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Originally posted by livi
Adequate question, indeed!
And thanks! Silly me got all warm hearted from some of your responses.
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As I hoped it would, I only pose the question to promote thought in relation to to the idea that humans are nothing more than a walking bag of water and chemicals.
On one hand I can understand the pragmatic secular humanist view that we are nothing more than highly evolved animals. However f you look at human society and all the altruistic behavior you see I have to wonder if there isn't more to life.
As someone else has said let's take a look at love... we took a brief look at parental love now how about love between a man and a woman, is it really just about procreation? Why have we draped it in so much ceremony and ritual? When a relationship fails why does it bother us so? Why do we loose sleep and become physically ill?
Or why do people become firemen and make a living of risking their lives to save complet strangers?
Why do we join the armed forces and march off to war?
Why do we build art musiums and fill them with paintings?
Why do some of write and play music... and still others worship those people who make that music?
I'm not sure... I'm just asking questions...
Fool On The Hill
(The Beatles)
Day after day, alone on the hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still.
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool.
And he never gives an answer .....
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down.
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning around.
Well on his way, his head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices, talking perfectly loud.
But nobody ever hears him,
Or the sound he appears to make.
And he never seems to notice .....
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down.
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning around.
And nobody seems to like him,
They can tell what he wants to do.
And he never shows his feelings,
But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down.
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning around.