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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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  • Anca Sovarosi

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    Jul 28 2012: 1. What is the mission/purpose of our generation? (or of living in our current times?)What is the most far-out purpose we can conceive of?
    IMO
    - To integrate technology for the most good it can do (linking people and communities worldwide; enabling fast idea transfer to diminish or balance the inequities between worlds, real or imaginary)
    - Integrate and use existing technology to enhance quality of life (quality of senior life, healing, slow or stop disease formation). I believe this will effect into even more enthusiasm for long-living, and quality living.
    2. What was the assumed purpose folks from previous generations understood, but not quite verbalized? (war generations, depression generation? What else have they understood about the world besides reproduction, research and faith/behaviour cultures?)
    This might become relevant if previous generations thought 'flashes', video-connections, syncronistic "riding" of same ideas is a bad thing, a "glitch" to be stopped and reported, things that the online&media generations are exploring and normalising. Relevant because industries such as psychiatry (imo) have been achored strongly on stopping or putting down such experiences, which on the other side are encouraged in the online, presentdays, social media environments.
    It's just an opinion and I might be wrong, but this seems to explain a lot, especially in understanding and solving generational situations or conflicts.

    • Juniper Blue 10+

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      Aug 1 2012: I had this odd insight that perhaps we are the "Dung Beetles" or our planet .... what if it is our nature to consume, digest, decompose the planet?? To turn it into a rich soil form which a new life form may eventually sprout? Sigh ... or not ...

      • Anca Sovarosi

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        Aug 2 2012: @Juniper Blue - at first it was difficult to perceive something else of your message, it seemed so much of a mockery.
        To reply to the 'life form cycle' thing - on one side, poverty, all this over-claim on fertility (from seasonery, locations, cultures and religion) does make life growth (by life I include plants) an issue. On the other side, the existence of consciousness has within it the dilemma that it feels we're suppose to figure something else, beyond the simple "play" & "repeat" on life cycles. (pardon my choice of methaphor)

        • Juniper Blue 10+

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          Aug 5 2012: good perceptions Anca .... I often have a strange way of seeing things and of expressing my views ... you are much more effective ... thanks

      • Anca Sovarosi

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        Aug 7 2012: Thanks Juniper, it's good to feel appreciated.

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