Life is meaningless? - Page 3

Bullitt · 05-20-2007, 09:21 PM

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for people to believe life is 'a meaningless existential hell' is pretty extreme though. It comes across to me as suggesting there's no meaning in anything and that life is hell.

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

lumberjim · 05-20-2007, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's easy for you to say, you have a purpose to life, win the popularity contest. No?

me? no. i recognize the importance of it, though. not a purpose by any means. what's your purpose? to be shitty to everyone lately?

Aliantha · 05-20-2007, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

That could very well be true. As I acknowledged, the source is definitely far from reliable.

Maybe I should worry about more important things than melodramatic college students.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-20-2007, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

me? no. i recognize the importance of it, though. not a purpose by any means. what's your purpose? to be shitty to everyone lately?

To be just like you.

Aliantha · 05-20-2007, 10:20 PM

ok...have we entered a new dimension or something?

lumberjim · 05-20-2007, 10:21 PM

remember when Hulk Hogan was a good guy...then he changed and became a bad guy? yeah. Now he's a good guy again. weird huh?

Aliantha · 05-20-2007, 10:23 PM

very

xoxoxoBruce · 05-20-2007, 10:30 PM

And through it all he was still the best.

Aliantha · 05-20-2007, 10:41 PM

I think I've entered the twilight zone.

DucksNuts · 05-20-2007, 10:44 PM

Ali and LJ are agreeing n shit.

....head for the hiiiiillllllllllsssssssssssssssssssss!!!

Aliantha · 05-20-2007, 10:45 PM

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid!

lumberjim · 05-20-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

And through it all he was still the best.

whatever. the point is that you've been acting in a very un brucelike manner lately. several people have commented on it. you've ignored it. what up?

skysidhe · 05-20-2007, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

And through it all he was still the best.

You bet! As a country kid myself we used to watch him on the weekends. Yes I watched wrestling!

He's kept that 'aura' hasn't he?

Remember when the tv would actually go off the air? I don't know why I mention that except he came from an era when things were more pure and true. When there were actually quiet spaces in a day. Now we have to actually find the time to be quiet.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

I think I've entered the twilight zone.

Yes, I cringed a couple of times while their verbal shots were flying over my head.

Urbane Guerrilla · 05-21-2007, 02:59 AM

That aura may be either wing of the mustache.

Should he and Senior Teutel have a "baddest mustache" competition? -- sort of a Clash of the Titans? Yeah, I know: they clash those two titans together, the heterosexual population isn't gonna want to watch.

Are any of those students depressed because they're taking meds?

Aliantha · 05-21-2007, 03:02 AM

Well the source was dumb.com, so I doubt anyone really knows although I suppose this could be the result of some clinical study - who knows?

It was more a question of, do you think this could be true, and if so, what do you think could be done or alternatively, not done.

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Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Well the source was dumb.com, so I doubt anyone really knows although I suppose this could be the result of some clinical study - who knows? It was more a question of, do you think this could be true, and if so, what do you think could be done or alternatively, not done. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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