The Asylum Game: An Open-Ended Adventure
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Well, I'm not subject Lost, subject Sass. XD And it's alright... Although I've been... contemplating things...
Subject Sass its my full day today and I still need to get some Bio homework done
Subject Fury I also had about 7 hours of lecture today in total so....ya its a little exhausting
Subject Fury I also had about 7 hours of lecture today in total so....ya its a little exhausting
It doesn't help us subject Sass... It's a curse... Fear is the understanding that something can harm you... Animals have no fear because they donot understand... Animals do not become sad... They are either in a state of pain or contentment, while humans are usually searching for someway to keep our overdeveloped minds occupied, which eventually leads to horrifying thoughts... If Animals hallucinated like I do, they wouldn't be afraid because they don't understand... We understand, therefore we fear, we become sad, we go insane... And the whole while, happiness must bye supplied by an external force, while fear and sorrow can be produced indefinately by our own minds... We, as sentient beings, are locked in the cripple of our own understanding that causes us grief... Sentience is a curse, not an improvement... We have devolved...
And at the same time, subject Sass, because of our sentience, we understand the concept that all life at this time will come to and end, and, in a vain attempt to perpetuate ourselves, we place our hopes on the next eneration to discover immortality, and they pass it on to the next, and the next, and the next... And once we find it, what then? We live forever and all go insane from the inability to supply our overactive, disgusting minds with something to examin, to analyze, to contemplate... We, as human beinggs, are in a downward spiral to inevitable, everlasting madness of understanding... We crave what we don't understand, and at the same time fear it, only harming ourselves... As soon as there is nothing left to discover, to analyze until we understand it, we will all go insane...
Subject Lost, ouch...
Subject Fury, hmm...I don't really know how to respond to that except like that. ><'
Subject Fury, hmm...I don't really know how to respond to that except like that. ><'
Subject Sass it sucked
Subject Fury I will respond to that. First of all your initial statement of animals does not ring true. Whereas animals do not have complex emotions to the extent of a human, they do go as far as sadness and fear. Elephants have been known to mourn the dead of their herd and to become physically depressed when their mate dies early. As for fear, everytime there is a thunderstorm my dog becomes terrified, despite never being struck by lightning or hurt in anyway from that. Just like us humans, animals have both rational and irrational fears, both of which can affect them in a negative way.
Hallucinations are had by a mind that has excess energy or is affected by some chemical imbalance in the brain. This can be caused in most brains as most have the imperfections that cause such a reaction in the mind. I can be looked at the same way you or an animal dreams while it is sleeping. Where as neither of the dreams tend to have a coherent train of thought to it, you could be eating a Sunday at a barber shop for example and a dog dreams that it is chasing something as it runs and barks slightly as it sleeps. Dreams and hallucination are still not completely understood by us yet and as such we cannot be the judges of their complex nature, nor what they are caused by and what they mean.
Self actualization is one of the things a Human strives for, the true question as to why we exist. Some believe a higher power created us, others a lucky strain of genetics and evolution. Either way, the human pysch strives for meaning in itself and struggling to find it is one of the biggest challenges we will face as a person and as society as a whole. Rather than the downword spiral you describe I believe that humans are coming closer and closer to finding out the true meaning of existence.
Once we discover such a think I believe we will begin to unlock the true potential of humanity, allowing us to expand, to truly study life and how it works, we can move towards peace, cooperation, exploration and such like that. Insanity only comes to those whose minds have nothing or have become unstable for whatever reason, lack of learning doesn't cause insanity, it causes stagnation. The human culture has stagnated before, saved not be scientific discovery, but rather into advancement of the arts. If we have such a stagnation again, I have a feeling more art will emerge, much like what happened in the Dark Ages.
Edit Damn I write that all up and everyones gone >.>
Subject Fury I will respond to that. First of all your initial statement of animals does not ring true. Whereas animals do not have complex emotions to the extent of a human, they do go as far as sadness and fear. Elephants have been known to mourn the dead of their herd and to become physically depressed when their mate dies early. As for fear, everytime there is a thunderstorm my dog becomes terrified, despite never being struck by lightning or hurt in anyway from that. Just like us humans, animals have both rational and irrational fears, both of which can affect them in a negative way.
Hallucinations are had by a mind that has excess energy or is affected by some chemical imbalance in the brain. This can be caused in most brains as most have the imperfections that cause such a reaction in the mind. I can be looked at the same way you or an animal dreams while it is sleeping. Where as neither of the dreams tend to have a coherent train of thought to it, you could be eating a Sunday at a barber shop for example and a dog dreams that it is chasing something as it runs and barks slightly as it sleeps. Dreams and hallucination are still not completely understood by us yet and as such we cannot be the judges of their complex nature, nor what they are caused by and what they mean.
Self actualization is one of the things a Human strives for, the true question as to why we exist. Some believe a higher power created us, others a lucky strain of genetics and evolution. Either way, the human pysch strives for meaning in itself and struggling to find it is one of the biggest challenges we will face as a person and as society as a whole. Rather than the downword spiral you describe I believe that humans are coming closer and closer to finding out the true meaning of existence.
Once we discover such a think I believe we will begin to unlock the true potential of humanity, allowing us to expand, to truly study life and how it works, we can move towards peace, cooperation, exploration and such like that. Insanity only comes to those whose minds have nothing or have become unstable for whatever reason, lack of learning doesn't cause insanity, it causes stagnation. The human culture has stagnated before, saved not be scientific discovery, but rather into advancement of the arts. If we have such a stagnation again, I have a feeling more art will emerge, much like what happened in the Dark Ages.
Edit Damn I write that all up and everyones gone >.>
Subject Lost, thanks for responding. I was responding but my computer messed up and I lost my response. T.T
Edit: Subject Lost, don't forget that the teenage mind is also not fully developed; primarily the Prefrontal Cortex.
While much thoughts about death frighten many, not all want immortality. Many will accept death and not fear it.Fury Is Me. said:
I'll say this straight up right now: we will never discover everything there is in existence. As one thing is discovered more questions are presented.
Again, we will never discover everything because as one thing is discovered new ideas and new questions are asked which prompt us to find an answer or explanation. While yes it can be scary, the ability to get passed that and not fear it better us as a whole.
Edit: Subject Lost, don't forget that the teenage mind is also not fully developed; primarily the Prefrontal Cortex.
Animals fear what appears intimidating, not what actually is. Rabbits, for example, are afraid of everything larger than themselves and not everything can harm them. Human beings feel fear more than any other species of animal on earth because we KNOW what can hurt us and to what extent, and we can imagine much greater pain or something that may cause us more physical harm. And human beins can become afraid of what they do not know. Say this, say my hallucinations actually existed, and everyone of those horrifying images that vanish as soon as I turn my head to look at them was actually beneviolent and merely disappeared when I looked at it, because of their horrifying appearance, we can imagine and create images of what they can do, what they might do, what the WANT to do, whereas an animal sees something that vanishes as just something that vanishes or as something to watch for or stalk, they can't imagine the pain it could bring.Lost In The Void said:
Another thing is, once we find out Why we're here or who made us, what then? We merely strive to that one purpose? Once we know, it no longer interests us, why do you think no one enjoys doing the same thin over and over and over again? Because we know it already, our minds have lost interest in it. And if our mind knows that something has been understood, while our minds wish to understand it, it's not as interesting. Eventually, we will learn most of what there is to learn, weather that be 1000 years from now, or 1 billion, we'll understand, and once we understand, what then?