I'm special, but not really.

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TridenT

TridenT

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So, what's it like to be an older me?

I guess I should tell you everything I experience, when I experienced it, and why I experienced it... then maybe you could see if you relate, and if you're older and/or you have experienced things that I wish to experience then maybe you could give me insight into it all.

Maybe I'm crazy. Can't kill myself, but it's hard to find purpose.

I think a lot of those movies where the characters are struggling to find some kind of meaning to their life or are looking for some kind of purpose in it all, but they just haven't yet... they're dealing with something else than what I think of. Usually I think of it in the logical sense like, what's the point of life with entropy, endless universe expansion(inevitable ruin of everything), and no afterlife... It jut seems so meaningless since there is no such thing as meaning if there is no god. (Which there isn't) And I doubt the characters in movies who deal with "what am I going to do" type situations in the grander scheme of life are not really dealing with those kinds of questions, but maybe they are... I just doubt it though.

My kind of reference on that is Lost in Translation where Scarlett is all like, "wtf do I do" and tries to figure it all out... but like fails I guess and is all like, "shit, this sux... and marriage blows, but let's get high with Bob." So, yeah. Damn. Idk, I just doubt she was dealing with the kinds of issues I think about when I think "what am I going to do." She goes to temples and shit in order to feel something, but that's just not even close... because that allows some kind of superstition or illogical reasoning... It's just not the same at all, so I figure she's not an ultra rational person.. I mean, so rational it feels (such a loaded word) like it dehumanizes everything because yeah...

damn, it's late. This is what happens when you wake up in the middle of the night(not even sure if I ever fell asleep to be honest), fap, and then can't sleep.

Sigh...
 
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Just like war, we do it for the people who are closest to us. We are social beings, and our main purpose in life is to learn and share from each other. In our human nature and inherited behaviors, we have our social strife's, a byproduct of being social beings. This is why we work and continue on living, because without the help of another our race would not progress. Welcome to life.
 
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Regs said:
Just like war, we do it for the people who are closest to us. We are social beings, and our main purpose in life is to learn and share from each other. In our human nature and inherited behaviors, we have our social strife's, a byproduct of being social beings. This is why we work and continue on living, because without the help of another our race would not progress. Welcome to life.
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I don't seeing how learning and sharing is our main purpose. If we are here by random chance, what do we share, how pointless and meaningless life ultimately is?
 
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What's escapes most people is that we all have the ability to change how the world perceives us simply by saying, "Today I begin being the person I want to be."
 
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PhineasJWhoopee said:
If we're just the result of a random collision of molecules, you're probably coming to the proper conclusions.
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I don't think it's completely random. I'm more of the determinist type.

But, yeah... these conclusions are the ones that people do come to if they think enough about it. I hate understanding things now.

Damn this mood! It is not good for I have school in just a few days!

I know there is nothing but endless torment ahead of me, and I have a strong will to end that torment or at least to curb the intensity of the torment... so I try to do that because it is within my nature, out of my control, and damn this broken machine!

Yeah...

PhineasJWhoopee said:
I don't seeing how learning and sharing is our main purpose. If we are here by random chance, what do we share, how pointless and meaningless life ultimately is?
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What. I don't think we're here by "random chance." I mean, randomness is very... complex in thought. If you say the laws of nature are just happenstance and that's how we are where we are, then yeah.. but evolution isn't random. There is a "random" factor to it to some degree, but it's definitely not entirely random.

anyway... yeah, life is kinda pointless. It's all pointless. Anyone who is agnostic or an atheist is a nihilist by nature as well (no god means no transcendental meaning, thus no meaning to anything)... sad times.
 
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preslove said:
Could you at least maim yourself?
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Nah. It's not within my nature. I come from a long line of ancestors who have successfully procreated and I am not too different from them.. I won't die by my own intentions until I am laid or spawn a child, at least that is true.
 
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PhineasJWhoopee said:
I don't seeing how learning and sharing is our main purpose. If we are here by random chance, what do we share, how pointless and meaningless life ultimately is?
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Values, customs, traditions, and language to name a few. We could not survive without the help of another. We are hard wired like this because our "creator" by either faith or chemistry, knew since we are all unique (like snow flakes), would need the help of another. Our purpose is to not only survive, but to exceed.
 
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TridenT said:
Nah. It's not within my nature. I come from a long line of ancestors who have successfully procreated and I am not too different from them.. I won't die by my own intentions until I am laid or spawn a child, at least that is true.
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So you're definitely going to die of old age.
 
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Anything trigger your angst? PM me if you want.

If you aren't here by random or semi-random chance, but your were created for a purpose, then that certainly makes you special.
 
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Avatar forums anyone? Because this is starting to sounds just like the 20 threads i read the other night over there.
 
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Values, customs, traditions, and language to name a few. We could not survive without the help of another. We are hard wired like this because our "creator" by either faith or chemistry, knew since we are all unique (like snow flakes), would need the help of another. Our purpose is to not only survive, but to exceed.
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We're definitely social beings but there must be more to life than shared experiences.
 
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PhineasJWhoopee said:
We're definitely social beings but there must be more to life than shared experiences.
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Why? Because you need there to be?

PhineasJWhoopee said:
Anything trigger your angst? PM me if you want.

If you aren't here by random or semi-random chance, but your were created for a purpose, then that certainly makes you special.
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Wait, there is the answer; because god put us here for a purpose.

You know, Jesus might just be the ticket for this kid, he could not be any flakier than he is already.

OP: You have way too much time on your hands. It lets you wallow in misery and beat yourself up mentally and emotionally. Get off your lazy ass and start lifting weights. Seriously, it will cure a shit load of your issues. You will end up with better self esteem and confidence. You will be more athletic, and that will lead you to sports. Involvement with sports will lead you to friends. Friends will lead you to women.

It is a snowball effect, that will get you out of your pathetic spiral of self loathing and lack of direction. All because you started weight training regularly. You are obviously intelligent, so you will never be a meat head just because you lift. So put aside stereotyping, and get on them weights kid.
 
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Lifer
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DAPUNISHER said:
Why? Because you need there to be?

Wait, there is the answer; because god put us here for a purpose.

You know, Jesus might just be the ticket for this kid, he could not be any flakier than he is already.

OP: You have way too much time on your hands. It lets you wallow in misery and beat yourself up mentally and emotionally. Get off your lazy ass and start lifting weights. Seriously, it will cure a shit load of your issues. You will end up with better self esteem and confidence. You will be more athletic, and that will lead you to sports. Involvement with sports will lead you to friends. Friends will lead you to women.

It is a snowball effect, that will get you out of your pathetic spiral of self loathing and lack of direction. All because you started weight training regularly. You are obviously intelligent, so you will never be a meat head just because you lift. So put aside stereotyping, and get on them weights kid.
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Idk if Jesus is the answer.

JJ650 said:
It's the skinny arms, isn't it?
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I love you. :wub:

Platypus and Alfa, stop posting in my threads. (you're on the list)
 
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