Haha, the one time I was going to come back and stop by the server.
Good to hear it's got an upgrade though.

If the purple and pink squares were switched, it'd be an exact match... (with the pink resembling red) how the hell did you find something that close? lol

I still prefer to not see anything in religious views and prefer scientific.

I still believe happiness is an effect of evolution, and we shouldn't try to complicate it with human-created ideas. (Some would argue that religion itself is a human creation, believe it or not)
Not that religion isn't a great way of viewing the world, it's just not for me.

Anyway, what makes me happy is accomplishing something and showing what I'm capable of. It releases some pretty neat chemicals.

Can you do a Mona Lisa?

@BaronBattleBread baron butter bread or whatever

I can't be the only one who sorta found this funny, lol.

@builder7555 Basically what I'm thinking lol

UeL iF YU UeNT TU DRNDO'STu YU CwLD Fi'GYR iT aOT
JuST CiDENG iT iZ ONLE Fo'NiCS (ENGLiX)
BuT I UiL REVI'Z iT iNTU A DiFiCwLT La'NGUiJ FwR MI NU PLAS

Video games make me happy, too.

@Abbasilol even suffer themselves to help others and get close to God? and even they die for it, witch is something dat probably your brain refuse to do, and will prevent you from doing it.

Also, using this, my dog will often run at strangers' cars that enter our driveway. He will attempt to scare off the strangers as he thinks they are a threat, but he will put himself right in front of danger to protect us. If he is wary of something happening outside (he hears a strange car, or an odd bump), and one of us then go outside, he will not stop barking until he is assured we are safe.

Why do dogs do this? They never get a reward, we never give him treats. There's nothing in it for him. He puts himself in front of danger and sacrifices himself to protect the humans he is emotionally attached to.

Yes, this is completely different from the way I think, and that's just fine. I've found it much easier and much more useful for myself to understand everything in life as scientific and not supernatural.

However, I will disagree with you on this point:

@Abbasilol but for someone who doesnt have control over his soul,witch is like an animal (PPL who dont have control on their soul can be called *animals*),

I strongly believe that some animals (not necessarily all) have some form of "soul" or control (consciousness). I think that consciousness isn't on or off. It's variable, you can have a "percentage" of consciousness, and this can be thought of when you think of awake and asleep. When humans are fully asleep, we are not conscious. We have no way of remembering anything, except for the occasional dream that is stored into temporary memory (and long-term memory if you choose after you wake up). When we are extremely tired, we cannot remember everything that we did, but we KNOW we were making decisions. The issue is that or memories are not stored in the long-term, and we have no recollection. We were not fully conscious, and we never will be 100% conscious when we are awake, because we cannot store 100% of our memories into long-term.

With this being said, I believe ANY animal that is capable of storing at least a small percentage of their memories into long-term memory can be deemed as "conscious" or can be said to have a "soul."

I know for a fact that my dog can store some of his memories into long-term storage because he KNOWS what it means, or knows what emotions are about to hit when I tell him "You need a bath." When I open a drawer that contains his brushes, he sniffs the drawer and runs to the door, and once outside, he runs to the spot where I always brush him out. He knows which cat at our house teases him, and attempts to chase her down, he has learned that I often fake-throw his ball and will double-check I have thrown it before running.
Basically put, any animal that is capable of learning by looking back at their long-term memories has at least some consciousness.

You could also argue that animals that only use short-term memory are also conscious, but there is no evidence of this.
For instance, you don't remember anything from you being a baby because nothing was thrown into long-term memory. Therefore, you don't have any evidence that you were "conscious" before your first memory, and may as well not have been.