Stepping Into The Same River Twice Is Impossible
Submitted by deerulzu on December 13, 2008
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Stepping Into The Same River Twice Is Impossible
Heraclitus is a philosopher from an ancient Greek city named Ephesus. His major ideology of the world and the cosmos was that everything is in flux. Or that everything is made out of fire since fire is always moving or always in flux. He explained that all things are composed of fire and also resolved in fire. An example is that if you leave a tomato for a few months or even a year, you will see the tomato turned into mush afterwards. This proves that you cannot have any particular object or thing to remain the same for eternity. If you even look at a desk as an example, you can wait maybe a century to observe how the desk is degraded, but chances are that the particular desk will not...
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