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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 20:07 [#01069114]
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"If we lived in a world that contained only the color red, not only would we not understand "blue," but we wouldn't really understand "red.""
- some anthropologist
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2004-02-11 20:18 [#01069122]
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thats actually really cool. kinda relates to my idea that we may all see colors completely differently, but noone knows because we have the same names for the colors. or something like that, its hard to explain
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2004-02-11 20:19 [#01069123]
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that anthropologist probably vasted half of his life to come up with something brilliant as this.
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Q4Z2X
on 2004-02-11 20:19 [#01069124]
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i always end up talking about this sort of thing after getting stoned with my bandmates..
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2004-02-11 20:26 [#01069127]
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You ever wonder if atoms are really, like, tiny universes?
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2004-02-11 20:28 [#01069129]
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not since i saw mib
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 20:28 [#01069130]
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Or if our universe is a tiny atom?
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2004-02-11 20:31 [#01069132]
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dude
you're beautiful
don't ever change
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Dozier
from United States on 2004-02-11 20:32 [#01069134]
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ever wonder if the light stays on when you shut the fridge door? how can we ever really know for sure?
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hedphukkerr
from mathbotton (United States) on 2004-02-11 20:35 [#01069136]
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sit inside the fridge, thats how
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2004-02-11 20:37 [#01069137]
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In Australia the light goes out when you open the door. And lobsters scream if you don't cook them.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 20:41 [#01069138]
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It is strange to think beauty and all emotions are human illusions.
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2004-02-11 20:44 [#01069139]
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They are the consequences of neurochemistry which is hardly an illusion.
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Frag
from New Jersey (United States) on 2004-02-11 20:45 [#01069140]
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there's a little tab on the fridge, which the top of the door runs into at an angle and keeps up, and the light stays off. you'll see it, flip it off yourself.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-11 20:49 [#01069145]
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He's just saying the don't have an objective reality outside of our own brain; unlike how they are usually thought about.
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 20:57 [#01069150]
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That's a good, simple argument. It's making me think because I had nearly concluded awhile back that beauty basically does not exist and therefore art is a pointless waste of time. I am me and have the genotype and phenotype to experience emotions. They therefore exist in a sense. Maybe illusion isn't the right word and maybe it is.
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Dozier
from United States on 2004-02-11 20:57 [#01069151]
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closing the door and standing there pressing a little piece of plastic are not the same thing ;)
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 21:00 [#01069153]
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I think kermit the frog lives in my fridge. I try to sneak up, open the door really suddenly but he always manages to hide just quick enough... somewhere. But I know he's there. And one day when I open it, he will leap out and stab me with a banana.
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Dozier
from United States on 2004-02-11 21:08 [#01069157]
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at least then you'd know
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-11 21:21 [#01069161]
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Yes, but then my death would prevent me from being able to tell anyone else of his wicked existence. He'd start hiding in someone else's fridge, maybe yours..., and the process would start all over.
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Q4Z2X
on 2004-02-11 21:47 [#01069172]
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this thread is fascinating
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tragedy
from Gloucester (United States) on 2004-02-11 23:41 [#01069212]
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dozier the light does NOT stay on inside the fridge, wh you shut the door. i know for sure.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-11 23:44 [#01069213]
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fold
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Drunken Mastah
from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2004-02-12 02:04 [#01069285]
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the qoute is referring to our language. language = barriers + freedom, which means that while language is the only thing that gives you the freedom to express yourself, you cannot think, describe or do something which isn't in your language. For instance, certain rain-forest-tribes in south-america don't have the concept of several days. they experience the same day over and over, and if you run, the sun sets faster. If everything was red, red wouldn't need to be in our language, nor would any of the other colours.
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