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the path of least resistance
#14524253 - 05/27/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Anyone else wonder why the path of least resistance seems to prevail in nature? A river winds it's way towards the ocean by finding the path of least resistance. Lightening strikes that which is nearest, even if only by a few feet (see: lightening rods on houses).
Can anyone think of some ways this might play out in human life?
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle]
#14524452 - 05/28/11 12:25 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i think the path of least resistance for humans is what comes naturally to them which over time becomes what they are good at doing.
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle]
#14525125 - 05/28/11 06:17 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Anyone else wonder why the path of least resistance seems to prevail in nature? A river winds it's way towards the ocean by finding the path of least resistance. Lightening strikes that which is nearest, even if only by a few feet (see: lightening rods on houses).
Can anyone think of some ways this might play out in human life?
Saves energy
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Icelander]
#14525495 - 05/28/11 09:28 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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it can be seen in every single aspect of human life, it is what determines every single "action" in nature including humans. it is the basis of evolution.
-------------------- Thinking is dreaming wake up and enjoy the dream.
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Icelander]
#14525864 - 05/28/11 11:11 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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Kickle said: Anyone else wonder why the path of least resistance seems to prevail in nature? A river winds it's way towards the ocean by finding the path of least resistance. Lightening strikes that which is nearest, even if only by a few feet (see: lightening rods on houses).
Can anyone think of some ways this might play out in human life?
Saves energy
Only so much to go around?
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle]
#14525881 - 05/28/11 11:13 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Yes in each material manifestation there is a limited amount of life energy. How it is used is critical to the functioning and longevity of the life form due to the rigors of the environment.
Any Martial Artist worth his salt knows this.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: zoomfan]
#14525957 - 05/28/11 11:30 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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zoomfan said: it can be seen in every single aspect of human life, it is what determines every single "action" in nature including humans. it is the basis of evolution.
So how do you explain someone who broods over a simple event, such as being cut off in traffic, long after the event has occurred?
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle] 1
#14526015 - 05/28/11 11:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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dis-ease
leads to energy loss and early death
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Icelander]
#14527809 - 05/28/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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born into a world of disease? explains why I heard the calling of a healer.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle]
#14530542 - 05/29/11 12:40 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Can anyone think of some ways this might play out in human life?
Welfare?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Poid]
#14530748 - 05/29/11 01:25 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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are you referring to the creation of wellfare or the use of wellfare? Because I can see both resulting from a path of least resistance.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: the path of least resistance [Re: Kickle]
#14530793 - 05/29/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kickle said: are you referring to the creation of wellfare or the use of wellfare? Because I can see both resulting from a path of least resistance.
Both, now that I think about it..originally, I was referring only to the use of welfare.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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