The 10,000 Post Thread!

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1000 years ago.. all that mattered was food and shelter and staying alive. Now we have animal psychiatrists and dwarf tossing. Its game over as far as im concerned. Enlightenment wouldnt save it. Only 1% are capable of enlightment, 99% instinct. The change is going to have to come from a massive shift in living conditions. Nuclear winter... asteroid....
 
Life has become more complex and human psychology has become more complex - so all this extra stuff has come with. Same as we have more complexities in life, we have more capacity for expansion in terms of the mind. Like, 1000 years ago, sure all that mattered was the basics, but their extra 'room' for considering other factors of life was in proportion with that i.e. smaller than it is for us, now.

Life complexity : Capacity for invention (of whatever nature)

Kind of on a ratio. So it would make sense that we have as much chance of becoming more conscious of ourselves now as we ever did.

Wow, that took a lot of typing and re-typing! :D
 
I'm impressed. Very well thought out.

Think I side with Unc though, Nuclear Winter.
 
Wow...this is very disconcerting... Me having more faith in humanity than someone else?? Surely not! :D
Hey I could beat you all the in depressive stakes and yes I'm proud of it. Woot woot!

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Unfortunately our capacity to be mature about these newly found elements within ourselves has been tainted by emoition impulsiveness. Like my prior example: 1% are concerned with content ... 99% with minute to minute pleasuring and simple social style. Impulsiveness will always invariably win in the short run and yet human development still makes the odd little stride. Sort of like the analogy of the snail in the well. It climbs up 6 inches per day only to slide back 5 inches at night. Such is the cycle of the human condition.
 
We've just gone too far, next up is the vomitoriums so we can gorge ourslelves with food, and then go throw it up, so we can do it agian. We are a people that are never satisified, in our possessions, our relationships, everything. We are constantly starving for new innovations to better our lives, when in fact, what the new innovations do is to make us obese and lazy. Our outlook is not good.
 
Scanty said:
Wow...this is very disconcerting... Me having more faith in humanity than someone else?? Surely not! :D
Hey I could beat you all the in depressive stakes and yes I'm proud of it. Woot woot!

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Love that smilie :D:D
 
unclehobart said:
1% are concerned with content ... 99% with minute to minute pleasuring and simple social style. Impulsiveness will always invariably win in the short run and yet human development still makes the odd little stride.
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Yes, I agree - it's what I think about almost every day. In psychology it's called being a cognitive miser - although I don't think the people who coined that term really realised how far it goes (i.e. it's a part of every human being on the entire planet's mind make-up). On the surface it describes how people are so quick to categorize and conform...rather than thinking more objectively about what they are actually doing before making a judgement. It's like the band-wagon effect - conform to the group because that's what seems the right thing to do - and you kid yourself that it is right as well. Humans in a group are such idiots. The ability to at least try and think objectively is lost.

Actually I found a quote the other day of Julius Caesar, no less, who put that particular point best:

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done." – Julius Caesar

I know that refers more to leadership but it still uses the same idea about human's lack of awareness of their own behaviour.
 
I would have... if I was aware that the variant of the word existed. I wonder if theres a specific word describing a mirrored numeric sequence? Palindrome seems to be exclusive to words.
 
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