life- whats it all about?

[NoDaddyNo]

What you need to do is find religion.
That will at the very least give you somewhere to send your money and give you a dream.
When all else fails, it is always convenient to have an all powerful deity looking out for you.

You are special and unique.
Just like everyone else in the religion you choose.

 

[DepressiveJuice]

you have fun as a kid, you work as an adult, you live through your kids later in life. what a rip off

 

[spin721]

I had fun as a kid....I still have fun as an adult...I have no kids, so I guess I'll still have fun for now!

 

[Machiavellian Muscle]

Life is just a bunch of lessons...learn them and move on, fail them and repeat...

 

[DepressiveJuice]

What you need to do is find religion.
That will at the very least give you somewhere to send your money and give you a dream.
When all else fails, it is always convenient to have an all powerful deity looking out for you.

You are special and unique.
Just like everyone else in the religion you choose.

theres an idea. i can start my own religion and have people give me their money!

 

[mrjuice]

Gay

 

[curling]

you have fun as a kid, you work as an adult, you live through your kids later in life. what a rip off

Man, dude life is just a test that you live. If you pass live following the creator then you will have bliss.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

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Man, dude life is just a test that you live. If you pass live following the creator then you will have bliss.

I think you basically just restated what I said, only you worded it poorly, and also you truly believe that instead of the intended sarcasm in my remark.

 

[curling]

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I think you basically just restated what I said, only you worded it poorly, and also you truly believe that instead of the intended sarcasm in my remark.

Ok then what is life then mr smarty pants? What is your philosphy?

 

[NoDaddyNo]

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Ok then what is life then mr smarty pants? What is your philosphy?

Why do you feel there needs to be a purpose?
Our life is simply the side effect of our DNA replicating.
There doesn't have to be a reason.

While it feels fantastic to think that it isn't just a fluke and that something all powerful put us here with a purpose and that any one of us might even be more important than the other in the grand scheme of things... in reality, we are just a blink in the eye of time, a speck on large ball of dirt that in the grand scheme of things is actually a rather small fleck of dirt in an immense space.

To have the audacity to think that all of that exists solely for one of us to live out some larger purpose seems a bit daft and immature.

We are here for the same purpose that anything else is here - because. We simply are here.
If there is any greater meaning in the "because" it is in that we are to replicate our DNA. Merge it with someone else and make another one.

You could argue that we are simply the medium on which the "useless" data in our DNA continues on through time after its host has died.

 

[curling]

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Why do you feel there needs to be a purpose?
Our life is simply the side effect of our DNA replicating.
There doesn't have to be a reason.

While it feels fantastic to think that it isn't just a fluke and that something all powerful put us here with a purpose and that any one of us might even be more important than the other in the grand scheme of things... in reality, we are just a blink in the eye of time, a speck on large ball of dirt that in the grand scheme of things is actually a rather small fleck of dirt in an immense space.

To have the audacity to think that all of that exists solely for one of us to live out some larger purpose seems a bit daft and immature.

We are here for the same purpose that anything else is here - because. We simply are here.
If there is any greater meaning in the "because" it is in that we are to replicate our DNA. Merge it with someone else and make another one.

You could argue that we are simply the medium on which the "useless" data in our DNA continues on through time after its host has died.

You don't think God made used DNA to make us. I mean if I recall right DNA is pretty complex isn't it? And it just popped out of the big bang theory? Oh btw the reason we are here is for God's pleasure and for Him to share life with us.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

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You don't think God made used DNA to make us. I mean if I recall right DNA is pretty complex isn't it? And it just popped out of the big bang theory? Oh btw the reason we are here is for God's pleasure and for Him to share life with us.

So you are going to run with the idea that if things are complex in your eyes and you don't understand them, then God is involved?
So the workings of a car engine to a toddler are all God's will?
Your tax return is also a work of God?

If that is the case, have fun with yourself. If there is a God, then I will assume that he put you here with the greater purpose of giving me one more person to feel sorry for.

Good to know that you have the answers though - I applaud you for how well your blinders fit. I hope for your sake that they stay right where they are until the day you die. You will live a life of ignorant bliss, which is just fine by you, and throughout that time, someone will enjoy taking advantage of that.

 

[Nathan]

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So you are going to run with the idea that if things are complex in your eyes and you don't understand them, then God is involved?
So the workings of a car engine to a toddler are all God's will?
Your tax return is also a work of God?

If that is the case, have fun with yourself. If there is a God, then I will assume that he put you here with the greater purpose of giving me one more person to feel sorry for.

Good to know that you have the answers though - I applaud you for how well your blinders fit. I hope for your sake that they stay right where they are until the day you die. You will live a life of ignorant bliss, which is just fine by you, and throughout that time, someone will enjoy taking advantage of that.

A powerfully worded rejoinder if ever I've seen one.

 

[curling]

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So you are going to run with the idea that if things are complex in your eyes and you don't understand them, then God is involved?
So the workings of a car engine to a toddler are all God's will?
Your tax return is also a work of God?

If that is the case, have fun with yourself. If there is a God, then I will assume that he put you here with the greater purpose of giving me one more person to feel sorry for.

Good to know that you have the answers though - I applaud you for how well your blinders fit. I hope for your sake that they stay right where they are until the day you die. You will live a life of ignorant bliss, which is just fine by you, and throughout that time, someone will enjoy taking advantage of that.

EVer think that maybe you are the one weariing blinders and when death comes upon you and the blinders will be ripped off and you will be a place torment for eternity. The worse that can happen to me if you are right is I will just cease to exist you on the other hand and what you will face is scary to even think about. I pray that your eyes will one day be open before death takes you.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

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EVer think that maybe you are the one weariing blinders and when death comes upon you and the blinders will be ripped off and you will be a place torment for eternity. The worse that can happen to me if you are right is I will just cease to exist you on the other hand and what you will face is scary to even think about. I pray that your eyes will one day be open before death takes you.

What you are referring to is known as Pascal's theorem. He was a bit of a drinker and a heavy gambler in his early life. He later decided he was done with that and devote his time to a religion he found he liked.
He tried to bring others in via that and then later attempted other scientific looking/sounding type things to try to help people out.

The downside being that the logic there is considered weak by many, but never by those that believe already.

I could just as easily argue the revese that I could avoid any of the hassle of the religion and live easily and without any of those nasty hassles that religions impose on us - if I'm right, then I don't change - I die just the way I thought I would and all is dark.
Or I die and it turns out there is a God - well hot damn, lucky me, a benevolent all powerful deity was there all the time - bummer I was wrong.
But since you are allowed to make any assumptions you want - for instance that there is a God and that I'm wrong, I can then make assumptions that anything else is wrong as well - so I will just go ahead and assume that the all powerful and wonderful God that can overlook all will go ahead and not burn me for an eternity, and I win out.

Either way, it doesn't really matter.

You are perfectly happy the way you are, and I'm perfectly happy the way I am.
Better yet, we both feel that we ourselves are right.

I'm gonna keep thinking you are a moron though if that is okay.

 

[curling]

Interesting thought about God forgiving you and letting you in but you have to look at history and God is a God of wrath. He flooded the world, He destroyed Sadom and Gammora, He turned Sarah into a pillar of salt for looking back and sodam an gommora so for some reason I don't think he is going to go soft on some dude named no daddy no.

And as far the hassles about religion. Are you talking about what God says to and not to do? Because if you do what God says to and don't do what he says not to do. You will find your life will be happier because He is like I don't know how about TONS smarter than the smarter human there is.

Sure you can think I am moron but who cares what you think or what I think. What you should care about is what GOD thinks because he can put you in a toaster oven on high.

 

[DepressiveJuice]

the way i look at it is this: if you need to believe in something to make you feel better about life, then go for it. me? i prefer to search for something that powers this life: money

 

[curling]

the way i look at it is this: if you need to believe in something to make you feel better about life, then go for it. me? i prefer to search for something that powers this life: money

Dude who cares about this. I mean it is short. How old are you 20? then you have already lived a 1/4 of your life. Went by pretty fast huh? You know what is weird then next 20 will go buy faster. Then you will be half way through this life. Then another 40 and you are in the retirement home waiting for you next meal, sleep, and death. In otherwods this life is fast man. Eternity on the otherhand is a long long time. And there are some people that think they are too smart or too prideful to believe in God. The Bible says those people are utter fools compared to God's wisdom.

But God does love you these idiots that act like they are so, smart don't.

 

[DepressiveJuice]

well ok i look at it this way. bare in mind that i was raised as a catholic so im not familiar with what other religions think. supposedly, the only sin that god will not forgive is if you dont believe in him. so theres no point in me believing anymore cause im fucked either way. so instead of spending my money on church, im going to spend it on other junk

 

[jackangel]

Mods? Thread. Curling Forum.

 

[mordy]

Searching for meaning in life is in itself a human construct created to attempt to give closure. Closure in that, if we know the reasons and meaning behind something, we can then control it, and are thus satisfied and releived because in control comes security.

Now, life and death are the really big issues in our existance, we are one, and shall end in the former. We know the mechanisms now fairly well through science, but we lack reason, or at least a satisfactory reason that would produce closure. For many, the evolutionary picture of us being meatbags walking the earth looking to fornicate when possible to continue the species, is not a very enlightening view. Humans want more than that. We fear being no more, so to say. We want the picture of self, our souls, to last beond the barrier of non life.

I for one don't think that there is a man like entity out there that is controlling everything. I don't think its logical for something like a god to exist. People try to use the lack of scientific knowledge in areas to explain the divine. I say that this isn't the proof of divine entity, but is instead proof that we need more science. People fault science for not giving us enough answers when we know so much.

I think that people want science to give light to a divinity or immortality that matches what we have made up to be ideal. We want science to prove there is a Heaven and a Holy Ghost. Its like humans have decided that we need equations to say 1 must equal 3, because that is the best answer. Then when math cannot prove it, they fault math instead of seeing the beauty of what math really shows.

I think that instead of a god, science will point us to interractions of the concience and the universe that we cannot observe yet.

As to what the meaning of life is, i think you need to narrow the question down a little bit to what you can answer, and work your way up from there. A man is blind when he only accepts answers without theory.

 

[Becoming]

I am more with the natural functional theory of things.. with a twist... you are not here to replicate and assure the existence of humans per se, but rather your offspring/bloodline only.

I am here to help my offspring to be strong and smart enough to get a bigger piece of the pie than your offspring... So that eventually your ancestors will die out, and mine will populate the earth...

I know that is very self centered, but oh well...

 

[NoDaddyNo]

I am more with the natural functional theory of things.. with a twist... you are not here to replicate and assure the existence of humans per se, but rather your offspring/bloodline only.

I am here to help my offspring to be strong and smart enough to get a bigger piece of the pie than your offspring... So that eventually your ancestors will die out, and mine will populate the earth...

I know that is very self centered, but oh well...

you and everyone else.

the same reason we will never get rid of war, so it is a bit amusing when people protest and desire an end to it all.

as much as I did like John Lennon's music, the anti-war stuff is amusing.
I'm not saying I like seeing people die, I'm just saying that it is human nature - or more importantly - just nature in general.

 

[Becoming]

you and everyone else.

Harsh man, now I feel so unspecial...

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Harsh man, now I feel so unspecial...

nothing good about being special.
you gotta wear those helmets all the time and you can't drive.
granted, when you run a race, you will always get a medal, but that's about it.