John Wilson
A New Topic!
Posted on: 07/01/2010 07:47
Talk about unfocused! It 4:30 am and I 've just finished an article of the begining of of multicellular life 2 billion years ago and stumbled on this line
“When bacteria are under stress, it triggers their cooperation,” said biophysicist Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University. “Those that have to cope with a more complex environment show higher complexity.”
...and I thought to myself, "Self, that might be a good topic:
maybe the current stress and fear, war and hatred will force us all into being complex.
Individually and/or nationally, or man-kindishly." (I get wordy sometimes when I talk to Self)
How is that going to look- how soon: The Babel-fish is coming via Google Translation,
You'll buy a world-connected i Pad for 10 dollars...everyone on the planet will have one
How do you think we can cope with our increasingly conplex enviornment?
It's a quarter to five. I'm not going to worry about it 'till tomrrow., by which time you will
have thought of our future...and I'll get more sleep tomorrow...
Will life's weird begining have as weird an ending?
'night...
Comments
Arminius
Posted on: 07/01/2010 10:20
Yes, stress is conducive to growth, but too much of it can kill. It'll either make us stronger and more complex, or do us in.
Neo
Posted on: 07/01/2010 11:23
Turn off the TV and take walk in the sunshine (without the iPod).
Interesting topic HappyGenius. I know that we've found that during disasters people tend to cooperate more.
Cooperation is the beginning of right human relations, isn't it? And right human relations is the core to brotherhood and sisterhood, concepts that were not really talked about before the time of Jesus.
Learning to cooperate and to live as one human family is our future.
John Wilson
Posted on: 07/01/2010 16:58
Yes, stress is conducive to growth, but too much of it can kill. It'll either make us stronger and more complex, or do us in.
Sounds Nietzchean...
(t'l prob'ly make a lot of us weaker , cowardly and simpler...No?)
John Wilson
Posted on: 07/01/2010 17:01
Turn off the TV and take walk in the sunshine (without the iPod).
That works
...that we've found that during disasters people tend to cooperate more.
Cooperation is the beginning of right human relations, isn't it? And right human relations is the core to brotherhood and sisterhood, concepts that were not really talked about before the time of Jesus.
Learning to cooperate and to live as one human family is our future.
From your lips to God's ears...
Arminius
Posted on: 07/01/2010 23:56
Yes, stress is conducive to growth, but too much of it can kill. It'll either make us stronger and more complex, or do us in.
Sounds Nietzchean...
(t'l prob'ly make a lot of us weaker , cowardly and simpler...No?)
Well, Nietzsche coudln't handle the stress of living, so he put a bullet through his head.
"God is dead."
-Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead."
-God
I think positive stress makes us grow; negative stress makes us weaker and cowardly and sometimes suicidal.
So what is the difference between negative and positive stress?
Negative stress is imposed on us; positive stress is created by us.
Can negative stress be transformed into positive stress?
Yes.
How?
By thinking creatively.
retiredrev
Posted on: 07/02/2010 06:26
"God is dead."
-Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead."
-God
This is irrelevant to the topic (so don't yell at me, please, it's too early), but your statement reminded me of the 'continued' graffiti:
"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
"God is NOT dead." - Billy Graham
"Who is Billy Graham?" - God
blackbelt
Posted on: 07/02/2010 11:43
Turn off the TV and take walk in the sunshine (without the iPod).
humanities focus for God
TV
work
kids sports
stress
more credit
bigger house
BMW
shopping
holiday
more TV
affairs
bar
clubs
Gambling
a millinon other missed things
last but not least
God
Arminius
Posted on: 07/02/2010 12:03
This is irrelevant to the topic (so don't yell at me, please, it's too early), but your statement reminded me of the 'continued' graffiti:
"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
"God is NOT dead." - Billy Graham
"Who is Billy Graham?" - God
Thanks for the continued graffity. Love it! I'll commit it to memory.
I wouldn't yell at you, retiredrev, no matter what you wrote. You are one of my favourite posters.
John Wilson
Posted on: 07/03/2010 03:17
Turn off the TV and take walk in the sunshine (without the iPod).
Interesting topic HappyGenius. I know that we've found that during disasters people tend to cooperate more.
Cooperation is the beginning of right human relations, isn't it? And right human relations is the core to brotherhood and sisterhood, concepts that were not really talked about before the time of Jesus.
Learning to cooperate and to live as one human family is our future.
Let me be stark:
What if society had a firm tradition toward rape and the females who are raped are permitted to muder the rapist. What if there were no laws against it? How long would a society like that last? I will tell you. Four hundred million years.
(I just watched a documentry on spiders.)
How long have we been around? A few hundred thousand years?,,,
400 million for a pretty nasty, non-fun-loving civilization there.
I mean! Does that sound fair? Poor Mrs. Spider! Shame on you Mr. Spider! Now, shame on you Mrs Spider! You are so immoral, so bad, so wicked, you should last for 400 million years?
What?
(Our reporter was sent to get Mr. Spiders opinion concerning rape, but was eaten.)
Over to you, optimist!