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If we are an accident, then what is the point?
If life is indeed, a cosmic accident, what is the point to anything? If after death we cease to exist, why live?
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How about because we can.
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By living life and evolving, you are sharing in the tree of knowledge. If the universe shares the same pulse with the earth and humans then by experiencing things, we are in fact manifesting our own reality. I tend to think of God as not as one being, spirit, or the like, but as the trandsendance of knowledge through life. In tern we are god.
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Jun-10-2008, 20:14
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How about because we can.
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Being able to makes no difference. If we consider the aforementioned assumptions to be true - then the outcome is always the same.
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Being able to makes no difference. If we consider the aforementioned assumptions to be true - then the outcome is always the same.
So why bother?
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Take a toke, sit back and enjoy the ride..
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Thats what I say, since there is no way of knowing for sure, so I might as well just live. But say you know definitely that nothing happens after death, and you are sure that you simply cease to exist - then what is the point? |
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Why does there need to be a point, though? Aren't the things you experience made even better by the fact that there's no afterlife (if true)? Wouldn't that be even more reason to enjoy every second--because thats all you get...? 
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Why does there need to be a point, though? Aren't the things you experience made even better by the fact that there's no afterlife (if true)? Wouldn't that be even more reason to enjoy every second--because thats all you get...?
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That's my conclusion, too. No need to search for "the meaning of life" because there is none; to wonder at life is a good thing, to seek a Point to it is, I'm afraid, a human foible. |
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Because even though we are an accident we are a very good accident. In my opinion what's a better reason to keep on living and existing than the fact that our existense is so extraordinary. There isn't a meaning to life except what you personally make it.
Run with it I say. Be the best freak accident you can be.
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Because even though we are an accident we are a very good accident. In my opinion what's a better reason to keep on living and existing than the fact that our existense is so extraordinary. There isn't a meaning to life except what you personally make it.
Run with it I say. Be the best freak accident you can be.
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I think everyone is missing the point. Im not arguing whether there is meaning to life, or whether us being an accident (if true), actually has any sort of profound inherent meaning, rather, my point is, if we all die and cease to exist, then what is the point, to anything?
Does there have to be a point? I dont know. But if there doesnt, then thats the same as not having one essentially, which means that nothing matters, ever. |
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Hmmmm,
Well thats a riddle wrapped in a conundrum and lost into an enigma. I think I need to get high to wrap my head around this.
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uh... 3 words... Brazilian Scuba Diving...
Look it up...
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uh... 3 words... Brazilian Scuba Diving...
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Roger Roger!!
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Sex the answer is sex.
It's truly the reason to live.
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Like I said earlier, by living you are adding to God, the Universe and all the knowledge in it. Kind of like a living biosphere (the earth)
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actually.. I was just thinking more like... being a bon vivant... good bud, traveling, learning, enjoying... Carpe Vagina baby...
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This also explains evolution. By having 5 senses you are interpreting the world around you. This is built up over time in your life and adds to the overall goal... evolution.
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I think everyone is missing the point. Im not arguing whether there is meaning to life, or whether us being an accident (if true), actually has any sort of profound inherent meaning, rather, my point is, if we all die and cease to exist, then what is the point, to anything?
Does there have to be a point? I dont know. But if there doesnt, then thats the same as not having one essentially, which means that nothing matters, ever.
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I think i understand what you mean. If we are going to die, what is the point in working hard, earning money, buying a house, cars, having a family, etc, cause in the end we will die and everything will disappear (for the one who died)?
I already thought about it, and agree with you that, in the long run, nothing is actually important, besides the fact we gonna die. All the things people deems important are only follies, illusions, cause in the end everything ends (of course lol).
So, what can we do about this? IMHO, if we are here, and if we know our stay here is limited, and soon will end, than i think we should enjoy it the best way we can, cause its actually the only choice we have. We cant decide the amount of time we will live. We only can decide what we will do with the time we have.
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One major problem, I believe, is that these huge corporations spend billions of dollars on advertising to tell people they need to buy things to feel good, to be free, and to be cool. But in the end what do you have? Just a whole bunch of shit that eventually destroys the environment. I believe you should look inside yourself and find something that makes you happy at the same time causing as little suffering around you. There really is nothing else you can do to correctly coexist with nature. Its all about karma man, Live your life doing as many good things to others around and it will all be returned, but you have to believe.
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it's the eternal question I had with my mom hen I was a kid...
WHY DO I HAVE TO MAKE MY BED??? IF TONIGHT I'M GONNA COME HOME AND MESS IT UP TONIGHT ANYWAY???
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If you have to ask why live then your not living enough.
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