So are we all just a bunch of sea monkeys?

[Inferius]

Seamonkeys! I love that!

As arrogant as it might be though, there is 'something' special about us I think. I have considered the Sea Monkey, but I wonder if the Sea Monkey could ever 'consider' me? Does the music on the stereo mean anything to him? Does he know how beautiful the water is around him? Does he wonder about his 'Sea Monkeyness', and whether it is significant?

Not that we're better than the Sea Monkey because, quite obviously the Sea Monkey is a glorious thing, in and of itself. But I think what makes us special is that we represent the Universe becoming sentient--aware of itself. Raw math and physics manifesting into more than just math and physics. I can't help being just a little bloody pleased with that....arrogant as it is.

...but this is supposed to be about Sea Monkeys, isn't it. Damn self-absorbed humans. Thinking it's all about them...typical.

Whoowee, we're sentient. But it's just a "step" of evolution. What i'm trying to get at, is that those sea monkeys think on a very basic level, compared to us. But, like sea monkeys, we can't comprehend the next level that's beyond us. We can't see the entire scope of intelligence or evolution, we just look around at our own little earth and proclaim ourselves superior to all beings, merely becuase we can't comprehend a more advanced state of being. For all we know, we ARE sea monkeys.
A blind person who was born blind, has no comprehension of colors. The idea is "alien" to him. This is the perfect example of higher understanding, higher evolution.

[FireyBudBurner]

Seamonkeys! I love that!

As arrogant as it might be though, there is 'something' special about us I think. I have considered the Sea Monkey, but I wonder if the Sea Monkey could ever 'consider' me? Does the music on the stereo mean anything to him? Does he know how beautiful the water is around him? Does he wonder about his 'Sea Monkeyness', and whether it is significant?

Not that we're better than the Sea Monkey because, quite obviously the Sea Monkey is a glorious thing, in and of itself. But I think what makes us special is that we represent the Universe becoming sentient--aware of itself. Raw math and physics manifesting into more than just math and physics. I can't help being just a little bloody pleased with that....arrogant as it is.

...but this is supposed to be about Sea Monkeys, isn't it. Damn self-absorbed humans. Thinking it's all about them...typical.

We may be the first creatures to discover things like math and science and write them down, but....how can we even go as far as to say that. We can't read the minds and the thoughts of the animals around us. They communicate in there own ways that we have yet to figure out and probably never will. Monkeys and dolphins are very well developed creatures that have shown many scientists may great things about how advanced they really are mentally. Not only that as Inferius referenced we know very little about our universe and what else is even out there. For all we know we could be one of the simplest groups of mentally heirachial dominate creatures in the universal. It is just very presumptus to say that we are the most advanced creature in the universe when we know so little.

[Hamlet]

lol...you guys need to read the original post. It has nothing to do with being better than another living creatures. It's just a question about our significance.

when you get the conditions right, sea monkeys flourish, when the conditions are wrong, they die...get it?

It's a philosophical question asking whether we are nothing more than math and biology.--nothing more than a random set of 'conditions'. My assertion is that we are more than that. We are significant. My evidence is our art, music, self-awareness, and ability to consider that which is, and which might be. It's an unprovable question at our level of being anyway; but as for me, I'm taking the optimistic high road.

[FireyBudBurner]

Bro this isn't Mrs Whatevermans science science class, we don't have to stick to one topic to answer the question and dicuss the topic. Theres no one to tell us to say on topic so don't try to come in and do so.

but as for me, I'm taking the optimistic high road.
Taking the optimistic high road ehh, gotta get over yourself first buddy.

[T®auma]

well if so. i am damn good looking sea monkey. :dance:

[Inferius]

well if so. i am damn good looking sea monkey. :dance:

Oh yeah? I was the fastest sperm to the egg. Beat THAT.

[Hamlet]

Tell you to stay on topic? ...lol You're quoting my posts and misinterpreting my replies. I'm just explaining what..aah, never mind. Not worth the energy. The Sea Monkeys understand

[Mr.Weed]

I was trippin last nightand i came up with this.....
Were nothing special....just by studying the universe, and other planets and large bodies in the solar system, our planet just happened to have a gravitational pull on it a certain way that other planets dont, that allows life to flourish, we had the right mixtures and the right compounds put together so that life just started up and its been so long that we've just evolved into a more advanced form of life, were nothing special, nothing thats going to carry on until the end of the universe, the sun will explode or something will happen that will drastically alter the climate of the earth and as fast as life was here life we'll be gone
And i dont see how people believe in religion and yet they slaughter people over it daily, i dont see how when something extraordinary happens to us we blame it on a mythical person, we didnt spawn off of a speical anything.
Earth is just a rock...as is Mars, Neptune, or the moon, it just happen to be in the right place at the right time...

so are we all just a bunch of sea monkeys?

please dont read this and think im an idiot cause i called the human race sea monkeys, im using it as a reference to us, when you get the conditions right, sea monkeys flourish, when the conditions are wrong, they die...get it?

Thats exactly what I've been thinking. We are just very luck mistakes. Were like bacteria, we live ,we do our purpose, we die. But I don't understand what our purpose is, I meen what are we supposed to do, just live? We've gotten to smart for our own good.

[Dazed4now]

yea im pretty sure thats it
we just evolved and got to smart and when we started figuring out what really was going on people didnt want to accept it as theyve been belieiving in religion for hundreds of thousands of years and astronomical science only came into play about 30 or 40 years ago

[Krogith]

yeah but somehow the bible fortold all this and fortold all about jesus. lets all ignore the facts the bible points out and pretend that god doesn't exsist just to not have to awnser for what we do.