Comments | ningyo45: things we know and things we take for granted

ningyo45

things we know and things we take for granted

Apr 15, 2002 14:04

our human minds want all the answers. its the nature of living. wanting to know how things came to be. we have religion because humans fear the unknown, and need an explanation for everything. and humans are very attached to living, thus wanting to believe that once you die, you still get to live in some kind of alternate world where everything is ( Read more... )

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shivelycore April 15 2002, 11:35:29 UTC

I used to hope that I was adopted so that would mean I could be rid of my mother.

Now I just cant wait to move out and be rid of her.

Re: exactly ningyo45 April 15 2002, 12:16:51 UTC

thats part of why i did it too. i was hoping i had some awesome "real" parents out there somewhere that i could live with and escape from my parents.

lanemeyer April 17 2002, 11:07:30 UTC

Sometimes it's a fine line between insanity and the truth, Nancy.

True ningyo45 April 19 2002, 08:31:11 UTC

good point. but if your opinions or way of thinking don't agree with the majority it makes you feel kind of crazy.

ex_thisboy728 April 18 2002, 15:30:52 UTC

In regards to the first part, I have this weird belief that atheists are the only people capable of true altruism because they have no incentive. Even Mother Theresa had ulterior motives. If she helped all the poor kids she gets to go to heaven. It sounds cynical but I don't think of it that way.

As far as the second part it just sounds like you have an enriched imagination.

Random fact: The Learning Channel said that about 75% of babies resemble their father more because the mother knows that what came out of her was hers, but the man has no way of knowing. An evolutionary fidelity-check.

ningyo45 April 19 2002, 08:45:11 UTC

sure, most people have alterior motives, thats what really messes with me. my philosophy class yesterday was talking about how the US feels the need to decide that customs or practices in other countries are morally wrong, and so the US goes there and inflicts our governmental system and values on them. And whenever the US offers to "help" other countries, it isn't ever just out of the kindness of their heart. They want to provide them with something and then say "by the way, this is how you should run your country." kind of reminds me of christianity..."here let me help you with that, by the way have you accepted jesus as your savior yet?"

yeah, i most definitely have an enriched imagination. but my mind works in strange ways, in that if i want to see something badly enough, it somehow appears. my mind projects it there or something. its too hard to explain.