Stuck in Paste?

I think that one of the hardest things to imagine is being inside of a tube of toothpaste. Try imagining it. It's not as easy as it first sounds. Let's got through all the five senses and see what we can come up with.

• SMELL: This is one sense you can forget about. Yes, I know that toothpaste has a minty smell but there is no air in there for you to breathe. Its 50% solid, 50% liquid and 100% gooey mixture that is pretty dense.
  

• TASTE: Probably the simplest feeling to imagine, taste can be felt if you open your mouth. It will be like brushing your teeth with a giant brush minus the brush part.
  

• SOUND: I don't think you'll hear anything because of all the toothpaste clogging your ear.
  

• SIGHT: Inside the tube, I don't think it will matter much if you close your eyes or open them because it will be pitch black either way. There is no light inside the tube of toothpaste.
  

• TOUCH: The feel of the toothpaste will be the worst feeling out of the five. First off, it will get inside all your clothes. Also, I'm not sure whether it will be fluidy or more solid. I think the most accurate adjective to describe it would be pasty. Duh. I don't know if you will be able to swim in it or what.
  

Now let's combine them all. You will be inside a mushy place, not being able to breathe or see anything. On top of that, there will probably be some toothpaste in unwanted places in your body. If a country really wanted to torture POWs, they should build a pit, fill it with Colgate, and throw the prisoners in there. Five minutes inside will make anyone want to talk.

Anger = tool of destruction

We've all felt angry at one point in our lives. When most of us do, we generally want to hurt or destroy someone or something. Why is that?

Usually, we fell angry because we feel that we have been demoted or made to look bad in someway, or when we believe that another person is taking advantage of us. Anger is triggered inside us to instigate a response. If someone didn't have any emotion, then he wouldn't respond to insults, defeats etc. This would result in that person being "lowered" in society and then wouldn't have as great of a chance to survive or do well in society.

As humans, we value bravery and under certain conditions, revenge. When someone get their property, people expect him to fight to get it back, not sit around and mope. Anger enables us to go out and restore our place in the world.

But the big question is, why destroy things in anger when it doesn't do anyone any good? I think to find the answer to this, we have to look back to pre-homo sapien days.

If an animal feels threatened, it will try to make itself look bigger and tougher to ward of the threat. This can be done in many different ways such as opening body parts to look bigger or make a very loud noise. Breaking stuff could be our way of warning others to say away. When we break a vase or thump the wall in anger, we are saying, "I'm a very dangerous person capable of violence. You better undo the wrong you've done or else....." Of course most of us are able to control the impulse to break stuff because we know it will get us into even more trouble. Thumping the table or the wall is a much more common thing to do because first of all, it doesn't destroy anything, and secondly, is almost as effective because it makes a loud sound and involves the violent act of punching or slapping.

These types of acts, promoted by anger, are supposed to instill fear into those who harm us and tries to ensure that they don't happen again.