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"Well considering everything in our bodies is a chemical we are always thinking with chemicals.

But I think you are referring to not thinking while our body chemistry is altered by drugs we have ingested."

Actually not just that. Of course I would exclude the supposed thought processes of someone using mind-altering drugs (those more powerful than caffeine and sugar).

But I am also referencing internally produced chemicals that are called hormones. These principally begin affecting our thought processes as we enter puberty.

Prior to that, kids (people) apply their thinking according to various rules of logic they have learned, and information to which they have been exposed. One would expect the results of such processes to be at least understandable.

With testosterone, and tidal fluxes of estrogen, thinking gets skewed, and it takes a long time to reset to a balanced and logical view, if that ever happens at all.

It is for that reason that you can see pre-pubescent children looking strangely at their teen-age associates, and rolling their eyes at their obvious idiocies.

"My point was simply that the world of adults is not fun, but if adults don’t face it, childhood doesn’t have a chance."

Generally speaking, I am forced to agree with you; but it doesn't have to be that way. Adults can and should have a playful spirit to apply to all their activities. For instance, I frequently tell people, "You should enjoy the time you spend at work, because you spend a lot of time there."

"if adults don't face it" -- They are violating the definition of what it means to be adult. Reference the picture of 0bama squeaming in imagined discomfort as someone else gets body-slammed in a Karate demonstration.

We know that 249 is divisible by 3 because 2+4+9=15. And 15 is divisible by 3. We know that 15 is divisible by 3, because 1 + 5 =6 and 6 is divisible by 3. We know 6 is divisible by 3 because we are FReepers and none of us are that stupid! Even Friday nights after we should be asleep.

If the number is also even, then it is also divisible by 6

If the number is also divisible by 5 then the number is also divisible by 15.

A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits are divisible by 3.

:Consume:
“No.”
:Consume!:
“No!”
:They hurt self! They are hurting our offspring!:
It was true, whatever the council troops had hit him with, it hurt.
Excruciatingly so.
It also had sent him flying while boiling the armor equivalent of three inches of protection off of him.
And several of his grandchildren had also been injured trying to reach him.
“I wish I could somehow channel that incoming energy off into n_space, maybe store it for use.” he idly thought to himself as he finally skidded to a halt.
:...stay online, we will be back in a few..:
His nano molecular machine passengers had begun using idioms, he wasn’t certain if this was good or bad.
Ordering his grandchildren to merely provide cover fire was hard, they were eager to fight.
More so now that they’d watched the previous spectacle.
“I’m fine! Clear the way!” and so round two began.

It is for that reason that you can see pre-pubescent children looking strangely at their teen-age associates, and rolling their eyes at their obvious idiocies.

Ah, yes, the human teenage years. When amazing confidence is coupled with a complete lack of thinking skills. And we have responded to this state of events by worshipping youth and eschewing the wisdom of the gray-haired set.

Adults can and should have a playful spirit to apply to all their activities. Absolutely, including the activity of making sure the world is safe for childhood. Being uptight isn't the same as being adult, or even being serious.