Quoting: teschen
Hail Caesar! Great - you haven't forsaken us :)
I'm really enjoying this thread. All lemmings are gone by now and
I've always been interested in how the evil mind works.
I'm sorry to see you've ridiculed and belittled my questions and
thoughts without answering to them, but I guess it's better than if
you've just run away and never came back.
As for the end, why are you implying the ultimate end? I never said
that. I know you've read my "tortured" post, so you know I believe
in intelligent infinity. I know there is no such thing as the end of
the world. It's absurd.
I agree with almost everything you said. But where have I made the
supposition when game ends, there will be no new games? I said -
new game has to be started. This implies it will be started! It
always has. I know about civilization cycles. Tell me something
I don't know.
I'm not here because I view you as a figure of authority. I'm here because
it's a pleasure to read nice literary english, gentelmanly politeness
and intelligent posts. Of course the idea you could be the Puppet Master
himself is also very cool. Unfortunately, I don't believe it.
But first and foremost it never ceased to amaze me why do really clever
people have to be so selfish. Explain that to me, please! This one
thing only. Had you been merely a materialist, that would be settled.
But you dropped some spiritual stuff. So what is your view on the
metaphysical? I mean soul, polarities etc. Short summary.
Hello Teschen,
You cannot un-ask a question. Once it is put out there, it has to be dealt with on its own terms.
I have already addressed the issue of so-called "selfishness" in some depth. The act of "selflessness" is just that...an act. Programming put out by various self interested parties and institutions. It does not exist in Nature, which is where you need to take your cues from.
When one accumulates a surplus of resources, why would it be "human nature" to release these to an unrelated other without parity consideration? You likely notice that so called benefactors of one form and another do receive compensation of sorts...peer recognition, status and, almost always, some form of quid pro quo...unseen and withheld from the unwashed masses.
laughing out loud!
Selfishness and selflessness are artificial constructs! As I posted earlier in the thread, please provide one such example of selflessness occurring in Nature...even one! Existing outside of the bloodline, that is.
When a hawk captures a field mouse and feeds its young, no one thinks anything to be amiss. Clearly, the hawk benefits by protecting its progeny, the young benefit by virtue of surviving and only the mouse, in its death, loses.
Was the mouse selfless in its sacrifice? Not quite...it was stupid (in being exposed) and had insufficient defenses to protect itself. The parent mice spent their lives doing things other than teaching the young how to avoid hawks.
In terms of your second question, the bloodline can be traced back to the very beginning. Because YOU cannot do so, or do not attach significance to recording and disseminating such information, does not mean others act the same way!
Notice that in the Old Testament, a significant amount of detail is accorded to the lineage in the very beginning. Have you bothered to read this? Have you wondered why it was so important that it receives so much attention in such a revered document?
Of course, were you to understand the importance of bloodlines, you would know that, uniformly, family clans in both east and west regard bloodlines to be the determinant of station, position and inheritance. Royalty descends from royalty. Peerage, and all that.
Slaves of all sorts and colors also, and usually in vain, tried to keep track of the history of their families. Mormons are doing thins in the United States, and have noted that various "interest groups" have been noted to be introducing "noise" into the process.
I wonder why that would be??
Laughing out loud!