Do you know what it is?
Is it this?
These things.
Dogs driving cars? (It could have been Romney strapped to the roof if only Seamus knew that trick).
I already know what it is but want to see if you do too.
The blue elephant in the room.
Fuck bitches, get money.
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43
43 has never failed me but if Tyr is right I'm definitely falling behind.
The blue elephant in the room.
It's 42, guys.
And you call yourselves nerds. For shame.
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To find a way to make yourself happy while making other people miserable.
Rule 43, I wager you can find it ;)
Glorious schadenfreude, sean?
The blue elephant in the room.
The meaning of life?
Life doesn't have an inherent meaning.
You can choose one if you think it helps.
Bingowings said:
The meaning of life?
Life doesn't have an inherent meaning.
You can choose one if you think it helps.
I see you are also an absurdist.
Bingowings said:
The meaning of life?
Life doesn't have an inherent meaning.
You can choose one if you think it helps.
Is that what works for you? :P
What meaning, if any, have you chosen?
The blue elephant in the room.
Mrebo said:
Rule 43, I wager you can find it ;)
Glorious schadenfreude, sean?
Oh hey. Mind blown.
Meaning of life for me is nothing, really. I just go about my business. Lotta simple tricks and nonsense.
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Mrebo said:
Bingowings said:
The meaning of life?
Life doesn't have an inherent meaning.
You can choose one if you think it helps.
Is that what works for you? :P
What meaning, if any, have you chosen?
Thinking about and rarely doing certain things create what I perceive to be interesting sensations.
My chosen life project is exploring those things which provoke these interesting sensations.
Sometimes this includes seeming to communicate with what I sometimes perceive to be other people who may respond to different stimulus.
Ya dig?
Does "the meaning of life" even mean anything?
The blue elephant in the room.
I think I dig, I think, I do, I feel, therefore I am?
The blue elephant in the room.
The phrase is presumptive.
It assumes that life is designed and serves a purpose.
I see no evidence for this.
One does not presume a twig is designed.
It is the response to physical force applied to a tree.
But you can apply a twig to an almost limitless set of uses.
None of which would be the meaning of twig.
Saying this doesn't negate the possibility of a God that set the environment by which trees and wind can come into being but it doesn't confirm that possibility either.
I figure there's no meaning to life; you just live it.
Human minds are flawed in that they always overthink things or try to ascribe meaning where there is none because it's more comfortable to feel like things are "taken care of" than to acknowledge realities.
We come into the universe, we stay awhile, and then we leave, just like everything else in the universe. It's no more complex than that.
You just gotta live and enjoy what you have while you have it. Much more simple that way.
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The Meaning of Life is to find The Holy Grail before your parrot dies.
Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back
If you want Nice, go to France
I have a grail shaped object and I obtained it before the death of my friend Saphie the Macaw.
Did I win?
geez.....I do a triple Monty Python reference, and that's the best you can do?
O_o
;)
...unless I'm missing something.
Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back
If you want Nice, go to France
Fuck yeah coffee.
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Tyrphanax said:
It's 42, guys.
And you call yourselves nerds. For shame.
Silly Tyrphanax, you got that from a science fiction novel. It isn't real.
Tyrphanax said:
I figure there's no meaning to life; you just live it.
Human minds are flawed in that they always overthink things or try to ascribe meaning where there is none because it's more comfortable to feel like things are "taken care of" than to acknowledge realities.
We come into the universe, we stay awhile, and then we leave, just like everything else in the universe. It's no more complex than that.
You just gotta live and enjoy what you have while you have it. Much more simple that way.
I agree with your general statement about coming into the universe, staying awhile, and leaving. But I couldn't disagree more about your concept of human minds being flawed. It is hardly a flaw! It's brilliant! It is part of what makes us great! We seek, we explore, we reason, we discover. If we didn't do those things, it would be quite sad and futile, why even bother with life? The meaning to your life can be whatever you want to make it. If someone wants to make it a sad existence of eating, sleeping, living, and dying, then more power to them. But we can all set our own goals. We can achieve greatness, we can find our own meaning and make some sort of difference to those on this journey with us or those who come after, we can leave a name for ourselves, or we quietly influence those around us, or we can please ourselves, or at least attempt to do so, and fade away. We have endless possibilities. It's exciting. The only thing that limits us is our own mistaken belief that we are limited, that we have to live the life we were born into and conform to what is expected of us.
The universe and our tiny little world are amazing places, there is so much to see, so much to do, and sadly, so little time to see and do it in. The longing to grasp onto all of this and wonder about it is what drives some to seek out answers in the supernatural, in tea leave, astrology, various religions, quick and easy answers to numb the curiosity; and also what drives others to seek and explore and try to figure out how this works and why it works the way it does and how it may have come to work that way.
Flaw indeed.
CP3S said:
Tyrphanax said:
I figure there's no meaning to life; you just live it.
Human minds are flawed in that they always overthink things or try to ascribe meaning where there is none because it's more comfortable to feel like things are "taken care of" than to acknowledge realities.
We come into the universe, we stay awhile, and then we leave, just like everything else in the universe. It's no more complex than that.
You just gotta live and enjoy what you have while you have it. Much more simple that way.
I agree with your general statement about coming into the universe, staying awhile, and leaving. But I couldn't disagree more about your concept of human minds being flawed. It is hardly a flaw! It's brilliant! It is part of what makes us great! We seek, we explore, we reason, we discover. If we didn't do those things, it would be quite sad and futile, why even bother with life? The meaning to your life can be whatever you want to make it. If someone wants to make it a sad existence of eating, sleeping, living, and dying, then more power to them. But we can all set our own goals. We can achieve greatness, we can find our own meaning and make some sort of difference to those on this journey with us or those who come after, we can leave a name for ourselves, or we quietly influence those around us, or we can please ourselves, or at least attempt to do so, and fade away. We have endless possibilities. It's exciting. The only thing that limits us is our own mistaken belief that we are limited, that we have to live the life we were born into and conform to what is expected of us.
The universe and our tiny little world are amazing places, there is so much to see, so much to do, and sadly, so little time to see and do it in. The longing to grasp onto all of this and wonder about it is what drives some to seek out answers in the supernatural, in tea leave, astrology, various religions, quick and easy answers to numb the curiosity; and also what drives others to seek and explore and try to figure out how this works and why it works the way it does and how it may have come to work that way.
Flaw indeed.
I think we're coming to the same point from different angles.
Certainly our ability to reason and think and whatnot is awesome, the flaw I meant (and should have expanded upon) was that we don't reason or think enough, we like to confine ourselves, we don't let ourselves expand and explore and reason and think for ourselves. That's what bothers me.
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The meaning of life? To provide Azathoth with aeons of free, mindless entertainment.
It's not working, for one thing it's not free and another thing...