The what ever thread...

[snipelfritz]

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That's definitely what I wrote the first time...

[gunslinger_burrito]

I personally believe there's no god or higher power but I'm going to guess religion was started as more a of a morale booster for those struggling with purpose in their existence. I mean atheism is kind of depressing, you live, do shit and die and everything you've touched will eventually be forgotten, like it never existed.

I struggled with the thought of mortality pretty hard when I first grew to accept that this is "all there is." I use the quotation marks because that line is pretty limiting. There's like 1,000,000 times more cool stuff in the world to learn about and experience than any of us could begin to conceptualize.

Back to not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.... I, personally, have found certain elements of Left-Hand Tantra in Hinduism and certain elements of Buddhism to free me from those gripping neuroses regarding mortality. You see it in a lot inspirational quotes and whatnot, but life gets better if you really truly realize that it's going to end some day. There's a lot of great lines in Carlos Castaneda's books, but one of them has Don Juan telling him something along the lines of "We all make the same mistake. We think we have enough time." He goes on to talk about how most people live their lives like they're never going to die, procrastinating and putting off goals and plans "for tomorrow," or thinking "some day I'll do ______." This is your life so don't fucking compromise for any petty little reason. When I get depressed or anxious about anything, I stop and think about mortality, and after a little bit.... I get happy and go on with my day.

Also I want mayo on a sandwich now.

[Achtane]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfrssxStWo[/youtube]

[kbit]

That was the best change of pace.

[BitchPudding]

Tardar sauce is gross.

[Chankgeez]

The Desert of the Tartars is groovy.

[futuresailors]

But whatchu eat on your fish n chips then?

[Chankgeez]

malt vinegar?

[snipelfritz]

malt vinegar?

Oh fuck yes.

[foomanfat]

malt vinegar?

I always forget about malt vinegar when actually at a burger place.

[futuresailors]

malt vinegar?

That goes in the tartar sauce silly.

[Mudfuzz]

[snipelfritz]

Go home Tooth Fairy. You're drunk.

[alexa.]

Humans have believed in gods as far back as we know; I think that counts for something, unless all of our ancestors were just dumb shits who didn't know any better. It's more likely they had some reason to believe what they did. Yeah I know, scientific revolution and all that. Also, it's a big claim to say the bible is a complete fabrication. It's hard now thousands of years later to tell what's true, but it seemed so to the people who lived during those times. I think our inherited human memory carries some credence, and qualifies as a reason to believe in a higher being.

The existence of life and the universe still point to a creator, and science has led us into a deeper understanding of what an excellent creation it is. There will always be things we don't fully understand, because we can't perceive everything. A definition of God can be formed based on observation. When we think about what caused the big bang, it takes as much faith to say it was completely spontaneous as to say it was God.

Feels that way to me, only my exploration of the worlds philosophy led me to god being more of an essence, then a creature.
Besides yes, intuitive/genetic knowledge is a huge area we have no idea about, really. Cuz you have to be your own scientist to figure it out, since you can't really measure perception or objectivity

FYI permaculture largely overlaps with GM. People don't understand what a GMO is. It's not a business model, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with chemicals or pesticides, or anything else like that. All it is, is consciously guiding or otherwise affecting the growth and heredity of organisms. If you're doing permaculture, you're doing GM. Also, people act like GMOs are some new kind of thing. No one alive on this planet has ever eaten a single thing in their entire life that isn't technically a GMO.

Natural and artificial selection never take a gene from a fly/virus/bacteria to insert it into the genome of a plant organism.
Hybridization is one thing, GMO is another, as previously stated. Yes you can argue that hybridization is GMO, but that's just semantics, nothing more.

Has anyone watched the perma-lecture I posted? It's really awesome stuff, would love to hear your perspective.
I also ran into this the other day:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4vJKZXxn8[/youtube]
As you can probably say I'm pretty passionate about all the stuff that can save this ecosystem that contains humanity


I used to love mayo, like, obsessively. Then I fucked off all the bs products they try to sell as food

[Disarm D'arcy]

Having a pr0n bot friday.