****Chit-chat Philososphy Corner****

If no-one replies to this thread, does it exist?

That's it, Bodil. Get properly warmed up first.

If everything has evolved towards perfection (and still will), are we living in the absolutely most perfect possible world at the moment. i.e could there have been a more perfect "world" in the past?

i think,therefore im wham

The parrallel keyboard theory

This is an excerpt from Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" - a book inspired by the most distant photograph ever taken of earth (seeit here: http://jessejchapman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pale-blue-dot-full1.jpg). These words are some ofthe finest I have ever read.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

I wanna know what happens to me once I am dead.What animal do I come back as ?

stewards, in Hinduism the nature of your next incarnation is determined by the balance of your good and bad deeds in this life (ie karma).

dont you remember?
no one does

rock, if no one remembers how would I? :D

Rhetorical,

For 92% of my life I have been what I would consider to be a good person.So now can you give me a guide of my stature in the animal kingdom when I return ?

A tiger it is then

Statistically it's got to be a bacterium or a virus. STD or Black Death or Swine Flu?

Personally, I think Rockin Horse is on the money in saying that we return to whatever we were before we arrived here - like a drop of ocean spray rejoining the ocean.

:^0

did you have to let it linger egg
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stewardsenquirey
there you go you 8% bad person you
http://www.wwf.org.hk/images/maipo/wildlife/fish/Blue-spotted-Mud-Skipper_(Leung-Wai-Ki,-WWF-HK)-l.jpg

Easter 1916 17 Oct 00:23
some deep sh1t here, man.


Take another hooch on that cone, dearborn. ;)

^ those last five words are v wise imo...