Things I don understand

[Edwardo Piet]

I don think it's just christians think life must have a purpose or a mission or something like that, I think most ppl do. If you keep reflecting your exsitence, and find it's quite meaningless since someday, you will have to return to void after all, then why bother doing anything now?

Because it can be one heck of a ride anyway even if it's ultimately a ride to oblivion?

Cool post anyway btw. I enjoy reading your interesting views...

I don't think I embrace any particular philosophy. I just take what I find important interesting to me and I do a lot of thinking about it. And thinking about thinking .

I care about empathy, love and the truth. Both truth that requires evidence for reality and also 'other kinds' of truth. Like being 'true to yourself and others' etc.

I like asking questions even if there's nothing practical about it. I care about impractical things as well as practical. Because I often find things just interesting and that makes it worth it just for the sake of it. I find the truth to be interesting (sometimes more interesting than others but always interesting) even when there's no practical use in it and it's just another 'insignificant fact' that 'nobody really cares about'.

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[Eilonnwy]

You're American aren't you? If you had the state owned BBC then you would very likely think different ... you see it's like this here (and I'll only briefly touch on satellite because there's way too many):

I wasn't actually talking about "state owned cable" I was using it as a comparison in my landlord analogy. I have Direct TV at my mother's house and it suits me just fine. -_^

[Rob]

[snip]

• Channel 4: Almost incapable of doing their own dramas, specialise in long running reality TV shows such as Big Brother (spit) and crud about hairdressing. Anything good they have on tends to be US and bought in. Surprisingly they did do a rather good Zombie series recently and they are not strong on political correctness (Yay!). Lots of adverts mostly really shyte.

[snip]

So ITV could go ... wouldn't miss it at all, C4 isn't much better ...
Kyu

Crap as channel 4 is, we need it so Richard Dawkins has an outlet for his documentaries.

[Demonaura]

It's probably worth pointing out that, really no political side is good by itself. We present a lot of extremes then we moderate things to find a good balance of both sides. So 100% socialisim is a terrible idea but, in general I find myself supporting socialist ideas more than capatalist ideas, even though I do support some capatalist ideas.