well we all gotta die sometime

'True Dat.'

If you're so sure, might be by experience...

I'm not so sure, just the way some are not so sure there is a Maker to all this.

...what the hell is everyone talking about?

I'm lost.

quote:Originally posted by Fuck:

...what the hell is everyone talking about?

I'm lost.



The futility of life.

What's the point, if you're just going to die anyway?

What's the point of eating? You're just going to get hungry again.

What's the point of bathing? The filth will inevitably return.

What's the point of anything?

I'm glad you mentioned this.

we'll start with something simple. Take for example, an ice cream cone.

What's the point of eating it if it's just going to be gone in a few minutes?

The point is, you enjoy it while you're eating it, just like life.

Just because something is limited in duration does not make it meaningless or without value.

Enjoy life while it lasts cause' nothing lasts forever.

Think about the future of your life, mind you, to potentially make it more enjoyable, but also enjoy life while you have it, because the future is guaranteed to noone.

That's the thing with people nowadays. They're alwasy "Working for the Weekend" / "Living for the future", etc.

If you don't get some living in now, you may not get that chance in the future. You could have a spontaneous brain aneurism and die instantly or wake up dead tomorrow (little joke there http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif (http://www.totse.com/bbs/wink.gif)).

I've recently come to an observation, a sort of epiphany about life in general. Basically, I have found that you either are a happy person, or you aren't. If you rely on other people or other things to make you happy, you will never be happy. It can't be "If I get that job I will be happy"; "If I acquire that car/tv/game/object/person I will be happy".

Life doesn't work like that. You have to have happiness inside you. If you wait for it to come, or if the feeling is dependent on something or someone else, you are never going to find it. You have to make a concious effort and tell yourself that you are happy or that you will be happy no matter what. If you live your life from this vantage point, I swear life will flow more smoothly and you will feel a greater sense of fulfillment and accomplishment.

It's like if you don't feel like smiling, and you do it anyway, pretty soon you will realize you are smiling, and it's for real. It works the same way. If you say you are happy, pretty soon you realize it's true.

Many people realise this on some level, and I think all children know this innately, the problem is, people seem to forget it, or lose touch with this important life-lesson.

Being "down" is a state of mind. When you learn to control your own state of mind, you don't have to be down ever again. Research has shown that the mere act of pretending you are happy releases dopamines into the blood stream which then cause you to actually be happy. Try it. Next time you feel "down" just pretend you are actually happy, and see what happens.

Attempt #1 failed.

How would an infitite existence have any more purpose than a temporary one? It's just more of the same thing.

So either existence is meaningless, reguardless of duration, or it actually has some sort of meaning or value.

quote:Originally posted by Dark_Magneto:

So either existence is meaningless, reguardless of duration, or it actually has some sort of meaning or value.

I dunno. I'm less inclined to think that it's meaningful if it's temporary, though.

As a side note, when combined with James Brown, attempt #2 was a mild success.

quote:Originally posted by Kikey_Kikeowitz:

I dunno. I'm less inclined to think that it's meaningful if it's temporary, though.



Eh, if you actually lived forever, it would suck pretty damn hard after a point. You would be like that Count in Vampire Hunter D that lost the spark of life since everything is boring because you've done it all a million times.

Then eventually you'd be the only life form left in the galaxy, floating through the dark void of space after the sun incinerated the planets when expanding into a red giant and entropy has claimed every life but your own, and you go insane, longing for death but unable to receive it. You get trapped in black holes for trillions upon trillions of years at a time, etc.

Imagine if nothing ever died. Wouldn't that be horrible? The entire surface of the planet would be a carpet of rodents and insects by now and the entire universe would be jam-packed with biomatter.

quote:

As a side note, when combined with James Brown, attempt #2 was a mild success.



I got the feelin'-ah.

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Your view of Reality, seemingly modern and sophisticated, is stained with ancient, myth-based misconceptions. As you grew through childhood, you learned to see life that way from your cultural environment. You absorbed fallacies and artificial assumptions presented as facts. You were indoctrinated to accept beliefs as though they described Reality, when they actually distort your perception of it!! Having learned those lessons well, you carry the inner conflict, self doubt, fear, and pain inherent to old ways of thinking.

By examining many aspects of life from a perspective of Clear Awareness, You will expose archaic ideas, so that you can dispel them along with the negativity and limitation they impose on your life. Freed of those distortions, you become able to focus your innate power to realize creativity, health, happiness, and self-determination.

quote:Originally posted by GodisFake:

Your view of Reality, seemingly modern and sophisticated, is stained with ancient, myth-based misconceptions. As you grew through childhood, you learned to see life that way from your cultural environment. You absorbed fallacies and artificial assumptions presented as facts. You were indoctrinated to accept beliefs as though they described Reality, when they actually distort your perception of it!! Having learned those lessons well, you carry the inner conflict, self doubt, fear, and pain inherent to old ways of thinking.

By examining many aspects of life from a perspective of Clear Awareness, You will expose archaic ideas, so that you can dispel them along with the negativity and limitation they impose on your life. Freed of those distortions, you become able to focus your innate power to realize creativity, health, happiness, and self-determination.

Sorry, but no. I was raised strictly agnostic. Religion played absolutely no part in my upbringing.

Religion is not the only element. The way you looked at everything as you were growing up , and your enviroment, your thoughts about things, your relationships, all of that plays a big role in how a person thinks about himself, and what he does about it in his life as he lives it happy, or un-happy. The choice is yours my friend, yours alone to decide which way your going to think about it, or blame someone or something for it (which is the wrong way to go as far as my openion goe's, which you should not consider anyway).