tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post4278005909556023892..comments2023-11-02T09:08:18.487-04:00Comments on DARE TO THINK : Been so SICK And TiredCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-79515995891549238172009-10-19T12:58:28.573-04:002009-10-19T12:58:28.573-04:00Cathy,
I'm glad you are back. I was a little w...Cathy,<br />I'm glad you are back. I was a little worried.<br />You have an award at my blog:<br />http://hellaheaven-ana.blogspot.com/2009/09/award-most-inspirational-blog.html<br /><br />Come to get it if you want. It's not mandatory, of course.<br />Love you,<br />AnaAnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05742171327602935061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-7876910830061383832009-10-17T03:17:16.163-04:002009-10-17T03:17:16.163-04:00WOW this really is Dare To Think!!!
We've als...WOW this really is Dare To Think!!!<br /><br />We've also been breathing and ingesting virulent bacteria every single day for the last 250,000 years..and before that in our previous proto-types.<br /><br />I think I read somewhere that there more bacteria in the large intestine than there are cells in the human body?<br /><br />It's 2am I don't know if I'm making any sense..I'm actually more worried about the manmade concoctions getting out and going global. The Canadian Virology Lab is right here in Whateverpeg..10 mins away :(<br /><br />let me sleep on it :)Romeo Morningwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826410608415260786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-84043082364250049972009-10-16T11:44:37.477-04:002009-10-16T11:44:37.477-04:00HEY DONN AGAIN LOL! I too, used to think a "...HEY DONN AGAIN LOL! I too, used to think a "viral culling" was nature's way of keeping our numbers in check proportionate to other animals and factoring in food supply. But the truth is, it's NOT nature - these viral strains have only been killing humans for as long as we've been living in such close quarters with the animals we domesticated - sheep, goats, pigs, etc. I blogged on it, it's called "Please Don't Be Afraid" check it out. A species-leap. Happened alot later than you suggest I'd say, though I agree certain virus strains have existed from the first cell replication. But they were never humanoid-specific, we hadn't evolved yet and wouldn't for billions of years. We're only about 240,000 years old as modern humanoids, that's it. Very early in the evolution game. Unless you can suggest some? Love to debate this with ya if yer game! Name one virus that's affected humans that's older than, say, 7,000 years. I can't think of ONE.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-31626627928074049942009-10-16T11:03:57.521-04:002009-10-16T11:03:57.521-04:00TREES: As usual, seeing you here is so encouragin...TREES: As usual, seeing you here is so encouraging to me. I'd really like you to consider this whole issue - you don't have to answer each query because they really HAVE no answers. Certainly no "right" ones. But the one I put forth in the first entry: Which would you save, and your thoughts on it all. I realize why most women said they'd do anything it took to protect their child/children but that's really not the question is it. The scenario is "no choice" and as I say, I'm assuming people love their kids, that's not the issue either. You can still love your child beyond all reason and still make that sacrifice of their lives if it was truly the choice you felt honestly about. Some feel, since they can have other children but never another perfect soulmate, it could be feasible - that's thinking deeply instead of stating what everyone knows already: people love their kids. You know? Take your time dearest friend, I value your thoughts as you've known for years. Hope life is treating you decently! <8Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-473877553639830452009-10-16T10:09:56.054-04:002009-10-16T10:09:56.054-04:00I went back and read the previous entry to try and...I went back and read the previous entry to try and really understand your question and I have read this entry also with great interest. No you ask me would I kill my child or my husband, well that is a no brainer my husband is my ex and he nearly killed me several times, I would do him in cheerfully if I did not have to go to jail. Just kidding my friend. I really need to take the time to go over this entry and the previous one again as I wish to give you a very honest opinion of the many questions you raised in this entry. <br />Again you raise such thought provoking questions and really make us DARE TO THINK and I am truly greatful for your entries, your knowledge and above all your frienship.<br />I will be back hopefully to give you a good answer to your questions.Treeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03728152928068732384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-146974011365706092009-10-16T06:00:18.191-04:002009-10-16T06:00:18.191-04:00HEY TRESSA LOL! I realize you'd take out your...HEY TRESSA LOL! I realize you'd take out your husband no problem, I got that. Not one person chose a lover over a child. Boy this is better than college!!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-87442750405079653682009-10-16T05:50:19.261-04:002009-10-16T05:50:19.261-04:00DIANE: You cleverly hit on the harsh indoctrinati...DIANE: You cleverly hit on the harsh indoctrination of the rookie soldier in boot camp, the stripping away of his core personality and instilling a conscious-lacking killing machine - but that's needed in war, so say the old soldiers who study it and I believe them. THEY know it best, WE just hate it. They fight it, so they train these men to kill babies without a thought. Unfortunately, years later the former soldier suddenly gets in his car and drives off a cliff. Doesn't know why, everyone's surprised, but it's those acts of murder coming to the fore of his memory I'd say. To answer your question: I'd give the germs to my cat to spare my life. And feel horrible, mourn, then give him a fabulous memorial party and invite friends to bring their pets, all of us look at pix and remember the dear cat I loved and killed to save my own skin. And it's because we're "still thinkers" that I'd measure the efficacy of my cat's potential against my human resources. I'm predictably human I'm afraid, Diane lol. Thanks for your always useful input!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-21562887981119760042009-10-16T05:34:12.538-04:002009-10-16T05:34:12.538-04:00TRESSA: Just can't stop talking to you lol! ...TRESSA: Just can't stop talking to you lol! I do hope you understood my remarks above in the honest way I meant them. I read your answer over a few times, and I'm encouraged to hear you qualify what you thought of an act of suicide, that's it's self-ish and does no good. Even if your family would be better off, it's not an option is it. And I'm SO SO SORRY you were sick too! A week home? How did you stand it lol? Stay safe and well, and thanks for bringing so much of yourself to my place here. That's what makes it better. <8 :-))Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-64242884876944650852009-10-15T22:59:28.914-04:002009-10-15T22:59:28.914-04:00TRESSA: Thank you my friend but as I predicted, y...TRESSA: Thank you my friend but as I predicted, your answer like others didn't address the question - you managed to avoid it, quite humanly, by deciding not to kill anyone, or kill yourself which is the same thing. I would've liked to hear directly: which? kids or husband? I believe you'd say husband and it'd be honest, not because a husband is worth less than a child but because a child is worth so much more than anything we can imagine.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-34814526724108550532009-10-15T22:54:35.342-04:002009-10-15T22:54:35.342-04:00DONN: I always thought we stood up to see what wa...DONN: I always thought we stood up to see what was OVER the tall savannah grasses, it having naught to do with a better life, just the curiously growing mind of homo erectus becoming homo sapien sapiens. I agree, we DID sacrifice quite alot just to harbor these big brains still the payoff seems equitable, in a almost-perfect world (who wants perfection!?) we can think "now what do I do with these hands?" only because of those brains. That's what freed our hands to carry the food and kids, it was the ability to think abstractly, or to imagine "tomorrow". Yes? No? And human women are the only animal to bring forth life in pain thanks to that over-sized brain; some die doing it. It makes it all the more important I believe that we preserve the integrity of our ability to process information from our sliding environment so we can evolve into whatever we're going to be in, say another 100,000 years. Donn I disagree about the amount of resources available compared to our number: there's plenty of what humans need and not too many of us, it's just that there's too many GREEDY humans causing that disproportionate situation of some eating and some not. Truly, this earth gives us all we need and we haven't propagated too much, it's the TYPE of human we've become as I say. When that kind of greed overtakes the average caring, generous human, it throws us off balance and makes it APPEAR there's a shortage of clean water and air and too many people. My opinion of course lol. Thanks for stopping by and adding such insightful dimensions to this issue.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-4638253412446287122009-10-15T22:41:36.956-04:002009-10-15T22:41:36.956-04:00BIG MARK 243: Indeed, you discovered what I immed...BIG MARK 243: Indeed, you discovered what I immediately was given thru answers, and though I kind of expected it to happen, I was hoping...but I get it.<br /><br />I wouldn't say "cowardly" though, more like they're furiously stating with NO equivocation the usual mantra. And that's important when it's actually asked of you. Gives you a platform for what you believe to be obvious. But isn't that wasteful hence useless? If it's noble to be indecisive yet firm about a "cowardly" answer, I'm at least learning more about the human condition and why there's such an enormous increase in humans killing humans. Thank you for your input!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-25333065488722108022009-10-15T09:29:13.922-04:002009-10-15T09:29:13.922-04:00We've gone from the "We" generation ...We've gone from the "We" generation of the 60s to the "ME" generation in the 80s to the "i" gens of the Millenials in 40 years!<br /><br />100,000 years ago we started leaving Africa in a series of waves. Our species had been tweaked for a few million years but the desertification of the savannah forced us to seek a better life for our offspring. <br /> <br />On the one hand WE had paid dearly for having big brains by giving up the heightened senses of our inhabitants on the savannah.<br />On the other hand we developed forward thinking skills that made us keenly aware of our self and that our offspring were the collective "us" and needed to be protected at all costs. <br /><br />It was an enormous (dangerous)investment for females to nurture and educate the young for 4 years before the children could start contributing to the group by collecting food..huge if you consider that our lifespans would have been around 20 years.<br /><br />Now offspring (in our corner of the world) take 20 to 30 years before they start contributing to the the collective "us". <br />All of our technological advancements have allowed most of us to live almost 80 years..4X as long. On top of this there are far too many of us for the amount of resources available and the way we waste them.<br /><br />We are supposedly still trying to make a better world for our children..do anything for them..but are we making any real progress? <br />Has all of this been for not? I suspect that a huge wave of viral culling is just over the horizon. A biological thinning of the herd may be at hand and Science will not be able to outmanoever the viruses that have been here for Billions of years.<br /><br />I have 4 children and I worry that their future will be much scarier than my ridiculously naive Boomer experience. Still I would do anything for them so that "I" can live on.<br /><br />*switchin' to decaf :)Romeo Morningwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826410608415260786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-20632456034654167322009-10-14T22:35:48.149-04:002009-10-14T22:35:48.149-04:00oh, that was just a slippery little finger sliding...oh, that was just a slippery little finger sliding over the return key too long and doin' it twice! so sorry! <br /><br />hope you're still doing better!GYPSYWOMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-63879839711978431552009-10-14T14:18:22.152-04:002009-10-14T14:18:22.152-04:00I am so sorry that you have been sick!!!!
be well...I am so sorry that you have been sick!!!!<br /><br />be well...Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11894596355489850355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-82939122298286682802009-10-14T12:58:21.181-04:002009-10-14T12:58:21.181-04:00I guess that this is a personal look at what is go...I guess that this is a personal look at what is going on, not a referendum about people.<br /><br />It's noble, human, not surprising, but for some reason I thought a few folks skirted around the whole issue - if there's no other way, your partner would die, your child would live. And you'd live with...what?<br /><br />That was cowardly, those who ducked and dodge the issue. I am wondering where the eqovication in the question is? Many it seems, would fashion themselves a Cadet Kirk taking the 'Kobayashi Maru' test.<br /><br />As soon as they begin their explination, their answer is voided. Finding reasons to justify what they did is for a trial in another court of reason.<br /><br />I think that because many of the respondents haven't had to ask themselves questions of that nature, one where there is great sacrifice asked of and made for, they can't find a real answer.<br /><br />If the question was asked, they wonder what the consequence would be if they could not answer. It should have been that they would die as well for indecision.<br /><br />But what would be their motivation for an answer here? It isn't that they would worry about being faced with such a situation in their actuality. Perhaps their 'nobility' isn't inspiration to make them give a considered answer.Big Mark 243https://www.blogger.com/profile/10974573439218884164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-84579011404461109002009-10-13T21:48:09.564-04:002009-10-13T21:48:09.564-04:00I ask you this? If you had to die from your cold o...I ask you this? If you had to die from your cold or could pass the germs to your cat, which would die, would you do it? I wonder how many would kill a person b4 their pet. LOL If we are wired to protect the young how can soldiers kill so freely? Our wiring seems too easy to change. We do make lighter choices all the time between one loved one and another and I think we base those decisions on many things. We are still thinkers.Diane J Standifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862850657925658079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-36277827430200724982009-10-13T19:27:18.700-04:002009-10-13T19:27:18.700-04:00My parents...not a hesitation...I wouldn't wan...My parents...not a hesitation...I wouldn't want to kill anyone but parents it would have to be...<br /><br />much love, stop by sometime!Stacey J. Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08059617724860253448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-48336857995597458492009-10-13T17:52:32.889-04:002009-10-13T17:52:32.889-04:00It all just makes me dizzy...You do make us think!...It all just makes me dizzy...You do make us think!<br />I love my children...and my parents. I'd have no problem shooting a husband. but between my children and my parents I think I would shoot myself. It would be selfish and self serving because I would not be able to live having caused pain to the ones who cared for me or the ones I have loved above all others.<br /><br />Sorry about the flu.... I had it too. A month of pure Hell. The workaholic that I am even took a full week off work. It gets better.Tressa baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069081847543667599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-34891686020563548772009-10-13T15:57:37.322-04:002009-10-13T15:57:37.322-04:00To Gypsywoman: It was just a duplicate I deleted,...To Gypsywoman: It was just a duplicate I deleted, my sun-woman friend. Never known you to repeat yourself lol you have far too much to say!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788060917420508410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-87988010087515338172009-10-13T15:45:24.791-04:002009-10-13T15:45:24.791-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.GYPSYWOMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655038913540975453.post-66520784337901492262009-10-13T15:45:23.586-04:002009-10-13T15:45:23.586-04:00hi lady - so glad you're feeling all better - ...hi lady - so glad you're feeling all better - no fun not being our usual uppity selves, is it!?? anyway - this was a great little exercise in "what if" - and very neat post - glad you're back!GYPSYWOMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03042621041213415958noreply@blogger.com