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Cooperation vs. Conflict
    #7625874 - 11/12/07 02:04 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Cooperation is often bandied about as a higher spiritual state than conflict. Sounds good, eh? (Ant colonies must be mighty spiritual then.) No matter how much cooperation there is, there will always be conflict. For humans to live other creatures must die and that certainly entails conflict. If that is true (it is!) then only intra-human cooperation is 'good'? What about intra-species cooperation?

Even if we stop the destruction of the oceans and rain forests, it is only for our own long-term, self-centered benefit.

Cooperation is merely another strategy for survival and is inherently no more nor less spiritual than a different tact.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626121 - 11/12/07 02:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Why must other creatures die for us to live?

If you wanted to I'm sure you could find a basis to make conflict "spiritual" too.

Maybe the key lies within the reason behind the cooperation...
Are you doing it for YOUR benefit?
or are you doing it for the benefit for everyone and everything?


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: dirtworshipper]
    #7626163 - 11/12/07 03:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Are you doing it for YOUR benefit?
or are you doing it for the benefit for everyone and everything?



I think the real enlightenment comes in realizing the false dichotomy between the two. When you realize your oneness with others, then selfishness and altruism become obsolete terms.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: dirtworshipper]
    #7626281 - 11/12/07 03:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Why must other creatures die for us to live?





Huh? Because that is the WAY THINGS ARE. A basic biology course will answer your question.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626305 - 11/12/07 03:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

What about the Breatharians? They have proven that humans just need air, water, and sunshine. Their founder Wiley Brooks says so, and he is an "Inter-dimensional Traveler" so he should know.
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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626307 - 11/12/07 03:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Millions of Jains might disagree with you there.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Huehuecoyotl] * 1
    #7626331 - 11/12/07 03:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Hate to sound like I have been everywhere and done everything - even tho true, but I met Wiley (Coyote) Brooks in Sunnyvale, CA a few years back. When I asked him about his getting 'caught' eating, he didn't miss a beat and merely explained that the chaos of being in the city made him occasionally require food, but if in the mountains with pure air, it was unnecessary.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7626350 - 11/12/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Jains still eat, requiring that other lifeforms must die.

And, of course, Jains have white blood cells and other lymphocytes which kill millions of bacteria daily.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626384 - 11/12/07 03:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Jains still eat, requiring that other lifeforms must die.



Am I to assume that you've never been bitten by a mosquito? Not all eating requires the death of another organism. Many of the most devout Jains do not eat vegetables that must die in order to be eaten. Rather, they are fruititarians. They eat fruits and nuts that fall from trees(thus not killing the tree), and other food that does not require the death of the organism.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626394 - 11/12/07 03:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Cooperation is merely another strategy for survival and is inherently no more nor less spiritual than a different tact.

Who gives a ---- about spiritual? Cooperation sounds great to me.:thumbup:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7626439 - 11/12/07 03:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Am I to assume that you've never been bitten by a mosquito?




And I squashed the little fucking vampire!


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7626577 - 11/12/07 04:20 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I would ask him why he did not just shift dimensions so that he didn't have to blow his cash on food. In any case world hunger has been conquered if we just make sure mountains and pure air are at every location on Earth.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7626791 - 11/12/07 05:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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dirtworshipper said:
Are you doing it for YOUR benefit?
or are you doing it for the benefit for everyone and everything?



I think the real enlightenment comes in realizing the false dichotomy between the two.  When you realize your oneness with others, then selfishness and altruism become obsolete terms.




that is completely true

it's like "protesting"
aren't "anti-war" rallies and the "anti" this and that rallies just more conflict?
just creating more of the polar opposite
instead of focusing on the way they are the same

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Huh? Because that is the WAY THINGS ARE. A basic biology course will answer your question.




I'm not convinced that other creatures need to die for us to live.
I know a few fruitarians (if you think killing vegetables is wrong). They aren't killing anything, literally.

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Who gives a ---- about spiritual? Cooperation sounds great to me.:thumbup:




:handth:
very well said.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: dirtworshipper]
    #7626801 - 11/12/07 05:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)


I'm not convinced that other creatures need to die for us to live.
I know a few fruitarians (if you think killing vegetables is wrong). They aren't killing anything, literally.


When they breath they occasionally inhale and kill minute insect life not to mention stepping on the poor little buggers.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Icelander]
    #7626818 - 11/12/07 05:15 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:rofl:

I think they wear a respirator at all times
and instead of walking they float around

:flyingpig:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Icelander]
    #7626822 - 11/12/07 05:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Try not to drag facts and reality into New Age ideals. :fairy:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #7629744 - 11/13/07 10:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Plants are not creatures. (Animal, vegetable or mineral? Only the first category contains creatures.)  :grin:  Creatures do not have to die in order for humans to live, though they must die for humans to eat grilled T-bone steaks.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Veritas]
    #7629756 - 11/13/07 10:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Also note that food can also be obtained from creatures without killing them. Milk and honey, for example.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7629768 - 11/13/07 10:50 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

And blood.:hellfire:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #7629778 - 11/13/07 10:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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What about the Breatharians? They have proven that humans just need air, water, and sunshine. Their founder Wiley Brooks says so, and he is an "Inter-dimensional Traveler" so he should know.




Are they trying to split from the human species? Hmmm. something like conscious devolution..


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: shakercee]
    #7629813 - 11/13/07 10:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:lol:  More like conscious suicide!  I'm guessing that the Breatharians who manage to avoid death by starvation have been munching on the sly.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #7629818 - 11/13/07 10:59 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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What about the Breatharians? They have proven that humans just need air, water, and sunshine. Their founder Wiley Brooks says so, and he is an "Inter-dimensional Traveler" so he should know.
http://www.breatharian.com/






Don't be so cocky! It has been proven. Breatharians can live for up to three minutes on this diet. It's been proven.:thumbup:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Icelander]
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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Icelander]
    #7629849 - 11/13/07 11:05 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bahadur_Bomjon

This kid's claims of inedia(or rather his followers' claims, as it doesn't look like he speaks very often) seem to have at least some evidence. The Discovery channel filmed him for 96 hours non-stop, during which time he did not eat, drink, or move.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Veritas]
    #7629857 - 11/13/07 11:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Just wondering how they reproduce? Do they have sex or is it by breathing...:teleport:


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    #7629897 - 11/13/07 11:12 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

That's only 4 days. :shrug:


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    #7629901 - 11/13/07 11:13 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Just wondering how they reproduce? Do they have sex or is it by breathing...:teleport:




:lol:  Yes, and they make sure to eat Altoids first to prevent birth defects.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Veritas]
    #7629917 - 11/13/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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That's only 4 days. :shrug:



Impressive nonetheless, don't you think?


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    #7629921 - 11/13/07 11:17 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

No, not really. Though not moving for that long would be a drag. I've gone without eating for 10 days when I was sick.


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7629931 - 11/13/07 11:20 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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That's only 4 days. :shrug:



Impressive nonetheless, don't you think?




No. People who have found themselves without access to water have done this as a matter of course.


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    #7629960 - 11/13/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Would he have gone without water for 4 days if he were sitting in a desert?


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    #7629962 - 11/13/07 11:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Would he have gone without water for 4 days if he were sitting in a desert?



You'll have to ask him.


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    #7629964 - 11/13/07 11:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Not if it was raining at the time.:lol:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: Silversoul]
    #7629975 - 11/13/07 11:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Since they don't allow anyone to get near him, i will try to communicate telepathically :grin:


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Re: Cooperation vs. Conflict [Re: shakercee]
    #7629985 - 11/13/07 11:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

"Send" him my my regards.:heart:


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