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old-lady rub needed

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Ever since the discussion in the last sidebar about distraction, sleep and adult life, an existential question has stuck in my mind:

I'm always hearing stuff about how we should be thankful to our parents for bringing us into this world and giving us life. Sometimes, I wonder: do we have have obligation to be thankful?

Sure, there's probably plenty of philosophical discussion fodder to be had regarding what we were before we lived and whether as some other thing, whether we may have petitioned to come onto this Earth and such. From a purely existential viewpoint, though, it's not as if we have asked for this life. If anything, somehow, we've all but just been about dropped into this world.

But, then again, some of this wondering may come from my own sentiments and resentments toward my parents.

Other than that and my questioning, though, I really don't have any other thoughts about it other then, "Hey, that's interesting. . .if only I had time to think about it some more and maybe even research it." Oh well, such is life, I guess.
--Mr. Lex
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2005.05.04
Random Quote of the Moment
excuse me, can you hand me that tub of old lady rub for me? cause im an old lady
I have no idea if it has another meaning or if it's from somewhere or what but it gets stuck in my head, redundancy and bad punctuation and all.

Thought of the Moment
We have a good model of a dozen or so regions of the auditory and visual cortex, how we strip images down to very low-resolution movies based on pattern recognition. Interestingly, we don't actually see things, we essentially hallucinate them in detail from what we see from these low resolution cues. Past the early phases of the visual cortex, detail doesn't reach the brain.
That thought is interesting...it's probably what makes learning to draw well so hard, and what makes dreams so vivid.