life itself is too hilarious to be taken seriously, i say bask in the absurdity rather than nitpick over the meaningless details.
there is no need for argument
there is no reason for worry
i like this discussion of time, since i have started to believe the arguments that go something like this: We cannot take actions in the past, or in the future, the only "time" we can actually have an effect on is right now. Thus leading to the idea…
topher: I do believe that dogs have some level of the spiritual because I believe they are also spiritual creatures.
So why not cats, or fish, or birds, or ants? I think that all living creatures are tied together by just that, we are all aliv…
Topher: But I can't be certain that is it because I don't know that other animals don't have some form of language other than instinctual behavior.
ok, just to clarify, it is proven that many animals do indeed have a unified language. Think of…
I agree topher, in that what we create is what we are. But i do not think language defines everything. I can have thoughts that do not involve language, like an image or a feeling. I may not be able to assign words to these thoughts, but i believe t…
i like to think that what we are, what 'self' refers to, is the mind. Now, i do not mean brain matter. But the consciousness, the observer, our intangible collection of thoughts and memories and that which processes and translates our senses
taocow,
i agree, i think someone who is closer to me, like family or close friends, would have more of an impact on me. But think...why is is that so? why do we value different individual's lives so differently?
like, say we are accepting the i…
agreed, a completly independent thought is near imposible to experience, starting from brith we are bombarded with everyone elses ideas and society's values and virtues, giving us no time to formulate our own ideas.
i think there do exist some mi…
i accept death as part of the natrual flow, but many others do not....i had a friend pass away very pre-maturely, he was 21 and had a brian aneurism. I felt suprizingly unphased my this, accepting it as random circumstance and concluded "so it goes"…
two muffins are sitting in the oven, the first one turns to the other, and says "man, its getting hot in here" and the second muffin replys "oh my god! a talking muffin!!"