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Reality & MetaphysicsWhat if we are all inanimate objects..
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I live in a rural town outside of Boston, Massachusetts. There is a small mental hospital in my town with a patient living there with schizophrenia. He believes he is a glass of orange juice. I'v... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsCan inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
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Can inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
Yes.
"Expr essive" is a highly subjective term -- it has more to do with individual interpretation than some objectively quantifiable val... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDo you believe in the power of objects?
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I think it's our mind and intellect attach power to the objects. They make them work... and work even wonders like masterpieces of music, words, pictures, etc. Our energy inserts into the inanima... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDo you believe in the power of objects?
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Things serve in the same way as people. If you obtained them after all, you must care about them. Most of them were destined just for you exclusively. Someone has made it Strangely, but I believe in t... |
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Habits & BehaviorRandom Hatred
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people that give inanimate objects personalities and human traits |
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Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
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...wraith, what is the boulder nonsense you speak of? and this "im suppose to...crap?..lol Wraith, there are things that are...simply because they are. We do do..what we're suppose to, becau... |
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Tell a joke and then end it realistically.
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a guy walks into a bar
ouch! that must have hurt.
what did one door say to the other door?
nothing. theyre both inanimate objects. |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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I don't know. I just find beauty in everything, even in filthy industrial plants and litter. Inanimate objects seem to have something about them, not just a beauty but something else I can't... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsCan inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
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i think the key question here is if that expression is intended or not. Or at least if it is a "common" meaning.
After all we can interpret anything by forcibly connecting it to everythin... |
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God in ReligionIf god exist why doesn't he show himself to the world?
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science and math are intangible things, they are ideas (some believed to be facts) but they are stored in our minds. (also on sheets of paper and in machines, but these are all inanimate.) But, nevert... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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No. You're not answering my question. I mean anything (as in not just something that's sentient but something unsentient or inanimate as well). So, the question is: does purpose=worth? Does... |
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Science vs ReligionDoes a grain of sand have a soul?
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As far as an inanimate object possessing a soul in general. I believe everything is connected to one great soul, and each thing is a minute "particle" or "cell" of that great soul... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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All people have purpose and all people have worth. These two are not dependent on each other. If someone's purpose is evil that does not make them worth less as human beings.
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Internet Safety- Exaggerated or Underrated?
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I would have to agree that the internet itself (being an inanimate and non-living object) certainly can't be blamed for the users who abuse the privilege it provides. But the myspace "friend... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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and the second qeustion was not needed. A=B, means B=A. i just dont like that your trying to sound smart for the sake of sounding smart.
I just felt like typing that instead of vice versa, geez! I... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsCan inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
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Can inanimate objects carry expressive meaning?
'Expression resides in perceptual qualities of the stimulus pattern'-Rudolf Arnheim
In achieving great quantifying skills we have seriously damag... |
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Mind "Lag"
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Okay here it goes: your mind and body are in two different time frames mind in past body in the present. Think about this it takes your brain a couple of milliseconds to interpret any kind of external... |
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Society & SociologyComfort Zone...
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Different people do have different distances involved with their comfort zone, based on personality and such.
At various times we allow more closeness or less closeness, given the situation. For ex... |
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Fate
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This is all good and fine (not to mention confusing), but what if you introduce religion. I mean how could God predetermine our fate (through mathematical computations, hocus pocus, or whatever) and a... |
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Does anyone out there actually believe this BS?
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I think it is supposed to be a suggestion that if your death leads to the success of a military mission, then it wasn't a waste of your life.
the real worry is that people do believe it, the b... |
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ConsciousnessBIOCENTRISM
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Biocentrism, the primacy of consciousness is an alternate view of how life developed.
In traditional Western science, it has been commonly accepted that "something" caused the inanimate u... |
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PoetryFirst poem attempt
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Sure mutnuaq, I'll give you a line by line interpretation of how I read this.
Spiraling down this clockwork of Life -
As we age and move through a routine, planned out life.
Learning th... |
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Random PicturesRandom Pictures by vigil
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Well I think that any art we produce can't help but be expressions of our thoughts, desires, feelings.
So now you've made me think - what am I trying to express?
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Habits & BehaviorQualities of Reaction derived from Qualities of Stimulus
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In inanimate objects, the reaction to stimulus is rather straight forward, action-reaction. With a living creature however, it becomes much more complicated with the introduction of DNA programmed rea... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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just because mother thereasa stole from the church doesn't make her bad. The church is one of the richest organizations in the world. Not knowing anything about mother thereasa's activities... |
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