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FreedomFight
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Purposeless Survival
#4509260 - 08/08/05 12:43 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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I find it funny that all animals fear death for their survival, yet who ever said survival was so cool Maybe we're all just like the little kid who is afraid to poop.
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the fact that we have these instincts is the reason we exist. its not that survival is 'cool'. creatures that can survive, do survive.
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While the instinct for survival is in all animals.Some humans choose not to survive. The survival instinct can be overcome. I have a co-worker who has a little saying which goes. "Survival is overrated" . We often use this to lighten up when things appear grim, or we are taking things too seriously. Interesting question.
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OldWoodSpecter
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FreedomFight said: I find it funny that all animals fear death for their survival, yet who ever said survival was so cool Maybe we're all just like the little kid who is afraid to poop.
Humans do it a bit differently, they get frustrated or greedy, and want to harm someone, then they say that their existence is in danger, and they have a moral green light for violence because "its all about survival"
*of to go and insert a smiley*
....damn where is a Bush icon when you need one
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looner2
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Or it is all about survival so they are obligated to harm someone.
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: looner2]
#4509924 - 08/08/05 08:32 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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For survival we are obligated to kill, even if it's a vegetable. Killing can be minimized among humans by fostering love and co-operation. That's how warfare is minimized in tribes and families. It's a choice that each human makes everyday.
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: looner2]
#4510039 - 08/08/05 09:41 AM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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looner2 said: Or it is all about survival so they are obligated to harm someone.
obligated? from perspective of me, you are not obligated to live, you could die as well, from your perspective I am not obligated to live, I could die.
this obligation is only in th emind of the one who is endangered because he fears death, so his mind invents a right to live.
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looner2 said: Or it is all about survival so they are obligated to harm someone.
this obligation is only in th emind of the one who is endangered because he fears death, so his mind invents a right to live.
Roll over and die when threatened? No thanks!
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http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC26/Nearing.htm
Scott Nearing's choice to die is an excellent example of survival being an empty thing if you can no longer live according to your values. This article was written by his wife, Helen.
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: looner2]
#4510760 - 08/08/05 02:50 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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looner2 said: Or it is all about survival so they are obligated to harm someone.
this obligation is only in th emind of the one who is endangered because he fears death, so his mind invents a right to live.
Roll over and die when threatened? No thanks!
I don't expect you to just roll over and die because I understand your fear, I guess you have to play it out, but you must understand that your life does not have an objective value. You are a mosquito like the rest of us. You have no birth rights, you deserve whatever happens.
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The purpose of life is to survive, so survival isn't purposeless, it is its own purpose. We didn't choose it, it is integral to life, that is what separated organic molecules from inorganic ones, and eventually created life... the ability to perpetuate their existance.
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: shpongled1]
#4511004 - 08/08/05 04:10 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Still nobody has to guarantee to nobody that they shal live.
The eternal struggle of life to survive, does not mean that everyone deserves to live, nobody has rights other than those others give them.
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looner2
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looner2 said: Or it is all about survival so they are obligated to harm someone.
this obligation is only in th emind of the one who is endangered because he fears death, so his mind invents a right to live.
Roll over and die when threatened? No thanks!
I don't expect you to just roll over and die because I understand your fear, I guess you have to play it out, but you must understand that your life does not have an objective value. You are a mosquito like the rest of us. You have no birth rights, you deserve whatever happens.
I am built to survive, just as the mosquito, just as the cheetah, just as the bacteria. You can embrace the reality of existence or just stand back and try to explain our will to live through one silly emotion. Not deep, nor interesting. Ho hum.
You can argue that we have no objective value to our lives just as you can argue that we are nothing but brains in a vat of water, or that nothing "really" exists. Adding this nihilistic dogma to any subject does nothing to a discussion because its based on nothing and just an endpoint in further analysis.
I don't know if that is what you are getting at with your "objective value" statement, but if its not, you have a lot to explaining to do with the last statement
You have no birth rights, you deserve whatever happens.
Does a 4 year old child deserve to be raped, mutilated, and tortured before being killed because there are no objective values?
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FreedomFight said: I find it funny that all animals fear death for their survival, yet who ever said survival was so cool Maybe we're all just like the little kid who is afraid to poop.
Holy fuck..
I just joked around that my mom used to put soap in my ass, when I refused to poop..
maybe its true..
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: Gomp]
#4511077 - 08/08/05 04:36 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gomp
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OldWoodSpecter said: Still nobody has to guarantee to nobody that they shal live.
The eternal struggle of life to survive, does not mean that everyone deserves to live, nobody has rights other than those others give them.
haha and the nick i was joking or not so joking, under was "ingen" which is "nobody" directly translated..
Donnu.. just found this whole thread either triggering my imagination beyond recollection, or some long lost child memories.. ha ha
Now i really wonder.. does it sound common? anyone? h?h?
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: looner2]
#4511107 - 08/08/05 04:45 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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Urge to survive works through panic attacks in moments when life is theatened.
As for children of 4 years, they have rights only if someone gives them. If nobody thinks they have rights, then they have none. who would otherwise give them rights? god? an old man with a beard? If the community thinks 4 year old children don't have a right to be protected from rape, then those children have no rights to be protected from rape. It is up to others to give you rights accoarding to their beliefs. It is up to you to judge or not judge the rapist accoarding to your beliefs, moral teachings and natural urges.
this is not nihilism, unless you can come up with some evidence of god or whoever there is to giver rights, you have no logical arguments for objective rights.
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If the community thinks 4 year old children don't have a right to be protected from rape, then those children have no rights to be protected from rape. It is up to others to give you rights accoarding to their beliefs. It is up to you to judge or not judge the rapist accoarding to your beliefs, moral teachings and natural urges. uh, veto. Crazy minds should not make rights or morals upon young children (and all others)...
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Re: Purposeless Survival [Re: BlueCoyote]
#4511202 - 08/08/05 05:17 PM (18 years, 7 months ago) |
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should, should not, must , must not, deserve, deserve not..
...sigh...people
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MushmanTheManic
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Survival seems to be the best game around.
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OldWoodSpecter
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you know..you don't need to play it even..
I know some people (not personaly though) that don't have a home, so when winter comes they brake something or rob a place, and call the police, they get arrested, and get a month in a jail, there they have food, a room, sometimes even TV in their cells.
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