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posted by TheZenFly at 11:42 PM
Friday, June 11, 2004
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4 Comments:
I’m glad to hear the moderator and creator – BUYANKASHA – is back. I like how you are blending other sciences into your philosophy. I also liked your point about hypocritical actions being inherent to the system – It seems as if a person can only attain moral perfection in death.
I thought this might be amusing; here are ten questions I pondered while walking the three miles to work today:
1) Am I walking funny?
2) If a customer complains about rising gas prices AND an uneccesary war in Iraq, wouldn’t that be considered a paradox?
3) Supply and Demand … Whaaaa?
4) If we gain a tolerance to using a car, and we suffer from withdrawal symptoms after no longer using a car, wouldn’t using a car fit the clinical definition of an addiction?
5) Is it true; is Carrot Top really getting buff?
6) Do the majority of Americans really need a car?
7) If we didn't have a car, would we die, would we make a drastic fall into poverty and mental illness, or would we adapt to the situation?
8) Is a car a necessity, or a luxury?
9) Does a family of four really need a large car, or is it just more convenient?
10) If a 12oz can of soda cost two dollars, would I protest and complain, or would I quit drinking soda?
POSTED BY THE BONKERS DUDE
Ten replies to ten thoughts...
1! I always wonder if I'm walking funny, especially when I have headphones on.
2! This would seem paradoxical, provided such a person believes the war was initiated for oil.
3! Whaaa? Too long of an answer.
4! I guess it might depend on the symptoms, but it seems like that would be the case with a lot of things that people commonly use.
5! Wouldn't suprise me, he's always been kinda ripped
6! "Need"? Probably not.
7! I think we'd adapt, but it wouldn't be easy.
8! luxury...depending on the situation I guess, some people "have" to travel to get to work.
9! If they want anything else to fit in it, they might need a larger car... but of course there is the question as to whether they need the car in the first place.
10. Probably quit drinking soda, people don't have the same degree of dependence to soda as they do to vehicles.
POSTED BY THE FORMER CLERK GONE PIZZA MAD
Thanks for going through my questions, here's just a couple of things that popped in my head while reading your answers:
? #4)Very true, interesting isn't it - a negative word used for a natural response.
? #10) I thought this one might get taken too literal, I was going more for the concept. For me, I am more addicted to soda than cars, but that's how I was raised (even before I started kindergarten I was waiting at bus stops with my family in the winter and carrying my share of the groceries over long distances. I could venture some theories about my soda addiction, but I don't want to become any more long winded than I already am.) What if I changed the substance to something that is more commonly accepted as addictive. For example: "If a pack of cigarettes cost $10, would I complain and protest, or would I quit smoking?" Let's assume "both" is not an option (No using one of your three wishes for unlimited wishes here, that defeats the exercise!).
I'd like to discuss the other Q and A's more too, but this is quickly becoming an old post, so I'll let it go and move on.
POSTED BY THE BONKERS DUDE
Just to comment again...
It seems that many natural responses get put into two categories; the "good" natural, and the "bad and unnatural" I've always thought that there are many things which could be considered natural that society deems "out of place", or "unnatural". Of course if there is something that we do naturally that has negative consequences, it is deemed as unnatural. I'll stop there before I open a can of worms... In one of my next posts I want to talk a bit in response to someone's comment about DNA in relation to this subject.
As far as the complain and protest or quit question goes, I suppose it would depend on the person. One shouldn't complain if they are going to buy it, that would seem to shift the responsibility away from themselves as an agent with the ability to choose... but again, we see this all of the time with all kinds of things. So and so wants to buy something and they can't because it costs too much. Then they complain about it because either they can't afford it, or because they have to shell out x amount of dollars for whatever it may be.
In cases of things that we heavily rely on, (gas, food, water) it is harder to say whether one should complain or just quit, though I am compelled to say again that if one isn't going to quit, then they shouldn't complain unless they plan to do something about it. Otherwise it is something that they have no control over anyway
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