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#33
06-22-2006, 08:05 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
How much is reasonable?
How much money is it reasonable to spend extending your dog's life? If you are on a jury and are 90% sure the defendant is guilty, is 10% reasonable doubt? 
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#34
06-22-2006, 09:19 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
I thought Procol Harem answered this long ago when they told us, “Life is like a beanstalk, isn’t it?”
But, thanks for the offer anyway, BBison. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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#36
06-22-2006, 09:43 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
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Whats a good age to die? What's a good time to put down a book you'll never finish? [/ QUOTE ] After the climax, but is it before or after the dénouement?
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#37
06-22-2006, 11:37 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
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I thought Procol Harem answered this long ago when they told us, “Life is like a beanstalk, isn’t it?” But, thanks for the offer anyway, BBison. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] You know, I was kidding here? I didn’t mean to stop the discussion with a definitive answer. Bison was doing such an excellent job with his answers.
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#38
06-22-2006, 05:50 PM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
If you suddenly figure out the meaning of life, do you die instantly?
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#39
06-22-2006, 08:32 PM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Time seems impalpable. The instant someone tries to cherish the moment, it becomes past. Why am I still alive and experiencing now?
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#40
06-23-2006, 01:26 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Time seems impalpable. The instant someone tries to cherish the moment, it becomes past. Why am I still alive and experiencing now?
The word "still" is something we bandy about. It's great if you want to inquire or insult - "Are they still together?" "Are you still writing that novel?" but it doesn't describe reality well. Each moment that passes, each unmeasurable change in a vast motionless ocean, is a break. A discontinuity. You are not the you of 5 seconds ago, much less 5 days. The past is a foreign country, and you are just an incomprehensible foreignor to your past self the moment you change at all. Cherishing the moment, or better, cherising now, involves continually and unconciously forgetting the moment that has just been thought of, just now remembered, just now figured out, just now experienced. Unceasing release of moments is all that presence is. This is why the rejection of doctrine and the embrace of mysticism can be so initially helpful and ultimately distracting - If you rely on moments of inspiration and transcendence to guide you, you will cherish the memories of those moments more than now and now. And now. Self-styled intellectuals and mystics are quite similar in this regard.
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