'.

The 'Self' will move on. Take my word for it, for I have been there.

The 'one' that gives life does not exist; as it takes Two too create it.

The Two that create it, will 'rule' over it, until it is time for 'it' too move on and perpetuate the species.

Death will never 'rule' life; however, it will remain a 'shadow' that will follow life, and can 'spring' without warning.

Note: A Slaves life will be dependent on what ever they need too do to survive.

In essence, we are all 'slaves' to 'something'; even if it is only to ourselves.

Added: Yea, sure; that is, if you are an Asexual Being, like a Flatworm; however, I do not believe that I should go through the Physics of Procreation. You can not deny that, even at the cellular level, it still takes Two cells too combine the genes in order too continue evolution and propagate a species.

Please stop referring to 'Death' giving 'Life'. In the Physical Realm, Death of the Body is finite; however, the "Existence", not 'life', of the Spirit will move on; as the Spirit knows not of Death.

I am an Empath, and a NDE survivor. I have a personal relationship with 'Death' and know its most intimate secrets, of which, you have yet too discover. I will expand no further.

Added- Day 3: Arc'; yes there is the aspect of Humans/Animals needing too 'Eat'; I love dead Cow too a Medium Rare. Dead Pig, with Chicken Zygotes, and Fungus sautéed in Milk Fat; Yum. A well Roasted Dead Bird is delectable. I haven't even touched on all the Dead Fish and Dead Coruscations I like too ingest.

But, when you are dealing with Homosapiens; that is a whole different ball game.

In that aspect, death will only 'sustain' life, not create it, or rule over it.

Comment?

No

But Apathy is growing exponentially and that's close to being dead

The dead give life to only some of the Living not all...

It is called fertilizer and it stinks most of the time

If the One who gives Life rules over the Living

then women would be revered in the World...

I think you mean

Those who have Domination and Power

over others Lives Rule Most of the Living...

No this Life is NOT ruled By Death

But Death is the Only Way Out

very interesting question...

in the same vein, one can say also that life rules death

if life disappears, death disappears.

life is death, death is life. they are one thing

I am life, and I am death, living

death lives...

no matter how alive something is, it is death,

and no matter how dead something is, it is still a little bit alive

in a philosophical sense...

http://www.chrismeistre.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2...

about the master/slave dynamic...

in any relationship, both are master and both are slave

it is easy to see how the slave is the slave and the master, master.

but look at it upside down, shift the perspective

the slave rules the master

the master is a slave to the "slave", and the slave is master of the "master"

it is mutual dependency taken to an extreme

"Every seeking gets guided beforehand by what is sought"

―Martin Heidegger

What you seek is seeking you ―Rumi

I hope this is what you wanted,

I hope this is what you had in mind,

cause this is what you're getting...

(Tool - Ticks and Leeches)

only ostensibly does the one who provides, rule. it can take away what it provides, but not fully. it must give for it to live. as for example, a business. the ceo can fire all his employees, but then the business will die. it is the same situation for existence. if death is the ceo, and life is its "employees"... if death took all life, or "fired all its employees," death too would cease to exist. in a sense, death does give life, but things can always be looked at deeper. ones rulership is dependent on something to rule. dependent. in a fundamental sense, death does not give life, it is life

Interesting analogy. But No. That which gives life, is the source of life is not usually the Ruler. Slaves gave life to Kings and Queens. The meek are sheeple and although they are destine to Rule, do not at this time.

Additional: "Dependent", again, no. If that were so then a slave would not survive without their master and we both know this to be not true as many slaves had lives before slavery and many had lives after slavery. So, they may argue the point but I would find it hard to substantiate the claim.

Mr Architect, have you ever made Sourdough bread?

First you create a starter... a mass of gunk which is alive with yeast culture... then you add the ingredients, keep a little aside for the next starter and bake the bread. The 'starter' can be kept for centuries, the same yeast culture giving birth to thousands of loaves of bread over hundreds of years.

In the same way, a woman named Henrietta Lacks was born with an immortal cell line. She's dead, depending on how you classify death, but she lives on in thousands of laboratories and has saved thousands, maybe millions of lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Negative.

This is our world and we are still here breathing.

Whatever we heard and saw before, is all guidelines

for us to live the present.

If the dead gives life to the living, why cant the dead

use to keep itself alive?

Death rules nobody, death is being told to come and fetch

us.

Dear Architect,

"Here it is the dead which gives life to the living"

I don't quite understand this statement, could you explain?

Biologically speaking, yes. Death is simply substence which we consume to survive. You call it "death" to make it sound philosophical.

Philosophically speaking, it is a matter of who brings purpose to who. Death has no philosophical rule over life, but life does rule the dead, philosophically, because it give death purpose.

are we living in the land of the dead?

I believe we are living in both realms. On one side we need death to aid us biologically, and on the other side we need life for purpose.

Material existence is an entanglement of birth and death and ruled by the stringent laws of material nature. Life can only giving by life. Death is an infection of the eternal consciousness.

At least us leeches get something out of it.

no. but concrete and brick.