XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.supp   
   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jul 2021 10:01:49 -0400, Wilson  wrote:   
      
   >On 7/9/2021 7:46 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 17:57:14 -0400, ansaman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 7/9/2021 4:45 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>> Then there is the problem about how we invented all kinds of whatzits   
   >>>> and forgot that what we really needed to change was ourselves.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Humans are now hunter gatherer brains living in a world they don't   
   >>>> understand.  Didn't choose.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> We created this world. We chose it willingly and   
   >>> knowingly.   
   >>   
   >> Sorta.  It still feels like "I did not choose this" to many.   
   >> Feelings, of course, are not rational.   They simply are.   
   >   
   >Phantom limbs have feeling even though they are not there.   
      
   Different kind of feeling.   
      
   > Feelings are   
   >experienced, but they are not tangible and may not square with what is   
   >real outside yourself.   
      
   As I said they are not rational.  Love being necessary to the making   
   of babies, but the loved one is really simply another human among the   
   masses.  That does not mean that love is to be ignored as irrational.   
   It is part of what makes life worth living along with other feelings.   
   We simply must honor them.  The "I did not choose this" feeling as   
   much as any.  Being rational does not make life worth living, Mr.   
   Spock, and it does not make humans content to live in cities and spend   
   a large part of their lives working for a paycheck.   
      
   Noah Sombrero   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)