@Debby
People say all sorts.
Would you believe, some people say that to feed 5000 people all you need is five loaves of bread and two fish.
I assume they mean Whale Sharks and some very very very big loaves of bread...Fresh of course.
People say all sorts.
Would you believe, some people say that to feed 5000 people all you need is five loaves of bread and two fish.
I assume they mean Whale Sharks and some very very very big loaves of bread...Fresh of course.
eVERYTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG DID GO WRONG AT WEORK TODAT, SCREW IT i AM NOT RETYPING IT
Fuck 'em.
(This is always what I want to hear when I'm in this situation, sorry if it's not appropriate.)
You left out the word miracle. That’s what it took for jesus to feed a crowd of 5000.
Just another exaggerated bible myth.
The crowd of 5000 would have crucified Jesus if he lied about feeding them.
Intelligence and/or Wisdom,
Contrasted with Morality, Ethics and/or Actions.
Criminals, I'd imagine there exist 'some intelligent criminals.
But would 'most intelligent people choose crime?
Moneywise, there are often less risky ways to make money.
The most intelligent of people would make their money legally I'd figure.
Passion in crime, serial killers, mass shooters, rage.
If they were truly intelligent they could shift their self damaging passion, or see their situation with perspective.
It's strange, weapon vs armor theory applied to society.
Better forensics and surveillance, chances of being caught are higher.
Yet too technology has brought about,
Drones, remote controlled bombs, the internet ability to track targets.
Even before this there existed,
Fire, poison, latex masks and wigs, transportation to other cities.
It's not as though people lack the 'intelligence to get away with crime.
Most people just lack such 'desire to so harm people (Theory).
What criminals have is ruthlessness,
Or put another way, a pathetic or atrophies sense of Empathy and Rightness. (Theory)
Nothing to be 'proud of,
. . . But then one argues morality subjective.
. . .
But ought not certain conclusions result from Intelligence and Wisdom?
A valuation of like?
Game Theory sense of self protection, leading to valuing others out of habit of following said Game Theory?
No honor among thieves, little happiness in crime and worry of the law catching up.
An intelligent person ought see the value of legality and morality. (Theory)
..." Sharks are one of the most feared sea creatures. When hammerhead sharks begin cloning themselves asexually, they become even more of a biological threat.
....This happened to a female belonging to a species of hammerhead sharks known as the bonnetheads or shovelheads in 2001.
.....American and Irish researchers made the historical discovery after a female shovelhead kept in captivity at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha gave birth to a live female pup. In 2007, it became clear after extensive testing that the female pup had DNA that was identical to its mother’s DNA.
....There was no trace of male DNA.
....Parthenogenesis is once again the culprit, although scientists say that it results in decreased genetic diversity. Sadly, the pup was killed shortly after its birth by another fish in the tank, possibly a stingray."...
See number 1 bottom of page.
https://listverse.com/2016/03/21/10-amazing-animals-that-clone-themselves/
Yes, according to the New Testament, Jesus fed 5,000 men (and many women and children) by miraculously multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish, providing a meal for the entire crowd with 12 baskets of leftovers. This event is recorded in all four Gospels as the "miracle of the five loaves and two fish" and demonstrates Jesus' compassion and power.
Demonstrates the power of exaggerated folk tales.
So not only did he multiply the fish sandwiches, he also multiplied the baskets.
Jesus also multiplied his believers with his miracles.
Why does it irritate me so much when book covers inaccurately depict the subject material
A, You like the book and the cover is not worthy of it.
B, You disliked the book and were misled by the cover.
C, OCD.
D, Other.
Right. I miss the age where book covers are just plain one color(white, blue, red, etc) with nothing else except the book title, the author name and the publisher. The flashiness of the book cover nowadays is negatively correlated to how much I want to read it (assuming it is a book I have never read). I know I am quite literally not supposed to judge a book by its cover but it is another thing when apparently the publishers are actively trying too hard to push a regular book to be Teen Vogue.
Multiplied the basket cases too then.
It fed 5000 people on that day. If only the Palestinians believed in Jesus’s miracles today.
I hope your brother is still doing well.
He is.
Staying clean, working at a golf course.
That great, I'm glad for you and him.
If only the Palestinians.
Yep, didn't I just mention basket cases?
Unfortunately it’s not the Palestinians that are praying for a miracle, it’s the Jews living in Israel that are expecting a miracle.
I sometimes worry we're all just a bunch of sock puppets that an all encompassing Consciousness is playing with by themself, and the Consciousness is either too confused to notice that it's not real, or is too engrossed in the experience to notice.
Jews.
Yet more basket cases.
We facilitate material progress, why?
GOD principle?
It cannot all be just random, can it?
Trouble is, mention GOD principle and nut jobs go off on one about some old Middle Eastern beardy geezers.
So, we're inextricably connected to the Universe...No good worrying about it...Especially for the Universal nanosecond that we exist as a part of it.
I'm not sure existence and laws 'need any reason.
Nor has any need 'not to be random, to a degree.
I 'could stop worrying about it, but I doubt I will.
Well, I will from time to time, then I'll worry about it again from time to time.
Various concepts 'really bother me,
And I find it difficult to create a fictional world with fantasy elements or appearances, 'without worrying about it.
My mind demands 'some sort of explanation, rules, logic.
And my poetic soul longs for something 'more,
My Ego screams for justification, whether there be any or not.
How do I explain ghosts, mind swaps, possession?
I'm fond yet adverse to sayings such as you can chain my body, but my soul is free.
. . . I 'want such,
But I don't 'see such when I look at existence.
I take the material view, the soul is the body, thus the soul can be tortured, forcibly changed by outside sources,
Yet that screams a sense of wrong to me.
. . . I just can't accept such, even if it seems a simple fact of existence.
And that I can't sufficiently 'explain consciousness, is an additional bur of hope.
. . . I've not heard anyone else's explanation either that satisfied me.
. . .
I don't necessarily want to explain the afterlife in a work of fiction,
But Immortality and Self Sovereignty interest me as concepts.
I really 'don't want to explain any afterlife,
It's not a concept I can really conceive of any more, I also doubt any explanation would ever satisfy me.
Course then there's the problem if I sufficiently 'explain souls and ghosts as mechanical or biological constructs,
Then they 'truly die.
. . . Eh, I want to leave it open ended, but I need 'some sort of explanation that satisfies me for souls in a fantasy setting.
. . .
Could shift to Sci Fi I guess, but Copy Paste Clones bother me.
In fiction with ghosts or self separated from the body, how?
Mind Body Dualism doesn't satisfy me,
It just feels a step back without solving the problem.
If X created the world, but then who created X?
If the Mind is a Ghost controlling the Brain, how?
Wouldn't the Mind/Ghost be just another body?
I don't see how something can interact with Material unless it exists,
Even concepts 'exist physically until they don't,
Then they are only theoretical 'potential, 'possible forms.
The mood in a room does not exist,
It is an illusion a metaphor for each individual,
X doesn't exist, X is shorthand for a long explanation of various Material.
Blasted cave wall shadows.
I'm not sure either.
God principle with or without reason.
Nonetheless, just seems to me that there is some sort of defining process to everything.
Space, time, duration, event, alteration and complexity of material form...Doesn't ever goes backwards does it?...Maybe whimsically for our entertainment.
So what I refer to as material evolution, we are a part of it, and it will undoubtedly continue to evolve, perhaps beyond and better than us.
A constant striving for new information. Worrying if you like.
And without consciousness the process would have stagnated.
And for sure, the human machine is incredibly and mind bogglingly complex, and we learn more about it, yet still cannot overcome it's inevitable demise...It's all subconscious, encoded... What are the chances of that?
the word 'macro' spoken or thought in my mind, when applied with my synesthesia, activates my sense of taste to taste macaroni and cheese
Macro,
"a single computer instruction that stands for a sequence of operations"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macro
By the activation of a macro by speaking the word macro, Skipper's memory activated past memories of macaroni and cheese upon his tongue.
I tasted so much macaroni while reading that post. Yummy.
maybe I should repeat words that remind me of food more often to increase my happiness or pleasure
Rituals, Classical Conditioning, Association, Atmosphere, Mantras, Catechisms, Litanies, Memories,
'Do have effects I think,
During some stressful times in my life, I'd repeat a poem about how much I valued myself and my views over other people, helped me worry less about how others viewed me.
Haven't used it in years though.
Thinking, talking about food, helps relive said memories, I'd think.
And I think food is pretty fun to eat.
Happy memories to re-experiance.