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 elbisivni
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 Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human?  [Re: Viveka]
#6982032 - 05/29/07 01:29 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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struggle
I like this..there is always struggle in some form against some force.
best one yet 
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Arp
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#6982075 - 05/29/07 01:39 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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 FocusHawaii
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Psychoactive1984]
#6982115 - 05/29/07 01:48 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Quote:
Psychoactive1984 said:
Nihilists say they believe in nothing yet they believe in nihilism... enough said 
That's a crude interpretation of nihilism and your chiamus doesn't help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
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FrenchSocialist
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: fireworks_god]
#6982618 - 05/29/07 03:34 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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fireworks_god said:
Awareness
Then some robots are alive.
Self-aware robot turns mirror on humankind
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Nico gazes into the mirror in front of him. Looking back is his reflected self, wearing a grey Yale University sweatshirt and a baseball cap cocked at a jaunty angle. When Nico raises an arm, he recognises the arm moving in the mirror as his own.
It may not sound like much of a feat, but Nico is a humanoid robot. He has just become the first of his kind to recognise his own reflection in a mirror.
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"Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings through many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs" -- Isaiah Berlin
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 Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FrenchSocialist]
#6982636 - 05/29/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Drive....
Verb and noun, and it's many different meanings....
>^;;^<
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I'll be your midnight French Fry.... 
"The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...."
>^;;^<
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MushroomTrip
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 Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FrenchSocialist]
#6982650 - 05/29/07 03:42 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Quote:
FrenchSocialist said:
Quote:
fireworks_god said:
Awareness
Then some robots are alive.
Self-aware robot turns mirror on humankind
Quote:
Nico gazes into the mirror in front of him. Looking back is his reflected self, wearing a grey Yale University sweatshirt and a baseball cap cocked at a jaunty angle. When Nico raises an arm, he recognises the arm moving in the mirror as his own.
It may not sound like much of a feat, but Nico is a humanoid robot. He has just become the first of his kind to recognise his own reflection in a mirror.
Who said you can't make friends with robots? 
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All this time I've loved you
And never known your face
All this time I've missed you
And searched this human race
Here is true peace
Here my heart knows calm
Safe in your soul
Bathed in your sighs
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FrenchSocialist]
#6982696 - 05/29/07 03:55 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Robots are only aware of what they are programmed to be aware of.
Makes one wonder about those who are only aware of the physical universe.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ― Plato
"I communicate, therefore I am" - I
"Nature is ancient, but surprises us all." - Björk
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Psychoactive1984
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FocusHawaii]
#6982703 - 05/29/07 03:56 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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It was a joke
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"Their is one overriding question that concerns us all: How can we get out of the fatal groove we are in, the one that is leading towards the brink?" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"We may not be capable of eradicating the corruption of reason, but we must nevertheless counter it at every instance and with every means." Dan Agin
"Politics is the best religion and politicians are the worst followers."
-It's ok to trip as long as you don't fall.
-Substance over Style.
-Common sense is uncommon.
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Grok
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Psychoactive1984]
#6983338 - 05/29/07 06:31 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Ineffable
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Entropy is increasing.
To send me a PM, go to my journal
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avatarofdiscord
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Grok]
#6983395 - 05/29/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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experience
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I am, under the northern star.
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FocusHawaii
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Psychoactive1984]
#6983753 - 05/29/07 07:58 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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I'm a nihilist, I don't laugh.
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FocusHawaii
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Pulsating]
#6983760 - 05/29/07 07:59 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Quote:
Pulsating said:
Robots are only aware of what they are programmed to be aware of.
Makes one wonder about those who are only aware of the physical universe.
Oh I'm aware of things outside materialism. It's just all bullshit though.
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Ravus
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#6983784 - 05/29/07 08:05 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Non-self.
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Pulsating
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FocusHawaii]
#6983807 - 05/29/07 08:09 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Oh I'm aware of things outside materialism. It's just all bullshit though.
That's quite a generality. Are you a materialist?
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." ― Plato
"I communicate, therefore I am" - I
"Nature is ancient, but surprises us all." - Björk
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Ravus
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: FocusHawaii]
#6983977 - 05/29/07 08:37 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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FocusHawaii said:
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Pulsating said:
Robots are only aware of what they are programmed to be aware of.
Makes one wonder about those who are only aware of the physical universe.
Oh I'm aware of things outside materialism. It's just all bullshit though.
If it is all just bullshit, then how do you explain existence? Materialism dictates causality, so is there a first material cause? Yet all materialism is composed of impermanent compound elements, so a first cause would be subject to decay and therefore it would not seem logical for a decaying material to spring by itself out of nothing.
You should not exclude materialism from that bullshit category if that is your mindset. Either there are truths in everything or there are truths in nothing, and if there are truths in nothing then existence has no existence.
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elbisivni
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: Ravus]
#6983990 - 05/29/07 08:40 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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I thought he was joking..
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SmokenBabyJesus
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#6984076 - 05/29/07 08:55 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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"Where that boy at??"
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subconsciousness
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#6984713 - 05/29/07 10:34 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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I have just one word:
becoming
We are always on our way to being something else. I am not the same person I was a moment ago.
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"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times."
--Bill Hicks
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
--P.J. O'Rourke
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ShroomieGirl
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Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: SmokenBabyJesus]
#6985546 - 05/30/07 01:46 AM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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hmmm... a few words come to mind... varying is a good one, wavering and adventuring also comes to mind, but i think i would have to settle on futile, as depressing as that is, i think that would be my word.
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I'm ok, really.
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PhanTomCat
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 Re: One word to define the meaning of life for a human? [Re: subconsciousness]
#6986718 - 05/30/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Quote:
subconsciousness said:
I am not the same person I was a moment ago.
Multi-personality disorders are kind of cheating to use as a point/evidence.... 
>^;;^<
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I'll be your midnight French Fry....
"The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...."
>^;;^<
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