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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (82304)	2/1/2010 12:08:34 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"And why should it?? Why should "survival" be the the only thing a person values??" I don't think it should be the only value. It certainly does not do much for those of us who've come to terms with our own mortality. First, wonder can be considered separate from physical urges and survival. There are two aspects of wonder which for most people seem to be in conflict. Sensation seeking tends toward novelty and thrill, which conflicts with studying the nature and order of things, although there is some overlap. Some people are inclined to lean in one direction or the other while some people just seem to pursue mystery where ever it may lead in spite of the conflict it creates. "I don't find curiosity or the thrill of adventure to be suggestive of anything supernatural or mysterious." Seeking novel sensation or studying the nature of existence involves mystery, at least initially.

To: Solon who wrote (82304)	2/2/2010 9:39:48 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"...filled with a boundless sense of adventure and curiosity?" It seems that most people are fixed with a sense of curiosity that drives them to seek thier own level of adventure and inquiry. Otherwise Einstein would have said there it is, I've resolved it so now I'll have some pie and then go off to the widget factory with the rest of you blokes. Curiosity effects each of us and each of us deals with conceptual conflicts and knowledge gaps in his own way and at his own level of intensity. There are arch typical ways of dealing with it I suppose. You could pick up a book of wisdom or scripture and be convinced you have a proper guide worked out by brighter fellas, you could wander, you could study, you could look under every rock, down every crevasse, and over every hill. But satisfaction or satiation of curiosity does not seem to be a permanent state for breathing human beings. The implication is, we are given an incomplete condition by design and wonder as a tool to deal with that condition, with a desire to perceive things as whole or more complete, if even for a moment, until we begin.