what % of posts does babe account for in this thread?
about half. I've done 2300 posts total since I started this, not quite 2000 in here. . . . .
I promise to answer every single post anyone else does, except some crappy ones.
what % of posts does babe account for in this thread?
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It's like if you take "water". He'll describe it as H2O. He'll keep repeating it. He's not wrong. But that's not the whole story. He doesn't talk about how it gives life, how it flows, how it impacts our lives, etc.
I'll admit I'd never win an intellectual debate with him - that's why I've given up trying to debate with him. How can he be wrong, if he keeps shouting that water is H2O, he'll always be right.
There is more to the story than that, but if he is not open to that possibility, he'll never be able to see/experience it.
Seriously. . . ..
I want about three homes in the Philippines, one in Baguio, one in Cebu, and one in Hagunoy.
Baguio is a pine forest with temps close to San Francisco, Cebu has hills covered with mango trees and endless seascapes. Hagunoy is a farmer's paradise only an hour from Manila.
But I actually wanted more to talk about the nature of mankind. . . what kinds of things about us indicate there is more to us than simple chemistry???
Don;t know about the X Games, but what does stop is my coaching season. I'm a little depressed right now...not enough to call a hotline, but I had such a great time coaching and our season is now over (we finished 6-1-1). Seriously, if any of you are considering coaching ANY sport, whether it be for your own child, nephew, niece, whomever...just DO IT! There is nothing more rewarding than working with children.
Ah, so that's why this thread is so damn long...
The night sky, it floats by
Like the world is standing still
I feel you, and fear you
All I have is time to kill
The darkness, it haunts us
Like voices from the dead
With no fear you stay here
Crashing thunder overhead
When the sky is falling down, will you still be around?
Yeah he "intellectualize" everything. That's the problem I have with him. I don't think we can always "think through" everything. I do believe our mental capacity is limited in some sense.
Take for example a cat. Can it ever fully understand us? No. It lives in its own world, knows what it knows, (like there is food in the tray), but it doesn't know how that food came to be.
We as human knows about the Universe. But we don't know how it came to be. At least I'm open to the possibility that I don't know everything and that I do lack the mental capacity to think through things...
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It's like if you take "water". He'll describe it as H2O. He'll keep repeating it. He's not wrong. But that's not the whole story. He doesn't talk about how it gives life, how it flows, how it impacts our lives, etc.
I'll admit I'd never win an intellectual debate with him - that's why I've given up trying to debate with him. How can he be wrong, if he keeps shouting that water is H2O, he'll always be right.
There is more to the story than that, but if he is not open to that possibility, he'll never be able to see/experience it.
what % of posts does babe account for in this thread?
I'm #83 on the list of members according to number of posts.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
Speaking of longest ever......do the X-games just never stop now? It used to be like the Olympics of "extreme" sports, but now there are multiple X-games a year and it seems like one big never-ending watered down turd. I'm into skateboarding and like watching some of the motorcycle stuff, but not 50 times a year. Even Dennis Schroeder hates it.
Only pervs want 3 houses in the Philippines. I'm kind in a gritty mood right now. If I could live anywhere in the world at the moment I think slumming it in Salford(England's Detroit) would be fun. I would be over it in a month probably, but it seems appealing right now.
Don;t know about the X Games, but what does stop is my coaching season. I'm a little depressed right now...not enough to call a hotline, but I had such a great time coaching and our season is now over (we finished 6-1-1). Seriously, if any of you are considering coaching ANY sport, whether it be for your own child, nephew, niece, whomever...just DO IT! There is nothing more rewarding than working with children.
- Moral values when there is nothing in it for us to further our species/cause? If I travel to India, and I see a poor beggar on the street, why should I give him money? I was never going to see him again - so it doesn't benefit me to help him.
One Brow would say, that we do it out of "empathy". But that answer alone isn't good enough. I can have empathy (defined as capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another person), but how does it benefit me to act upon that empathy from an "animal" stand point? Let's say a lion develops "empathy" - would it stop eating other animals? No it won't. Its survival instinct would still kick in. But as humans, we're willing to do the opposite - we're willing to sacrifice our own life for others.
I would argue that we don't help others simply out of empathy - having empathy helps, but it's not the only reason. We help others because we have "love" built within us to "do the right thing". It is written in our "hearts". It's what's in every human's "hearts" if we're honest with ourselves.