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Definition of life
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Asder Miller
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Definition of life
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Re: Definition of life
An unpredictable experience.
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Re: Definition of life
Happiness, no matter what.
So, I was learning something, right? Then I went to school.
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Re: Definition of life
The only definition that matters is the definition from the guy you're currently conversing with.
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Life is life. It is the meaning. Or rather, what you make of it is the meaning.
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A myriad of paths that go in every direction and above but not every path is accessible.
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An infinite amount of forks in the road.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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Life has no meaning, only computer intelligence is measurable on a galactic scale.
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Comrade Wrote:Life has no meaning, only computer intelligence is measurable on a galactic scale.
'Sup mystery... or do you mean "mathematically" or something? That makes some sense.
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Humans have a limited capability to learn and process while computers and Artificial intelligence has an infinite amount of memory to process data. what we don in the universe is insignificant because of our lifespan we can only go so far. Machines can literally live forever and can expand out further.
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Quote:Machines can literally live forever
Not really... what if the universe eventually collapses to a singularity? There isn't really such a thing as forever.
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."
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Life is all about sex!
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Comrade Wrote:Machines can literally live forever and can expand out further.
Lobsters can live forever. They just don't do it.
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We probably could live forever if our shitty organisms weren't programmed to die, and would be better at regenerating themselves.
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Go read Cracked's article on why living forever would suck: http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5- ... death.html I also think that the entire concept of immortality, and what would happen if we achieved it, would make a puny human mind go batshit insane if they thought about it long enough.
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."
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Nowdays you get to work your ass off to get some good grades, then work your ass off to get a good job, then everything left is death. So what are we aiming for working as hard as we can, humans don't know their time of dying so why bother? Life was suposed to be filled with happiness and such yet we managed to ruin it...
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TheHate Wrote:Nowdays you get to work your ass off to get some good grades, then work your ass off to get a good job, then everything left is death. So what are we aiming for working as hard as we can, humans don't know their time of dying so why bother? Life was suposed to be filled with happiness and such yet we managed to ruin it...
We restrict ourselves for no reason. We don't just let it out.
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Asder Miller,
How old are you?
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TheHate Wrote:Nowdays you get to work your ass off to get some good grades, then work your ass off to get a good job, then everything left is death. So what are we aiming for working as hard as we can, humans don't know their time of dying so why bother? Life was suposed to be filled with happiness and such yet we managed to ruin it...
Since when was life ever supposed to be filled with happiness? The life of just about every animal except maybe top-of-the-food-chain predators already sucks. For humans, the only reason life doesn't suck as much as it could is because humans have been trying to make it better. And life still tends to suck a lot anyways, especially if you're unlucky enough to be born into crappy situations.
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Negative Wrote:Since when was life ever supposed to be filled with happiness?
Who says it can't? We restrict ourselves of too much (We can't let our true selves come out because of what others say, for example). We place a false sense of duty for ourselves and its gets stressful and it doesn't need to be. Guess that fake duty makes up for our lack of purpose.
Negative Wrote:The life of just about every animal except maybe top-of-the-food-chain predators already sucks.
I don't believe in the afterlife, but why say death is a bad thing?
Everything must come to an end. Makes me smile a little.
Negative Wrote:For humans, the only reason life doesn't suck as much as it could is because humans have been trying to make it better.
True.
Negative Wrote:And life still tends to suck a lot anyways, especially if you're unlucky enough to be born into crappy situations.
People are afraid of change, positive change mostly.
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Derchin Wrote:Negative Wrote:The life of just about every animal except maybe top-of-the-food-chain predators already sucks.
I don't believe in the afterlife, but why say death is a bad thing?
Everything must come to an end. Makes me smile a little.
This. Attempting immortality is, in my opinion, one of the most arrogant, selfish and cowardly things someone could ever do.
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."
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.Manicrose. Wrote:This. Attempting immortality is, in my opinion, one of the most arrogant, selfish and cowardly things someone could ever do.
Immoratilty is a curse. I would never ask for it.
Reminds me of this quote:
" " Eternal life isn't a gift, but arguably the most horrific tortures that can be laid on a sentient being. I mean, sure, the first million years might be fun, but what about the next million and the billion after that and the trillion after that and you would still have an eternity left. This is never going to end; there will never be an end in sight. Eternal life is nearly the poorly thought out fiction of mortals that gotten greedy. Eternal life would be a curse. Without death, there is no reason to do things. Eternal life would rob you of purpose. And this is how things would remain for an eternity and an eternity after that and an eternity after that. I strongly urge you to accept your mortality. Do not let your fear of your inevitable death make you waste your mortal life pursuing phantasms and illusions. Look at yourself in the mirror. For billions of years, those particle, which are currently looking back at your circulatory place in the universe, but for a brief moment they have coalesced in you. Rejoice in the impressive instant until they dissipate whence they came. Delight that your a spark of life in the universe. Life is so much more vibrant and vivid without bronze age paranoid superstitions that cloud and contrap the mind with some empty and undesireable promise that sparks can burn forever. Our time is finite. This gives our lives meaning. This gives our lives purpose. This gives our lives urgency. Live life today; savor it."
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Immortality? No thanks.
Ageless? Sure, just kill yourself when you're ready to die.
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Negative Wrote:Immortality? No thanks.
Ageless? Sure, just kill yourself when you're ready to die.
Never thought of that.... 
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Negative Wrote:Immortality? No thanks.
Ageless? Sure, just kill yourself when you're ready to die.
Now that's just trolling death.
Love it. :troll:
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Dunno if it'd matter if we had no feelings as in the "material world".
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.Manicrose. Wrote:Attempting immortality is, in my opinion, one of the most arrogant, selfish and cowardly things someone could ever do.
How in the fuck is it arrogant or cowardly?
Selfish, I could maybe see how it could be selfish in certain cases.
Still, you're retarded.
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Prince Rilian Wrote:.Manicrose. Wrote:Attempting immortality is, in my opinion, one of the most arrogant, selfish and cowardly things someone could ever do.
How in the fuck is it arrogant or cowardly?
Selfish, I could maybe see how it could be selfish in certain cases.
Still, you're retarded.
Cowardly in the face of death,
Arrogant in the face of life.
Either way Immorality is stupid.
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Blobthe15 Wrote:Cowardly in the face of death,
It isn't cowardly to take action to avoid something you don't want to have happen. Whenever someone calls someone else a coward, what they really mean is, "You have different priorities than I do!"
Quote:Arrogant in the face of life.
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Arrogance means thinking you can never fail or something. It might make sense to call someone arrogant if they believed they would live forever without even trying. But to call them arrogant for trying? It doesn't fit.
Life is good. Jeta është e mirë.
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