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 Booby
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 Re: Tough truths  [Re: NiamhNyx]
#7608263 - 11/07/07 06:32 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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NiamhNyx said:
Of course I'm fond of my rational faculties as well, they help me organize the above listed in ways specific to my intended purposes.
so you're saying we can take advantage of 'animal instict' to gain a selfish advantage over our fellow beings?
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JonnyDeformed
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if you don't eat, you don't shit.
If you don't shit you die..
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dubiousness
Dubious compound
it is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
A penalty for possession of a drug/plant should not be more damaging than the drug/plant itself.
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JacquesCousteau
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Lion]
#7608278 - 11/07/07 06:37 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Truth is.
(That's it.)
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Booby
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Booby]
#7608299 - 11/07/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Booby said:
Quote:
NiamhNyx said:
Of course I'm fond of my rational faculties as well, they help me organize the above listed in ways specific to my intended purposes.
so you're saying we can take advantage of 'animal instict' to gain a selfish advantage over our fellow beings?
You're right. You didn't say that. Only a low-down manipulating scum would allude to such a thing.
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Booby]
#7608340 - 11/07/07 06:55 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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don't want to derail this thread any further but...
it is only fight or flight which makes us selfish
rationality, a product of our newer more evolved brain, is what allows us to balance our animalistic desires on one hand with what is rationally best, happiness for ourselves and others brought about by helping each other out.
someone who tries to take advantage of others is generally not happy because they are acting out of fear which is governed by the reptilian brain
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Booby
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EternalCowabunga said:
it is only fight or flight which makes us selfish
Instinctual self-preservation? You're on to something.
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NiamhNyx
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Booby]
#7608443 - 11/07/07 07:18 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't think the fight or flight instinct makes us selfish. People become selfish when they fear deprivation and are socially alienated. Fight or flight allows us to avoid getting into dangerous situations. I appreciate and trust this instinct, we'd probably all die at a really young age without it.
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Lion]
#7608713 - 11/07/07 08:21 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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That immortality is a long way off..
That there will never be another opportunity.
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Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy - Ambrose Bierce
Medical science has confirmed what the male world has known intuitively for millenia: that scratching your ass is a great aid to complex thinking.
Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations such as Jaish, Lashkar etc.
Its our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces
"Hey Monkey!! Get Funky" - Tarzan and Jane
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Re: Tough truths [Re: shakercee]
#7609528 - 11/08/07 12:03 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cameron
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Re: Tough truths [Re: ZShroom]
#7609879 - 11/08/07 03:30 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't know... most of us will never realize our dreams, will never reach our full potential, and when we die we will soon be forgotten (save for a select few loved ones).
Uplifting thread 
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Clean
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Cameron]
#7610481 - 11/08/07 10:25 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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tough truth #23
Pure authoritarianism disguised as democracy does not need to come take your power away. Instead, you give it up by your own free will.
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Luddite]
#7610683 - 11/08/07 11:19 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Luddite said:
Too many self rightous juvenile delinquents bitch on the internet constantly.
I think that's the toughest truth posted so far.
evidenced by the fact that people ignored it
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Luddite]
#7610700 - 11/08/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Luddite said:
Too many self rightous juvenile delinquents bitch on the internet constantly.
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ZShroom
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i am not a juvenile delinquent!! FUCK U
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Re: Tough truths [Re: ZShroom]
#7610912 - 11/08/07 12:11 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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tough truth for me (and 99% of everyone else):
you are not special or unique.
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MushmanTheManic
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"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
But you are not a pile of shit, either.
You just are."
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BlueCoyote
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Quote:
MushroomTrip said:
God is a fairytale? 
You're on your own...
If someone considers this truth, then I have to ad:
G*d does exist, we just haven't developed any means to let us know.
We are not alone 
[For some that might be tough ]
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Icelander
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Quote:
BlueCoyote said:
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MushroomTrip said:
God is a fairytale?
You're on your own...
If someone considers this truth, then I have to ad:
G*d does exist, we just haven't developed any means to let us know.
We are not alone
[For some that might be tough ]
Let me provide the middle path which I believe to be the best and most honest one. "We do not know if there is a God or not."
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"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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Truth_Within
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Re: Tough truths [Re: Lion]
#7614697 - 11/09/07 11:15 AM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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Words are lies.
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Icelander
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Then what you just said is untrue.
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"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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