animals are civilizations who have reached an equilibrium in their evolution
we just have to agree that civilizations deos not necesserily mean the same criterias than ours humans...
we pretend that We have a language but this language does not bring us to agreement; in the contrary, it most of the time brings us into disagreemment...
We know today, that animals do have a language...and to our amazement, it works...between them...
these pictures remind me of the phenomenon at the root of racism. black were seen as goods not only because of greed but because they could be considered as objects...
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I am bi polar...
but bi polar does not mean what you think it means...
bi polar in a way means that one gets high when one needs that feeling of being high that is in love with what he is doing, what he is feeling, what he is encountrering, what he is fucking, and what he is understanding of life...
and that he goes so down when he discovers that reality is only a miserable pool where a few of us are miserably battling for the survival of that image...
that is what is being bi polar.
https://class.coursera.org/moralities-001/lecture/3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._Anscombe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Foot
http://www.maxisciences.com/chimpanz%e9/l-039-incroyable-geste-de-remerciement-d-039-un-chimpanze-remis-en-liberte_art31817.html
Are we any wiser? We are FB friends too! I will pick up with you there on a personal matter that had me thinking of you and you can tell me there why the course is a revelation to you there. ( message me) As for going against the current- ABSOLUTELY! I cannot envisage a life where I am imprisoned by the need to conform to someone elses idea of normality or morality. I nearly ended it all a few years ago when I was confronted by such a dilemma. I believe we each have a moral compass, built in, that tells us deep down what is right and wrong and that society has warped it and made us sick and delusional as a result. Queen Vistoria and her lot have a lot to answer for!
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@Don ...Hello Friend...I see that we are following the same path which seems to lead us to the same roads and even crossroads sometimes, such as this course which sounds absolutely fantastic...and truly adressing the whole being one is...
I see happy faces when I look at your pictures..and your enthusiasm gives us the benefit to see through your eyes...the many wonderful places that you travel, in and out...keep us dated my dear...we will criss cross dagger (in plastic and words of course) through this course which is a true revelation to me...maybe I will tell why if it gets interesting to anybody...
@Tina....you have my most sincere admiration for your love of life and dynamism to get back there... I am in a kind of same path here... but in a different existential pattern...so I will only express respect for the kind of person you are, among many others I am sure, who can become true inspirers to me...at least... selfishly yours....
finally, I will summarize my little intro with these few sentences... I am the one always going agains the current... why ? I might have an answer for that... and some more after this course it seems... Hence, I have had, up to today a terribly difficult life... filled with sorrows and fugitive, fleeting joys...
it has made of me what I was always from the start, a true warrior. Though this warrior today is tired and is trying to find some new strength...spiritual strength... among many..
Life is for me a voyage. the fact that we are mere passer's by to one another is so profound because it makes of us creatures of emotions and spirituality....but as is said in the intro of this course, science shows us other aspects too, and spiritual ones...
I will finish by this quote who lately always inspired me by William Ernest Henley
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
https://class.coursera.org/moralities-001/lecture/83