Earth

[Floogeldy]

What the fuck is going on here? These myriad of biological creatures that have fantastic attributes. Spiders that live in bubbles in creeks. Humans that can write and sing. Fishes that glow neon colors. All of these thoughts and emotions, pain and elation. Murder. Chocolate.

What the fuck is going on here?

[leftofthedial]

1. it's all part of gawdjeezis's plan

for destroying the world and condemning most humans to eternal torment in the flaming bowels of hell.

[amitten]

2. Fun!

:bounce:

[billyskank]

3. Somebody's screwing with you, Floog.

Just ignore it. :)

[Heidi]

4. Life

is what's going on here. :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Are you quoting Bea Schafer

in "Up the Down Staircase"?

:hi:

[Random_Australian]

5. Unfortunately, and fortunately, free will is inherit in quantum

mechanics. If we felt nothing for each other, we could not live and love as the society we are.
We need to care. However, animals do not, and thus their cruelty will happen, but in ignorance solely.

Careful though, with free will. We are still animals inside, and from any given time it takes time a little to make a free decision about that, rather than a knee-jerk, the physical phenomena itself bieng an example our free will taking time.

As for murder, well, our minds flexibility and learning capacity is huge, and thus just a small change, administered many times, can change a mind enough that these acts are no longer abhorrent enough.

That a satisfying answer? Or at least edifying?

[APPLE314]

7. It's surely not EVOLUTION.

Both the Creationist and the Evolutionists have it wrong. It is not survival of the fittest, it is survival of the luckiest. Species adapt by mutation (ie. morphing) into different species. Sometimes the new mutation has the required attributes to survive. Those that don't mutate will fail the challenge and become extinct. It's all a matter of luck.

The simplistic way to see this is as follows.

Change has to precede challenge.

How does it feel to be a mutant?

[Random_Australian]

8. pffft evolution is statistical analysis, ie. luck.

(Note: Quanta in this context means 'the smallest possible unit of' and 'd' means an infinitesmal, but changing, amount)

{Long winded bit, skip unless interested or answering}

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Individual survival is all luck, but is statistically predictable, ie. you have a 30% chance of surving and reproducing x times, you' (pronounced you prime) may have a 35%, or even a 99%, but that's still no garuantee. Change has to precede challenge thing don't work btw, given that challenge is an integral and eternal part of the environment, and an aid to change, they both exist at all times, but the smallest unit of challenge is d time, ie it has smaller quanta than change, which moves (depending on your argument) in quanta of a small as atoms, as large as people and their lifetimes.

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Or for the really succint bit: "Evolution, as an interaction between the order inherit in randomness and the laws of physics, of which that order is a part, provides statistical analyses for the most likely biological organism to be present at a set time, however other than forming your DNA and modifying your physical environment, it does not affect any individual"

How does it feel to be a mutant: Just like before. Words, man, just words.

Haven't seen you round btw APPLE314, so :hi:

[entanglement]

9. Pretty, ain't it. And that's just the earth.

Leave it and you encounter huge spinning gas giants, galaxies with supermassive black holes in their midst, beautiful nebulae, mysterious quasars, all separated by distances so huge that the mind struggles to comprehend them.

There is SO much that we don't understand.