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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Icelander]
#9126479 - 10/24/08 11:51 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Icelander said: In the end it's all the same.
To your perspective, maybe. To an objective observer of the Universe, no.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: deCypher]
#9126501 - 10/24/08 11:55 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Please explain how.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Icelander]
#9126528 - 10/24/08 11:59 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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If I make a certain choice between A and B, the world will proceed onwards from that point; irreparably diverged. If I decide to blow up the Earth, then the Universe a thousand years from now will not have Earth in it anymore. If I don't do this, then the Universe a thousand years from now will have Earth in it.
From my subjective standpoint, this of course makes no difference as I will be dead. Objectively speaking, though, I have changed the Universe.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: deCypher]
#9126540 - 10/24/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes and what about when or if everything is gone? Will it matter then?
But really I was making reference to humanity. Being happy or sad or good or bad is all the same at the end it seems.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Icelander]
#9126548 - 10/24/08 12:02 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Provided the Universe implodes to nothingness at a certain point, then sure, nothing will matter.
One has to substantiate this first, however.
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adjust said: The main reason is the unfairness of the way life progresses and is organized.
I always think back to the trilobites. How they struggled for hundreds of millions of years to survive. They adapted and changed and they were exterminated.
The only reason you are here today is because your ancestors conquered another group and stole their land, and before that your early hominid ancestors out competed all the other descendents of homo erectus, and before that your ape ancestors fucked over some other creature to get ahead.
It just goes on and on and on, with no reason behind it except "they could" and so "they did". We try to say it is different now, I'm not convinced it is. It's just the same old shit over and over and one day we'll just be fossils like the trilobites.
And there won't be any reason.
So if the world isn't fair it should be destroyed?
'Fairness' is a human invention, just like bombs and guns. Only people would suppose such a thing should exist.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: blewmeanie]
#9127360 - 10/24/08 02:52 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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"what would you wish you'd done before you died?"
A harem
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#9127482 - 10/24/08 03:18 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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i want to step foot on a planet other than our own.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9127520 - 10/24/08 03:26 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Which one?
I'd like to check out Saturn's moon Titan
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9127529 - 10/24/08 03:28 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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leftysurprise said: i want to step foot on a planet other than our own.
does it have to be physically
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#9127655 - 10/24/08 03:49 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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WhiskeyClone said: Which one?
I'd like to check out Saturn's moon Titan
i dont know, isnt the entire surface covered in ice? i want to step foot on a planet with unique life thats visible, not several meters underneath ice. i guess if i have my choice of anywhere, it would have to be the nearest planet within another habitable zone that has life. complex life.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Coaster]
#9127663 - 10/24/08 03:49 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Coaster said:
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leftysurprise said: i want to step foot on a planet other than our own.
does it have to be physically
well if its not physically, then its not my foot stepping now is it coaster. lol
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9127701 - 10/24/08 03:57 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doesn't your astral body have feet? How do you walk around in the astral plane?
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Veritas]
#9127713 - 10/24/08 03:59 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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i dont walk. i glide.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9127738 - 10/24/08 04:03 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ooooh, creepy!
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Veritas]
#9127762 - 10/24/08 04:09 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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i want to dj at a rave and roll or fry while spinning thats my dream
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Veritas]
#9127764 - 10/24/08 04:10 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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its actually quite enjoyable.
seriously though, any time ive ever left this dimension and traversed another, i can never recall my legs moving, which is why i say i glide.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9127778 - 10/24/08 04:14 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Perhaps locomotion is too mundane for the astral.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: Veritas]
#9127826 - 10/24/08 04:22 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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i would like to think so.. the only person traversing on two feet on the astral is probably ghandi. since he loved to walk.
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Re: "what would you wish you'd done before you died?" [Re: LeftyBurnz]
#9128143 - 10/24/08 05:22 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'd like to walk across the country.
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