What do you wonder about?
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Thanks, man! I was thinking about you when reading the "clique" question, and about the shining stars who come to Mahalo being readily recognizable. You rank. Glad you're writing with us!
Oooooooh. You poor thing. You're getting a vote up from me just for that one. Two words about those things: TIME CONSUMING! :p
It is what it is. I trust you're writing pages a LOT these days?
Wow. I'm flattered, though I have a long, long way to go before I reach the level of some of the more seasoned veterans. I'll get there eventually, though. :p
It's a big question, and obviously a question no-one can answer, but I've always wondered what REALLY happens. Reincarnation? Salvation? Damnation? NOTHING? Why do some souls stay and become ghosts (technically, I understand the THEORY behind this one, but again, no-one knows for sure).
Realx guys - I don't want to die, but I'm not afraid. That doesn't mean I'm going to live my life wrecklessly or anything, just - finally understanding what's behind the curtain of life.
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She's really starting to show her age and has had a cough that's taken a while treat with multiple vet visits.
Now that she has turned 13 this January... I know that she won't be around forever.
I wonder about all those conversations that we have together without moving our lips.
Does she hear me?
Are the things I think she's saying in my head real, or just all jibberish?
Or, is the harsh reality that she only thinks about pooping on the neighbors perfectly manicured lawn and eating Puperoni all day?
That's what I've been wondering about lately.
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Oh Bunny...
Have no fear - the words you two don't have to say to each other are absolutely understood.
Dogs, especially a wise ol hound like yours, have intuition and knowledge that would surprise anyone. They have emotions just like we do and love you as much as you love them.
You can tell what she wants when she looks at you, just like she's excited and happy when you are! Communication doesn't have to be spoken, and it's definitely not limited to only people.
However, I'm sure teh Puparoni is also at the forefront of her thoughts as well as pups like to snack... and poop on uppity neighbors lawns!
Keep her close and tell her you love her - she'll know.
Oh she is soo cute :)) By the way, my dog poops in the neigborhs next door front lawn too hehehe. He is also old so the entire neighborhood knows him by now. There have been times he has wondered around and people knock on my door and bring them to me :)) so maybe since they have known him for so long they overlook the "damages" he does on their lawn hehehe.
Case in point, here's one that's stumped me for years. It's about dairy products.
What's up with milk? What's up with COW's milk. Calves drink it, but why did Humans start drinking it? Who was the first guy to say "Hey, I wonder what would happen if I went over there and pulled on those teats hanging off the bottom of that cow? I always see a calf sucking on it, and the calf didn't die. Maybe I should go try it."
Whoever that person was, he/she strikes me as quite a strange person.
Or how about Cheese?
"Hey, I wonder what would happen if I took this milk and just let it rot, and THEN eat it." The person who came up with cheese (even if by accident) probably would have had to make a conscious decision to consume spoiled milk.
Or how about Yogurt?
"Hey, here's an idea. We take some milk, right? We let it spoil, and then throw these tiny little creatures that we can't even see in it. It will taste awesome!"
Yogurt DOES taste awesome (some yogurts, anyways), but still, I've always wondered about the thought processes that led to it and other dairy products.
Like I said, I usually have too much time on my hands. :p
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Milk is very bad for you. I'm glad I was born without a taste for it. I indulge in some ice cream and love my cheese anyway.
www.milksucks.com
I'll paint a scenario for you where humans learn to drink cow's milk.
Humans observe cows and wild animals feeding their young with milk, just as humans do.
A human mother gives birth but for some reason cannot breastfeed and the child will die. The child is important to the tribe.
An observant tribe member suggests they use animal milk to keep the child alive. It works. Bingo. New skill passed on through generations of tribes and families....
Okay, that explains the milk part. Now maybe you can help me figure out what made the first guy decide to eat rotten milk (cheese)? :p
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Hmm...I think I wonder too much....
Right now...I wonder...What's up with this question???? :))))
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@vladis
what can I say??? still my brain...
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M$LIFE IS TO SHORT HOW PEOPLE HAVE TO HATE OTHERS?
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M$I wonder constantly why not knowing something is "cool."
How I'm not that smart, I'm just less stupid than most people because I choose not to be stupid
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I blame capitalism. Yeah, I know, people use Capitalism as a scapegoat for many problems. But what it comes down to is that Capitalism is the perfect system for giving us the crap we want. And not what we need.
We (and I use the term to describe the vast majority of the American Proletariat) want Coca-Cola and MTV and Playstations and 20-inch rims. Capitalism provides that in abundance for a price, of course. However, the "I gotsta get mine, and screw everyone else" mentality of classic American capitalism (which totally thrived in the 80's and into the 90's) ensured that, rather than sacrifice some potential profit, corporations (many schools are incorporated. The school system in my own hometown was a School Corporation) cut the things which weren't quite considered as important. The arts, for instance. The general quality of education. The stupid consumer DOES make the loyal consumer.
It has always seemed to me that the state of our society could not have been brought about by accident. The decay of American society seems entirely too well-organized to be an accident. That said, one alternative explanation is that it was a carefully-contrived plan.
I don't know if you've ever read the book "1984" by George Orwell, but if you haven't, you probably should at some point in your life, because Orwell discussed this very concept in greater and far more eloquent detail than I am qualified to.
I have to warn you, though. When you read that book and then look at the world you live in, you will likely find it the most psychologically terrifying book ever written.
@justin_time Heh, yeah. Here's another question. What makes people think they can get away with spelling "you're" as "ur"? Seriously. This "texting language" that's developed over the past several years is nothing more than Orwellian Newspeak. It renders language useless.
@baka13
I never made a comparison between textspeak and Newspeak but that's exactly what it is.
Apparently teens only use 800 words a day:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6960745/Teenagers-only-use-800-different-words-a-day.html
I wonder to what extent Newspeak is responsible for this?
@rspears01
Thanks for taking the bait.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupid
People always use "stupidest" when it's the superlative. For a comparative, they normally choose "dumber."
Excellent comment. "Ignorance is Strength," I know. I know it's all a well-designed plan, and not just to promote consumerism.
Are people so stupid that they can't see that they're choosing to be stupid? Despite the overall plans for mass stupidity, people still have a choice. Can't they see?
Ok, I simply cannot resist --- "stupider"? How about "more stupid"?
My brain
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I don't think so. I once had severe deja vu that Garth Brooks going Alternative and Stuart Little being released signified the end of world. I KNEW that combination meant bad news.
Looking back on it...that's when G.W. Bush was getting ready for office so who knows! :D
This happened to me almost weekly in junior high. I tended to dream about mundane events, mostly school, but I would only really remember small snatches that stood out. Usually it was because (as often happens in dreams) something really bizarre happened. The kind of stuff that would make me giggle if I thought about it while awake, but left a real impression when I "saw" it in my dream.
One example: In my dream I was sitting in art class, listening to the teacher talk about our next project. I glanced at the whiteboard, looked back at the teacher, and then looked across my table at a friend of mine. He was doodling on one of his book covers. When I looked back at the teacher, she announced that we'd be painting with human blood.
Obviously I would have been profoundly disturbed to hear that in real life, but the thought of an art teacher casually telling the class such a thing is fairly laughable.
Several days later I was in art class, listening to the teacher talk about the next project. I glanced at the whiteboard, and it struck me that what I'd seen there in my dream was what was there now. I immediately looked at my friend across the table, and sure enough he was doodling on his book cover. I looked back at the teacher, and she went on to explain what kind of enamel we'd be using on our clay projects (obviously not blood).
This became such a common occurrence that eventually I didn't even give it a second thought. I never really saw anything of consequence happening, it was just constant deja-vu and remembering dreams I'd had the night before or several days prior. It hasn't happened more than once a year since high school.
Using pure brainpower, imagine a land that is full of people committing murders, rapes, and other acts and most of those people aren't very educated.
Now, (stay with me), imagine the educated few coming up with a way to control these wild, ignorant people. These elite, intelligent people gather in a room and write a book. The Bible.
All of the sudden, all these wild people are scared and knock their crap off.
Is that so hard to imagine? Really?
That's what I wonder about...
Also, if God created the Earth 6000 years ago, what's the deal with 50,000 year old forks, million year old fossils, etc..
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Didn't you know? Those forks and fossils were put there by the Devil to tempt people into believing that the Bible is full of contradictions. When, of course, it's the word of God. The Priest/Pastor/whatever told us so, so it must be true! After all, it's PERFECTLY reasonable to believe what the Church says. Right? Right? Better go to church and confess your sins. :p (Sorry, that sarcasm wasn't aimed at you. It was aimed at organized religion, and this flawed concept which seems to prevail in the world that dogma is ever to be trusted.)
The Old Testament could have been written by anyone. The New testament was written about 50 years after Jesus supposedly died. That would be like me writing a book in extreme detail about World War II with only word to mouth stories. The life expectancy back in 50 A.D wasn't 50 so it's word of mouth with a generation gap. I don't consider that credible at all really.
Not that they aren't interesting stories but 50 years?? Without many people being able to read or write? That's a lot to remember.
@rsunset327 Seminary, huh? Were you raised a Synod Lutheran, by any chance?
And the Old Testament was actually written by several people. Supposedly, the first five books were written by Moses (though it's never really been conclusively proven, so far as I've been able to discover, that Moses even actually existed). Several others of the books of the Bible. King David only recently was proven to have existed, so it's possible he really did write Psalms, and possibly Proverbs, as well as the earlier books of Samuel and Kings. The point is, though, the Old Testament was written by Man. God has no fingers, because God is nothing more than a concept in the minds of humans, who created him/her/it/whatever, gave him a name (several names, actually), and assigned him responsibility over all the things they didn't understand.
That's the way I see it, anyways. And I've found no evidence whatsoever throughout the course of my life to prove to me that God is anything other than a concept.
Baka13, that's the exact answer I got when I stopped going to church at about age 15. I used to have to go to Seminary for 1 hour before school ack!!
It is hard to imagine or credible because things wouldn't make sense like the timing of events in the "bible" etc If they(the fake 12 prophets) were locked in the the room it means they wrote ALL the books of the "bible" on a period of time so by the time they would finish the bible the fake "Judas" would STILL be alive yet! oops! I guess the prophets decided to kill him at the end then, so they could cover their behind I guess lol
Now really.
I wonder if there are aliens, are there multiple universes, is the universe going to continue to expand or collapse back, are there ways to travel faster than the light, when humanity is going to stop being so stupid...
BR
Alex
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My head
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Me too. I'm also in lala land especially when my husband is watching something on tv that I don't like, like a war movie or something :)) . I tun out everything around me hahah and my mind begins to wonder. I'm looking at the tv but my eyes are not looking..isn't it weird? hehehe.
Yes I do that too...I always find it very strange...but oh well I'm happy in lala land do I won't complain! :-p
