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09-29-2007, 09:02 AM
|  | give me sweet, sweet soul | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotland
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| | | Can we get a 'random ponderings' thread on the go?
Like, you wake up in the middle of the night thinking, "I wonder what humans did before diapers were available" (I stole this from another KR thread, but it's the perfect example). Can we have a thread where we just chuck out our random ponderings and discuss them? Not like a Q&A, and not like where you could easily search wikipedia for the answer, but just pure randomness? I think it'd be amusing. I get these daft thoughts all the time, but don't usually feel like making a thread for each of them.
Anyway, it was the following pondering that prompted me to make this thread:
As humans, we're at the top of the food chain and, in terms of ability to control, we're kind of at the top of the animal kingdom b/c of the power that we can exert and the technology we have at our disposal. Without going too deep into whether animals are sentient beings or not, maybe even speaking on pure instinct, I wonder if animals know that we are the most powerful. I wonder if they fear us? Like, an antelope will run like the wind if it sees a lion coming for it. Mostly animals don't seem to do that with us (I mean, they do have the ability to maim and kill us, and they do use that ability) so maybe they're blissfully unaware of the fact that we could fire a gun or tranquiliser into them, and they're done. Did we become too advanced too quickly for animals to understand it? Does the distance between us and many animals make the difference? Er, discuss.
Or fire your own random stuff in here. I really enjoy it. Maybe this belongs in the philosophy section or something? Idk. It's not necessarily philosophical, y'know.
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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait. |
09-29-2007, 09:10 AM
|  | Du mußt Caligari werden! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: vivian comma close
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| | | if you act like a predator around a horse that doesn't know you it's a lot harder to get close to it than if you act like another horse. i imagine they're just programmed that way |
09-29-2007, 10:16 AM
|  | NEENJA | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: nyc 4 eva
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| | | if an animal is around humans alot, like cats or dogs for instance, they wont fear them. i mean unless theyve been around cruelty. or up here, all the deer run at the sight or sound of humans. we are their only predator.
ive also heard that if you encounter an animal who hjasnt had much contact with humans (if theyre bigger or at least close in size tot he one they encounter) they wont run, but will actually be very curious about us.
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Originally Posted by dotty wokker and laugh about it all you want. you wont be laughing when my friends dos the fuck out of your hard drive. | |
09-29-2007, 12:08 PM
|  | Behold... | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: If I tell you, come over
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| | | A Lion will laugh at us, and send one of the cubs in to slaughter us.
It's astonishing just how physically inept we are in comparison to most any other living creature.
I've always wondered how languages were started. Like, it all had to start from somewhere. Who was the one guy that said well "this word is going to mean that." And then suddenly, everyone seemed to know. And it was all recalled. Like seriously? How the fuck did that ever get pulled off? Some guy in another continent calls something a "plant". Then everyone else seems to know that is the english word for it.
Basically, the begining of all things puzzle me to no end.
Obviuously we had to come from the monkeys. Not adam and eve, cuz if that were the case, how did we get all these different races and cultures? Monkeys from africa were slightly different then monkeys from other places I would assume. We then evolved.
How did the very first lifeform even come about? How did anything come about? Gotta be a higher power.
Cuz if not, try imagining what a blank would look like, seriously. It's weird. But that's what we'd have now....instead of all this, it'd be a blank. Would the blank be black? White? What?  |
09-29-2007, 12:15 PM
| | give me sweet, sweet soul | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Scotland
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Originally Posted by Zeke  I've always wondered how languages were started. Like, it all had to start from somewhere. Who was the one guy that said well "this word is going to mean that." And then suddenly, everyone seemed to know. And it was all recalled. Like seriously? How the fuck did that ever get pulled off? Some guy in another continent calls something a "plant". Then everyone else seems to know that is the english word for it. | Yeah, I sort of wonder too. I suppose the spreading of languages is purely down to emigration over the continents, but I always wonder quite how it all started. I guess it must have begun as just a series of various sounds for certain objects and actions, and people would maybe move around to other places where other people picked up on it and began to imitate the sounds.
What I really wonder is how the written word came about. I presume it was by the drawing of shapes to resemble objects, and then evolved from there, but it's amazing to think that something so primitive could come to be as precise as it is now, with accepted rules and structures and spellings.
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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait. |
10-11-2007, 05:46 PM
|  | doesn't like eels | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: golden gated
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| | | i wonder WHY THE FUCK i have to see 5,000 ads for "The Heartbreak Kid" a day.
i get it. ben stiller made ANOTHER shitty slapstick poo-n-penis joke romantic comedy.
i will cut a bitch, if i see another ad for it. |
10-11-2007, 11:16 PM
|  | Lets stay up | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | If I DARE ask questions like this irl I get called weird or obscure.
I think the whole written word thing is crazzy as well. Its weird to think that people can read and little scribbles mean stuff.
Also, in science class I used to feel so disconnected from body videos when you would have to watch them analyse livers and hearts and stuff. And last night I was laying in bed and I realised that I have all those things, but I never think about them. But I have them and stuff. Its gross. |
10-12-2007, 10:09 AM
|  | Chairman~MouseyTongue | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chairman Meow
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Originally Posted by orchestral i wonder WHY THE FUCK i have to see 5,000 ads for "The Heartbreak Kid" a day.. | dont blame ben, blame the farrelly brothers,
this is so them
asian animals, they have a certain look to them in comparison to similar species in the west. Maybe I'm bonkers and its just me?    
Also why do Asian people look the way they do? Black people have darker skin because of the sun light intensity and its hot in Africa ect.. but how did nature decide that Asians would look a certain way? I know that sounds completely retarded and I'm not being racist or anything, just a genuine pondering?!??!
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10-12-2007, 10:14 AM
|  | gonna give it 35% | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: noodlebox
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| | | i always wondered if a male and female human were locked into isolation from the rest of human civilisation would they figure out about sex and stuff?
__________________ Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
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10-12-2007, 10:18 AM
|  | brain problem situation | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by orchestral i wonder WHY THE FUCK i have to see 5,000 ads for "The Heartbreak Kid" a day.
i get it. ben stiller made ANOTHER shitty slapstick poo-n-penis joke romantic comedy.
i will cut a bitch, if i see another ad for it. | right there with ya on this one.
rosie, i've wondered about that too. like how the cavemen figured it all out and stuff. i've spent more time than i care to admit thinking about it. |
10-12-2007, 10:23 AM
| | gonna give it 35% | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: noodlebox
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Originally Posted by Zeke A Lion will laugh at us, and send one of the cubs in to slaughter us.
It's astonishing just how physically inept we are in comparison to most any other living creature.
I've always wondered how languages were started. Like, it all had to start from somewhere. Who was the one guy that said well "this word is going to mean that." And then suddenly, everyone seemed to know. And it was all recalled. Like seriously? How the fuck did that ever get pulled off? Some guy in another continent calls something a "plant". Then everyone else seems to know that is the english word for it.
Basically, the begining of all things puzzle me to no end.
Obviuously we had to come from the monkeys. Not adam and eve, cuz if that were the case, how did we get all these different races and cultures? Monkeys from africa were slightly different then monkeys from other places I would assume. We then evolved.
How did the very first lifeform even come about? How did anything come about? Gotta be a higher power.
Cuz if not, try imagining what a blank would look like, seriously. It's weird. But that's what we'd have now....instead of all this, it'd be a blank. Would the blank be black? White? What? | isnt black the absence of all colour? i think it would be black. then again its so amazingly hard to comprehend.
i used to think about it and decided that everything was made using numbers, and that the only things not made up of numbers was the mind (soul dort of thing).
i decided this mind could be a higher power that could exist with the absence of mathematics etc. could be god, could be the collective human soul... as things were collectively imagined they became real to us.
so you know, validates when there was nothing, there was god, but puts a bit of a matrix sort of spin to it. ACTUALLY... come to think of it it's very matrix,, it was never meant to be. i never thought of that at all. gay...
oh well....i wrote that horribly, must go to sleep. hope i got my idea out enough for you guys to understand and build on it.
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"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling. -ktlr |
10-12-2007, 10:24 AM
| | gonna give it 35% | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: noodlebox
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Originally Posted by Lissie right there with ya on this one.
rosie, i've wondered about that too. like how the cavemen figured it all out and stuff. i've spent more time than i care to admit thinking about it. | i also wondered what the aboriginal dreamtime story for the discovery of sex was hahaha. but i mean we evolved from things that would have had to figure it out. so y'know.
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"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling. -ktlr |
10-12-2007, 10:53 AM
|  | murder boy | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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| | | I sometimes think that if teleporters were invented but it meant that instead of being teleported it was like you were actually killed and just exactly copied with all the same memories and stuff to another place would we ever find out? cause the new copied people wouldn't know they'd really died and were different people. who would know what was happening? we could just go on killing ourselves over and over again for years.
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10-12-2007, 11:02 AM
| | murder boy | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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| | | also, what do blind from birth people think colour looks like? or like if we could see higher bands on the light spectrum what would they look like. is it possible to imagine new colours? if you had been kept away from green all your life could you just kinda think it up?
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10-12-2007, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by BleedingHeart but how did nature decide that Asians would look a certain way? I know that sounds completely retarded and I'm not being racist or anything, just a genuine pondering?!??! | I think their eyes are like that because they worked out in the sun heaps and squinted all the time?? someone told me that a while ago, but they could have been having me on.
I've always wondered what those Pippi things at the beach actually do? You know, they look like tiny little clams and they get washed up by the waves and then dig themselves into the sand. I wonder what they eat?
I always wonder what babies and young children are thinking. |
10-12-2007, 11:13 AM
| | murder boy | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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Originally Posted by shovelqueen I think their eyes are like that because they worked out in the sun heaps and squinted all the time?? someone told me that a while ago, but they could have been having me on. | oh jesus.
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10-12-2007, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by rosieholic i also wondered what the aboriginal dreamtime story for the discovery of sex was hahaha. but i mean we evolved from things that would have had to figure it out. so y'know. | I'm pretty sure 'the rainbow serpent' would be involved in that tale  |
10-12-2007, 11:34 AM
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