If this creative intelligence exists within us, it must be at an inaccessible subconscious level. Otherwise people would have eight arms and gigantic ...
@"Rich" Following that line of thinking, every living thing has a genetic program that is periodically altered by this intelligent force. For example,...
But he had to raise them to get them on a high enough cliff. Unless maybe he lives on top of a mountain, where he does all of his philosophical ponder...
I believe what he means is that despite having highly evolved intelligence, our initial drives and instincts, as well as everything we experience, are...
Lately, I've come to believe that there is no true meaning to my life. Sounds like a bad thing, but I think it's actually having a positive impact, be...
@"Wosret" Here's something I wrote after surfacing from over a decade of major depression. It still helps me to go back and read it once in a while, b...
@"Sir2u" This thread is called The Last Word, not The Last Emoji. Just so you know, using someone else's words, followed by emojis will not count as w...
Well, Sappy definitely gets my vote for Most Morbid Moderator! I'm curious to know if it actually has any children that survived its harsh but fair di...
@"Wosret" Yes, this death drive you speak of equates to the powerful force that overrides our instinct to survive. It ebbs and flows, and builds in st...
It's not that suicidal people aren't aware of the consequences, it's just that the need to escape their misery overpowers their ability to think ratio...
I would answer the same. Being a fool is undesirable, even if every other person is a fool. Statement #2 is the only one that gives a man a chance of ...
@"TheMadFool" Right, but believing something to be true doesn't make it true. Personal bias will affect belief, but it won't change the ultimate truth...
Getting back to the butterfly effect in relation to superstition, I think Efram had it right from the beginning: A superstition relies on a certain ev...
Natural Selection isn't a force with a mind or will; it's merely a description of the events that are occurring. Living things reproduce. If a feature...
To me, 'all men are fools' is the bigger insult, because it says that, being a man, I am definitely a fool. 'All fools are men' is fine, because I'm n...
I posted this recently in another discussion about free will: For me, this indicates that free will is illusory, despite the fact that we are able to ...
I Am Not Myself (by Kevin Kroft?) I am not my house. It is just a place that keeps my body warm and dry. I am not my car. It is just a way to get me f...
@"TheMadFool" Even leaving choice in the equation, free will is illusory. Did you create yourself? No, you only exist because of some fluke of nature,...
How is it not less natural in the context of evolution? Continuation of a species requires procreation, and homosexuality removes the desire to couple...
Sorry, I didn't expect my statement to be taken as homophobic. It is meant to be anything but; just a plausible alternative as to why homosexuality ha...
Is it possible that homosexuality is just a bug in the human reproductive program, rather than an emergent trait with evolutionary implications? Heter...
Felt a bit of a mental drag yesterday. First one in the past few weeks. Mostly due to tiredness, I think, being up with my 18-month-old son for about ...
If change equates to suffering, you're in for a world of hurt. If there's one constant in this life, it's change. Lately, I've been trying to focus on...
Yes, I experience this quite frequently - I just have to think about how we're hurtling through space on a spinning sphere while we walk and talk and ...
Not so true, at least in my case. I agree that the sense of alienation forms in most everyone, but that it can be removed with conscious effort. I use...
No chance in our lifetime. I think it is relatively easy to formulate a solution that would benefit everyone equally. The trouble is that you would ha...
I think alcohol is a temporary shortcut to removing inhibitions. If you work on your inhibitions by addressing the reasons they exist, you shouldn't n...
@"Hanover" Another rule suggestion: Every post should have a Yes/No poll attached to it, so people can vote on whether or not the post is worthy of be...
Though some brains may start out being more susceptible to mental illness, I lean toward most depression starting with a build-up of negative experien...
And we've now reached a point where natural selection pretty much no longer applies to humans. The 'weak' humans end up being raised into adulthood, w...
I agree, though maintaining a present focus can be very unpleasant when in the grip of mental illness. The underlying cause of depression can be based...
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