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Loki
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We're really talking about things that are inexperiencable such as life-after-death. But some insist that those things are experiencable. Who do you think that you are? Bags of meat on the bones?
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homerjaysimpson
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Originally posted by Loki:
Who do you think that you are? Bags of meat on the bones?
Yep we are, and were here to make more of are selfs for some reason.
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Loki
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Kill all humans and live in a cave...
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nixon!
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Thanks all for thoughts and advices. I know, I cannot go on like this and I am still trying to find my way to live my life. I am trying to believe that we all have somekind of meaning to live on this planet, maybe that thought is keeping my feet ground/alive. Maybe someday I will found my meaning on this planet, but untill then I am just wondering about life and how beatifull/complex it is... I would also like to thank all Peelers for their support, it means a lot to me. Keep on cruising boys and girls on highway of life and never give up. Keep on strugling untill the last breath. Alone in this world because we´re not like them. We see the things that they cannot see, we´ve tasted things of which they´ll never know. No matter day or night, forever lost in dreams.  |
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Loki
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« Reply #52 on: 02-26-2003 12:10 »
« Last Edit on: 02-26-2003 12:10 »
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Archie2K, thank you for the ice-cream, but you know what? You all have good lives, you are eating loads of tasty food, you are sleeping in warm beds, that is why you don’t hunger for more. Now, I just shut my smart asshole up, but you should know, that if you get bored with your sweet life, I’m ready to give you some hints. (yes, by “give hints” I mean “brainwash”  ) |
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kip
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I think something exists out there, be it God, Bhudda or whatever. Something greater than us, and responsible for our existance is out there.
As I've said in many similar threads to this one... I believe in designed evolution. Which is basically the idea that we are evoloving according to a pre-laid plan or set of instructions. Kind of like saying, this is how the story starts, somewhere in the middle this happens and it WILL end this way. DNA for example is a strange thing, sure it explains a lot about how we are brought into existance etc... but when you think about it, really... isn't DNA too perfectly planned?
And if you are bursting for me to finish so you can reply and scream at me, then I'm almost done, but think... if there is no God, and everything happened by some weird paradox which sparked a big-bang and we remain in an endless loop of infinite universe creation and destruction... take any object or element, and what is it made of, and atom, and what is an atom made of, protons, neutrons and electrons, what are each of those things made of...
Ok, so you can keep going inwards... much like microcosms I guess. But then, Hydrogen is similar to the Earth and the moon no? And what if you look beyond that and think about solar systems inside galaxies and galaxies inside the universe. I don't know where, I'm going with this, but I think mankind in general is way too dumb to understand the true meaning of life... and this is why we have religion and science to try and help us understand.
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Oh yeah, back to the question at hand. The meaning of life, so us at least... I believe we are here to be as much of ourselves as we can be. Life is entirely selfish, and I only believe in selflessness when you risk/end your life to sustain another. You are here, to do what makes you happy. Let's say you do something for somebody else which will inconvinience you, well... in a strange way this makes you happy to be able to help the other person.
If you see a little girl on the street, and she is going to be hit by a lorry, and you have the choice to rescue her and survive or let her die. The ultimate and final decision is entirely selfish.
Other than that, the purpose of life as nature intended is to reproduce and survive.
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Cube_166
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I just knew someone had beat me to saying 42. I'll say it anyway. Go nerds!
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SamuelXDiamond
Rectum Favourist
Urban Legend
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42 is NOT the meaning of life, people, it is 'merely' the ultimate answer to "the" question of life, the universe and everything. And of course, we don't know what the question is. How come the discussion never turns towards God's final message to his creation?: (In spoilers for those who haven't read "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish" and intend to.) We apologise for the incovienience That's far more meaningful, in my opinion  |
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Killerfox
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we are all the dream of an atomic radioactive lab cockroach and one day it will awake and everything known will cease to exist!!!!!
now really i dont get much into religious things cuz it gives me headaches so i just dont think about it and enjoy!
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noone
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Gate Keeper of Heaven: "What is the meaning of life"
Ted: "Every rose has its thorn, just like every night has its dawn"
Bill: "Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song"
Death: "every rose has its thorn"
This is kind of deep if you think about it (although it is a reference to a Poison song in the movie Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey). As for the existence of a higher power i think god is a creation of man, not the other way around. Hopefully absoulte fate does exist (life is completely linear and in no way branching and you don't have to deal with pesky free will). It is also hopefully possibly that life is illusion. But the only purposes of life are survival and reproduction (at least from a biological and evolutionary perspective). i can unequivocally say that life sucks (unless you have a lot of money, too bad i don't). As someone who has been near the edge of the precipice for a while some times the only things that keep you going are the little things (for me waiting for album or movie releases, or the infintesimal hope that maybe someday a special someone will find me and shift my paradigms related to life).
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Cube_166
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how many 42s are there? if there are 42 that would be really ironic.
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SQFreak
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Originally posted by Teral:
And Earth is destroyed, but in the end Arthur Dent just randomly draws scrabble letters and form the ultimate question: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
Arthur: "“Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.”
Distant Voice: "Base thirteen."
Edited because there is no mathematical expression called "ultily". "I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe." Oh, and 42. I'm a HHGG fan; in fact I'm a member of ZZ9 - wanna fight about it?
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