I just think the whole world is going nuts!

I agree!

i love brazil nuts,,especially the thickly coated chocolatey ones,,,yummy!

I like the dark chocolate covered nuts.....and coffee beans too!

CatMonster wrote: Everyone watch this:

Our tiny World

Yep, I really like that one. He says a mouthful.

I have some answers

First, reality does not exist. Reality as we see it is the product of electrochemical signals.
All our life experience is Chemistry. Hunger hormone, stress hormone, love hormone, sex hormone, euphoria hormones,
what we see, what we hear, what we feel, is all dictated by such.

Even when we sleep and are dreaming it feels so real - for most people they cannot tell when they are in a dream as it is so real........the same processes are involved.

Every one of us have receptors and transmitters and our brain processes and changes the signals.

You express your love for someone, they respond back.

In the end it's all about chemicals !

Do we exist ? of course we do.

Does reality exist, no. perhaps energy exists, but our physical bodies are such that they can interpret (receive) and paint a picture of what you as a human perceive as "reality".

Is there more to our lives than just our physical bodies ? I would say a big resounding YES.
Our physical bodies / brains are just a catalyst - basically transforming raw material if you like.

So PHYSICAL life as we know it is the product of an experiment and someone's creation. Therefore,
it is bound by time and a limited "shelf life"

Outside that, there is no notion of TIME therefore what has been, has always been and shall always be.

We come from this energy process and shall return to the process and the cycle starts all over again.

Life is far more than just a physical body - what we KNOW and can interpret is only limited by our brain.

pindokhan123 wrote: i love brazil nuts,,especially the thickly coated chocolatey ones,,,yummy!

I'm nuts, so for me it is normal to love all nuts

@Darkstar2 Drat! I was hoping you wouldn't say that! My shelf life doesn't seem very long
and I am glad there isn't an exact expiration date on it.

Do you ever think of who or what may be looking at you?

In other words, just because you don't see anything but air particles, that may not mean
beings are not around you.

What dreams I recall, are dumber than dumb itself.

I guess it is all on how you look at things. Humans could be considered androids or sorts.
We're sort of robotic in many ways. Just because we have some things we call flesh and
blood instead of metal wires, doesn't mean a whole lot when you think about it.

All of us are in a shell. We're like turtles.

lol. I have thoughts like these too but I slap myself and think about simple stuff or else I'd drive myself crazy

yep i agree,the brain need not fret over simple things.....confronting things of the unknown just screws you up momentarily i guess

tasman1 wrote:

pindokhan123 wrote: i love brazil nuts,,especially the thickly coated chocolatey ones,,,yummy!

I'm nuts, so for me it is normal to love all nuts

Not touching this with a ten foot pole

valerie wrote: @Darkstar2 Drat! I was hoping you wouldn't say that! My shelf life doesn't seem very long
and I am glad there isn't an exact expiration date on it.

Assuming that all events in our lives, including what we do, are pre-determined for the most part, I guess it would be fair to say that our expiry dates are also "hard coded" Ever hear someone do something bad and say "I wasn't thinking....... I don't know why I did it........" etc. Every actions we do causes a reaction, if things are all connected to another in some way then I guess there is truth to the expiry theory.

You've worked in the medical field, so you know about cases where people are very active, super health conscious and eat well, all healthy foods yet their bg, hbp, etc all over the place, some are fat, have high cholesterol, etc, whilst at the same time some people lead very unhealthy lifestyles, smoke, drink, eat lots, fat, carbs, you name it, and their LDLs, trigs, bg, hbp, etc, all in normal ranges, normal body weight, healthy heart, etc. This would be in terms of physiology, however our essence, what we are, how we think, how kind we are, the things we do could also be "pre-determined" - Some people are so mean by nature, you can't change them - some people are so kind hearted and peaceful no matter what they go through, nothing will put them down........ Some people try hard and fail, some people barely lift finger and succeed........... All aspects of our lives are controlled in some way and these control the physical aspect of life. What we are PHYSICALLY, has a shelf life. The core of what we are, doesn't expire, it's just not expressed physically as we part from our shells when we "expire".

Can we "BUY TIME" and extend our expiry date ? Debatable - though perhaps you can buy a few years at most or maybe not, as destiny will steer you back to another path with similar ending.
So since humans do not have this knowledge, they just live life day by day and leave it up to faith. We we knew our expiry and our time sheet of life it might not be good, it would be chaos.

One of the biggest culprit of physical life is EMOTION and physical attachment. Our brain
is hard wired to seek good feelings, attach to things, both material and non material,
in the end whether you like it or not you end up losing people you care for so much,
through death, through breakups, or other circumstances. Some of the people with the most hardships in their lives are the nicest, most caring people, they may be referred to others as "poor" but when it comes to the inside they are rich !

There are too many recurring patterns in life to be coincidences.

valerie wrote: Do you ever think of who or what may be looking at you?

....or looking FOR you. Sorry couldn't resist

Aliens please come get me now, let's have some tea and have a chat !

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In other words, just because you don't see anything but air particles, that may not mean
beings are not around you.

We are receivers and transmitters. There is a wide range of radio frequencies circulating - radios have the ability to TUNE in a specific frequency, discarding the rest. Same for our vision, our eyes only can see a specific range of colours. It cannot see infra red. So life is more than meet the eyes that's a fact.

There could be beings or dimensions in different energy frequency range that our brain is not built to detect, therefore, we perceive it as non existent. Our brain is hard wired to see physical manifestations - and yet for some unknown reasons there might be a glitch in some people's brains allowing them to see beyond what can normally be seen (ghosts, auras, etc.)

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I guess it is all on how you look at things. Humans could be considered androids or sorts.
We're sort of robotic in many ways. Just because we have some things we call flesh and
blood instead of metal wires, doesn't mean a whole lot when you think about it.

It does to some extent as with robots, it is based on logic, everything electric/electronic, robot, can be explained. Coded logic, it's either a 0 or 1 , true or false. Even fuzzy logic and AI is based on a set of rules. There is lots that distinguish human from robots. Humans have feelings, they can nuance, they can think, they can build knowledge of things they did not know before, they have free will on their decisions. Even if our lives might be pre-determined for us part of it is free will, we are free to THINK, to feel, to do, etc. There energy that drives our physical life, and I believe this energy goes beyond our brains. Whereas a robot truly dies when you remove it's source of energy, electricity or when the batteries run out

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All of us are in a shell. We're like turtles.

another major flaw of human beings is the ability to THINK.

THINKING can make you unhappy.

I recommend a great book to read, Brave New World.


Robots can't THINK, they are executing code.

Of course one day no doubt humans will reverse engineer themselves and build machines with brains and neurons,
machines that can mimic the attributes of human beings.

Once the ability to download and upload a brain's content from one body to another or one body to another contraption becomes reality, then I guess all concept about soul, spirituality goes out the window
and life is one big experiment after all

Darkstar2 wrote:
I recommend a great book to read, Brave New World.

Yeah i saw that book on amazon, think i'll buy it soon, already have "1984" and "animal farm".