[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Makavali wrote:
The purpose of life is to end all life by dividing by zero.
Did you get into my stash of Purple Sticky?[/quote]
Maybe.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Makavali wrote:
The purpose of life is to end all life by dividing by zero.
Did you get into my stash of Purple Sticky?
Maybe.[/quote]
Well, seeing as the system you would be using to divide is man-made, I’m guessing only us humans would be ended.
And perhaps a few dolphins and monkeys that are real good at math.
[quote]DickBag wrote:
Yo Momma wrote:
A person is NEVER as important or significant as they think they are.
The purpose of life is to make more life. Plain and simple. If you want to know the meaning of life, watch Monty Python.
'splains everything in the movie.
Thread like these piss me off greatly. Not because of the discussion, no.
But because of raw blunt statements as if they are facts.
Do you understand why your here? No you dont.
You dont know whats going on, Steven Hawking doesn’t even know whats going on. einstein died not knowing being able to figure out a theory linking magentism, gravity and all other forces together.
Arrogance makes people say this and that. it always has. i do it from time to time as well.
But for fuck sake, shut up with the " we are here because of bla bla bla."
No one knows what the fuck is going on.
If we exist to reporduce, then what is the point? Why would nature create beings that would damage nature?
What use are humans to the world? we mess the place up, we caused accelerated global warming, 200 species a day are going extinct, we are speeding up desertification, we are a pack of messy shits. This leads me to the fact that we have no fuckin idea why we are here, why nature needs us.
Why would mother nature create a species that has the ability to evolve and screw everything up
who knows.
fact is, i havent a fuckin clue whats goin on.
i think its funny how people readily believe in the big bang theory as well as if its some ordinary believable thing. There are physical things in life that are just wierd and crazy to believe, they make absolutly no sense, eg. the speed of light, how light can travel faster than light, how no matter how fast you go relative to light, it will allways be 3*10^8 m/s faster what was before the big bang, is there an edge in space,why does the electron act like a wave and a particle, why does it pick a slit when approaching two slits at once, bla bla bla.
lots of nearly unbelievable stuff readily believed by negative people but the same people will act like god doesnt exist, as if its a fairy tale, as if they actually know what they are talking about. i would nearly leave these people be, if they studied theretical physics and were more educated, but most of these people are just discovery channel geeks who like to think they are one step ahead of normal “gullable” humans who don’t need to know theres a higher power.
conclusion, who fuckin knows. keep the mouth quiet and dont make statements on what you dont know. discuss yes, but dont start stating.
its very annoying, not to mention disrespectfull.
its actually nearly offensive. alot of poeple are brought up a certain way, then they have to listen to things that shake their foundations.
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Bravo, best post in the thread.
We don’t know shit about whats out there or even right here. Let alone people claim all day that they’ve seen aliens, ghost, paranormal experiences, out of body experiences, etc. and lots of people just blow it off and call them liars or try to explain the unexplainable.
I’ve seen some crazy shit myself that led me to the conclusion that there is much more to the universe than the discovery channel or bible will tell you. The point you were making is the point that I have been trying to say throughout this thread.
There may be forces in this universe that we have no comprehension of at all. In other words “No one knows what the fuck is going on.” LOL However there IS something going on.
[quote]elano wrote:
DickBag wrote:
Yo Momma wrote:
A person is NEVER as important or significant as they think they are.
The purpose of life is to make more life. Plain and simple. If you want to know the meaning of life, watch Monty Python.
'splains everything in the movie.
Thread like these piss me off greatly. Not because of the discussion, no.
But because of raw blunt statements as if they are facts.
Do you understand why your here? No you dont.
You dont know whats going on, Steven Hawking doesn’t even know whats going on. einstein died not knowing being able to figure out a theory linking magentism, gravity and all other forces together.
Arrogance makes people say this and that. it always has. i do it from time to time as well.
But for fuck sake, shut up with the " we are here because of bla bla bla."
No one knows what the fuck is going on.
If we exist to reporduce, then what is the point? Why would nature create beings that would damage nature?
What use are humans to the world? we mess the place up, we caused accelerated global warming, 200 species a day are going extinct, we are speeding up desertification, we are a pack of messy shits. This leads me to the fact that we have no fuckin idea why we are here, why nature needs us.
Why would mother nature create a species that has the ability to evolve and screw everything up
who knows.
fact is, i havent a fuckin clue whats goin on.
i think its funny how people readily believe in the big bang theory as well as if its some ordinary believable thing. There are physical things in life that are just wierd and crazy to believe, they make absolutly no sense, eg. the speed of light, how light can travel faster than light, how no matter how fast you go relative to light, it will allways be 3*10^8 m/s faster what was before the big bang, is there an edge in space,why does the electron act like a wave and a particle, why does it pick a slit when approaching two slits at once, bla bla bla.
lots of nearly unbelievable stuff readily believed by negative people but the same people will act like god doesnt exist, as if its a fairy tale, as if they actually know what they are talking about. i would nearly leave these people be, if they studied theretical physics and were more educated, but most of these people are just discovery channel geeks who like to think they are one step ahead of normal “gullable” humans who don’t need to know theres a higher power.
conclusion, who fuckin knows. keep the mouth quiet and dont make statements on what you dont know. discuss yes, but dont start stating.
its very annoying, not to mention disrespectfull.
its actually nearly offensive. alot of poeple are brought up a certain way, then they have to listen to things that shake their foundations.
Bravo, best post in the thread.
We don’t know shit about whats out there or even right here. Let alone people claim all day that they’ve seen aliens, ghost, paranormal experiences, out of body experiences, etc. and lots of people just blow it off and call them liars or try to explain the unexplainable.
I’ve seen some crazy shit myself that led me to the conclusion that there is much more to the universe than the discovery channel or bible will tell you. The point you were making is the point that I have been trying to say throughout this thread.
There may be forces in this universe that we have no comprehension of at all. In other words “No one knows what the fuck is going on.” LOL However there IS something going on.[/quote]
I had a fucked up experience with an ouija board. I’m at the point of wondering if ignorence is better then knowing what is real.
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
IvanDmitritch wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Anyone who ever reads Nietzsche (really reads, not browses) will ever be the same again.
Absolute statements like these are idiotic, HH. Nietzsche is the opiate of intellectual dick-pullers.
Nice! If you don’t mind, I’m going to steal that one! Judging by this and your comment about Sartre, I’m guessing you don’t buy into the whole existential paradigm?
In any case, I do think there’s merit in the idea that, for the individual, life only has meaning when one decides to give it meaning. Maybe that’s the whole point. Whether you decide the meaning of life is about relationships, getting laid, finding god, or just having a good time, the point is it means whatever you decide it means. Makes sense to me anyways.
Actually, I’d describe myself as an existentialist. Unfortunately, existential writers tend to go a bit too far with their supplementary ideas. Not to mention they’re preachy as hell. A true existentialist would acknowledge that they could in fact be completely wrong, while guys like Nietzsche and Sartre are a bit too narcissistic for that. Camus was the most down-to-earth, in my opinion.
I’m not big on bigger-picture philosophy anyway. It’s not practical and amounts to pretentious bullshit. I like guys like Gracian, Epictetus, Machiavelli–stuff you can use in your life, rather than empty words that make you feel superior to other people.
Personally, I find the idea of a meaning or purpose of existence to be quite silly. Why does there have to be a meaning?
I’m also an absurdist.[/quote]
Hmmmm…you’re a bit of a nihilist too,wouldn’t you say?
Like a cocktail of beliefs.
[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
IvanDmitritch wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Anyone who ever reads Nietzsche (really reads, not browses) will ever be the same again.
Absolute statements like these are idiotic, HH. Nietzsche is the opiate of intellectual dick-pullers.
Nice! If you don’t mind, I’m going to steal that one! Judging by this and your comment about Sartre, I’m guessing you don’t buy into the whole existential paradigm?
In any case, I do think there’s merit in the idea that, for the individual, life only has meaning when one decides to give it meaning. Maybe that’s the whole point. Whether you decide the meaning of life is about relationships, getting laid, finding god, or just having a good time, the point is it means whatever you decide it means. Makes sense to me anyways.
Actually, I’d describe myself as an existentialist. Unfortunately, existential writers tend to go a bit too far with their supplementary ideas. Not to mention they’re preachy as hell. A true existentialist would acknowledge that they could in fact be completely wrong, while guys like Nietzsche and Sartre are a bit too narcissistic for that. Camus was the most down-to-earth, in my opinion.
I’m not big on bigger-picture philosophy anyway. It’s not practical and amounts to pretentious bullshit. I like guys like Gracian, Epictetus, Machiavelli–stuff you can use in your life, rather than empty words that make you feel superior to other people.
Personally, I find the idea of a meaning or purpose of existence to be quite silly. Why does there have to be a meaning?
I’m also an absurdist.
Hmmmm…you’re a bit of a nihilist too,wouldn’t you say?
Like a cocktail of beliefs.[/quote]
like his drugs?
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
I had a fucked up experience with an ouija board. I’m at the point of wondering if ignorence is better then knowing what is real.[/quote]
That’s it right there. It takes an experience like that for a person to realize that there is more to life than what we are are told. People who go through life with no paranormal experience will usually be narrow minded and who can blame them. I too was once a complete skeptic.
I must say that up to the point that I had my experience, I believed what my biology professors said that evolution was the answer. Now I do not even know what there is and the idea of god is absolutely reasonable.
I have had more ‘paranormal’ experiences than I can shake a stick at, vagrancies of perception, in awareness, state of mind…etc. Don’t kid yourself thinking otherwise… or do, I guess, but recognize it makes you look foolish.
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
I have had more ‘paranormal’ experiences than I can shake a stick at, vagrancies of perception, in awareness, state of mind…etc. Don’t kid yourself thinking otherwise… or do, I guess, but recognize it makes you look foolish.[/quote]
I do realize that some people may disagree with what I say. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
If you had read my post(and not what you wanted to read) then you would have noticed that I have personally had many unexplained experiences and events that could be construed as paranormal. Auditory and visual hallucinations, sightings, hocus pocus sensations, premonition, you name it. So I would be calling myself foolish.
But I am not foolish, because I do not believe that any of my personal experiences with seemingly unnatural and impossible occurrences are anything more than what they are. I am also not foolish to think that just because there are things that may not make sense, one must default towards irrational belief in bogeyman deities and magic beans.
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
If you had read my post(and not what you wanted to read) then you would have noticed that I have personally had many unexplained experiences and events that could be construed as paranormal. Auditory and visual hallucinations, sightings, hocus pocus sensations, premonition, you name it. So I would be calling myself foolish.
But I am not foolish, because I do not believe that any of my personal experiences with seemingly unnatural and impossible occurrences are anything more than what they are. I am also not foolish to think that just because there are things that may not make sense, one must default towards irrational belief in bogeyman deities and magic beans.[/quote]
I understand you now. You make a good point and I agree. Very good post and I learned something from it.
my purpose in life is to do the dan band’s rendition of total eclipse of the heart at one of my best friends wedding drunk as hell
I can’t, in a sound state of mind, believe in any one god or religion, for the simple fact that all religions are inherently atheistic in nature. Christians, for instance. I just believe in one less god than them, and when they understand why they don’t believe in all the other gods, they’ll understand why I don’t believe in theirs.
Does it really matter if we’re all characters in a ridiculously advanced MMORPG? No. So who cares if there’s a “higher power”. They wouldn’t give a shit about us anyway, so there’s no point in worrying.
[quote]Brown_Lifter wrote:
Does it really matter if we’re all characters in a ridiculously advanced MMORPG? No. So who cares if there’s a “higher power”. They wouldn’t give a shit about us anyway, so there’s no point in worrying. [/quote]
There’s a difference between worry and pondering. Looking inward and outward by questioning the world, and ourselves, is what separates us from other animals, and has led to us being the dominant species that we are. The ability to form these kinds of thoughts makes us who and what we are.
Those of you who respond to this thread with statements basically saying, “I don’t give a fuck and neither should you.” should stop posting in here.
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Brown_Lifter wrote:
Those of you who respond to this thread with statements basically saying, “I don’t give a fuck and neither should you.” should stop posting in here.[/quote]
OR
“But for fuck sake, shut up with the " we are here because of bla bla bla.” "
This is philosophy. There are no definates. No rights. No wrongs. Deal with it.
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.” Mazer Rackham ftw
[quote]Brown_Lifter wrote:
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.” Mazer Rackham ftw[/quote]
niceeeeee…
[quote]dza1978 wrote:
LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
dza1978 wrote:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz philosophy 101 is now in session zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Yeah, please feel free to not join the discussion since you haven’t anything to add.
since einstein never solved this puzzle and stephen hawkings at the same point what makes you think your gonna have any impact on humanity by spueing out something when it will never be definative.
life is life may be you should get one rather than spending your waking hours with the other philosophers with all their “insight” letting it pass you bye.
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You are hardly a step above any other animals if you’ve never directed cognizant thought towards metaphysical ideas, and even then, you’re half-step is just your opposable thumb.
[quote]elano wrote:
Whoever thinks that the creation of the universe was just a coincidental statistically probable happening, is IMO naive. There are higher powers than the realm of our consciousness and physical world. God if that is what you would like to call it.
Sorry for the deepness, just trying to make my point.[/quote]
I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)