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Existence: What the fuck is going on?
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RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on?
(March 27, 2015 at 10:51 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(March 27, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Quite possibly true, but I'll warn that these kinds of existential crisis can lead to one spending one's free time with a revolver in one's mouth. IOW, don't play this kind of hardcore game when you're very vulnerable.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room-- is it wrong for one to spend one's free time in this manner? Is the loss of life really important, or is it an act of philosophical liberty?

The mundane me is horrified by both violence and the premature loss of a fully developed mind. The philosopher in me is much less horrified, because it finds no rational reason why I'm more important than (for example) the maggots who could feast on my body, or why having another existent human is more important than the small forest that will be cleared in order to provide me with a lifetime of paper products.

I'm not passing judgement on it, having spent too much of my own time in the past planning my own demise.

It's merely a warning against casually staring into the abyss if one is not prepared to see what it holds for you.

To the entirery of the cosmos, yes, our individual existences may hold no more meaning than that, but one would hope that we all have other organisms in our lives who would feel great distress at our choice of shuffling off the mortal coil.
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Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 3:15 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by bennyboy - March 27, 2015 at 6:02 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by JuliaL - March 27, 2015 at 12:03 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Jackalope - March 27, 2015 at 9:33 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by bennyboy - March 27, 2015 at 10:51 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Jackalope - March 27, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 28, 2015 at 3:31 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 28, 2015 at 4:00 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Grandizer - March 27, 2015 at 6:09 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Alex K - March 27, 2015 at 8:00 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by JuliaL - March 27, 2015 at 8:58 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 3:53 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 27, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 6:48 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 27, 2015 at 7:06 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 7:56 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Exian - March 27, 2015 at 4:31 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 4:36 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Exian - March 27, 2015 at 4:45 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by robvalue - March 27, 2015 at 5:37 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 27, 2015 at 6:07 pm
Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by KUSA - March 27, 2015 at 8:51 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 28, 2015 at 12:13 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 27, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 28, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Grandizer - March 30, 2015 at 8:30 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Exian - March 27, 2015 at 11:07 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Jackalope - March 28, 2015 at 4:04 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 29, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 2:35 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Mudhammam - March 30, 2015 at 2:50 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 30, 2015 at 3:19 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 2:53 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by bennyboy - March 30, 2015 at 8:51 am
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 2:35 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pizza - March 30, 2015 at 4:06 pm
RE: Existence: What the fuck is going on? - by Pyrrho - March 30, 2015 at 4:17 pm

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