Indeed. We could just be the "dot" of higher dimensional beings, the protrusions into the third dimension.
Halcyon:
Your 2D membranes would not be able to fuse, because that would create depth, the 3rd dimension. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I'm going on no sleep 40+ hours.
Also...
I've got a little game I'd like to play. I'm going to set up the beginning of a story, and anyone can add to it (so long as you're being serious about it, and not just being foolish ;) ).
btw, it's not a contest, just try to make it interesting and well written. I know that the stuff I...
Just a fun thing to think about:
Supposing there are higher dimensions (beyond time), which is currently supported by a number of theories in physics, then could not organisms have evolved to live "there"?
Second dimensional beings, Flatlanders as they've been called, would move around...
How has this God of yours, "Jehovah", proven anything?
Seems to me you clutch your doctrine close to heart, and disallow the possibility that you, or the people who taught you to believe what you now do, may be in error. If you accept doctrine as true on faith, nothing has been proven (well...
True. And I believe there have been brain imaging studies done that confirm the existence of pain in at least most (if not all) vertebrates. Probably many invertebrates feel the same.
Consciousness of everything is an evolutionary trait. By having a consciousness, we can make decisions...
Ancient cave paintings depicting "shaman" and their symbiosis with certain fungi.
My "spirituality" is greatly benefited by entheogenics. Any who have walked the path I've trod knows that they are tools for intellectual, emotional, and memetical evolution.
Thou art God. Realize that you ARE just a sentient portion of the universe, perceiving itself, and you have found what you seek.
We, all of us, every individual, are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We need only seek within ourselves, and have the courage to explore our minds through...
There are people born with the inability to feel pain. They often mutilate themselves accidentally, and generally die sooner than the norm. Pain and suffering are the tools that natural selection has used to create ameliorative behaviour in life-forms possessing nervous systems.
However, we...
Just hoping to reconnect with some of the people I came to appreciate during my time here at RF. I imagine many are gone now, but I hold out hope for some.
Thou art God.
Our time is to be abhorred, it fails the test of ultimate truth. Our history serves to imprison us in prisons built out of our ideas and misled actions. Fixed and frightened authority is arbitrary, and never to be trusted. Your own authority is to be especially distrusted.
I...
What is the human mind? Something other than a conglomeration of neuronal tissue functioning under the same laws that other atoms, molecules, and cells follow? I've heard people say that the mind is different, something special, because it rewrites itself (or at least edits itself) continually...
It is my belief that the chances of life arising from nonlife are relatively high. I believe that it arose once or more times on Earth, and many times throughout the universe.
Given the proper environment, like our early Earth, and given enough time, life will arise.
Death is the termination of an organism's life functions. As organisms, we die. All organisms before us did, so we do. There is no purpose for death, it was not designed. It exists simply because replication gets more difficult with age.
One generation dies and feeds the ecosystem which...
Aqua, what do you want me to say? I admit, if that's what he meant, he's wrong, and I disagree with him. But I honestly believe that he simply made a poor choice of words.
No, Aqua, I think that he said the wrong thing but that the spirit of his message is right. I think that he made poor word choice. We can all agree, in this thread, that encouraging drug use by children is wrong, and I am certainly not advocating that position.
I just don't think he meant it...