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07-18-2007, 02:27 PM | #1 |
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What's the point?
What's the point of life if all life must die?
What's the point of galaxies, time and space, and the universe; just to exist? What are they actually accomplishing? Isn't a void more sensible? More efficient? What's the point of anything if all things must come to an end? Omniscient dwellars (you know who you are) tell me the answers. And then tell me the question to the answer 42.
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07-18-2007, 02:28 PM | #2 |
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The point is that existence exists.
. . . Errr... "How many roads must a man walk down?"
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07-18-2007, 02:39 PM | #3 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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"Point" is an imprecise word. In order to apply it to life, galaxies, time, and space, you would have to get pretty figurative.
When you apply it to stuff that a person might do, then the point is up to that person. And the question is "'What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
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07-18-2007, 02:45 PM | #4 |
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if 6 was 9, would you mind?
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07-18-2007, 02:53 PM | #5 |
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Wine me, dine me, 6 times 9 me.
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07-18-2007, 04:07 PM | #6 |
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Existentialism is da way to go.
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07-18-2007, 04:28 PM | #7 |
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who says there's a point? And whose point is there to be ascertained? Yours? Gods? the Cosmos? There may be more than one point.
Find yours.
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07-18-2007, 04:29 PM | #8 | ||
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Reproduce.
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07-18-2007, 04:36 PM | #9 |
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And you represent the universe, Bruce? :p
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07-18-2007, 04:38 PM | #10 |
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No Fresh, the universe is a nihilist, its a coward.
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07-18-2007, 04:42 PM | #11 |
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I don't understand you pierce. I didn't think the universe was anything except, well, the universe. :/
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07-18-2007, 04:46 PM | #12 |
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No, but I understand it. Maybe you will when you grow up.
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07-18-2007, 04:53 PM | #13 |
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Not quite sure how to interpret that post, was it an insult or you telling me I'm young and you're wise? Superiority complex, talking down to me, it is such an ambiguous post, what did you mean.
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07-18-2007, 08:55 PM | #14 | |
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My point is that the universe is nihilistic in nature, which is natural since all evidence shows that the universe is inanimate. |
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07-19-2007, 06:23 AM | #15 |
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The point is to find the best pizza joint.
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