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...And do we have any basis at all upon which to form speculation around this question? Again, another pretty big IF here, but if faster than light travel is possible for a physical, complex and intelligent organism like a human, what kinds of effects might this have on such a traveler?

Okay... this is a pretty big IF, but for the sake of discussion, if humanity has been genetically designed by advanced "alien" beings, as a sort of hybrid between them and a lower form of life found on planet Earth, why would humans be left as the horrendous creatures we are? Why not keep working and improve the resulting organism? One possible answer would be that some desired aspect of humanity, like our emotional capacity, comes with the unavoidable side-effects of anger and hatred, destructiveness, and the like. Another possible answer would be that our designers would be real bastards who actually want us to be the way we've turned out.

What do you say?

Don't you have to... I don't know... shape tofu the way you want it? If that's the case, isn't it basically always shredded? I mean, could you have shredded hummus? Or shredded mashed potatoes? Or shredded flan?

I'm not entirely joking with this question.

And yes... I do think this fits in the Religion section.

I mean... these guys around me, some of whom work where I work... they drive these really huge, long pickups, to work... doing the 5-day 40-hr workweek office job thing. Indoors, at a desk... that kind of thing. Not hauling stuff for a living or out in the forest or something. They're on the road in the morning, and commute in to work and park these enormous things in the company lot. I just don't understand. Driving these things daily negotiating close, heavy traffic, and the terrible gas mileage! No back seat (unless they have the extended cab thing), and you'd actually have to *climb* up to get into most of these things.

I don't get it. Is pickup truck mania more than another religion? Can you explain this? I suppose for some, there could be some kind of weekend thing going on there, but still...

In one of my other questions, I found the opinion that if there was more than one god, they would be fighting and tearing the world and universe apart in the process.

Why would this be a necessary characteristic of a polytheistic reality?

Someone said it is, in an answer to another of my questions.

Yes or no? And what would you make of the statement in this question?

If there's a God, why couldn't there be 100 Gods?

You know... in the little "tip" bulbble that pops up when composing an Answer.

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Watch this video, and see if you get what I'm asking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOUtwmK_v8

It's a music video to the music of Miika Kuisma.

Or can we express and discuss new or familiar, meaningful philosophies without reference to the perennial favorites, or indeed maybe even surpass some of their ideas?

By organic, I mean biologically reproductive animal or vegetable organisms, as opposed to just referring to "life," if it could be argued that life could continue in an electronic or other more purely energetic form.

Is the human species the pinnacle and end of the evolution of organic life? Does the human level of intellect and dexterity necessarily reach the point where it becomes clear that further physical, biological development is either impossible or utterly undesirable and untenable?

Does an increasing level of complexity in an object or system ultimately lead to a near or complete breakdown of its coherence and stability?

If so, why?

If not, why not?

I've been realizing lately that there are an astounding number of people around me who:

1. Don't ask questions, like on the job,

2. Don't do what they said they were going to do, and I have to hound them continually to get them to do what they said they'd do,

3. Don't think of simple solutions to problems that arise, that really aren't that difficult to think of,

4. Don't complain to anyone in authority about problems such as traffic light timing issues or insufficient building or property maintenance,

5. Drive so slowly that I can't comprehend how they can do that,

and so on.

It seems like everyone around me is in a fog. The law office on my accident claim case sat on it for two months, doing nothing, when I thought the next steps were quite clear. Processes at work were being done incorrectly for a long period of time, and I was being given grossly incorrect instructions about how I should be completing a certain process. People don't know why a letter or contract has a certain paragraph on it. And it seems I'm the only one of god knows how many thousands or millions in my area who has actually called in to ask the authorities to check and adjust traffic lights to help alleviate traffic congestion.

I thought *I* was the dreaming one, but it appears that I'm more awake than everyone else around here. What's up with that? Is everyone really in such a trance that they've become mindless?

When you decide to take a certain option, was that decision already made by the existing qualities of your personality and mind? In other words, do you ever really choose anything? Or has the choice already been made... by who you are?

Does one's already existent way of thinking and perceiving reality prevent actual free choice from occurring?