Should we be De-Evolving?

TheClashFan Would you care to elaborate on this?

Don't accept too much too quickly. Turn it over in your head a lot. Think about it a lot: can you find something that feels wrong or doesn't make sense to you? Decide, for yourself, why you will tentatively accept something as reasonable to take as right.

don't assume that once you change your mind it will stay changed. Life's like that. In the ninth grade I wrote a briliant paper proving that GOD did not exist. Unfortunately, in the tenth grade I was asked to write a briliant paper defending my position.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Well, whale songs change. Elephants cry when one of their number dies, and when they come across the place or body of the lost member, they morn. Some types of primates morn for their dead also. Some mothers will carry around their dead infants for weeks, trying to feed and take care of it until it is too deformed to continue pretending.

I understand that my ideas and opinions will change many, many times before I even become an adult.

TheClashFan, But do they fuck nuns, & later join the church?Mark

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary, & those that don't

Clever.

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

In a couple thousand generations from now, would you expect that humanity as we know it will no longer exist, because all of us would be some kind of mutant branching off from what we are now?

Damn! Beat me to that one. I'd stay and be a tourist, but I can't take the gunplay.Esteban Hambre

Do we at all need messages like that? I don't think so.If you or anyone else feel that you need to reply to this message, pick the appropriate topic of the links below to do it.Adminnemooseus

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Moose,It's just some Clash lyrics, TheClashFan knows this. There's no offense, unless were getting snooty at some rude words.Mark

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There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary, & those that don't

some context:Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
Love 'n' hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
The hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don't understandHow death or glory becomes just another story
How death or glory becomes just another story'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But i believe in this - and it's been tested by research
That he who fucks nuns will later join the churchFrom every dingy basement on every dingy street
I hear every dragging handclap over every dragging beat
That's just the beat of time - the beat that must go on
If you been trying for years - then we already heard your song- Death Or GloryThis message has been edited by contracycle, 11-23-2004 05:19 AM

Incidentally, I tentatively agree with ClashFan that elephants and whales probably have very similar subjective experiences of consciousness as humans. I recognises this unprovable at present, but as I see it is is a more reasonable view than the idea that human consciousness is quantitatively or qualitatively unique.This message has been edited by contracycle, 11-23-2004 05:22 AM

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But my cats kill for fun. Wasn't your point that they had LOST their instincts? Wasn't your point also that animals don't kill without a reason?

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They kill to stay in practice, which they experience as fun. That is a reason.