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Is imagination the only seemingly limitless human trait?

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How about: Love, Courage, Compassion, Greed, Cruelty, Violence, Fanaticism, Ignorance .......?

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The being itself is limitless in every sense and so is the beings ability to limit itself.
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Love- would you love someone who disrepects you (there is you're limit)

Courage- would you jump off a cliff to show that you have the courage to do anything (there is you're limit)

Compassion- would you feel compassion towards a homeless you don't give $$ to & then see them buying beer & cigarttes with the $$ you could of used to buy you something (there goes you're limit)

Greed- would you be so greedy not to share w/ anyone ever be lonely & die taking nothing (there goes you're limit) but then again it also in some cases has no limit

Cruelty-that has no limits _ c-news-3 mo old babies stomped to death by father- man eating other humans- against animals - how about that this is the no limit one

Violence- will never end untill judgement (if there is one , if not I was lied to )

fantisism- no limits

duh it all depends on YOU!!
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No, Stupidity is one (really).

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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greed, cruelty, etc are illusions. They will pass away.

Love is of Spirit, which is limitless.
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No, but it's the only one that I'm willing to discuss in public.

There are limits to most of the other options you listed...at least to an extent.
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imagination, survival and then evolution
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If you were sentenced to solitary confinement, the other traits were be for nothing. The only thing you would have is imagination/freedom of thought.
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In addition to one's imagination, I would like to think love & hope are among our greatest limitless human traits. Greed, cruelty, violence, ignorance, & fanaticism are choices that can all be defeated when enveloped in love & kindness.....I guess I'm just a hopeful optimist.

Thanks for The Cranberries song, I love their music!

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all human traits are limitless because there will always be someone seen as more greedy, violent, stupid or good. human traits are abstract concepts and are therefore inherently limitless.
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Will is the ultimate human faculty.
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i think that the human imagination is the only thing in this universe that is infinite. but i don't consider that a personality trait.
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The limiting Human trait is still, is always, Awareness of Mortality. THE limit.

This is the driving force behind Greed, Cruelty, Violence, Fanaticism, Ignorance...

We like to pretend that all these actions are inscrutable. That evil just IS. Evil cannot and should not be explained.

We feel safer believing that evil could never touch us. For us to be safe, the innocents dying must be Others. For us to be safe, the militant minds with their tanks and their bombs must be Other. But terrorists in captivity, we repeatedly find, are NOT mentally ill. They are not irrational. They seek profitable action. They follow charismatic leaders. They stay for the power, and they because they want to Belong.

They are not Other, they are only Human. It's dedication without thought, all to defend Immortality--the idea of immortality, the symbols of immortality. It's always about Death, about being Human.

As for Courage, Compassion, Love, Imagination...

These are the Meanings; they enable us to Live with the finality or the uncertainty of death. Is imagination the only one that is limitless? I hope it is not. I feel it is not. Some would say the mind endures, that it is stronger. Our hearts are fragile, and can mend with difficulty. But among the hearts of glass, I see hearts of gold, which endure and which make healing ripples in the Entanglement.

The power of that Unconditional, Unending Love, is beyond even the imagination. I believe it can survive anything, even solitary confinement.

We will solve this at once. I will ask, "What is the greater strength: to imagine Love, or to love Imagination?" ;-)

Meanwhile, I'll believe that nothing is impenetrable. And I'll continue stargaze by night, and dream by day. I'll know that in our worst moments, in our best moments, we are all the same: only Human.

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