I am 14 years old and I wrote this! It's to make your mind THINK?

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PLEASE take the time to read this carefully!

What do you think? (sorry for any spelling mistakes)

Yes, but humans DO NOT need clothes, houses, music, etc. Evolution. Back then, we didn't have all of these things. We lived life based on our TRUE needs, like water, food, etc.

Humans are animals. Sure, able to think for themselves, but in the end, their survival needs and instincts (sp) are still the same as any other living organism.

Answer 1

I think it was brilliant. You sound very intelligent.

I don't know if I agree with you, though. I don't know if life is simple. I don't know if we are the ones responsible for "making" it complicated. I wish I had something intelligent to say to challenge your assertions, but I do not.

I think that you may have an excellent and stirring point, my dear friend.

But I think that you aren't taking into account all things. What about the desire for sex? What about the need to create? The need to destroy? What about man's need to rise above his animalistic urges?

Maybe I am wrong. Maybe you are right. But I suspect that the truth is somewhere in between our philosophies.

Memento Mori.

Answer 2

You're Correct! Isn't This Why The Government Allots Food & Health Care To The General Poverty Stricken Society, To Keep Their Mind On Achieving The Basics, Water, Food, Healthcare, Etc. When We Only Have The Basics, It Dampens Our Mind To Think Abstractly And 'Complex'. We Survive To Ensure We Have Food On Our Table, Warm Home, Bills Paid. A Hardworking Man Or Woman Dedicates Their Entire Life To Ensure What Should Be Freely Given, This Is Why America Has A Shortage Of Geniuses, Scientists, New Research, And Cures. Because The Possible Candidates Are Busy Working A 40 Hour A Week Job, With Virtually No Down Time, Other Than For Rest, And Maybe A Family Outing. Not To Mention, This Country Needs Universal Free College Education.

Answer 3

Very nice.

A you are right, but also wrong both at the same time.
this is a short and simple sentence but if I were to explain it would become extremely complex.

Even simple things have their complexity.

take for example a drop of water, it is a group of molecules, which consists of 3 atoms, 2 of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen.
The Hydrogen atom is the most simplistic of all known atoms it has one proton and one electron. Now lets look at the oxygen atom it is a little more complex, it has eight protons and eight neutrons with two energy Levels. In the first energy Level there are two electrons and in the second energy Level there are 6 electrons.

So you see that even a drop of water has complexity.

The world in full of complexity, but ignoring it won't make it simplistic.
If you wish to make human life simplistic first you must understand the complexity of life.

Once you see the complexity in a thing it no longer seems complex.
Think of it like a jig saw puzzle.
Once you've got the corners and the edges you can work your way to the centre.
Then step back and look at the picture.

Well done for the thinking, your on your way. :-)

Answer 4

I applaud you at the age of 14 for your interest in ideas. But is is not our minds which need to think: it is yours, more fully and deeply than you can possibly imagine if you are ever to make sense of the world and people you see around you.
Get a good head start. Read Volumes II and III of the Great Ideas of the Western World, in every library. It's relatively easy, and covers all the great ideas you need to begin thinking about. Those 2 volumes are called the Syntopicon:

"... any one is capable of carrying on and articulating what has once been well outlined..." Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 7
To show how to use The Syntopicon, the index of topics edited by Mortimer J. Adler for Great Books of the Western World, we selected Happiness from The Great Ideas, listed below. The thousands of topics discussed in The Great Books are organized in The Syntopicon under The Great Ideas, 102 in number. Each of The Great Ideas includes an Introduction, Outline of Topics, References, Cross-References, and Additional Readings. For further explanation, see the Editor's Notes in Happiness. We also include a link to Mark Whitman's on-line version of The Syntopicon's chapter on The Great Idea of War and Peace.

Index of Ideas
Angel; Animal; Aristocracy; Art; Astronomy; Beauty; Being; Cause; Chance; Change; Citizen; Constitution; Courage; Custom and Convention; Definition; Democracy; Desire; Dialectic; Duty; Education; Element; Emotion; Eternity; Evolution; Experience; Family; Fate; Form; God; Good and Evil; Government; Habit; Happiness; History; Honor; Hypothesis; Idea; Immortality; Induction; Infinity; Judgment; Justice; Knowledge; Labor; Language; Law; Liberty; Life and Death; Logic; Love; Man; Mathematics; Matter; Mechanics; Medicine; Memory and Imagination; Metaphysics; Mind; Monarchy; Nature; Necessity and Contingency; Oligarchy; One and Many; Opinion; Opposition; Philosophy; Physics; Pleasure and Pain; Poetry; Principle; Progress; Prophecy; Prudence; Punishment; Quality; Quantity; Reasoning; Relation; Religion; Revolution; Rhetoric; Same and Other; Science; Sense; Sign and Symbol; Sin; Slavery; Soul; Space; State; Temperance; Theology; Time; Truth; Tyranny; Universal and Particular; Virtue and Vice; War and Peace; Wealth; Will; Wisdom; World

Answer 5

I read it, and I understand where you're coming from, and I agree with some points. However, once you factor in the fact that once you take away the materials, yes we are merely animals. However we were designed to have total reign over all mankind therefore would not be as savage as you percieve. It is not mankind who makes things complex, it is merely the results of mankind's discovery. And by the way I think you are an excellent writer, although after you said that you wanted to make me think for the tenth time, I kinda got the message.

Answer 6

I think that your Idea was introduced by alot of philosophers a long time ago. The basics of basic needs are food, water, and shelter that are used for survival, and these needs must be met before any other need is met like the need for love and understanding,power, freedom, and fun. But you do have a good idea, people need to think about the basic needs so they can really thankful for what they got now.
You know, for a 14 year old you do have alot of insight. Good idea. Life is what you make of it.

Answer 7

humans are not animals and don,t just need those things to live on unlike animals,humanity needs those things you named to survive. but not to live for. i agree with you that most of the things we are using in today's life are not so important,or not important at all,things like,TV,media,Internet,cars,fashion and all the other things that we still can have a normal life with out them,in fact have a better life. with out TV,media,and Internet,,we would have been closer to each other by feelings and emotions,by not following fashion,and not having a luxurious life,we can live a good and clean life and be able to help out in needy people,families,relatives,and neighbors. but living like animals is not the solution that an human can have to forgot all the misery,and the sins that we have done to our souls and hurt ed other souls.

may GOD have mercy on our souls,and may GOD(the 1 & only)keep us all away from satan and all his sedustins.

remeber we will have to answer for what we have done til now ,and for what we will do in the next days of our lifes.

Answer 8

Trade is not necessary. Food in other countries is required there . Send it out when neededat home people starve simple. Money makes things too complicated. If man needs sleep should work less office hours. Sent to forest it is simple as always was Food,Water,Survival, Companionship. Pity this not understood in situations made more complex that man is in search of three things not terrorist attacks.Should be clear to deny food in jungle is wrong like out.

Answer 9

I must admit I am impressed. It was good. For a fourteen year old.
So now my reply.

My answer is often the same when it comes to human nature, and now is no exception. It is society. Society has changed the way we think. We think more, expect more, and live more. We have complicated things in the name of simplifying them, and whether it is for better or worse is another argument altogether. A microwave makes cooking easier, but it definetly doesn't make it simpler. This has all spiraled from one thing. You have named our basic needs for survival, yes. But the one thing we all want from life is not survival. We value little a life without happyness. It is our desire of happyness that drives us to change. We want easier ways to do things because it makes us happier. Sort of. However, in making one thing easier, we have made another things harder. Life is like the hydra; by solving one problem you can but create another.

Answer 10

You might want to read the story of Job in the Bible ,,, That might give you something new to think about .... God provides for all his creatures here..... would he not do the same for you without you resorting to some animalistic instinct....... You are a Human being , not an animal , think like one !
He put the garden of Eden here for a reason , sweet and simple ,,,, it wasn't a mess of telephone poles and microwave dinners was it? He wanted us to live in peace , not in some computer hell ......It's funny really , the simpler we try to make it , the more stress we create ..... and that makes for a real long life doesn't it ? a life we somehow can't wait to escape........ the ultimate in human thinking is as far as was meant to be from "simple"