A virtual hoard of the shiny things I find on the internet.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
But it is still a question that has yet to be answered by palaeonto-anthropology or any other form of enquiry so far as I know. Where did we get self-consciousness? How come we feel shame at the bodies and desire we never chose to have? Is language the parent of such self-consciousness or did self-consciousness spur the development of language?
Sometimes I’d rather be a tree frog. I don’t think they fall asleep worried that they’ve been a bad tree frog that afternoon or envying kingfishers or resenting their own diet or habitat. They just seem to spend 100% of their time being magnificent at being a tree frog. We spend most of our time regardless of our religion or lack of it, disappointed in ourselves, ashamed of ourselves, envious of others — always becoming and rarely being.
The Bible: What precisely was the knowledge that God didn’t want Adam & Eve to have? - Quora
I’ve finally discovered what Quora is good for. It exists as one more platform upon which Stephen Fry may be brilliant and charming. On every possible topic.
(The above is excerpted from his larger answer to the question.)
