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Icelander
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#7853014 - 01/09/08 10:44 AM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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Are we stuck in a transitional time warp? Our lives merely a phase like the one between fish and frog, crawling from sea to land in an evolutionary midlife crisis? Will we go back to our webbed feet to navigate the landscape after the oceans rise? What part of our anatomy will begin to grow and lead us to our next destiny? What sleek new species is waiting to be born from our dilemmas? What could have designed us like this, floundering between feelings of self-importance and doubt? Where do we really fit in the big story of life?
-------------------- "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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"Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon it's self-love. The first was when we realized that the earth was not the center of the Universe. The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created and relegated him to decent from the animal world, implying an irradicable animal nature to him....But man's craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow from present day psychological research, which is endeavoring to prove to the ego in each one of us that he is not even master in his own house... -SF
-------------------- "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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Icelander said: What part of our anatomy will begin to grow and lead us to our next destiny? What sleek new species is waiting to be born from our dilemmas? What could have designed us like this, floundering between feelings of self-importance and doubt? Where do we really fit in the big story of life?
We are but a technological sliver in the grand scheme of evolution.
Humanity will technologically evolve at a much faster rate than it will evolve physically. Perhaps technology will be our downfall. Perhaps technology will eventually allow humanity to control its own physical evolution.
I don't think humans can physically evolve fast enough to keep up with the NORMAL climate change cycles of Earth. If global warming speeds that process up... humanity could be fucked. We may roast... or we may freeze... but a BIG climate shift COULD fuck humanity over quite quickly. Humans like a narrow climate range... kinda' like dinosaurs.
Technology will either be our downfall or our savior.
It is quite likely humans will reach their own evolutionary dead end... just like MOST species that came before humanity.
Whatever happens... life will continue on Earth until Earth's core freezes, something HUGE hits it, or the Sun explodes.
Life on Earth has withstood many catastrophic events (even when the dominant species of the time failed to survive)... and with each mass extinction in Earth's history, life has come back with a renewed vigor.
Also, paleontological evidence leads me to believe evolution has sped up and increased in complexity with each mass extinction. So perhaps it is better for life in general, if humanity fails to evolve and is smote from the face of this planet.
Evolution seems to thrive in times of great Earthly peril.
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Edited by Rose (01/09/08 03:49 PM)
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Re: Question [Re: Rose]
#7854449 - 01/09/08 03:54 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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I like you.
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Gay.
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Re: Question [Re: Rose]
#7854461 - 01/09/08 03:55 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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Bi
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Re: Question [Re: Rose]
#7854505 - 01/09/08 03:59 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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Ain't philosophy grand?
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Beats real life.
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Re: Question [Re: Rose]
#7854542 - 01/09/08 04:04 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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I've often wondered about that.
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I'm starting to think it's really impossible to step back and see where humanity is going - it's not for us to see. Better to take everything one day at a time and not try and comprehend infinity. At least, better for me. Mind expansion gives me headaches!
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EternalCowabunga said: I'm starting to think it's really impossible to step back and see where humanity is going
***stepping back, far back*** It sounds like the humanity of this thread is starting to form a train.... 
>^;;^<
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Icelander said: Are we stuck in a transitional time warp? Our lives merely a phase like the one between fish and frog, crawling from sea to land in an evolutionary midlife crisis? Will we go back to our webbed feet to navigate the landscape after the oceans rise? What part of our anatomy will begin to grow and lead us to our next destiny? What sleek new species is waiting to be born from our dilemmas? What could have designed us like this, floundering between feelings of self-importance and doubt? Where do we really fit in the big story of life?
Those are some good questions. They all depend on how you define self and identity and conciousness though, and those are all different for every human being as well as intangible, therefore most of them are moot points; It is impossible to answer them.
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some1whoisntme said: Those are some good questions.
True.
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They all depend on how you define self and identity and conciousness though(t) (sic), and those are all different for every human being as well as intangible, therefore most of them are moot points; It is impossible to answer them.
False.
"Self"
"Identity"
"Conscious Though(t) (sic)"
All of those words have definitions.
They mean what they mean... not what you as an individual want them to mean.
Sorry.
Try again.
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