it's just there, stranger. Apparently some people don't have it. That's not a put down. Nowhere have I claimed superiority. You don't have to be a spiritual person to enjoy life.
/// Apparently some people do not have many things. Like critical thinking, for 1. Tho it is not meant as a put down, my view is superior for I face reality without fairy tales or imaginary fiends. <>
You're damn right I am. What do think a sexual climax is? Just a chemical process. What do you think poetry is? A chemical process.
For the most part it is a collection of chemical processes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm As with any other neurological manifestation, the same goes for poetry as well.
The interesting part is that chemistry is absolutely fundamental to sentience. This is already apparent in insects (the oldest sentient surface dwellers) which, other than by touch, actually communicate through chemical signals such as pheromones and allomones, over distances as far as 20 miles.
Some would say that sentience is also fundamental chemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
I'm not totally sure what 'this world' refers to. I don't conceive of it as a closed set (I believe that there are almost certainly many things left to discover, some of which might be totally amazing and might overturn and falsify many of the things we currently believe) and I certainly don't pretend that I understand it (I find everyday reality to be profoundly mysterious). (That's where I disagree with many of the atheists on this board who seem to me to favor a rather doctrinaire scientism.) Nor do I understand why 'this world' is supposed to be insufficient in itself, but why adding 'God' to it will supposedly make everything satisfactory. That looks to me like a choice about how one decides to conceive of things. Or perhaps a selective emotional response to the different ways we might conceive of them. I guess that many people find it much easier to relate emotionally to other people than to inanimate objects. So they want to conceive of the fundamental principle and source of the universe in such a way that they can best relate to it emotionally. So imaginatively putting a "person" there makes everything a lot easier for them. (And that's where I part company with the theists.)
As a rule man is a fool When it's hot he wants it cool When it's cool he wants it hot Always wanting what is not From "Wild is Love" by Nat 'King' Cole.
I prefer watching ducks. All of them look like duckies. They're also more relatable than clouds and gods.
As Carlin observed; "I can see the sun, that helps with the credibility", "overnight I became a sun worshipper", "well not overnight, can't see the sun at night", "but the next day I became a sun worshipper", "gives me everything I need, warmth, flowers, reflections on the lake", "an occasional skin cancer, but hey...."..Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
