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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
 Posted - 03/21/2006 : 12:41:28 [Permalink]
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| Well my 'purpose' in life is to further the collective human intelligence along. I work to pass on scientific concepts and interrupt stupid thinking wherever I find it. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 13:08:54 [Permalink]
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For me ive found only 2 truths,
There is only what is possible.
It may be impossible to determine exactly what is possible. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 18:49:56 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
As Siberia has shown, any meaning assigned to Life the Universe, and Everything is arbitrary and foolish due to a lack of confirmation, and '42!'  is as good an answer as any. Indeed, it is better than most because it takes so little time to spell it out.
"whatissixtimesnine" as spelled out by D. Adams.
edited to add:
I Have just finished "Unweaving the Raindow" (again) by Dawkins. A point that he makes, more than once, is that there are a lot more ways of being dead, than being alive. Or actually having never lived. So I consider myself fortunate |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
| Edited by - moakley on 03/21/2006 18:55:03 |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 19:00:18 [Permalink]
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"whatissixtimesnine" as spelled out by D. Adams.
It's been a while since I read the books, so I might just be mistaken here. Was it really 6*9? |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 19:36:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
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"whatissixtimesnine" as spelled out by D. Adams.
It's been a while since I read the books, so I might just be mistaken here. Was it really 6*9?
That's the question that was spelled out by the prehistoric scrabble pieces by Arthur and his friend whose name I can't remember, although In think it was something unintelligible at any rate. |
John's just this guy, you know. |
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dv82matt
SFN Regular
760 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 22:24:37 [Permalink]
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It's interesting, I don't think the question of the OP is stupid exactly, just unaswerable in any meaningful way. The problem is that it leads to an infinite regress because even if you do arbitrarily answer it you can always ask what the purpose of whatever you answered is.
There is no discernable ultimate meaning or purpose to life and I think that this is what people find unsettling, because it destroys the idea of moral absolutes and opens up an intellectual quagmire. |
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