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Feelings are pointless. Feelings have only developed in living creatures due to the need to cooperate. Here's an example of a situation, in which cooperation is no longer an option: a mother wolf, will normally care for her offspring. But if they're met with a situation, in which there's absolutely no food, the mother wolf will devour her children.


Only Logic and Knowledge can persevere in this world. Those who feel emotion are vulnerable.

Sorry Ink.


I had to stop reading Game of Thrones because I got too attached to the characters.

@Trust (no longer online) Exactly. The need to be social is an evolution of that Wolf-like cooperation. If Humans were to have, for example, been nocturnal-oriented beings, we wouldn't be as social, due to the fact that it'd have been easier to sneak up on sleeping prey, or merely disoriented prey. It isn't a stupid comparison.


@Kaerri Heh. I'm sorry to hear, my friend. Always sad to have to put a book down. Especially hard when it's a book on Anti-Gravity.

    I'm of the view that emotions aren't "pointless". What would you rather us be—machines? I value my emotions and my attachments to characters (some might even describe it as being attached to an excessive degree, but I don't care).


    Also really can't believe the theory of evolution because I personally think it has too many holes and (pun unintended) missing links. I don't like being compared to primates, and enjoy being just that—human.

Well, I suppose saying emotions are pointless was a bit of an overstatement - I'll give you that much. But tell me.. If you don't believe that emotions came from evolutionary reasons, what would they have come from?


The only reason the early Humans evolved the way they did, was because of circumstance; food was scarce, and they had to find new ways of gathering food, leading to the creation of tools (cut stone, sharpened branches, etc.), and because of luck, they discovered fire, which also helped them develop new forms of survival. Early Humans were no different from every other animal on the planet - their instinct was to survive, and perpetuate their species. We could just say "Oh, we're existential beings, which makes us special little flowers". But that wouldn't be right. And the closest to the true origins of Human consciousness and emotions, is the Theory that they're developed evolutions of cooperation - as Trust pointed out, we are very social creatures, it would only be natural for that trait of ours to develop, wouldn't it?


(I don't mean to start an argument with any malice involved. I'd be happy to discuss this with you, if you'd like; if not, that's fine too, as long as we're keeping it within civil boundries).

I know that feeling. It happens to me when I watch shows and my favorite character dies. I feel a lot of dissapointment.

Heh. Yeah. It sucks to see a character that amuses you disappear.

Also, @xCaramel, I forgot to tag you in my (very belated) post. Go check that thing out. Also, might I recommend you push the "follow" button on the thread? That way we wouldn't have to tag each other in every post.

Gotcha, also have a good holiday, sounds like fun. Due to the upcoming holidays and such I will be working more shifts but I'm aiming to reply atleast twice a week.

Ec sal probeer ook.

Are you saying you will try to as well? (: So cool~

Ja. Praktiserende my Afrikaans, angesien my familie is van Capetown.


Ja. Praktiserende my Afrikaans, angesien my familie is van Capetown.

Oh, en guinej.

Oh I see, you are very multi cultural then, living in Spain, family from Capetown and you speak very good English!

If I may ask, when are you going holiday? Or are you already there?

Tomorrow, at around 11 in the morning.


Should still be able to reply, though.

Do you know what you will be doing there? Like visiting places?


Ah..if I'm flooding your status I don't mind continuing in PM's.

Well, we're actually going there to attend my cousin's wedding. It'll be the first time all the Berrange cousins get together - it will probably trigger World War III, or the apocalypse, but should still be a good bit of fun.


And I don't mind. We can, if you want.

Oh I see. Hope you can still do some sight seeing or do other fun things with family. Also, if world war 3 breaks out I know who to blame..


I'll probably get a reply in today.

Yeah, we probably will. Gonna have a bite in every possible location, seeing as the food there hasn't been processed 999999 trillion times. Especially this one llama (of whom I don't remember the name), which eats a lot of herbs, in tern, basically spicing it's self pre-cooking.


And that sounds fantasmical. I dunno if I'll be able to get a reply in tomorrow, but I'll definitely try to today (it's a day-long flight, so yeah).