Cogito ergo sum...[/color] If I stopped thinking I would consider that I am already dead.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Actually, that "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" is, I believe, a Craven thing, though he denied it when pressed. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Anyways, it is a thinking sound, and it belongs here.
Like the story Hiama - and the bully stuff Little k - like, just say "no", right, to bullying I mean. What we need is a few teachers in the world - modern teachers, not the old sort who used to deny bullying existed - we need to be able to go to the teacher on duty and say "Downer's bullying East Timor, Miss" - or "Indonesia is being mean to Australia" or "The USA is being mean to Iraq, but Iraq was mean, too!" and have them fix it.
I understand Margo - I wanna be a Renaissance woman - and I wanna study Archaeology and Anthropology and art and stuff.
One of my best friends, a psychiatrist, is back at uni - doing an arts degree - part-time, of course - and loving it. He had always wanted to, but says he never recovered from me saying one day, thoughtfully apparently, after having had to deal with yet another arrogant, uppity psychiatry registrar, that psychiatrists were trained, not educated!
I am a meanie.
Keep those thoughts coming in, folks!
hey - it would be fun if folk bounced off each other's thoughts, you know - like about when we became human or if our emotions have changed over the last 40 millenia - or something....
Do a thought experiment on that oner Steissd, and see what happens!
Littie Katie - you know when you hit the ol' SEND button and the ol' computer has to crunch some numbers? It let's you know that something's happening with that little ol' graybar. Same thing, the Bun-One's intellektual capacity is being pushed to the limit, the humming is the system on hold... Sad really....
Oh, hi guys - didn't think anyone was online - err, gotta run!!
Well now, I haven't been able to stop thinking since this thread started,...thanks AGAIN D.!!
I've been pondering time, how we came up with our current set of hours, days, weeks etc.,...and how do we know we're right???
We might be perpetually late for things,...or even worse too early for things,...and that would really butter my muffin!!!
Have our emotions evolved? I think they have had to. We have so much time to think about how we feel. I doubt that our ancestors were sitting around the fire trying to figure out whether they were happy or unhappy and if the latter what they could do about it. So I think that when people started thinking about how they feel, our emotions started to be refined. More words for unhappy. Happy. Love. Sadness. That's what I think.
I remember that sometime or other I was taught that humans don't have instincts. Our instincts died when our brains took over. Hogwash. I think that what we see happening in the world is the result of our aggressive and territorial instincts. Then we try to think up some kind of rationalization to justify what we're doing.
What else do I think about? Today I was thinking about creativity. Music, painting, writing. Most specifically writing. I was thinking about how we often hear writers say that their characters develop a life of their own. I experienced this. When I was writing my novel, the characters said and did things I wasn't expecting. They surprised me. How is this possible? Aren't they all in my head. How could I not know what they were going to do or say? But I didn't. Strange.
And I'm still thinking about why I didn't buy more chocolate. I'm having chocolate withdrawal symptoms. Aaaaaaagh.
i refuse to think more than i have to...........
I'm with you there Pueo ;-)
nice new avatar gezzy.....
Thanks Pueo. I actually liked my butterfly, but I decided to play with the avatar stuff to see if I could actually get my picture on there not expecting it to work, but it worked after all :-)
I love your owl. It looks so cool.
hmmmm, I don't see your avatar at all gezzy.
That's strange. I can see it. Can anyone else see it?
I can't see it Gez. Did you take it from little k's, or hard disc? Or are you posting something a bit more current?
maybe you guys are too close. gotta move back a bit, like to guam for instance...............
looks great gezzy!
I took it from my yahoo photo album. It's funny how Pueo is the only one who can see me.
Thanks Pueo ;-)
owls have great eyesight......
