Thoughts? - Page 4

Eisenwurst · 08-03-18, 11:27 PM

I think I'll have a beer

Sean C · 08-03-18, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Apparently humans operate not on what information they know but on their feelings. I do not know whether this is intelligence-gone-bad or just a convenient denial of the facts, based on changes most are unwilling to make?

It's evolution. We're hard wired to generalize and form strong feelings about our experiences ... right or wrong. Sometimes it can be helpful, or even save your life. Many times it does the opposite.

For instance: if a man ventures into a swamp to explore it and gets attacked by an alligator, he'll probably feel very strongly against going into the swamp again for fear of being attacked a second time. And that's probably wise. On the other hand, if a man has a bad experience with someone very different from him, he may decide that everyone who is different is somehow bad. And he may suffer because of this.

We have to make hundreds, if not thousands of choices every day. Sometimes we have to make multiple choices at once ... sometimes we have to make them in a split second. It's not always possible to reason out every single choice. So we have adapted to make snap decisions in an instant, based on our feelings.

Of course, you and I know - intellectually - that the world is seldom if ever black and white. Every situation is different, and the outcome is almost never the same. But it's hard to overcome hundreds of thousands (or really millions) of years of evolution. Sometimes you have to work at it - and sometimes you don't even realize it is happening. But, if you can see past the illusion of labels and categories, you can save yourself a lot of suffering.

In the end, there really is no "you" and "me" ... no "this" and "that".

There is only "us".

Sean C · 08-03-18, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by eisenwurst

I think I'll have a beer

I'll drink to that!

em2nought · 08-05-18, 06:06 AM

No spelunking during rainy season.

AVGWarhawk · 08-06-18, 11:18 AM

Thinking good thoughts.

Jimbuna · 08-06-18, 03:12 PM

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

u crank · 08-06-18, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Thinking good thoughts.

I think.... that thinking good thoughts is good for you.

STEED · 08-06-18, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank

I think.... that thinking good thoughts is good for you.

And helps you to loose weight.

Reece · 08-06-18, 06:47 PM

Unless it's good thoughts of eating a huge meal.

Jimbuna · 08-07-18, 05:49 AM

Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow.

Reece · 08-07-18, 06:11 AM

Gosh Jim:

Aktungbby · 08-07-18, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Thoughts? Seems they do not help humanity.
Apparently humans operate not on what information they know but on their feelings. I do not know whether this is intelligence-gone-bad or just a convenient denial of the facts, based on changes most are unwilling to make? If i look at those 'superpowers' and who sits at the the levers of power i cannot eat as much as i have to vomit. The word is not yet in whether the human race will survive. We have been more advanced, and now we are devoluting, by science, empathy and common sense. Lots of steps backwards in the last few years, from environmental neglect to intra- and interspecies genocide, to unions breaking up for selfishness, profit, nationalism and sheer stupidity.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow.

SOME DAYS ARE BRIGHTER THN OTHERS...FOR THE CHAMORRO(GUAM) THERE MAY B NO TOMORROW!

WHO''S ''BRIGHTER TOMORROW'' IS A MATTER OF SOME CONJECTURE....

Mr Quatro · 08-07-18, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals

Animals think too ... they think how to eat you

STEED · 08-07-18, 03:35 PM

I have had many thoughts on life the universe and everything and none of them think 42 is the answer.

vienna · 08-07-18, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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endows us with cell phones ...

That, right there, ought to be a sufficient argument against the value of human thought...

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,266 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Thinking good thoughts. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,584 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,725 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Unless it's good thoughts of eating a huge meal. __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,584 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,725 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Gosh Jim: __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

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STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I have had many thoughts on life the universe and everything and none of them think 42 is the answer. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!