Aug 25 2012: I thought this would tie into some of those videos on here about perception and illusion. Seems they hint at this sort of stuff but never really talk about it.
Aug 25 2012: Bob, I don't think anyone is an qualified for stuff like this. What you say makes perfect sense but what if when we are learning the associations we get some of them wrong? What we think should bring us joy really ends up bringing us sorrow but sense it was learner at such an early age we don't realize it.
If kids stayed in the cute stage we would have no reason to kick them out of the house and our species would die out real fast. Hormones where meant as a trigger to detach ourselves from our kids, but now we keep them around for a few more years to drive us crazy. Hmm, I wonder if this is one of those misassociations...
Aug 25 2012: So you are saying our first memories only stand out in our mind because they were something different from the routine experience we were living. This is interesting and makes a lot of sense because a baby's life is very routine. Then when something new and very different happens we form a memory. Then perceiving in context we would compare that first memory to the next and so on until our worldveiw is set.
Maybe that is why those of us that struggle with life have such a hard time, our brains are hardwired from our first perceptions.
Aug 24 2012: Ya, I was really talking about central banks such as in the topic. I'm not going to go into a ton of detials because it is easily researched but tell me how this thinking is wrong. In the US the Federal Reserve prints money for Congress and charges them interest for this "service". We can never repay this money because they only print the principle, not the interest. This turns money into debt and is a drag on the economy.
I stand by my comment about banks being made to fraud people, heck the only people Jesus ever got made at where bankers.
Aug 24 2012: Surely the capacity to think is there some time before we are born. Or do you think it is tried to our other senses such as sight and having to breath on our own? How can a sperm and an egg, two non-thinking and unaware things, come together and make a being who can question his own existance?
Aug 24 2012: I only have one clear memory from before i was 3 or so and have never felt i was part of sonething bigger then myself. Nor has religon ever had an impact on me. I have always felt when i die i will be gone and thats that. But that doesnt make any sense either because life had to start somewhere and spawning randomly just dont really cut it. I watched a show where Stephen Hawkins said he thought odds were to great for life to have started on earth and he thought it started else where and was brought here by comets. Why would that make the odds any lower?
I totally agree with having to conform to what society wants us to be, this is one reason I am not a fan of preschool, at the peril of my head start teaching wife. Weird to not have a memory when you where not in school. I think it is like advertising, the younger they hook you the better.
Aug 23 2012: I am simply trying to say the cost of these outstanding universties is quickly outgrowing their benifit. Maybe there should be insurance so if you don't get your degree or can get a job in your feild then it would kick in and pay your student loans.
After all, we have insurance for unhealthly people that can afford to go to the doctor anymore, maybe we should have it for dumb people also.
Aug 23 2012: You are right, Instead of bailing out the banks we should have took their houses, cars, baots and planes and sold them for scrape and started over from the bottom.
At least in 1929 some had the decency jump out windows.
Aug 23 2012: Pride fuels self-importance. Self-imporance requires us to spend much of our life being offended by someone. Such and such said this about me, so and so did that. Most of these things would have no effect on us save for the fact they hurt our pride.
Being proud of our children is second nature but it is really just another way of stoking out self-importance. If we weren't such awesome parents then our kids wouldn't have done the great things that made us proud.
As far as religion goes it is maybe because God makes and does all so what would you have to be proud of?
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A reply on Conversation: Is the reason we have few memories before the age of three because we have not had adequate instruction on perceiving the world?
A reply on Conversation: Is the reason we have few memories before the age of three because we have not had adequate instruction on perceiving the world?
If kids stayed in the cute stage we would have no reason to kick them out of the house and our species would die out real fast. Hormones where meant as a trigger to detach ourselves from our kids, but now we keep them around for a few more years to drive us crazy. Hmm, I wonder if this is one of those misassociations...
A reply on Conversation: Is the reason we have few memories before the age of three because we have not had adequate instruction on perceiving the world?
Maybe that is why those of us that struggle with life have such a hard time, our brains are hardwired from our first perceptions.
A reply on Conversation: A Single World Currency and a World Central Bank - For or Against?
A reply on Conversation: A Single World Currency and a World Central Bank - For or Against?
I stand by my comment about banks being made to fraud people, heck the only people Jesus ever got made at where bankers.
A reply on Conversation: Is the reason we have few memories before the age of three because we have not had adequate instruction on perceiving the world?
A reply on Conversation: Is the reason we have few memories before the age of three because we have not had adequate instruction on perceiving the world?
I totally agree with having to conform to what society wants us to be, this is one reason I am not a fan of preschool, at the peril of my head start teaching wife. Weird to not have a memory when you where not in school. I think it is like advertising, the younger they hook you the better.
A reply on Conversation: Should degrees have "patches"?
After all, we have insurance for unhealthly people that can afford to go to the doctor anymore, maybe we should have it for dumb people also.
A reply on Conversation: Do you think political leaders will provide any form of resolution before we hit the fiscal cliff?
At least in 1929 some had the decency jump out windows.
A comment on Conversation: Pride; Good or Bad?
Being proud of our children is second nature but it is really just another way of stoking out self-importance. If we weren't such awesome parents then our kids wouldn't have done the great things that made us proud.
As far as religion goes it is maybe because God makes and does all so what would you have to be proud of?