Excellent! The instinctual approach to life makes it all worth while- unobstructed by regimens, locked-up thoughts, dead relationships, etc. Both science and the arts have high expectations and their followers can be- but not always- quite stuffy and boring- each group maintaining order by agreeing with one another on matters of procedure, taste, etc.//I always warn a new dentist that I bit the finger of my dentist quite hard when I was 15- it didn't draw blood, however! :-)
On Jul 26, 6:13 am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we need to "settle" all issues? I do not know how I get goosebumps > from a mere thought, but does that mean I should not relate the event > that led to the little critters spreading like army ants up my back > and down my arms and legs? The cause of the event may be a nature > rush, the sharing of love, or some other spine tingling emotional > occurance. Although many debates are "science versus religion" where > finding the 'truth' is the holy grail, I feel our main goal as human > ants should be emotional bliss. Expressions of Joy have their own > language. They don't require ratification, explanation, or resolution, > and ants are not invited. > > Ants are the perfect example of evolution with it's head on straight. > The problem is, an ants head is used for collecting and eating food, > PERIOD. Ants activity is instinctive, as you have pointed out. Would > you trade in your imagination and joy of conversing for the sake of > it, for a perfectly organized and structured society where you have > one defined role? When you build your cities there would be no need > for pools, playgrounds, or psychiatrists? I'd take the disorganized > rubble of human life, with all of its ups and downs, over the > predictable repetition of ant life. Of course, there is always the > dentists office that makes one wish that they were born an ant. ;-] > > On Jul 25, 12:09 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of > > the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State > > University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a > > task more rationally than our – multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, > > bipedal, opposing-thumbed – selves. The key in this 'rationality' is > > that ants don't know much and thus achieve rather speedy collective > > decisions. We distract ourselves with all kinds of dross like > > religion outside science and endlessly discuss irrelevance in > > rationalisation long after we have decided to ignore evidence that > > doesn't suit us. In the science versus religion debates we should > > have noticed long ago that some people make money out of the activity > > and that if we engaged ourselves in creating peaceful societies > > something else would matter rather than talking about stuff we can't > > settle. > > > On 25 July, 15:09, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No spirit energy then? > > > > On Jul 24, 3:42 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'd say we are worm food but I learned from watching CSI it is more > > > > accurate to say we are beetle food. That show used to be pretty good. > > > > > dj > > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There is Science ad Culture. But, as you believe in only one or the > > > > > other, > > > > > every culture has the belief of a higher being, that is unless you > > > > > believe > > > > > nothing, and we return to dust or whatever. I'm simply saying, there > > > > > used > > > > > to be a very big division in what scientists and the "religious" > > > > > (don't like > > > > > that word, too many negative thoughts have come about with this > > > > > word. Guess > > > > > what I'm saying is the word "spirituality" is what I would use. > > > > > Still, > > > > > scientists who believe in scientific theory and spiritualists can both > > > > > agree. Any takers on this one? > > > > > > [email protected] Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
