T-7 hours. I got a huge plumber's wrench, a dozen sharp knives, a dog turd on a stick, and a bottle of whiskey. if you wake up tomorrow, you're welcome.
I've been reading a lot about the brain lately... Lots of interesting things. Most recently, though, I've read something about how there's a part of the brain that specifically affects one's spirituality. Very curious... Very curious indeed. How would such a thing come about through evolution? And, perhaps more importantly, why? Fascinating stuff.
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Hopefully nobody will ever try to chemically alter that part of the brain to allow themselves to eat more flesh than usual on Easter. (It'd be a waste of time and money anyway.)
"For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Thessalonians 5:9
Maranatha!
The Internet might be either your friend or enemy. It just depends on whether or not she has a bad hair day.
You shoulda gone to China. You know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
... And then the Prince Knelt Down and tried to put the Glass Slipper on Cinderella's Foot by Judith Viorst
I really didn't notice that he had a funny nose.
And he certainly looked better dressed up in fancy clothes.
He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night.
So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.
The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done,
we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change.
So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger,
but in wisdom, understanding and love.
Jennifer Edwards
"The Christian system of Religion is an outrage on common sense" -- Thomas Paine
"The Hocus Pocus phantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Reality sucks Thats why I play Hungry Hungry Hippo"
"So... what if i had a siamese penis?"
"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
You know, if a mere human was mentally split into three personas like your god he'd be in an insane assylm right?
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Practice safe lunch: Use a condiment.
The attack on women's reproductive rights has nothing to do with life and everything to do with trying to put women back in their "place"
"you can always tell what kind a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you" --- Audrey Hepburn
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)
What's on my mind at midnight, the dawn of the new calendar?
Quote:The 'me' as a baby in a photo album, the 'me' running around in elementary school, and finally the 'me' sitting there...they were all the same organism called Takeshi Kuanari.
So where exactly did the entity called 'me' exist?
In the past, people thought the soul existed in a person's heart. Descartes believed the soul inhabited the pineal gland in the brain. I wondered briefly if I only existed in my memories?
But if that were the truth, then if I lost my memory like the Kid, wouldn't that mean I was no longer Takeshi Kuanari?
For one thing, the 'me' that ran around in elementary school was composed of different molecules than the 'me' here. From a purely material point of view, my younger 'me' was entirely different from my older 'me'. Cells die and are replaced daily. Every cell that is replaced will also die.
Even so, the me of five years ago before and the me there were definitely the same. Then, just what was it that defined 'me'? And where did that 'me' exist?
— Takeshi Kuanari, Ever17
(12-21-2012, 12:16 PM)Taylor Wrote: What's on my mind at midnight, the dawn of the new calendar?
Quote:The 'me' as a baby in a photo album, the 'me' running around in elementary school, and finally the 'me' sitting there...they were all the same organism called Takeshi Kuanari.
So where exactly did the entity called 'me' exist?
In the past, people thought the soul existed in a person's heart. Descartes believed the soul inhabited the pineal gland in the brain. I wondered briefly if I only existed in my memories?
But if that were the truth, then if I lost my memory like the Kid, wouldn't that mean I was no longer Takeshi Kuanari?
For one thing, the 'me' that ran around in elementary school was composed of different molecules than the 'me' here. From a purely material point of view, my younger 'me' was entirely different from my older 'me'. Cells die and are replaced daily. Every cell that is replaced will also die.
Even so, the me of five years ago before and the me there were definitely the same. Then, just what was it that defined 'me'? And where did that 'me' exist?
— Takeshi Kuanari, Ever17
I would argue that that which defines a person is something that exists entirely outside of the physical dimensions we can currently perceive and I believe there are many more. It took several million years for us to gain the organs and the senses that allow us to observe the world as we see it and I believe it will take even more before we are able to observe that which constitutes the "soul" if you will. That doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means that we can't presently see it, at least with our eyes.
In my book, you are still the same person that you were when you were five. All that has changed is that your three-dimensional body has gained and lost cells and molecules with the passage of time.
That which defines you as a person is just not something we can presently measure with our limited perceptions of reality. What we can measure it with, though, is the impression you leave in our hearts.
Screw anyone who says that's an unscientific way to conclude. I reserve the right to be a sappy bastard when I want to be.
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You've pretty much captured my feelings on the matter. I don't know about millions of years of evolution to perceive our existences beyond what we can see now, but then again that is a long time.
What's on your mind?
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