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Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 2:37 am
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It has been driving me crazy. Why am I not a gorilla in the amazon or an old lady's poodle? I don't have anything else to add really...
There are infinite ways of proving that God as most major religions define it does not exist, but the fact that I am human makes me much cooler than all the other members of the animal kingdom. Why do I have that advantage?
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 3:07 am
Sometimes I feel sorry for my cat that he wasn't born a human. But because humanity can be so messed up, maybe he feels the same way about me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 4:25 am
I don't feel sorry for other animals. Except the ones that suck like starfish or blobfish. If I was to choose, I'd be a whale. The question stands.
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 4:43 am
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ive always thought a bonobo has it pretty good, all they do is fuck and eat all day. compared to a common chimp which are aggressive and kill their own like we do, bonobos settle tension with sex rather than fighting.
i doubt they have the higher intelligence to worry and think deeply about death and the afterlife.
Obviously im glad im a human though and ive often thought why was i not born as a bacteria cell, or paris hiltons dog or how could i be so lucky to have even be born at all with all the other sperm to contend with, and how could i be so lucky after that to be born into a relatively middle class white english family rather than an african dying of starvation or living in poverty.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 5:10 am
I've also always wondered why I was born at all and in this era. Is there a waiting list? Can "souls" ever miss out on being born into a body?
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 5:43 am
It's thinking about things like this that makes me wonder if I'm the star of my own Truman Show. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU ACTORS!?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
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RE: Consciousness
January 11, 2013 at 7:01 am
Why did I not win the lottery?! Why me?!?!?!?!?!?
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