Salty Booger
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Do problems exist only in the mind? Are there any problems in Nature?
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Problem/No Problem
- Thread starter Salty Booger
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Both! We are shaped by both as well.
I hope the problems you face aren't too overwhelming, @Salty Booger. Stress is a killer.
I hope the problems you face aren't too overwhelming, @Salty Booger. Stress is a killer.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Problems appear to be manmade. Nature simply exists as it is. If a tree falls over, nature will simply carry on; whereas, men with chainsaws would swarm around it, cut into parts, and haul it away.
Salty Booger
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Stress is a killer, but it's also a product of mind.
MatthewA
Active Member
Seems to be many choices in the way of man; compared to nature it does it's own thing; though just as man does his own thing.
Thank you for explaining more Salty.
Salty Booger
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If you simply watch, much of life takes care of itself. I have been working on letting go and stop trying to control life.
Bushfires here kill countless thousands of animals, not just humans. And those that survive commonly have both physical and emotional scars.
Whilst 'nature' as a whole might not have problems, that is because it's not anthropomorphic.
Look at an individual animal and it's quite a different tale.
Koldo
Outstanding Member
Depends on what you mean by Nature.
If sentient beings aren't being defined as part of Nature, there is also no kindness, love, peace and compassion in Nature.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Yet in the larger scheme of things it is just a blip on the radar. Nature caries on regardless and without concern.
Hmm.
I'd say a problem was a set pf facts that needs to be dealt with and is not easy to deal with.
I'd also say a problem is a perception, a subjective judgment.
So yes, they only exist in the mind of the person making the judgment (or, creature making the judgment).
That is, lung cancer isn't a problem until you know you've got lung cancer, or you know you'll have to deal with the lung cancer of X.
Writing 500 words on the coinage of ancient Assyria for tomorrow's seminar isn't a problem till you remember it at 4 am and wake up with a start.
Salty Booger
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Why would you identify as anything other than nature? Our existence proves that the Universe is sentient.
Koldo
Outstanding Member
If we are nature then our minds are nature too and therefore there are problems in nature.
Salty Booger
Royal Crown Cola (RC)
Or it is the manner in which we have been schooled to look at life?
I'm not sure what 'nature carries on' means, though. Nature doesn't 'care' about my work deadlines I'm currently avoiding by posting here. Nor does it care about a wildebeest who dies from a lack of water. Nor does it care if it's wearing the latest fashion. Nor if it's food is healthy, or laden with fat, or disease.
Nature literally doesn't care about anything.
It certainly proves there are sentient components to it. Not more than that, I would have thought, although I understand some believe the universe itself is sentient.
Salty Booger
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It is just a continuation of life, right?
Wouldn't have thought so. I see the moon as part of nature.
Salty Booger
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It depends on your view of your place in this Universe, imo. If I create a work of art, it would be intentional on my part.
Salty Booger
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But if you were not conscious, would the moon still exist?