I saw an article earlier that said Americans are planning on traveling to Europe more. So a sensitive question for you, if it's ok: What places in the world do you feel you could travel to right now where you feel you'd be welcomed as an American? Sincerely asking.
Excellent, very good to hear.
Lol, ok, forget I was here.
I've had a hard enough time trying to think an original thought without redefining what a thought even is, so its dictionary definition is fine for this purpose.
I can't fathom how we wouldn't be aware if some thought suddenly occurred to us that was entirely foreign to everything familiar to us in this world.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean that it would be easier to quantity if in the form of a statement or opinion... original is original.
A 100% original composition, if you could invent entirely new notes. I know it seems impossible, but it can't be when every single thought had to have been thought for a first time by someone.
Oops, I thought you were serious, sorry :)
No worries... I get a few flashes of almost genius, interspersed with many of remarkable stupidity... at least you only need to wake up (or get some sleep).
I keep going back to the fact that every thought had to have been thought a first time by someone, so that it has to be possible to have an original thought. Could it be then that maybe we've just finally run out of humanly conceivable ideas?
The first to explore the thought was Plato, approx 2500 years ago. Try again :)
I believe we're in this mess because you did choose to have faith in politics... in fallible, corruptible people.
100% original... oceans and oranges aren't original.
Wouldn't matter if someone else had the same thought, as long as you thought it entirely on your own.
I'd say it's because we're ridiculously spoiled (Canadian here).
Just let it happen naturally, as you're getting to know each other. If you're truly the sane one, they'll eventually see that you're sane and explaining your family history won't be as daunting anymore.
No, I've never had faith in politics... this whole mess just convinces me I've been right not to.
Very interesting, I can see how that could become like a thorn in the brain. But I can also imagine how an original thought might require an unusual and/or surprising set of circumstances that might cause you to forget Tim Allen's theory just long enough for the thought to occur to you independently... like one of those aha or eureka moments. Also, I'm not sure about the connection you make here to a deity... there are plenty of things firmly planted in our memories, doesn't mean everyone and everything that planted them are gods.
I'm not sure about the relationship between thought and the materials around us, but I do know that every single thought had to have been thought a first time by someone.
Well, every single thought had to have been thought a first time by someone, no?
Thanks for explaining. I figured it was something like that, but I'm Canadian so I wasn't sure.
Lol, in that case, I'm not gonna ask.
Yes, I'd say our thoughts can be distinct from each other... conversely, I can't see how all our thoughts can be mere variations of one original thought when we're obviously capable of thinking about many unrelated things.
Yes, I'd say memories are thoughts when we actively remember, and the experiences they stem from are the origins of those thoughts... but original only to us, not original in nature... unless we've somehow had an entirely unique experience.
No, we don't need to express ourselves vocally in order to be having thoughts... hence, private thoughts.
Consider that every thought had to have been thought for a first time by someone. And thoughts and emotions are entirely different things, so that doesn't work. Interesting though, what you said about our first thoughts being original... that hadn't occurred to me, need to think about that one.