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On 26 July, 13:54, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
> I enjoy instinct for sure, and think of it as an inherent human
> attribute that is not used any where near to the extent of its
> capabilities. The molding of our lives through strict admonition & pre-
> determined activity, combined with a visual bombastment of stimulii,
> has led to an existance mostly void of instinctive requirements. Smart
> aren't we?
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> On Jul 26, 8:46 am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Mind if I check your incisors before I accept that handman job?
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> > On Jul 26, 8:23 am, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > 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! :-)
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> > > On Jul 26, 6:13 am, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > 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. ;-]
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> > > > On Jul 25, 12:09 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > > On 25 July, 15:09, deripsni <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > > No spirit energy then?
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> > > > > > On Jul 24, 3:42 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > > > 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.
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> > > > > > > dj
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> > > > > > > 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?
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