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Just think about life
#11
RE: Just think about life
I am too busy being significant to worry about insignificance.
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#12
RE: Just think about life
(August 14, 2017 at 6:28 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(August 14, 2017 at 6:02 pm)Succubus Wrote: We are all made of dead stars. What more wonder does anyone ever need.

That is far more a comfort to me than claims of old mythology. 

To know that while my consciousness is finite, knowing that the atoms that have cycled through me from my conception and will go onto other things after my death, I don't have to cling to my consciousness being prior or after, just knowing I had this brief finite cognition, I call my brain in motion, is enough for me. 

I find that amazing enough without a pre life or afterlife. I am not that narcissistic or selfish to think I am special in the history of a 13.8 billion year old universe, knowing in our planet's 4 billion year old history of evolution other life has not been so lucky. I am lucky yes, but  I am not special.

Beautifully put. The universe looks upon us with pitiless indifference.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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#13
RE: Just think about life
Nope life is an epic . For some it is a tale of pain and struggle that ends in joy of release . For others it is a tale of ease but if one does nothing with that ease then they have wasted the story. Then there is everything else in between . Will anyone read the tale. Who cares it's not for them . It's not a tale for reading it's a tale for doing.
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

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#14
RE: Just think about life
(August 14, 2017 at 1:57 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Just think about it.
Life is insignificant, utterly short for anything. Time moves by pretty quickly, and we move with it: pretty quickly too.

I remember my childhood as a stream of... things? a stream locked inside a box called "the past". Your life too it pretty much that.
In other words; all the people we know from the past are probably gone. Nobody waits, or even stays by their own free will: life is more of a burden whenever we are loaded with sickness, wounds and pain.

Mere visitors we are; we get suffocated by the scents left from those who went and left; everything leaves. Depression isn't a sickness; I feel it's more of a logical conclusion if we thought carefully about our current ground and what is to come; and what had already gone.

Don't get me wrong; but everything is meant to end from the moment it is present. Only one thing is the same; never changes; never leaves.

I guess it's a sign. If one never saw it; one will meet it.


1. "Life is insignificant, utterly short for anything. Time moves by pretty quickly, and we move with it: pretty quickly too."

That's just your inference, the likely fact that it's finite and short does not make living in this world insignificant to me. It's your perspective that's more depressing because it's unlikely.

2. "I remember my childhood as a stream of... things? a stream locked inside a box called "the past". Your life too it pretty much that."

Does that make them insignificant? Only if you deem it so. Why do you need significance on high to justify your significance? Again, very depressing worldview, imo.

3. "In other words; all the people we know from the past are probably gone. Nobody waits, or even stays by their own free will: life is more of a burden whenever we are loaded with sickness, wounds and pain."

Some people come to terms with the finality of death and some make up stories of seeing the dead again. I suppose your security blanket feels better but I care what's likely true.

4. "Mere visitors we are; we get suffocated by the scents left from those who went and left; everything leaves. Depression isn't a sickness; I feel it's more of a logical conclusion if we thought carefully about our current ground and what is to come; and what had already gone."

Its not mutually exclusive, both could be true at the same time. Depression can be realizing the horror of finality and it definitely stems in those who think this life is not final too...
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#15
RE: Just think about life
Some of us would rather not see the dead again at all, regardless of what is or isn't likely true.  Wink
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#16
RE: Just think about life



Well, here's a place to start.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
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#17
RE: Just think about life
Life is one of those things many of us find hard to avoid.

I think a goal for most decent people is to leave the world a little better than it was before we lived.

If that means helping just one person or millions, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that you improved the world for someone.

Now me, not being a decent person, I want to be remembered for the impact I have on the population of the planet. One in a thousand survivors may SEEM an insurmountable goal...


And if I made just ONE person laugh with my statement above, then I have made the world just that little bit better.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#18
RE: Just think about life
(August 14, 2017 at 1:57 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Just think about it.
Life is insignificant, utterly short for anything. Time moves by pretty quickly, and we move with it: pretty quickly too.

I remember my childhood as a stream of... things? a stream locked inside a box called "the past". Your life too it pretty much that.
In other words; all the people we know from the past are probably gone. Nobody waits, or even stays by their own free will: life is more of a burden whenever we are loaded with sickness, wounds and pain.

Mere visitors we are; we get suffocated by the scents left from those who went and left; everything leaves. Depression isn't a sickness; I feel it's more of a logical conclusion if we thought carefully about our current ground and what is to come; and what had already gone.

Don't get me wrong; but everything is meant to end from the moment it is present. Only one thing is the same; never changes; never leaves.

I guess it's a sign. If one never saw it; one will meet it.

Odd thing coming from one who, by indications, believes in an eternal afterlife in the presence of the demonic sadist who condemns us to suffer in this life and spend most of it learning how to scrape its asshole clean with our tongues properly so we can spend forever doing that if we get it right, and fearing fiery torment forever if we mess up. That afterlife part sure makes this life look meaningless, don't it? Too bad so many people take that as an invitation to destroy as many others' lives and as much of the planet as possible because they look at this life like one meant just to wipe one's feet on the way to the door to eternity. If people didn't have that kind of baggage, maybe more people wouldn't have to spend this limited time in such a shitty condition. So maybe re-think belonging to a belief system that encourages that kind of worldview and attitude.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

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