Give me your one original, most creative thought!

@richrf,

I have three:

1) Sleep/Awake is very similar to Death/Birth. The primary difference is the amount that memory that we have of the prior cycle.

2) Why do we have death? So, we can have a clean start of course! Every game needs to have a beginning and and end!

3) Inherited characteristics are those skills that we have learned from past lives.

Rich

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@richrf,

I find it funny when people say, "I want to live on after death". What "I" do these people desire to live on, or suppose can live on? Surely it's not their physical form - "they" aren't their bodies. The turnover rate of most cells is around 10 years, meaning by the time one is 30 the body will have renewed 99% of cells thrice over. Their memories? Memories are fragile constituents of the "mind", deteriorating with time. A simple swing to the head from a baseball bat can erase dozens of years of wisdom in the blink of an eye. Would you be the same person if you developed Alzheimer's disease? That aside, our thoughts, the notions we conceive daily are ever-changing. Notions like "love", "god", "hate" mature with time and experience, and our conceptions of all things, even the simple, change as we contemplate. Even our IQ, our ability to perceive and grasp the world around us and store knowledge, changes.

There is no "self"; "I" exists only in social context. "I" is relative, ever-changing, dynamic, a set of understood resemblances by which we classify our fellow humanoids. The "self" you were this moment is not the "self" you were last moment or will be in the next moment. I'm even butchering the notion of "moment" here in an attempt to articulate this thought. But, really, moments are by my design also. Another measurement by which I attempt to make sense out of this existence.

I wonder if we're the only species with a conception of "self".

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@Zetherin,

Zetherin;69547 wrote:

I find it funny when people say, "I want to live on after death". What "I" do these people desire to live on, or suppose can live on? Surely it's not their physical form - "they" aren't their bodies. The turnover rate of most cells is around 10 years, meaning by the time one is 30 the body will have renewed 99% of cells thrice over. Their memories? Memories are fragile constituents of the "mind", deteriorating with time. A simple swing to the head from a baseball bat can erase dozens of years of wisdom in the blink of an eye. Would you be the same person if you developed Alzheimer's disease? That aside, our thoughts, the notions we conceive daily are ever-changing. Notions like "love", "god", "hate" mature with time and experience, and our conceptions of all things, even the simple, change as we contemplate. Even our IQ, our ability to perceive and grasp the world around us and store knowledge, changes.

There is no "self"; "I" exists only in social context. "I" is relative, ever-changing, dynamic, a set of understood resemblances by which we classify our fellow humanoids. The "self" you were this moment is not the "self" you were last moment or will be in the next moment. I'm even butchering the notion of "moment" here in an attempt to articulate this thought. But, really, moments are by my design also. Another measurement by which I attempt to make sense out of this existence.

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your creative thoughts with me.

Rich

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@richrf,

richrf;69548 wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your creative thoughts with me.

Rich

Thanks for making a thread by which the forum may share their creative thoughts.

The thought was surely creative.

- Zeth

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@Zetherin,

Zetherin;69549 wrote:

Thanks for making a thread by which the forum may share their creative thoughts.

The thought was surely creative.

- Zeth

Hi Zeth,

You are quite welcome.

Rich

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@richrf,

Here's one thought that I have created:

The human body is a designed to receive and transmit information between different individual consciousness. The brain/spine are an oscillating antenna sending and receiving information between the external world (external consciousness) and the internal organs, which are the home of the spirit (Chinese Shen), mind (Chinese Yi), soul (Chinese Hun), Will (Chinese Zhi), and physical body (Chinese Po). So, humans are distinct from trees, for example, in that we are walking attennas! Smile

Of course, there is also internal information being exchanged within the human body, using the same setup.

Rich

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@richrf,

Zetherin;69547 wrote:

There is no "self"; "I" exists only in social context. "I" is relative, ever-changing, dynamic, a set of understood resemblances by which we classify our fellow humanoids. The "self" you were this moment is not the "self" you were last moment or will be in the next moment. I'm even butchering the notion of "moment" here in an attempt to articulate this thought. But, really, moments are by my design also. Another measurement by which I attempt to make sense out of this existence.

"...moments are by my design..." amen to the above.

Great thread, thank you! to the thread starter.

I personally cannot comprehend how any thought we have can be considered 'original' to begin with based on a oneness or a universal thought or a divine inspiration or God, whatever one chooses to call it. We are built of energy and we radiate our energy, co-creating with a said 'God'. So with intent we create. <- That's my original thought LOL.

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@richrf,

Humans philosophize because they cannot bear the thought of being mere things.

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@Justin,

Justin;70195 wrote:

"...moments are by my design..." amen to the above.

Great thread, thank you! to the thread starter.

I personally cannot comprehend how any thought we have can be considered 'original' to begin with based on a oneness or a universal thought or a divine inspiration or God, whatever one chooses to call it. We are built of energy and we radiate our energy, co-creating with a said 'God'. So with intent we create. <- That's my original thought LOL.

Great! Thanks for sharing me your thoughts.

Rich

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Aedes;70216 wrote:

Humans philosophize because they cannot bear the thought of being mere things.

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Keep them coming guys.

Rich

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@richrf,

Love is when two entities are emotionally combined. When we die our bodies go into the earth as soil, but our soul is really connected in our mind, so conscious thinking is divine in a sense. We are born again, but with different perceptions since we have absolute free will, it's pretty much recycling and we are formed again.

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@Paggos,

Paggos;73187 wrote:

Love is when two entities are emotionally combined. When we die our bodies go into the earth as soil, but our soul is really connected in our mind, so conscious thinking is divine in a sense. We are born again, but with different perceptions since we have absolute free will, it's pretty much recycling and we are formed again.

Hi Paggos,

Interesting creative thought. I am sure you will have plenty of opportunity to investigate this further on this forum. Thanks for stopping by and sharing it with me.

Rich

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@richrf,

The only man you can truly trust is the one with the 9mm down his throat

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@Imnotrussian,

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This is just a cover Im working on for a small article Im pondering.

Say anything you want, do anything you want. Without thinking. Do all this while breathing. Here is a good explanation about how original people can be:

'I can't believe that!' said Alice.
'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't
believe impossible things.'
'I dare say you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen.
'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast."

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@richrf,

Thanks for the original creative thoughts guys. Things are evolving more and more to the fringe ....

Rich

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@richrf,

My signature below is my best thought original?

Listen before you speak
Be polite
Imagine
Never stop learning
Learn
Be patient
Do not provoke

These are not original but heck they seem to be forgotten by many

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@richrf,

Forget equivocation, strawman, and ad hominem: using humans as a means of debate is the ultimate logical fallacy.

Haha.

Edit: Yeah, I'm the type to laugh at my own jokes. :a-ok:

An addendum: These aren't awesomely awesome creative ideas, but these are just tongue-in-cheek aphorisms I thought up when I was younger. Enjoy at your own risk.

+++
If knowledge is power, then are "omniscience" and "omnipotence" interchangeable?

I meditate every night for 8 hours.

Vegetarians are simply selective murderers.

Philosophers are scientists, and ideas are their lab rats.
+++
Less comical ideas:

There's a difference between idiocy and ignorance; the first is an incapacity for new information, the second is just a lack of awareness.

Thinking is delayed intuition.

Utopia is the generous breach of yin and yang!

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@richrf,

Really nice guys. Thanks for adding to the thread.

Rich

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@parker pyne,

parker pyne;74984 wrote:

Forget equivocation, strawman, and ad hominem: using humans as a means of debate is the ultimate logical fallacy.

Haha.

lol nice.

I wish I had some witty original thought to type out but at the moment Im all too tired from the celebration of the 4th. BBQing with beer and friends never gets old.

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@richrf,

What about this one?

Know what you do not know and be humble enough to admit it

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@Alan McDougall,

Alan McDougall;75011 wrote:

What about this one?

Know what you do not know and be humble enough to admit it

The words "I don't know" are very humble. I've always found humility to be endearing. Though then there's schopenhauer's view:

"With people of limited ability, modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

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