Two Wolves

[HighwayMan]

The problem is sometimes the first wolf doesn't wait to be fed and just jumps in for the meal.

 

[Garyzenuf]

I assumed the person meant ignorance because they were coming from an atheist point of view and as such would likely view belief in a divinity as ignorance.

Having freely believed in a divinity at one point in my life, I do not view those who do today as ignorant. And I'm an agnostic when it comes to G-d, and am only atheist when it comes to religion.

Therefore, I was just replying to their assumption without feeling the need to step in and issue a refuation because it would just become another point of argument anyway where I'd probably get a Dawkins argument thrown at me.

Boy, talk about pot/kettle...


I don't even know what a Dawkins argument is.

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[Axioma]

For true accuracy, you need a powerful lobby demanding that Internal Wolf Theory be taught as literal truth, and people insisting that evil scientists like Dawkins know that the wolves inside are real and they're covering up the x-rays that prove it.

 

[Assyrian]

Professor Dawk-head responds:

“My good man, let me assure you, that we scientific moderns, through autopsy, x-ray, MRI and CAT-scan, have irrefutably established that there are in fact not two wolves, nor any wolves, inside humans. As to the apparent truth emotionally implicit in this old savage's ideas, well, we're at a loss to explain that at the present time, but we're working on it.”

Reminds me of that old cartoon
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/shr0852l.jpg

 

[Fin12]

Cool proverb!

And for the doubters it holds some truth.

Emotions are the results of chemicals in our brain, the more we expose ourselves to these chemicals the more addicted we become to them.

For example, people who are angry alot of the time become quicker to anger as this pattern continues.

Similarly people who spend a long period of time upset, soon find coming out of this spell that they are more upset by smaller things.

I'd recommend reading Daniel Goleman, "emotional intellegence" for some more thoughts on this.

 

[namaste_benry]

I've heard that story before and I think it's pretty interesting. I think if we nurture anger or cruelty in our hearts as opposed to something like empathy and kindness, we do end up letting one side "win". But, I don't believe it's that black and white, that one side wins for good or that people cannot change.

Emotions are the results of chemicals in our brain, the more we expose ourselves to these chemicals the more addicted we become to them.

I never knew that. How interesting!

 

[Assyrian]

Didn't Plato say something similar about two horses?

 

[grapeape]

I seem to have read similar poems/stories before.