I wonder if men like Jerry Falwell or Fred Rogers boinked their wives from behind and/or used vulgar euphemisms when referring to their wives private parts.
I especially wonder YTF I would wonder such things. It just 'aint right.
Even people don’t remember their dreams, or if they remember anything because they woke up during a dream, it’s very quickly forgotten unless written down or verbalized immediately after. I think it’s a protective mechanism to prevent dreams and real world experiences from becoming confused.
Probably true. I did start a dream journal, but never kept up on it. I do remember some though. Dreams I had years ago still as vivid as yesterday.
I wonder why people are so violent and stupid, and yet we haven’t become extinct yet.
Yes, I have absolutely considered that. It’s the reason I have a fitness trainer. I’ve had periods of my life where I was very fit - at my peak, I could do 100 full push-ups without a problem. I was pulling cars across parking lots (I told you that guy was tough.)
My biggest obstacle to fitness is probably task initiation. Something I have always struggled with.
I realize we evolved to have fat on our bodies so we could survive the next famine or harsh winter, but who do you know who has had to survive a famine, or lives outdoors? I assume you know that Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Dyslipidemia, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, Breast cancer, Colon and rectal cancer, Endometrial cancer, Kidney and pancreatic cancer, Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, Gallbladder Disease, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Asthma, Obesity Hypo-ventilation Syndrome, Osteoarthritis:and Depression are all diseases associated with obesity in humans. I doubt any of our ancestors lived long enough to suffer from most of these diseases, but as a species, now we all do.
Sure, some people only care about what they look like, but I think most obese people actually do care about their health, but they don’t know how to deal with their weight problem. The good news is that they can learn to lose weight and keep it off with proper education and support, but they have be willing to do the work and stick with a program proven to work for someone like them. Not everyone will succeed at first try and lose all the weight they want, but everyone can at least try and hopefully make some progress. There are medical specialists and new drugs that can help them attain realistic goals. I believe most people don’t want to lose the weight just to look good, although that’s a side benefit, they’re doing it to live longer and healthier lives.
As we get older we often focus on.health issues and how to avoid them. Things like quitting smoking or getting sufficient exercise certainly help, but one of the best ways to live longer is to get down to and to maintain a healthy weight, however you want to define that. Obese adults see a reduction in life expectancy ranging from 3 to 14 years, depending on their severity of obesity. Losing weight isn’t about vanity, it’s about living a longer and healthier life.
I also often wonder how life formed. I mean, how can life come from elements and rocks and gasses and stuff? How can life come from non-life? It just doesn’t make sense. I’m not religious, but it makes me wonder if there is a God-like being out there who made life.
As a somewhat related topic, I wonder why there is so little time travel fiction involving these what if scenarios. In other words, what if some historical person was visited by a time traveler from the future and informed about the consequences of some major decision that they have to make. How would they react? It’s the sort of thing I like to think about, and makes we wonder if I’m unusual in that regard, since time travel stories rarely focus on this aspect of time travel.
ETA: By which I mean a story in which the focus is on the thought process of the historical person, and any discussions they have with their peers and the time traveler about what the time traveler is claiming, not an alternate history “what if” that tells the story of an alternate timeline.
I wonder why randomly bad things happen to good people. I wonder if I’ll ever fully have back my husband (he had a stroke in December) and I really miss his emotional support sometimes. I wonder if he’ll make a full recovery. I wonder how we are going to stay afloat a lot of the time.
My lab when dreaming would clearly move his legs in the slow rhythmic way typical of how he would swim in the pool.
Hugs to you @Patx2 . Those are hard things to wonder.
Two terms you should look up: abiogenesis and RNA world.
The “origin of life problem” is far from being completely understood, but it’s not a miracle. The transition from inorganic compounds to what we would recognize as the first self-replicating molecular structures took place gradually, over a period of roughly 500 million years.
Three reasons:
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In times past they haven’t been quite a large enough percentage of the whole. So they couldn’t finish the job before they died or were killed.
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Up until roughly the last century we haven’t had weapons powerful enough to offset the numbers.
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For this last century we’ve been lucky enough. So far. Here’s hoping it holds out awhile longer.
But I wonder: why should there be a transition to life? What’s the need for it? What’s the driving force?
I just have a strong feeling that something else is going on.
There is no need for life. We can only speculate about life because we’re here to do so. There are a trillion places across the Universe where they cannot wonder about life because there isn’t any there.
But once life takes a hold somewhere, it sure does have a lot of tenacity, and seems desperate to evolve so it can stick around.
The question of “why?” has no real answer even about the evolution of life, but at least we can point to characteristics such as seeking nourishment for energy, self-preservation, and replication. But the question of why life arose in the first place IMHO has no more meaning than the question of why, when you put two chemicals together, you get a chemical reaction and new compounds. Why? Because that’s just how the universe is structured at the atomic and molecular level.
Maybe a useful way to think about it is that abiogenesis was not only a prolonged process over hundreds of millions of years, it was also likely a process that occurred many times over that period. Inorganic compounds combined in certain ways under certain conditions, and then … nothing happened.
And the process repeated over all those millions of years with different variations, because the Earth is a dynamic place. And then one day, with just the right mix of compounds, and triggered perhaps by energy from hydrothermal vents or lightning, it was just enough to create protocells, essentially just chemically-based molecular structures but with the ability to replicate.
And that may have been the start of a long, long road to the evolution of full-fledged biological cells able to convert oxygen and nutrients into energy and the first single-celled creatures with a form of cellular metabolism and the ability to start combining multiple cells into more complex creatures. Life was born!
I wonder why I am surrounded by truly flaky people in my personal life.
At work, we are paid–and self-selected–to be responsible, respectful, and honor commitments. If a project manager asks me when I’ll have something done, I’ll give them a terrible guess, but I’ll keep amending that guess as new issues arise, and if I can’t fulfill it, I’ll let them know.
But that seems to only be in my work life.
With the people I am dealing with right now (fellow musicians trying to plan some recording sessions) they ghost me for days, say “Yeah, awesome, I can’t wait to record my part! What’s your week look like” and then radio silence for a week and a half.
then they say they were out of town that week.
Yep. Something they knew full well at the time they were asking me how my week looked for recording their part.
I have three people who appear to communicate via text as if it cost $10 per word. I’m lucky if I get one or two word responses once a week. People who need to collaborate for our music project to complete.
Can’t stand being in the “project manager” role with people whose actions are incongruent with their spoken desire–they act like they don’t care, but I can guarantee that if we ever get in the same room together they will be super stoked and ready for action.
This may be a younger generation thing, but I wonder how they graduated from college and got good jobs without the ability to make a solid commitment.
I know I’m a harsh judge–I came from a Navy Nuclear Power background, and it isn’t fair to hold the general public to that high of a standard, but there’s something seriously wrong when someone promises they will do something and simply fails to do it, as if their word has no value.
This is my most recent pain point. Yes, it’s a raw nerve.
Doing what you say you’re going to do is hardly a high standard.
If you are on call and have to go fight a fire, that’s one thing. If you just blow it off, that’s another.
My husband and I were just talking about this the other night. Our boxer must really have some exciting dreams. That night, he was howling while he slept. He doesn’t howl when he’s awake! His feet twitch too.
Our Great Dane sometimes wags his tail quite vigorously while he’s sleeping. He also has what I call “sex dreams”. He’s sound asleep, lying on his side and humping away! With a dog that size, the whole couch moves!
Simple unicellular life appeared fairly soon (in geologic terms) after the Earth formed and had cooled enough to make life possible.
But intelligent technological life only arose recently, when the time period when life on Earth will be possible has only a billion years left. We’re cutting it close!
So maybe the Great Filter prevents the emergence of space-faring, soccer-playing, Tiktok-posting bipedals; and the Universe is filled with planets where amoeba are the dominant life forms. Some days, that doesn’t sound too bad.