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10 Sep 2010, 4:09 pm

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Life is pointless.


I will go one further and say that the human race is pointless; everything they do is only for themselves, they do not contribute to anything meaningful. The planet would likely be a lot healthier without them. It'd have more species on it, too.


When there were no humans events occurred which scoured the planet of 99 percent of its life forms. For example the eras of the Siberian and Dekkan Traps. Snowball Earth.

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12 Sep 2010, 12:05 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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Life is pointless.

Prove it.


The burden of proof belongs to the one making the affirmative claim, in this case, those who claim life has some objective point.


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12 Sep 2010, 12:23 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.


I will go one further and say that the human race is pointless; everything they do is only for themselves, they do not contribute to anything meaningful. The planet would likely be a lot healthier without them. It'd have more species on it, too.


When there were no humans events occurred which scoured the planet of 99 percent of its life forms. For example the eras of the Siberian and Dekkan Traps. Snowball Earth.

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They were natural, not one species who thinks they're better than the rest of the planet killing off other species.



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12 Sep 2010, 4:27 pm

Ursula Rucker is SO on point with this...

"Sometimes...when close my eyes and open my mind real wide I'm almost sure I can see it flash by......but its moving WAY too fast.....I did say.....flash..."

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJqybSWCVLk[/youtube]



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12 Sep 2010, 4:32 pm

ruveyn wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.


I don't think my life is pointless.

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Life without God is pointless.


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12 Sep 2010, 7:04 pm

greenblue wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.


I don't think my life is pointless.

ruveyn

Life without God is pointless.


If you need an imaginary superbeing to tell you how to live, your life is pointless since you have no ability yourself to make decisions.



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13 Sep 2010, 1:45 pm

Sand wrote:
greenblue wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.


I don't think my life is pointless.

ruveyn

Life without God is pointless.


If you need an imaginary superbeing to tell you how to live, your life is pointless since you have no ability yourself to make decisions.


+1 billion

What a sad life, to have no purpose for existing other than for an absentee landlord.


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13 Sep 2010, 1:55 pm

Bethie wrote:
Sand wrote:
greenblue wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.


I don't think my life is pointless.

ruveyn

Life without God is pointless.


If you need an imaginary superbeing to tell you how to live, your life is pointless since you have no ability yourself to make decisions.


+1 billion

What a sad life, to have no purpose for existing other than for an absentee landlord.


Hhhmmm giving your life meaning with a primitive myth.........

Personally my life is about my family friends and interests, we are incredibly lucky to be here and we should enjoy our lives to the full :)



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13 Sep 2010, 2:57 pm

The meaning of life would be the art of living well, and enjoying.



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13 Sep 2010, 4:16 pm

Bethie wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.

Prove it.


The burden of proof belongs to the one making the affirmative claim, in this case, those who claim life has some objective point.


Sancta merda taurorum, vir-verspertilionis!! [size=0]Holy dung of bulls, Batman!![/size]



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13 Sep 2010, 4:55 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Bethie wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
jamiethesilent wrote:
Life is pointless.

Prove it.


The burden of proof belongs to the one making the affirmative claim, in this case, those who claim life has some objective point.


Sancta merda taurorum, vir-verspertilionis!! [size=0]Holy dung of bulls, Batman!![/size]

Bullsh*t? that is the only thing I was able to translate.


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13 Sep 2010, 7:47 pm

The Catholic Church created the concept that speaking in Latin elevated nonsense into wisdom. Some people still hold to that principle.



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13 Sep 2010, 7:54 pm

Sand wrote:
The Catholic Church created the concept that speaking in Latin elevated nonsense into wisdom. Some people still hold to that principle.


That's not it at all. Also, the Roman Catholic Church just continued on its practices, as a matter of mere tradition, from when it used to be the State Church of Rome since 383AD when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the State Religion.



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13 Sep 2010, 8:31 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Sand wrote:
The Catholic Church created the concept that speaking in Latin elevated nonsense into wisdom. Some people still hold to that principle.


That's not it at all. Also, the Roman Catholic Church just continued on its practices, as a matter of mere tradition, from when it used to be the State Church of Rome since 383AD when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the State Religion.


According to history The Catholic Church persecuted people for translating and publishing the Bible in readable form when it first was printed and it persisted in holding mass in Latin for centuries when most of the congregation had no idea what was being said. Latin is just one of those useful nasty elite tricks to maintain discommunication and it remains so to dignify idiocies in a cloak of misunderstanding.



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13 Sep 2010, 8:38 pm

To ask this question, there shows a lack of intelligence of the moment. :)
Read some Jiddu Krishnamurti



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13 Sep 2010, 8:39 pm

To ask this question, there shows a lack of intelligence of the moment. :)
Read some Jiddu Krishnamurti