Heh heh. Cute. Now here's two photos of the snake. It's actually pretty deadly.
http://www.reptilesdownunder.com/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/Denisonia/maculata http://www.arkive.org/ornamental-snake/denisonia-maculata/image-G43903.html On Aug 30, 3:50 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 28, 8:24 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You are somewhat of a riddle Slip. I like it! < > > Well thanks, Ash, actually the Riddler in the movie Bat Man is based > on one of my fictitious past lives. > > Now for my next riddle: What is ornamental but has a very small mind? > > For the answer click the link below. > > http://www.australianfauna.com/ornamentalsnake.php > > That's right, this poisonous slithering creature despite it's > decorative appearance doesn't do much except eat and just attack > frogs; now there is an ego for ya. Sounds like a very picky eater. > > Well gotta go before Bat Man and Robin find out I'm here. > > Adios Amigo! > > On Aug 28, 8:24 pm, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You are somewhat of a riddle Slip. I like it! > > > On 8/28/2010 7:58 PM, Slip Disc wrote: > > > > I think existence itself is ego, that is, ego that is manifest in > > > physical form. Gwill is right by addressing the various uses of term > > > ego in this thread, such as inflated or deflated ego, ego trip, ego > > > maniac etc. I see the ego being the core of life itself, the core of > > > who we are, the internal that is expressed outward. Animals also are > > > ego displayed by domination, alpha, acquiescence and deferment to the > > > top dog etc. Ego at the moment of conception defines who and what we > > > are but after one has developed within the environmental world ego > > > branches off into splinter groups of ego, alter ego and such and at > > > which time the term ego takes on all mundane aspects. Ego lives > > > beyond our physicality, beyond anything we can imagine. Ego is a part > > > of cosmology. All physical beings are on a "ego trip", literally. > > > > On Aug 28, 3:23 pm, rigsy03<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It might be confused with pride or self-preservation. I agree with > > >> your definition. > > > >> Here is another angle: "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?" by > > >> Guy Deutscher > > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html > > >> I was thinking, while reading this article, that there are even more > > >> culprits than language such as gender, class, religion and so on. > > > >> On Aug 28, 10:55 am, [email protected] wrote: > > > >>> One of the serious confusions in this thread is the alternative > > >>> definitions of the concept of ego. The common understanding of ego is > > >>> equated with conceit - as in egotistical. Used in psychoanalysis the > > >>> concept of ego (along with the superego, the id and the self ) are > > >>> components of the structure of the self. From this perspective the > > >>> concept of ego functions like a traffic cop mediating between the > > >>> desires of the id (I want what I want when I want it ) and the super > > >>> ego (the voice of laws: shoulds and should nots). > > >>> In short the ego psychoanalytically is the voice of reason - > > >>> thoughtfulness. > > >>> -----Original Message----- > > >>> From: gruff<[email protected]> > > >>> To: "Minds Eye"<[email protected]> > > >>> Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 10:09 am > > >>> Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: Understanding: Mind, Consciousness, Thought > > >>> Allow me to introduce Occam's Razor, which was first articulated by > > >>> William of Occam in the thirteenth century. It postulates that all > > >>> else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more > > >>> complex ones. > > >>> What is being explored here sounds more like religion than science. > > >>> Can we slice it down to it's simplest form? > > >>> Ego! I suspect all animals have it to one degree or another but with > > >>> regard human beings, we could not live without one. Scaling ego, I'd > > >>> have to say that the more insecure the individual the greater the > > >>> ego. I suspect there is a level or range of ego which allows us to > > >>> exist but when our consciousness goes below that level, we shrivel, > > >>> and when it goes above that level we swell up like an over-inflated > > >>> balloon and burst.- Hide quoted text - > > >>> - Show quoted text -
