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Thoughts that make your head explode

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shane.t
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Post ideas that absolutely make your head almost explode, i'll start:

What language animals do think in? Like when they need to eat what do they think?

May 19 2012 4:46PM
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bangarangmules
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I was just out for a run the other day and had the exact same thought. Like do they even have a language that they think in? Or just instinct? Sort of a stupid idea, but interesting.

How about the classic...how can the universe go on forever? If it doesn't does that mean you just hit a wall when you get to the edge? If there is a wall, what's on the other side of it.
May 19 2012 4:50PM
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rareison
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What if you got cut in half at the waist and you were still alive, would you be able to lift the top half of your body up
May 19 2012 4:52PM
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.AR6rider.
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Yes.

May 19 2012 4:55PM
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Algebra
Posts: 5215 - Karma: 1,677
When the power goes out in your house how does the phone still work? I understand the telephone cables but how do they get the electricity to work?
May 19 2012 4:56PM
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deleted5
Posts: 14507 - Karma: 13,507
The real quest that blows my mind is who still has a land line?
May 19 2012 5:01PM
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theBearJew
Posts: 10951 - Karma: 15,633
damn. Makes me feel like shit for not going to the gym. That guy is awesome.

The universe makes my head hurt.
May 19 2012 5:02PM
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CrotchKiller
Posts: 9037 - Karma: 6,943
people who dont have service at their house......
May 19 2012 5:03PM
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LoathesRaisins
Posts: 3612 - Karma: 4,735
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May 19 2012 5:04PM
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RudyGarmisch
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May 19 2012 5:07PM
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cum
Posts: 308 - Karma: 8
it may be because im high as shit but what the hell, man? think this one through for a second
May 19 2012 5:20PM
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cum
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oh shit my bad i read your post wrong i thought you meant cell phones lol
May 19 2012 5:21PM
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Danijela
Posts: 33 - Karma: 12
Dying, and how once we're dead, we won't care about how much we've accomplished. So why do we bother accomplishing anything?
May 19 2012 5:30PM
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RudyGarmisch
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This guy squares a five digit number in his head at the end, nuts.


May 19 2012 5:40PM
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soulskier
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fucking space, dude
May 19 2012 5:43PM
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ironic
Posts: 735 - Karma: 104

So humble.

May 19 2012 5:44PM
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Big.L
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Magnets.
May 19 2012 5:45PM
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BChaps1209
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jeez well when you say it like that...
May 19 2012 5:48PM
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JamesR
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Animals don't have an inner voice of any kind. Lacking an inner voice doesn't mean that their behavior doesn't follow very complex patterns though. The universe either goes on forever, in which case the answer to "how can it?" is why shouldn't it? Or, it is finite. If it's finite, it works like a 4 dimensional donut. If you travel far enough in a straight line, you'll eventually come right back to where you began. There is no wall to run into and there is no "otherside". Space itself expands, it doesn't expand into anything.
May 19 2012 5:50PM
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Flying~Squirrel
Posts: 6494 - Karma: 192
holy speculation batman
May 19 2012 5:51PM
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skitheast
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why are we here?  What is this place we're in?  What is there without the universe?  Why is there even a universe and us in it? It's hard to explain but these questions always hurt my brain.
May 19 2012 6:13PM
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Spinoza
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How do i know i dont have down syndrome?    how do i know im not mentally handicapped and everyone else is just being nice to me?  this scares me every day.
i try to argue that my behavior is similar enough to others' that i know im just like everyone else,  but what if thats all part of the dillusion.    its scary!
May 19 2012 6:20PM
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taylornicky
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We have a land line at my house....

An original: How did humans come into existence?
May 19 2012 6:31PM
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binturong-qwerty
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Is it possible to high-five yourself or does it automatically become a clap?
May 19 2012 6:46PM
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Stickity
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how do blind people dream? is it only sound and sensation?
same goes for how deaf people think only it would be sight instead of sound
May 19 2012 6:58PM
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Bill.Nye
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution
May 19 2012 7:13PM
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taylornicky
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-__-
May 19 2012 7:15PM
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Bill.Nye
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Wut?
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May 19 2012 7:17PM
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Guck
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What is it like to be dead? How long are you dead for?

inb4 religion being brought into this.
May 19 2012 7:18PM
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Bill.Nye
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My best guess is it's the same as before you were alive and forever.
May 19 2012 7:23PM
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1337
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B-I-N-G-O!
May 19 2012 7:28PM
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Toaster-Tony
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HOW THE FUCK DO MAGNETS WORK?
May 19 2012 8:19PM
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Bill.Nye
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DON'T BELIEVE THE SCIENTISTS BECAUSE THEY BE LYIN AND SHIT

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May 19 2012 8:31PM
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bangarangmules
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I suppose there is no way to prove you right or wrong, but 10/10 for giving my mind something to loosely grasp.
May 19 2012 8:33PM
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JWoods
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What really makes my head explode is that there is already a 30 something page thread about this same thing
May 19 2012 8:36PM
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EricaMN.
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that thread is about things like this:
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this thread is about things like this:
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May 19 2012 8:43PM
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Bill.Nye
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They look like the internet

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May 19 2012 8:49PM
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miroz
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HAHAHAHAHA got a good lol outta this, well done.

That Carl Sagan video was insane.

What makes my head explode is the idea that no one can understand your perception of reality. The color I see as blue would be labelled by another as blue, but they might see it in a way I call green. There's no way to prove, even with color temperature, that we're seeing it in the same way. The same goes for hearing music, thinking, and living as a human with a soul. Who the fuck knows, man?
May 19 2012 8:50PM
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TRASHY.
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Thinking about what happens after death blows my mind.
I'd like to think i'll be reincarnated into a dog.
May 19 2012 8:51PM
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Bateman
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Our origin, and that our existence is only a coincidence, and so is big bang. that we are... an accient.

and so on - where is earth? in the universe right? but where is the universe? and why are we alive? what is it to be alive? the ablitiy to walk around, smell stuff and feel the warmth of the sun above us. etc..
May 19 2012 8:54PM
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KravtZ
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haha i had this dream once that i died and when you die you go to heaven or hell where its almost like the dmb or an airport....lots of offices, people pointing you in directions, and from there you end up at an office or gate where you "depart" for your next life what ever you chose or was chosen for you....idk weird shit
May 19 2012 8:55PM
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Bateman
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Hah, i rally like the thought of that.
May 19 2012 8:57PM
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Bill.Nye
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That's kind of like asking "where in the united states is America?" The universe is the where. In the strictest sense, anything discovered "outside" of the universe would by definition be part of the universe. They may be something outside of the currently observable universe (my guess is there probably is), but the "observable universe" and the "universe" are not the same concept. It may also be theoretically impossible to find out.
May 19 2012 8:59PM
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whoa-dere
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yum

Quoting JohnLemieuxPHOTO$ from May 19 2012:
They look like the internet Click for larger image

how the hell do you draw the internet
May 19 2012 9:00PM
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Bill.Nye
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I'll tell you if you tell me how to quote two posts in one reply
May 19 2012 9:01PM
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whoa-dere
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deal!

pmd
May 19 2012 9:02PM
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miroz
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Read this as "where its almost like the Dave Matthew's Band"

summer 2012 yolo
May 19 2012 9:04PM
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TRASHY.
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That's definitely weird shit. I'm surprised I haven't had any dreams about it as it's something i think about every now and then. I'm scared that i'll just disappear for forever, but then i question if forever comes to an end or if it's really forever. Ahhh here we go, mind blown.
May 19 2012 9:05PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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Just thinking this the other night. The fact that you could be the safest motorcycle rider and do everything perfectly down to a T and still get blindsided one day by a mom in a minivan, whether it be a day or 25 years from now. It's really up to fate.

Also thinking that before you were born is the same state you'll enter after you die. It's simple but still a total mindfuck.
May 19 2012 9:07PM
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Bateman
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I meant space, not universe.. if it makes any diffrence. What if "space" is just a marble in some kids toy case?
May 19 2012 9:13PM
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Bill.Nye
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Same thing.
May 19 2012 9:14PM
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