The_Gobo

The watch metaphor doesn't make any sense to me cause you can change a watch's time :V
but the immortality comment I don't agree with... because some people are suicidal ^^:

As far as the 'too much knowledge' I would say the answer is 'no'

Mostly because the watch metaphor applies to doubt, not knowledge.

Having greater knowledge would allow one to know, *coughtherootwordofknowledgecough*, which watch was correct.
It's only Doubt that keeps one from knowing.

Thus doubt would be a prevention from knowledge, not a result OF it.

o3o

Also: I got that quote from looking up 'Navras' the title of the closing theme to Matrix Revolutions,

evidently it's possibly referential to a hindu mantra of similar wording to the above quote.

o3o

so you believe that there's no such thing as too much knowledge? would you not find it futile? what if you knew exactly how everyone on this earth is going to die, when there going to die and how they are, what if you know exactly how to stop there death just to find that you only prolonged it? you are still only one man and if you knew all that would happen could you live with yourself without trying to save them, when you do what makes you choose who you save and who you let die? at which point do you think it's not worth knowing?

Because I know that the quality of knowing is more than the quantity of knowing o3o

Knowing all things is not the same as appreciation of that knowledge.

If one were to know the exact moment of all life's death, throughout the ages, one would also appreciate the fact that life comes to an end and is, for now, continued through other life.
In that limited view, there is no point in saving OR ending any given specific life, chosen or otherwise.
Were I to expound upon the Christian, view of which I hold, the only point to saving a life would be in the hopes of seeing that the saved come to a greater understanding of the life that comes after death, that of immortality beyond fleshly woe o3o
Without that hope, it is as King Solomon said, 'Vanity, vanity, all is vanity."

For without love, there can be no purpose under the sun :V