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Arthanari Chandrasekaran
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Strange questions that humans have not yet found an answer for!

We all have a unique course of action through out our day. Many of the conversation along with our friends or some that we hear from others talking at times surprise us and gets our brain thinking, but only to later ignore saying this might be beyond human reach. Have you come across any such question through your brain or from others which you think humans have not yet explored or researched or any unanswerable question?

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Shane Schuller
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Aug 15 2012: Personally I think that all questions are answered or have an answer. Perhaps not available to all for various reasons, but one being that people cognitively derive at the answer, but don't share it because they fear it lack essence or truth. As most of us fear being treated with skeptiscm, we tend to hold back.

Here's the interesting part
Chances are that 'thought' floats around in the 'space' it came from - lets call the it collective consciousness. Since it is not released from the first channel, the chances are it will be received by another accessing that thought pattern, until it is transmitted. When out there it grows, branches out because more become 'aware' and consult each other and the 'collective' that has more to offer. The whole experience is about - how we TRANSLATE, the holographic data so to speak, that which we cognitively recieve, to the broader public.

So in my opine, it's not beyond our reach but perhaps (at that stage) beyond our ability to translate the data.
Neya Kumar
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Aug 15 2012: Why do we have schools, if all they do is to ask you to accept and understand, and measure your intelligence through examinations, when actually it really doesn't measure intelligence but only how much you've remembered/accepted. Why do we learn about circles, log, angles, salts, chemicals, when the chances are you're probably not going to remember them? its not that I don't appreciate school, but why is the global education system like this? is it because it always has been, or are we just too lazy/out of ideas to change it?
-thanks :)
Heather Smith
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Aug 14 2012: We can draw the conclusion that "intelligence" is cultivatable. However, can we say the same of creative abilities in our minds? Can you literally train a mind to be creative?

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't" -Emerson M. Pugh
- Juan du Plessis
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  Aug 14 2012: I believe we can (at least be more creative), but it's more a case removing the restrictions of conventional thinking and conditioning for adults and not imposing these on children. (Coleen's comments hold true)
  It would be interesting to see which nations scores tops in a "Creativity Index Measure" and then look at how their educational system functions.
- Fritzie Reisner 100+
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  Aug 14 2012: Creativity is a characteristic that can be cultivated, encouraged, and practiced.
- Colleen Steen 500+
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  Aug 14 2012: Heather, Juan and Fritzie,
  I believe our minds are naturally creative. When we remove the "restrictions of conventional thinking and conditioning", which Juan insightfully recognizes, we open the mind to cultivate, encourage and practice creativity, as Fritzie insightfully suggests. It is a matter of having an open mind and heart with the intent to explore with curiosity.
Billal Dz
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Aug 13 2012: Why do we become less curious when we grow up?
Do the answers we get during our life experiences satisfy us?
- Ben Moulson
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  Aug 14 2012: I think from the time we're brought into the world until the time when we're ready to leave the confines of the environment from which we were moulded, is the time where we MUST be curious, we have no choice, we know nothing other than what we're being told, so we're constantly yearning for more information to establish our own sense of our surroundings. The question you brought up "why do we become less curious" is such an important question we all have to ask ourselves. Once we have our own idea of how things are, is that really where life stops? No, we had no control over the environment we were brought up in therefor we have no control over what we've come to know as life. We become less curious as we become more content with "that's just the way things are" Each one of us though, has the power to stay curious.
- Colleen Steen 500+
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  Aug 14 2012: Billal and Ben,
  Curiosity seems to be very natural for us when we are children. As we become adults, however, curiosity seems to be a choice. We are told to "grow up", and sometimes that translates into leaving behind, all the qualities that children have naturally....including curiosity.
  
  I agree Ben, that from the time we come into the world, until the time we leave, we have an opportunity to be curious. Some folks get stuck in the "this is the way it is" belief, and stop exploring the life adventure. Some folks get comfortable with what they think they "know", and stop exploring. Some folks get complaisant.
  
  Whatever the reason for lack of curiosity, I observe that these are the people who are not as content with life...these are often the people who are searching for something outside themselves. Curiosity is from within, and it leads to more enjoyment and contentment throughout the life experience....in my humble perception and experience:>)
Mark Hurych
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Aug 13 2012: Arthanari
Chandrasekaran:
How can humanity morph into the über-humanity necessary to address global challenges together. We have more than enough resources; we have more than enough technology and good will.

When I look at the the murmuration of swallows, I see a metaphor for the kind of cooperative empathic energy that might move humanity for the long-term thriving of all. It's not a spiritual vision, but a design, and one that needs hope, insight, sharing, and nurturing. Something like this could make all the difference. I don't think it's political. Bucky Fuller used to talk about the future in a way that invited this kind of action.

So there's my question. How do we do this thing?

Unfortunately, there are more than enough blogs and likes and comments and articles and speeches ranting or even calmly explaining why this is not reasonable. I'd rather ask why not.

Please don't bother to comment unless you have ideas that help us move forward.

Hmm. I might sound harsh. Anthropocene effects are harsh and are probably going to hurt the yet unborn generations more than us the living. So I don't apologize, but I long for the non-zero sum game to begin afresh, with new eyes, passion and empathy.

Thank you, Arthanari, for providing such space for such a forum.

Mark Hurych
- Barry Palmer 50+
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  Aug 14 2012: I think we are morphing, right now.
  
  We are reaching out to each other, and we are listening. This is it. This is the beginning.
  
  That is my opinion.
- Colleen Steen 500+
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  Aug 14 2012: "BE" what we want to "SEE" in our world:>)
Sophia Grace
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Aug 13 2012: Juniper, it would be nice.
But so far history shows us, that we develop during war.
It certainly would be fantastic, if we could develop great ways to keep peace, and I also do believe we as humans have great potential.
I just don't think we are there yet.
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 14 2012: Is that because it is so interesting to the men? Attention, focus. direction, drive, invention?
ilie ioana
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Aug 13 2012: That is the root of curiosity that leads to evolution. Thinking that nobody thought of it , makes you wonder deeper than if you knew the answer came from somebody else. It's like why do dogs chase cars, or why do we hiccup , or agape , or why my hands gets wrinkles in water ...and of course if you stop at why , and don't research ,is bad , but if you find out that nobody answerd and you stop there is even worst.
What gave colors their names , why is RED so red , and Blue called blue , how cand indigenous people speak languages without the use of words but by just making sounds that are imperceptible tu us, as an evolved community ,etc.
- Juan du Plessis
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  Aug 13 2012: Do we all see/experience RED the same?
  - ilie ioana
    
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    Aug 13 2012: Not exactly the same , but if you ask someone to describe the color red , a great majority will use terms like warmth , love , lava , sun , heat , beauty , passionate , etc . I can't think of someone using cold , or peaceful , or purity , anger , maddnes or evil, although Hell is often been described a ocean of red melted lava.
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      Aug 13 2012: I cant think about using cold either ,but i can easy describe red using anger .
      do i am different or what ?
sairam sunkara
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Aug 10 2012: why man gets this type of questions always
- Billal Dz
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  Aug 13 2012: what kind of questions ?
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    Aug 15 2012: questions all these people are shouting here. and why should man is such curious.. or to be precise why curious about something... see here too, i'am curious about the curiosity. :)
Richard Gono
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Aug 9 2012: I already saw a similar question here (about babies).
Mine is more like an alternative version of it.

"If you are deaf, and were never taught any language (verbal or non-verbal) how do you think?"

I'm asking because a few months ago, when i started reading books in english, my - what should i call it? - my "inner voice" became an englishman. When i think about abstract things i mostly do it in english now.
But what about someone who has never heard a word? Or never seen one? How can they "abstract"? What if the person is blind too? (most unlucky person ever)
You can't think in pictures, you can't think in words you can only think in smells, physical sensations? One silly question.... do you even think?
- Salisu Umar
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  Aug 10 2012: This reminds me of a joke I recently heard that goes "How do you tell a person who is blind, deaf and dumb that he/she has lost his/her mother?". It is quite hard to imagine how their inner selves communicate with them. I want to risk saying that they do not have "a talking" inner self.
- Sophia Grace
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  Aug 10 2012: I think in both pictures and voices. I guess people think in the same was they experience the world.
  http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/how-deaf-people-think/
  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2486/in-what-language-do-deaf-people-think
  
  So not so strange question after all.
  - Richard Gono
    
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    Aug 12 2012: thank you for the links :)
    
    I knew language was important for the mental development, but never thought this much. The analogy of language being the OS of the brain is astounding.
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    Aug 13 2012: That´s ok, but I think about the questions we do not even know they are questions. Maybe one day the easiest thing, known by everybody, will pop up offering new faces, different views, and opening a lot of new questions. I hope it so, if not, life'll be very bored! ;-)
- Michael Harvey
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  Aug 10 2012: it would take time, but their brain would use some neural algorithm/code of their interpurited world, wouldnt they. just as you use memories of captured images or sound persepted to construct your conclusions and inturpereted world. (i am a terrable speller~sorry~). This seems kind-of abstract, but i am just a teenager and haven't realy studied pycology.
Jen Lehman
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Aug 9 2012: My children have asked this many times and I have never come up with a tangible answer, "If every living creature has a positive purpose on earth, for what purpose were mosquitoes created?”
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 9 2012: I told my kids that they were food for birds.
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    Aug 10 2012: Best answer!! lol
  - Jim Plante
    
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    Aug 11 2012: ...and you were right, at least in Alaska. There are certain species of seagulls that hatch their eggs, then fly away and leave the kids without a sitter. The kids eat the mosquitos that roost on the tundra plants. The skeeters are numerous and vicious enough to kill a caribou, but the little chicks are protected by a thick layer of down.
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    Aug 12 2012: Lol. Did your kids ask back: "Then how are birds gonna eat them if those mosquitoes are all over at our house??!! :)"
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      Aug 13 2012: Mine did - I told her that the mosquitoes (and other bugs) are in our house, because they got lost. So we need to help them out.
  - Yuguo Zhang 100+
    
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    Aug 13 2012: Hi Sophia,
    Hahahh. That's funny. So did you actually push them away instead of eliminating them?
    - Sophia Grace
      
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      Aug 13 2012: We try to.
      
      ... sometimes I eliminate them though.
      
      Fine balance between teaching respect for animals and that everything has a purpose... and not wanting to get bitten!
- Elizabeth Gu 30+
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  Aug 10 2012: lol seems like children are the most inquisitive creatures who never stop asking questions and never stop being curious. That's why they are beautiful.
  
  I love the question, Jen.
  They're really clever.lol
  You should let them foster their creativity by themselves.
- Colleen Steen 500+
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  Aug 10 2012: Jen,
  It's been a long time since my kids were little, and when they asked me questions I could not answer, I sent them to the dictionary, or encyclopedia. Now you can send them to the computer for exploration!!!
  
  They could then come back to me and give ME the answer, which encouraged them to explore even more and empowered them to know that they can find the answer to their questions themselves. I also liked giving them answers if I had the answer, and I liked telling them "I don't know"....maybe you can find the answer for both of us. Kids are very delighted when they can supply information to the parent:>)
  
  My "children" are now in their 40s and still happily exploring the life adventure with curiosity and enthusiasm....as am I:>)
- Michael Harvey
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  Aug 10 2012: or, as my dad would say, 'to make you ask questions'
  - Colleen Steen 500+
    
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    Aug 11 2012: OH Michael, my mom used to say that too!!! Asking questions...finding answers....it is a GREAT cycle!!! Curiosity is WONDERFUL!!!
Debra Smith 200+
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Aug 9 2012: Well if we ask Tracy Chapman what those questions are she has some suggestions and here they are:
http://youtu.be/g4bBff9aBRw
- Juniper Blue 10+
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  Aug 10 2012: Love this song by Tracy Chapman. This is a sobering line:
  
  "Why are all the missiles called Peace Keepers when they're aimed to kill?"
  
  Oh ... imagine a world without war ... to create peace .. if it were possible, we would achieve a most remarkable thing.
  - Sophia Grace
    
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    Aug 10 2012: A lot of leaps in our knowledge and developments happened because of wars. A lot of important inventions were made for warfare. So maybe we would not have made many remarkable things, if we were always at peace?
    Challenges and hardship seems to force humans to develop.
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      Aug 11 2012: Yes, this is true Sophia.
      
      Could it be possible that we might move beyond war technology as we devlop peace technology? Might we progress in new ways as we learn to solve our conflicts without causing destruction or harm? Might we move into a new stage in our evolution by putting our old stones down and lifting new, more sophisticated tools for peace?
      
      I hope so.
    - Sean Brother
      
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      Aug 13 2012: Sophia, I partially disagree. I think it's true that hardship, challenges, tragedies force us to think, to develop, to invent, to improve. But we also have a deep and intense impulse to try, to explore, to solve, to look for solutions or to find new useful-for-all ideas. I think this impulse lives into all of us, permanently activated, from thousand of years ago. One can not to listen it or the circumstances may forbide us to do it so, but, suddenly, you can feel the strongest need to know all or to try all about somtehing. If not, life will be very bored, I think. And we'll be jumping from branches to ground yet.
Debra Smith 200+
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Aug 9 2012: If we woman can do all we have proven we can do, why are men still in charge? Why aren't things 50/50 at least?
- Michael Harvey
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  Aug 10 2012: cause... they are already? in a different sence of respect. i do hope i dont affend anyone by them misinturperiting, but i think everyone is amazing
- mark brain
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  Aug 11 2012: Hi debra.I believe there is a flaw in your thinking.It sounds like its your belief things are not 50/50 between men and women.We all have the choice to believe what we want and if someone chooses to believe things are not 50/50 then they wont be.But that thought is only in their mind,which is a negative belief.
- Ian Young
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  Aug 12 2012: A thought...
  
  the modern "emancipation of women" is either a handful of decades, or at most a couple of centuries old, depending on the definition of emancipation you go with, and what land you live in. This may be the most fundamental social change in the history of human civilization, and as such it is sure to be accompanied by grief and strife, to be fought by reactionaries, and to be a slow painful process.
  
  Literacy and education are fundamental to our society, and have been since the 17th century, yet I can think of places where they are both uncommon. Racial rights are seen as a given to some, but Apartied ended less than two decades ago in South Africa, and obviously there is still a racial tension in the USA, and many other western nations. These issues are old.
  
  Development, or what we chose to define as progress, is a staggared process, both in time and in advancement. Generational transitions can be statistically quantified. The values you parents were raised with die of with them, but not until they die. Here in Canada, senior citizens will soon not only represent the larges voting catagory, but also the most politically active age group. Our national and world policies will reflect that. There are debates over the validity of legal abortion all of a sudden, and it is not difficult to track peoples responses by age group, if your sample size is both broad enough.
  
  Simply put, yes things are evolving on the gender front, but slowly, in fits and starts. I am 40, and was raised by a single mother. Recently I have been engaged to my love, a single mother herself. The difference in the social stigma and resultant status between the 1970's and now is baldly apparent. These changes, like the Rennisance, the Enlightenment, the Reformation, etc... take generations to grow and spread.
  
  I am not saying be satisfied with what is. By all means be active and change the world. Just don't expect it to happen in a day, or a decade.
  
  Regards
- Imad Atwi 10+
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  Aug 12 2012: Long story short Debra, you're getting there. And from the looks of it and the rate of how things are going, we (guys) will start asking for equality ourselves. Be kind.
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    Aug 13 2012: I am the mom of four sons. My heart lives in both bodies so I cannot afford prejudice even if I were inclined toward it, which I am not.
- Barry Palmer 50+
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  Aug 13 2012: Many women have an Achille's heal.
  
  They fall in love with men.
  - Debra Smith 200+
    
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    Aug 13 2012: Oh, that is so true, we do. If you read the biblical account of the fall - it is our punishment- our hearts will be towards our husbands (that and giving birth) YIKES!
Claire Convery
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Aug 9 2012: How do babies think without words? and Is my perception of color the same as everyone elses??
- Ian Young
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  Aug 12 2012: Babies think in emotions and sensations. Love, safe, hunger, poo, etc.... adults often do as well. Think about it the next time you have that "Ahhhh...." that comes with a good B.M.
  
  The color you see is determined by the interaction of the wavelength of light, a specific frequency and amplitude for each color, with the cones of your eye. This is a process of chemistry and physics that can be replicated and demonstrated.
  
  Perception is another matter. The number of primary colors in your brains palette is slightly variable, though not by much. Most colors are cross cultural, but some have fuzzy borders. There is a green/blue "grue" that is percieved as a seperate primary color by some, but not seen as different at all by others. It is kind of like linguistics. The sounds of the language you are raised in are dominant, so you may not even hear certain sounds in other languages. Having a name like "Ian" on a trip to Japan demonstrates this.
  
  So, we all see the same colors the same way, but how we translate that to words, ideas, art, etc... can be as different as pornography and picasso.
  
  Regards
Lars Lindgren
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Aug 8 2012: Could someone please explain how the human consciousness works please.
Also, while at it, what exactly does gravity consist of?

Hmm, and has and will the universe be reborn?

Oh, and why can't anything go faster than light?

Finally, the most puzzling one to me...
Why don't we humans do something about climate change now that we know we're causing it and the effects will be much worse than the effort to do something about it?
- peter lindsay 30+
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  Aug 8 2012: Don't you have any easy ones?
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 9 2012: The best book I ever read on that subject was by a prof named Harry Hunt from an obscure Canadian university (He was originally an American) and it is called "The nature of Consciousness" and if I could honour your request and answer your question, I would but even with more than7 years of education in psychology, I cannot give you one that is satisfactory to myself. Harry's book however, traces all the factors and considers everything from Freudian and Jungian thought to existentialism to altered states - it is a dense but safisfying read.
murthy illindala
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Aug 8 2012: I always wondered , what if we are given the power to live forever and given a means to travel endlessly in a space ship and we continue to travel in space ,what or where is the end to this space or universe? -just imagine!
Vijay surana
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Aug 8 2012: Yep! I have one. Why some men are able to achieve so much in the same 24 hours we all have? Are they just humans like all of us or do we have super humans among us?
- Barry Palmer 50+
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  Aug 9 2012: Actually, to a degree, we do have super humans among us.
  
  Some people have much more energy throughout the day than others. These people tend to get up early and work long hours and often demand more of the people around them. Many successful business people have this quality. Martha Stewart is like this. I am not.
Juniper Blue 10+
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Aug 8 2012: Yes ... MyF E ... the older I get the more I learn how little I know.

Regarding the issue of "fearlessness" ... I also find myself thinking .. what would my copay be if I get hurt trying to learn how to skate board at 40 ... Hmm ... and would my insurance cover a broken toothe??

I miss my "fearless" and "worry-free" days. (Back when candy bar had no cholesterol ... sigh. ( I didn't even consider if the cocoa was harvested by children or how long the packaging would take to decompose in a land fill.)

How to find a balance?? Any suggestions out there!!
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 8 2012: I just side step it by telling myself that it is always good to trade in illusion for truth. Sometimes it actually works.
Ian Mcewan
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Aug 7 2012: Why not anyone? We live in world where lots of things happen, don't try to hard to understand them, just enjoy it when when it happens.
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 8 2012: This is actually darned profound, Ian. In fact, most of the really horrendous things that have happened to me turned out to be (without forcing them into happyland) good in the long run. Amazing but true. So just survive the hard stuff and you keep your chin up NOt to whistle a happy tune but so you can be looking when the good stuff lands unexpectedly so you can keep it out of the poop.!
Evan Waninger
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Aug 7 2012: I can think, but what makes me think? My brain of course, but what in my brain does the thinking part?
Jay Kumar Pradhan
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Aug 7 2012: The more we go ahead the more complex question will definitely arise. We can solve some but can not solve all. Its an eternal process through which we have to go through. Budhha had the questions before him. Its our duty to move ahead and go on searching problem and solving them.
elizabeth muncey 10+
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Aug 7 2012: Volcano erupting in N.Z. Love u N.Z., home is where the heart is and today my heart is with you. Sometimes it is about life and death isn't it, existentialism, lots of lovely volcanic ash for the South Americas in a few months as the Pacific Ocean filters it and then washes it onshore. Hope it all quietens back down or airspace will be out again.
Ryan Hessler
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Aug 6 2012: What is the mechanism that allows the existence and evolution of the pineal gland in the human brain? Why does it synthesize certain neurotransmitters and how can multiple unrelated people across the world undergo the same relative 'disembodied experience' as a result of specific neurotransmitter function?
- Laura Bee
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  Aug 7 2012: Have you read anything about Kundalini?
Peter Law 30+
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Aug 6 2012: If abiogenesis only happened once.
1) Why Did it only happen once ?
2) Why do we think it would happen (once) on any other planets ?

:-)
- Stewart Gault 30+
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  Aug 6 2012: 1) It only needs to happen once? and for all we know there could be some underwater vent somewhere which is currently bubbling the ingredients for the next lineage of primitive bacteria.
  2) Because it's chemistry, if the reactants are their and the conditions are right reactions will just happen, there's no conscious choice in the matter. It's as though life is forced to begin.
- peter lindsay 30+
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  Aug 7 2012: I always assumed it happened multiple times, protein, RNA, DNA plus all the others that didn't succeed long term. What we have now is based on similar chemistry because the chemicals went through billions of years of evolution before the best could progress to what we recognise as life.
hcdoitsu gotweed
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Aug 6 2012: I am looking for the moment when the animal, instead of responding to his environment and condition instinctually, the animal discovers the concepts I and OTHER. That is the moment for which I search. The moment "I" was born or, using hyperbole to make two points, the moment when we reached for the fruit of the tree of knowledge. No more sit'n around waiting for mother nature to serve up supper. From I and other we moved to I and us, and now we are desperately trying to evolve into a single unified US. So, when my cat jumps up into my lap is it because it's warmer there or is it because he recognizes that he is
Andrew Hu
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Aug 6 2012: why can't I make her love me (T T)
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Aug 7 2012: Ah! The age old question! Most of us have to be content with this expression:" Because the heart wants what the heart wants"
  I have a friend right now who is suffering this in a most destructive way. She is in love with a guy who is so bad for her - it is almost unimaginable and yet no matter what anyone says or what she experiences she goes back to wondering why he treats her this way. It is pretty simple really - he can not possibly love her - he has no room to love her for his heart is in love with himself.
  
  I just realized that it is possible everyone thinks it is me. It really isn't.
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    Aug 8 2012: Or maybe........ she loves him precisely because he is bad to her. As commonly found or said: "Girls like bad boys."
    - Debra Smith 200+
      
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      Aug 8 2012: YUCK! Maybe that is why it is so hard for me to understand. I have never ever gone for that bad boy type and so cannot imagine it. I think the toughest thing in life is to be a good man and I think it should be rewarded with an equalient Good woman.
Sam Rock
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Aug 6 2012: why some people bite their nails????
- Juniper Blue 10+
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  Aug 7 2012: It hurts too much to bite our fingers??
  - Debra Smith 200+
    
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    Aug 7 2012: That's funny!
jim pacheco
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Aug 6 2012: It is hard to relate people I know feel cheated in life for things such as vets getting 5 points on an exam for government job. These same people won't serve. I hear people that they are oppressed whit no reason. Election ads preach fear instead of facts. A wedge has been driven between groups white and black latin jew and so on. This is divided and conquer. I am finding it hard to tell this it is a feeling an observation on whats around me.

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