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What is life about?
#81
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:
(July 25, 2016 at 8:30 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Only religious people attribute additives that are meaningless.

Bullshit.

How so?
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#82
RE: What is life about?
We're all meaningeless little snowflakes striving for their own subjective meaning. I can haz meaning in that.

Aburdism > Nihilism
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#83
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 8:50 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:
(July 25, 2016 at 8:49 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Bullshit.

How so?

It's not only religious people that can ascribe meaningless additives.
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#84
RE: What is life about?
I'm ok with not having a grand meaning for life. If there's anything that my own life is about at the moment, it's raising my child to be a good person.

But, as the late, great Carl Sagan said - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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#85
RE: What is life about?
I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.
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#86
RE: What is life about?
Hallmark cards writer here:

Life is good, but we must croak it in the end.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#87
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.
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#88
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 9:49 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Hallmark cards writer here:

Life is good, but we must croak it in the end.
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY!

That is ageist.
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#89
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:
(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.

Ultimately there is no free choice, yes.

Our values are part of who we are as people, as opposed to being dictated for us by some supernatural bullshit. That's all I meant Smile
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#90
RE: What is life about?
(July 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:
(July 25, 2016 at 9:43 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I find the fact there is no ultimate meaning adds to the meaning. It means we get to choose our own meaning instead of some bullshit some Skydaddy says or some bullcrap of "it's written in the stars!" oh fuck off you wishy-washy poophead, no it isn't.

You don't really choose your meaning, you know that as well as I do.

If you don't believe in a skydaddy, you are quite free to perceive what life is about through your own filters instead of what your religion tells you. My own filter is science-based.
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