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Khornholio wins thread.

And whatwhat wasn't trolling, he was making an askew comment on the entirely unanswerable nature of the thread.

Now lets all relax and take brandy and cigars in the music room

2 Purposes in life..
- Protect the brain.
- Produce children

Everything in he human is designed to produce those 2 end points.

I've done both, and plan on attempting the second many times more...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Khornholio wins thread.

And whatwhat wasn't trolling, he was making an askew comment on the entirely unanswerable nature of the thread.

Now lets all relax and take brandy and cigars in the music room

If you don't mind at to much good Sir, might I substitute my brandy for a Scotch? Brandy leaves me feeling ill.

Khornholio wrote:To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

I might be wrong though. I still haven't figured out the secret of steel.

I thought that is what is best in life. I do not know the riddle of steel either... Some people think that it is weak and that flesh is the true power.

I had the answer to this at one time, on page 7421 of the Haynes Manual for Mk5 Humans £14.99 at Halfords. It said something about being needed for the service of a higher race or something, it also mentioned something about apes. Sigh, where the hell did I put that thing, pages 4 to 7420 were an eye opener, explained everything you needed to know on understanding the female mind.


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In truth, my beliefs are quite depressing, nothing beyond death, no god, no meaning to anything we do, blah blah blah, I won't bore you with it. Mainly because I don't want to get peoples backs up

Dreadwinter wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Life is a fluke of nature, sentience as we know it is an even rarer fluke.

Anybody else see whats wrong with this?

Nope
care to explain?

To eleborate more, on my post, I feel that to have a meaning in life, requires you to believe in a God or the idea that the human race was created and therefore had a purpose. The meaning of life for a computer is to help humans do things more quickly and better. The meaning of life for a toaster is to heat bread. I know they aren't living things, but they were all created and have a reason.

Myself, from everything I have seen in the world I do not believe in a God or higher power, and therefore do not believe that we were created and therefore we do not have a purpose, or meaning to exist. Others believe in a higher power and believe in something more, thats fine by me, I respect your ideals even though I don't agree. Neither of us has the proof to validate ourselves

The meaning of life is whatever you define it as.

I define it as living as a good Christian for the rest of my life and doing what I can to make the world a better place for humanity. The latter part should be everyone's goal, IMO.

BrotherStynier wrote:

I thought that is what is best in life. I do not know the riddle of steel either... Some people think that it is weak and that flesh is the true power.

Come to me my child...

corpsesarefun wrote:

Dreadwinter wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Life is a fluke of nature, sentience as we know it is an even rarer fluke.

Anybody else see whats wrong with this?

Nope
care to explain?

Well, my comment would be that the fluke happened in this instance. You can throw the odds out the window...they don't matter anymore.

So knowing you just beat the long odds, what are you going to do with your fluke opportunity?

Eat, Drink, and Bonk.

Just like the animals. That is the one and only meaning of life. Propagation of the species.

And something I highly enjoy to boot!

As we face a much larger threat than even the dreaded 'climate change' I find it funny (and sad) that quite a few people pick sex/producing children as a meaning of life.

For me, we are NOT animals and to act on all of our primary instincts (eat and procreate) as the end-all-be-all of human existence is to sell ourselves, as humans, very short. We, above all other lifeforms on this planet, have the ability to CHOOSE our destiny as a race (the Human Race). Within that choice becomes the meaning of our lives. The meaning is a byproduct of our choices.

I also feel as the real problem of our race looms (i.e. overpopulation) in the next 50-100 years. We are at a crossroads, an end of human adolescence, regarding how we deal and solve those problems. This will define the meaning.

Sadly, I'm not particularly optimistic right now. Look at the US as a microcosm (and this probably extends to other major countries as well) we are STILL mired in cross party politics and 'what's in it for me' attitudes. Is that their meaning?

I won't go on with any more detail as my very defined opinions will start to surface.

Sure you can call it BS if you want, or even lofty minded clap-trap. Maybe I read too much Sci-fi as a kid, but this is what I feel.

I believe that we as a species should;

A) Strive to outdo our previous accomplishments, i.e. better ourselves, our community. etc.

B) Also strive to improve ourselves, our community, etc.

C) Do something with said improvements, and accomplishments.

That's my 2 cents though. I've probably watched/read way too much Sci-Fi over the years.

I certainly agree with cheese and sqir666. Humans should always try to better themselves and soceity in general. (Otherwise you're just a waste of space, leeching off soceity and people..)

BrotherStynier wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Khornholio wins thread.

And whatwhat wasn't trolling, he was making an askew comment on the entirely unanswerable nature of the thread.

Now lets all relax and take brandy and cigars in the music room

If you don't mind at to much good Sir, might I substitute my brandy for a Scotch? Brandy leaves me feeling ill.

Khornholio wrote:To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

I might be wrong though. I still haven't figured out the secret of steel.

I thought that is what is best in life. I do not know the riddle of steel either... Some people think that it is weak and that flesh is the true power.

Dagnabbit! I thought it was "riddle" and not "secret" when I was writing that. By the way, I'm looking for a standard with two snakes facing each other that are the same. Anyone seen it?

corpsesarefun wrote:

Dreadwinter wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:Life is a fluke of nature, sentience as we know it is an even rarer fluke.

Anybody else see whats wrong with this?

Nope
care to explain?

Which part? The fact that it is generally wrong or the fact that life is a fluke of nature even though nature produces life on a regular basis and living breathing things are a huge part of nature?