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Canada
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 Posted - 05/25/2003 : 22:11:28 [Permalink]
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| BTW, Adam and Eve? Oh please! Give me a break! Just because God created us doesn't mean we started out looking like Brad Pitt and Pam Anderson, prancing around in a garden having nothing meaningful to accomplish. How about the whole timeline thing, and evolution? And I suppose gay/bisexual/lesbian/transgendered are a social atrocity? Let's not forget about incest! Hmm... Adam and Eve have a little explaining to do I think. |
Toronto is the capital of Canada, and I live in a giant igloo. Blubber anyone? |
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rantanplan
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Greece
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Posted - 06/09/2003 : 10:31:36 [Permalink]
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hello guys!!
the meaning of life? do u mean the Monty Python film?  hehehe
p.s. i ve just noticed that here there is a button to insert a bible quote hahahahaha...let s try ==> bible quote
i m curious to see which bible quote it s gonna show..
let me see..
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rantanplan
New Member
Greece
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Posted - 06/09/2003 : 10:36:26 [Permalink]
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my stan avantar doesn t appeaaaaaaarrrr pittyyyyy....(where is the crying sad faceeee?....klaps kloups)
and that isn t a bible quote..it s almost the whole book!!
am i here alone???????? guyyyyyyyyssss??????? guyyyyys?????!!!! |
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rantanplan
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Greece
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Posted - 06/09/2003 : 10:41:46 [Permalink]
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ok ..i ll take advantage of the fact that i m alone in here (apparently i m the only skeptic person in this universe ;) ) and i ll repeat the only question that there can be : to be or not to be
or a very famous greek quote of socrates in/on/etc a free translation:
one thing i know for sure, that i don t know anything..
εν οίδα..ότι ουδέν οίδα!! |
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Cold in here
New Member
Canada
48 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2003 : 17:55:55 [Permalink]
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| Dude, you are hardcore trippin' me out. |
Toronto is the capital of Canada, and I live in a giant igloo. Blubber anyone? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/09/2003 : 19:55:23 [Permalink]
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"He was an old-time cowboy, now don't ya understand;
His eyes was sharp as razorblades, his face was leather-tanned;
His toes was pointed inwards from a'hangin' on a horse;
He was an old fee-losopher, o' course.
He was so thin I swear, you could'a used him for a whip;
He had to drink a beer to keep his britches on his hips;
I knew I had to ask him 'bout the mysteries of life;
He spit between his boots and he replied:
Son, it's faster horses,
Older whiskey,
Younger women,
More money........."
With apologies to Tom T. Hall, I think that'll sum this whole, silly question up at least as well as any thing else.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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and Crypto-Communist! 
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rantanplan
New Member
Greece
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 04:09:28 [Permalink]
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the meaning of life is..... faster horses..????? ...very enlightening I must say.... ...yeah why haven t I noticed it sooner...of course..faster horses yeah!!!
(did I miss something?  )
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"Oh god.They killed Kenny! u bastards!"
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jmcginn
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 06:54:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by rantanplan
the meaning of life is..... faster horses..????? ...very enlightening I must say.......yeah why haven t I noticed it sooner...of course..faster horses yeah!!!
(did I miss something? )
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"Oh god.They killed Kenny! u bastards!"
Oh no, I'm from Kentucky the land of fast women and beautiful horses, what does that mean for my life???? |
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rantanplan
New Member
Greece
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 09:24:15 [Permalink]
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you have every right to start your reply with "Oh, no!!"
cause, taking in consideration everything you ve just written, I m in the difficult position to answer to that question of yours: quote:
I'm from Kentucky the land of fast women and beautiful horses, what does that mean for my life????
in case you haven t noticed, this means, that you are going to marry a horse and you are going to be driven by a woman   !!!!!
it was too obvious to thank me for finding the meaning of your life!! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 11:21:44 [Permalink]
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The Meaning of Life is simple. Ever since Life started on Earth some 4 billion years ago, life has evolved. Life have gotten increasingly more complex ever since.
Therefore I say that the meaning of Life is to better oneself. To evolve.
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Darwin Storm
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 11:53:41 [Permalink]
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Until the sun swells into a red giant, and the earth becomes a burnt cinder. Cheers!
Of course, I will have been dead for so long that our entire culture as best will be blip in history books. More likely, our civiliazation will be utterly forgotten. Even if human descendents survive, our lives will most likely by like Babylonian legends and archeological studies....
I think its far better to discover what makes you happy in life and persue it. |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 06/10/2003 : 17:54:41 [Permalink]
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| Then of course there is the biological: my sole purpose in life is to survive long enough to procreate, preferably many many times. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/11/2003 : 15:50:58 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Darwin Storm
Until the sun swells into a red giant, and the earth becomes a burnt cinder. Cheers!
Of course, I will have been dead for so long that our entire culture as best will be blip in history books. More likely, our civiliazation will be utterly forgotten. Even if human descendents survive, our lives will most likely by like Babylonian legends and archeological studies....
I think its far better to discover what makes you happy in life and persue it.
From the day the Universe started it has used increasing entropy in order to produce more complex structures. My point was that, today, the most complex structure we know of in the entire universe is the human brain. If we work at creating a suitable environment for it, it will continue to grow more complex as time goes by. Half a billion years from now, then Earth is slowly starting to become just like Venus, our brain will have the power to figure out how to move to a different location...
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Darwin Storm
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 06/11/2003 : 22:37:00 [Permalink]
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Its a nice notion , but it depends on how this whole civliation thing works out. We have maybe 10 thousand years of history or so as a civilized species. We may make it that far, but intelligence, as we experience it, seems a divergence from the norm. We really have nothing to compare it to on our own planet. I doubt natural evolution will make the human mind much more complex. If we wish to push the evelope, it will most likely come from genetic engineering. In that, our species has almost unlimited potential, but also the potential for disaters. I think the species as a whole will go through some dramatic changes if we travel that path.
However, I am not sure our mind is the most complex struture. Since our experience with intelligent lifeforms seems confined to our own planet, with ourselves as the only case study, I wonder what may thrive on other planets, in our own galaxy and in others. However, I will concede that this is idle specualation. Life may be rampant in the universe, be we can't be sure what we deem intelligence is. We may be an evolutionary fluke. |
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rantanplan
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Greece
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Posted - 06/12/2003 : 09:20:12 [Permalink]
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Ok I m bored again  , but somehow I think the time is appropriate to start dealing with the so called "meaning of life"  if there is one.
One way to find the meaning of life is to start understanding the rules that rule our Universe..My opinion is that Physics, Maths and Astronomy help us understand something deeper than a mere observation of facts. They can be the most theoretical of the sciences (Math is the most theoretical of the theoretical-I think nobody can deny that) and they have much to do with Philosophy.
Physics and Astronomy do not deny the exist of anykind of human belief, for example God, Budda, etc. The contrary...
But, who says that we, only temporary human beings, aren t meant to take always false conclusions? and thus unable to find the true meaning of the universe, of humans, of life in all it s forms?
To answer that question, I m translating (free) a passage written by Stephen Hawking
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the only answer I can give to this concrete problem is based on the rule of the physical choice of Darwin: in every population of living organisms, that are being reproduced and multiplied, there are going to be variations of the genetic substance and the up-bringing of different people that belong to it. In the case of the intelligent form of life, this means that several human beings will be most capable than other to take right conclusions for the Universe that surround us, and they are going to behave similar to that. These human beings will have more chances to survive and reproduce, and so, gradingly, in the population will domine their way of thought and behaviour....Of course our scientific iventions can destroy us all...But taking for a fact that the Universe evolves in a certain normal way, we can expect that the capability of a logic analysis (which we have through the physical choice) will continue exist and thus we are not going to be driven to false conclusions
(Stephen..sorry for the translation)
so the conclusion...let s see..don t know..still searching   |
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