Chimpanzees Laughing

Originally posted by black beetle
I mean that the "Greater Mind" you mentioned earlier, it has nothing to do with YinYang; and I pointed to the moon, not to my finger😵

Originally posted by FabianFnas
It's like an integer is either negative, or positive. You cannot find an number being negative and positive at the same time. (Zero is neither.) The both classes of integers are in separate domains, like religion and science. Treating positive numbers as they would be negative, or vice versa, doesn't give good results.

To be religious, I define, is to ...[text shortened]... need for any supernatural being.

Therefore Religion and Science don't need to be mixed.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
There will come a time when we will have to leave our rational little minds behind. Until then we can debate the pros and cons til the cows come home🙂
(I must admit I do get nervous when I see your name on the last post. You are so hard to answer.Thank you AH)

Just because somebody has Alzheimer's doesn't mean they are irrational.

Originally posted by daniel58
Just because somebody has Alzheimer's doesn't mean they are irrational.

Originally posted by generalissimo
would you put your life in the hands of someone with alzheimer's?

Originally posted by daniel58
No but I wouldn't call them irrational either.

Originally posted by daniel58
Just because somebody has Alzheimer's doesn't mean they are irrational.

Originally posted by Andrew Hamilton
I was joking (although, surely, at least in the horrific final stages of this cruel and horrific disease, they would loose all rationality!)

And I didn’t understand what karoly aczel meant by:

“There will come a time when we will have to leave our rational little minds behind”

-what time would that be? Death? -if so, as far as I am aware, ...[text shortened]... main-stream Christian view that we would loose all our rationality in the 'afterlife'! -right?

Originally posted by Penguin
Obviously, the topic should be in the Science forum but seeing as it will degrade into creationists and realists bashing each other, I thought I would post it here instead. In that respect I suppose I am really just being a troll 😛!

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/04/chimps-apes-laugh.html

An analysis of the laughter, presented in the latest hat lends further weight to the already mountainous amount of evidence for it.

--- Penguin.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Thats right andrew. Death. Or enlightenment, which ever comes first.
As bleak as these two options may appear I suggest they are the only two things to really look forward to in 'life'.

Originally posted by Andrew Hamilton
[b]…Thats right andrew. Death. Or enlightenment,
….

Let me get this straight -to loose our ability to reason would result in ‘enlightenment’? -isn’t that a contradiction? This is what you seem to be implying to me by suggesting that we could achieve ‘enlightenment’ on “the day we leave our RATIONAL minds behind”.

…As bleak as these two because it wouldn’t be an afterLIFE because I would have no mind and no ability to reason!).

Originally posted by Andrew Hamilton
[b]…Thats right andrew. Death. Or enlightenment,
….

Let me get this straight -to loose our ability to reason would result in ‘enlightenment’? -isn’t that a contradiction? This is what you seem to be implying to me by suggesting that we could achieve ‘enlightenment’ on “the day we leave our RATIONAL minds behind”.

…As bleak as these two ...[text shortened]... because it wouldn’t be an afterLIFE because I would have no mind and no ability to reason!).

Originally posted by karoly aczel
anyway I din't say 'ability to reason' I said ' our rational little minds'.

Originally posted by Andrew Hamilton
Now I am not sure if I have understood you;
how can we loose our rationality AND cease to have our minds AND STILL maintain our ability to ‘reason’ despite this!?