Are any of us really 'grown ups'?

[alkemical]

As most of you know, i am insane. Now that we have that in front of us - i stumbled across something i read a while ago and thought it was interesting. Why do we really have all of these turmoil and drama going on around the world? Why the wars, the fighting? Is it merley our animal nature? Are we able to rise above animal nature - beyond a purley emotive stance - to use more reason, etc?

Feel free to comment anyway you see fit on this. There is no right or wrong on this thread.


A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE
One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?
"O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"

WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.

"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

"But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it."

OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.

[alkemical]

The above quote came from a book called "principia discordia"

[orangenblue2]

The above quote came from a book called "principia discordia"

I was just laughing at the fact that nothing is humorous anymore. RAW writes wonderfully, but he's a horrible author. My advice is to read while stoned or stone while reading...:puff:

fnord...

[Rohirrim]

We are the crazy monkey. We're the monkey that - you know that look the chimp gives you, when you're standing in front of the glass, looking at him? - well, he's thinking, "You're one crazy mofo monkey." That's us. The crazy monkey. Living in the crazy monkey world we have made. Everything is right here for us. All that we could possibly need. A veritable mountainful of bananas. And yet, we insist on fighting and fighting and fighting - spreading destruction and pain on each other; insisting that our pagan god is the only one worth listening to, insisting that our race is the only race god smiles on, insisting that our language is the language that god speaks. Someday, we might survive our monkeyhood and evolve to the next level. Then, we'll be humans.

[yavoon]

reason won't help any if our basic assumptions are unreason. if u believe god told u to kill those ppl, or any other basic premise of unreason then all reason becomes then is a weapon.

mankind's greatest weapon, reason used for the unreasonable.