I was walking down the trail with my dog the other day, pissed off at the world and everything in it, when I noticed two ducks just sitting there. Then I thought something really silly that many people think about in such situations, "Oh to be a duck and not have a care in the world!"

But that's not at all what a duck's life is. Animals in nature have to FIGHT for their living. On a constant basis. They are never just relaxing and taking it in. I doubt they're capable of it in their situation. We simply have no understanding of just how easy we have it in life.

Then that raises a question in my mind. Why do we think that when we look at nature; that's its all nice and cuddly, like going home? Well, because we spent most of our time there. It's not until recent that technology and civilization flourished and allowed us to separate ourselves from the rest of nature....recent in evolutionary terms anyway.

This then raises another question. Do we need strife to be happy? If being in a state of constant fight or flight awareness and digging, scrounging, and killing for our livelihood is our natural state, the one that we, as animals, evolved in, then maybe our brains would find that more to their liking.

Maybe the idea of "having it easy" is a goal our brains set up so that we'd constantly be fighting for position in which we didn't have to do much, but really we're set up to be fighters; to actually attain the goal reduces our ability to motivate ourselves and to remain fulfilled in our lives. Maybe that's why we're always butting heads and creating artificial confrontations in a world that should really have none. Perhaps we should be looking for constructive ways to be at constant battle with everything instead of wishing for an easier gig.

What you think?

What you think?

I'm glad i'm not a duck!

I was walking down the trail with my dog the other day, pissed off at the world and everything in it, when I noticed two ducks just sitting there. Then I thought something really silly that many people think about in such situations, "Oh to be a duck and not have a care in the world!"

But that's not at all what a duck's life is. Animals in nature have to FIGHT for their living. On a constant basis. They are never just relaxing and taking it in. I doubt they're capable of it in their situation. We simply have no understanding of just how easy we have it in life.

Then that raises a question in my mind. Why do we think that when we look at nature; that's its all nice and cuddly, like going home? Well, because we spent most of our time there. It's not until recent that technology and civilization flourished and allowed us to separate ourselves from the rest of nature....recent in evolutionary terms anyway.

This then raises another question. Do we need strife to be happy? If being in a state of constant fight or flight awareness and digging, scrounging, and killing for our livelihood is our natural state, the one that we, as animals, evolved in, then maybe our brains would find that more to their liking.

Maybe the idea of "having it easy" is a goal our brains set up so that we'd constantly be fighting for position in which we didn't have to do much, but really we're set up to be fighters; to actually attain the goal reduces our ability to motivate ourselves and to remain fulfilled in our lives. Maybe that's why we're always butting heads and creating artificial confrontations in a world that should really have none. Perhaps we should be looking for constructive ways to be at constant battle with everything instead of wishing for an easier gig.

What you think?

I think you should be writing songs :)

Thats an epiphany of sorts.....I have only had a few moments like that when my mind was calm and i was able to think deeply about human existence.But that type of thinking just creates more questions than answers for me.I remember looking at an anthill once that is right beside a road that i traveled to work evryday and thought very similar to your thoughts.Here was a whole society of ants that that had no idea i was looking at them and also no idea there were humans all around it that had created computors,spacetravel,faster than light communications, complex mathematic's, cars,cellphones, and yet there simplicty and way of living had lasted millions of years before us and will survive millions of years after us...so who is really more advanced? and who really has a utopian society. The ability to think beyond ones own existence is one thing that makes humans unique from other animals.Your duck epiphany was a trigger for you to think beyond normal perimeters and i think it was a way for your mind to deal with something that is underlying in your thoughts...something that has not broken the surface but is bothering you on some deeper level.



well now my heads going to blow off!!!:wtf:

Parker

Sorry ended up with a double post....weird.

Parker

complex mathematic's
Parker

1=sqroot((-1)^2)=sqroot(-1)*sqroot(-1)= i*i= -1.
I´ve always loved that one, :lol:

I remember looking at an anthill once...

Dewey: [to the Bible teacher Helen] Like Pastor Roy said, how God is so much bigger and wiser than us, and trying to see what He's thinking would be like an ant trying to see what I'm thinking.
Helen: Yes, exactly. But we can trust in His wisdom, and have faith that He is watching over us.
Dewey: Like me with the anthill in my backyard. I spent days watching the ants, trying to figure out which ones were good, and which ones were bad, but they all just looked like ants, so I started smiting all of them.
Helen: Well that's not -
Dewey: I was smiting them with the garden hose, and with lighter fluid, and with the lawnmower, and to be perfectly honest, I think I went a little crazy with the shovel. Those ants could have been praying to me all day, I wouldn't have heard them.
[ponders]
Dewey: There was nothing they could do about it.
Helen: But, I don't think -
Dewey: Really, it's the same with us. There's nothing we can do about anything either, so why worry about it? Hey, this is making me feel better.
Helen: Well, that's good, but -
Dewey: I guess all we can do is live our lives with as much kindness and decency as possible, and try not to dwell on God standing over us with a giant shovel. Bye!

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