Dale Gribble

I'll be finished with fall term in a week... in high school. I don't suppose that counts.

But do you ever fully grasp it? I don't suppose my theories (perhaps ramblings would be more appropriate) on the limitations of the human mind are really relevant here, though. I was merely voicing an observation that came to me. You may continue with your regularly scheduled discussion.

No, it's not a number, its a concept, which is exactly my point. Numbers are finite and graspable, even if they exist only in the human mind. And certainly the human mind can invent something it can never really grasp. The afterlife for example. Whether it exists or not, it was our little ape brain that was first able to concieve of its existence. But concieving of something's existence does not mean one fully grasps it. I can beleive that the universe is infinite without ever really being able to concieve what infinite is. Like the topic starter stated, everything in our experience has a beginning and an end. That is how our minds are wired. Finitely.

I just write the whole thing off as incomprehensible. Our minds just aren't advanced enough to truly contemplate the infinite without putting it into finite terms. Take this as an example: Imagine an infinite number of apples. I guarantee, that if we were able to freeze your thought and put it up on a computer screen, we could count the number of apples there. No matter how hard you try, you just can't imagine infinity apples. You would always invasion 5 billion, or 3 trillion, or some other appreciable number. I'm not saying that a biological organism couldn't have a brain capable of conceiving the infinite, ours just don't happen to be wired that way.

The interpretation of all of which is a bit iffy. The statues were most likely religious fetishes. The "toys" you speak of I haven't heard about, but being as they're most likely simple phalac shaped bits of stone, any interpretation of them as sex toys would be highly subjecitve.

Much of the more extreme pornography you speak of stems from the desire to dominate. I speak from experience here, as I have about 2 GB of asphyxia and snuff-themed erotica in my hardrive. I'd never want to actually hurt anyone, or see anyone actually hurt, it's just a fantasy.

Actualy the first "stag film" was a silent film of a woman taking off her bra. I've actually seen it.

You don't seem to have a social sciences forum, so I suppose I'll post this here. Why do you think Indians seem to prefer pale skin to dark skin? A whole industy has grown up in India around making people paler, and many top Indian models are of European ancestry. Is this a product of colonialism? The Ayran (Iranian Aryan, not Nazi Aryan) conquests? Association of dark skin with maual labour? A combination?

Hello. I'm a poser paleoanthropologist and uber-Trekkie of doom. I hope to be able to contribute in some small way to your fine forum.