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06-22-2006, 12:42 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
If humans could add years to life by eating babies, would it be wiser for me to eat other peoples children and let mine live or to fight for a world where we only eat our own children? In the first case, it would be theoretically possible to erect a worldwide SNOWBALL138 genetic empire, but in the second case, I would only be one of billions of immortal humans.
It's just a book. It's not worth hurting each other over. 
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06-22-2006, 12:55 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Life is about playing bad and getting there.
You will get there. Life is about ignoring the question and finding an answer. Also, whats the proper way to punctuate my question? lose the question mark after false and add an apostrophe in "whats".
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06-22-2006, 01:08 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Plato once said "The meaning of life is to prepare for death."
Do you think this is true?
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06-22-2006, 01:11 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Plato once said "The meaning of life is to prepare for death."
Only in the vaguest "understand what death is" sense. Plato would be a more inspiring man if he'd realized that the only shadows we see on the cave walls are our own. We're already out in the sunshine, if we'd just get out of our own way.
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06-22-2006, 01:29 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Plato would be a more inspiring man if he'd realized that the only shadows we see on the cave walls are our own.
We're already out in the sunshine, if we'd just get out of our own way. This is just a bunch of mystic gibberish. You don't know what you're talking about. Who do you think you are, Jesus? Stop speaking in parables. I need answers!
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#17
06-22-2006, 01:36 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
This is just a bunch of mystic gibberish. You don't know what you're talking about. Who do you think you are, Jesus? Stop speaking in parables. I need answers!
You want tough talk? The you that you can imagine is so tied up in your genetics and your experiences that when you die, nothing of that you will exist. There is no enduring part of you that needs preparation for anything. Not death, not the LSATS, not a marathon. You'll be fine in any case.
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06-22-2006, 01:42 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Dear Bison,
I just started reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Is this a book I should finish? Thanks, On an Existential Crash Course
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06-22-2006, 01:45 AM
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Re: I will answer your questions about the meaning of life.
Did the universe have a beginning?
The universe? Sure. Existence? Not so much. What does it mean to be sentient? In my notes here, it says "Sentient = has pets". Where are my shoes? "Where you left them" has a certain elegance.
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