Ga ga ga

Ever feel like life\'s a rotten piece of mundane sh1t? Me neither... :eek:

Come on guys, I feel like some intellectual discussion. Morons need not apply.

What\'s the point of living? Working your ass off so you can buy more crap, bigger things you don\'t need anyway? Is it suffering a lifetime so you can be a saint in heaven for eternity? Is it getting up every day, going to work, coming home spending the last hours of the day in front of the TV-altar where you don\'t need to think for yourself? Do you even think about this when walking around doing your daily routines like a zombie?

In other words - what makes you tick?

two words, franz kafka

you live for franz kafka? :eek:

Q: what makes you tick?

A: Beer oh and Jack De\'s and coke

[CHIZZY]

Originally posted by ooseven
Q: what makes you tick?

A: Beer oh and Jack De\'s and coke

Everyday, I wonder if my mom had triplets and sent one to Scotland....

[Living-In-Clip]

I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again. There is no point to living. We are simply animals, our only true purpose is to breed and make sure the species continues. The rest is overly complicated by the rules forced upon us by society.

What makes rape and murder wrong? The goverment. The religions. Our most basic instinct is to do both of those things. Take what we want. Survival of the fittest and so on. Our supposed "high intelligence" has only complicated life. Gave us religion. Made us try to find a purpose - when there isn\'t one.  

Work. Religion. Marriage. All these things are incidental and not our nature. We as people need to accept that what is "evil" may be natrual. That the rapist, the murders, the theives are our most basic instinct. What we would all be, if it was not for the rules , the regulations forced upon us from our birth. We as people need to realize that there may not be anything after this. Most likely there isn\'t. There is nothing special about us.  

Personally, I\'m amazed by the blind faith people have. That the people need, just to make it through the day. They trust in \'God\' , for all the "bad" things that happen. They trust the goverment to make life altering desicions for them, while they go to work and pay taxes. It\'s amazing, through out all our curiousty, that has inspired us to go to space, invent the internet, the most basic thing, to question \'God\' and the goverment is something most people can\'t and will never be able to do.


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Originally posted by politiepet
you live for franz kafka? :eek:

Well, he was mighty attractive.

*applauds LIC for contributing* (*and makes evil eyes at the rest of you* )

[Kurt Angle]

Life is just dream  ........................................................

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It amazes me how many people still spam this thread - after it was put that Sammy wanted an intelligent thread. Have some respect people. If you have nothing to post on the topic, then don\'t post.

I believe in what George Burns said in "Oh God!"

Life is as meaningful as we human beings think it is.  If we believe that our only purpose is to work, consume, defecate, and watch television, then that is what our meaning is.

If we believe that we can live a more meaningful life and attain greater enlightenment, then that is available to us also.

Just because a meaningful life isn\'t presented to you on your birthday doesn\'t mean you can\'t go out and find one for yourself.

By the way, my "most basic instinct" is not to rape and murder.  But that\'s just me, and I\'m glad you live somewhere else, L-I-C.  

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by Coredweller
By the way, my "most basic instinct" is not to rape and murder.  But that\'s just me, and I\'m glad you live somewhere else, L-I-C.  

Why isn\'t it? Because that is what we are told from the very start? If you take someone, who was never taught it was wrong - then they won\'t view it as wrong.  Our basic instinct isn\'t surpressed by the rules and regulations put down by the religious and goverment authorites.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Why isn\'t it? Because that is what we are told from the very start? If you take someone, who was never taught it was wrong - then they won\'t view it as wrong.  Our basic instinct isn\'t surpressed by the rules and regulations put down by the religious and goverment authorites.

The prohibitions against rape and murder are not just enforced by religious and government authorities.  Humans are social animals, just like gorillas and dolphins.  We receive our training to discourage rape and murder from our social group, however large or small that may be.  It starts with our parents, siblings, other children, teachers, and extends from there.  The Pope and Uncle Sam are not the first ones telling us not to rape and murder.  Furthermore, even if we lived in an anarchic state with no religion, our social upbringing would still discourage these behaviors.

You\'re comparing our current state to that of a human being raised in the wild with no social training whatsoever.  It\'s true that such a person may have no knowledge that rape and murder is wrong, but that is a very rare circumstance, and it\'s not the normal or natural state for a human being to exist in.

I definately don\'t think i\'d murder or rape people if there were no rules against it, it\'s not in my nature.  You say marriage is unnatural, then why are there several species of animals on this planet that are monagoumous (sp?) for life?  

I am one to question the government as I don\'t trust the government to do anything in the general populations best interest.  Government is only out to get their hands on everything and controll every aspect of our lives.  

What gets me through the day is coming home to my wife to hear how her day was and the love and interaction we have together. When we can finally put the cares of the day behind us for a short time.  

Love is what gets me through my daily routine.  I think we are on this planet to love each other... and as far as I can tell most people don\'t think the way I do.

Well LIC, you made some good points. But what is true nature? wouldn\'t it be our true nature, not to be "naturual" ?

I mean, perhaps destorying the planet, forming morals etc is our nature.  Your just judging us against animals in general, but we are unique. We have deeper emotions then instinct.

So anyways, I think the point of life is to be a good person. But besides that, ultimate  understanding is a nice goal too...

Originally posted by JBean
I definately don\'t think i\'d murder or rape people if there were no rules against it

actually...you would....it\'s hard to understand/explain, but the only reason you don\'t is because these rules excist....you \'made\' those rules as truth by accepting them.....if they were never made, you wouldn\'t obey them, eventhough you think now, that you would....