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#21
RE: Life?
July 2, 2011 at 2:20 pm
I met his niece a while back. He was a difficult man to be around, apparently, but a brilliant writer with strong foresight.
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#22
RE: Life?
July 2, 2011 at 7:00 pm
I often wonder what he would see in our future now if he were still alive.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#23
RE: Life?
July 2, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Dunno, but I doubt it would be bright and shiny.
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#24
RE: Life?
July 2, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Probably not, but he had an amazing ability to understand the future of the human race. One interesting thing I recently found out after reading a short bio on him was that he was born with a twin sister, who died after only 6 weeks. I guess that played a very large factor in his writing.
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#25
RE: Life?
July 2, 2011 at 7:20 pm
I have a friend who lost her twin brother in Iraq. She said that she felt a sorrow unlike any other when he died. Another friend was separated from her twin brother when they were twelve. She recently got back in touch with him and said that so many anxieties in her settled down when that happened.
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#26
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July 3, 2011 at 1:24 am
Hey everybody, if you haven't read it yet, I posted a thread countering the original thought I proposed in this one. The thread name is "Meaning of Life?"
-Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man. -> Friedrich Nietzsche

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#27
RE: Life?
July 3, 2011 at 3:20 am
(July 2, 2011 at 5:55 am)Darwinian Wrote: Life is the way that the Universe can understand itself. Sorry, but I'm watching Babylon V :p

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#28
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August 5, 2011 at 6:17 pm
What's the meaning or purpose of non existence? If there is none then even if the only purpose or meaning to life is to reproduce then that's already more. Also if we are the universe then whatever other meaning we apply to ourselves is universally significant. Lastly, just beause we haven't discovered any meaning outside what we give ourselves, that doesn't mean there is not one. There's just no good reason to believe there is one. Being alive gives us the opportunity to discover one. Something non existence can't provide.
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#29
RE: Life?
August 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm
(June 24, 2011 at 4:54 am)Anymouse Wrote:
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Then, many folk will kill you if you don't accept their meanings.

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Life doesn't have any meaning. It just happens. Animals moves, plant grows, rain drops. And accidentally, we human call it life.
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