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4561
« on: March 04, 2015, 02:02:34 PM »
Because I have chronic sinus issues, I like my showers to be exceptionally hot so a lot of steam builds up to help clear my head.
When it comes time to wash however, I just turn it down to lukewarm for a minute.
4562
« on: March 04, 2015, 01:26:01 PM »
Can someone explain to me how old future Spock is able to communicate with current Spock in Into Darkness?
Future Spock was sent back in time in the first movie obvs. Or you could just go with space magic.
4563
« on: March 04, 2015, 01:01:40 PM »
I thought the moon was made of portal conductor. . .
4564
« on: March 04, 2015, 12:26:45 AM »
Hmmm. I suppose you have a valid point, so your saying our own manufactured reality with time and internet is part of nature?
Yes because we are a part of nature. Technology may be the result of intelligence, but intelligence is the result of sentience and sentience is just another natural phenomenon. The equation never went astray to lead us to this point, this world of technology and organization. Everything happened just as it was conditioned to happen. Nature did as nature does and thus our world was.
4565
« on: March 04, 2015, 12:17:15 AM »
How is it our natural advantage if what we create is artificial?
Wha? Humanity isn't exempt from nature. Everything we do is 'natural' in that sense.
So the internet is considered natural to you? I'm sorry but the way I see it, eating, shiting, pissing, fucking, and sleeping are what I consider natural.
Yes because it is a product of this universe. It didn't just pop into existence with no external influence. The internet wouldn't exist if nature didn't allow us to exist as a part of it and thus create the internet.
Simply because we have a higher intelligence does not mean we are separate from nature. We still exist and act in this universe according to conditioning, and the internet is just another product of that.
But how is the internet natural exactly? Yes humans are responsible for it's creation, but think of it this way. How is software itself considered natural?
Right now all this here is software. There is no physical media involved. I can't touch the threads with my hands or touch any of the words on screen. I can touch the screen but that doesn't count.
It's natural to me because anything that exists as a part of this system (that being our universe) is a part of nature. You can't touch emotions or ideas either but they're just as natural. For me, nature isn't any specific part of reality, it IS reality.
4566
« on: March 04, 2015, 12:08:25 AM »
How is it our natural advantage if what we create is artificial?
Wha? Humanity isn't exempt from nature. Everything we do is 'natural' in that sense.
So the internet is considered natural to you? I'm sorry but the way I see it, eating, shiting, pissing, fucking, and sleeping are what I consider natural.
Yes because it is a product of this universe. It didn't just pop into existence with no external influence. The internet wouldn't exist if nature didn't allow us to exist as a part of it and thus create the internet. Simply because we have a higher intelligence does not mean we are separate from nature. We still exist and act in this universe according to conditioning, and the internet is just another product of that.
4567
« on: March 04, 2015, 12:00:06 AM »
How is it our natural advantage if what we create is artificial?
Wha? Humanity isn't exempt from nature. Everything we do is 'natural' in that sense.
4568
« on: March 03, 2015, 11:34:25 PM »
Like space marines and space ships battling each other over a nebula.
You're such a fuckin' geek haha.
No u
Don't worry, I enjoy that side of you.
4569
« on: March 03, 2015, 11:31:03 PM »
Like space marines and space ships battling each other over a nebula.
You're such a fuckin' geek haha.
4570
« on: March 03, 2015, 11:25:56 PM »
The universe doesn't have standards. It just does as conditions permit. The stars may not wince when you die but they don't cheer when you accomplish either. It's true.
However that doesn't allude to us being obsolete. The only thing it alludes to is that we aren't 'this way' or 'that way' ultimately, and that the concept of even being obsolete is utterly meaningless.
Humanity is, and that is that. You can try to measure the state of our existence and judge it in any number of subjective ways, but that doesn't mean that said state is going to be any different the instant after you've finished measuring it and forming your opinion, than it was the instant before. The only thing you taking the time to measure and judge the state of humanity has the potential to change is your mindset which is no more absolute than the fleeting human race that gave birth to it.
Don't fret over impermanence. Humanity will pass but so does everything else. Animals, plants, love, hate, happiness, suffering, civilization, anarchy, the earth, the moon, and even those stars that don't even wince.
Someone finally gets it.
It's peculiar that you agree with me and yet believe that humanity is obsolete as such a way of thinking as above is what allows me to disregard the concept of being obsolete.
Well, eventually humanity will be.
Eventually this universe will probably be a seemingly empty black void of darkness due to entropy, and all sentience will be lost to it. Where is your obsolescence then?
4571
« on: March 03, 2015, 11:12:33 PM »
The universe doesn't have standards. It just does as conditions permit. The stars may not wince when you die but they don't cheer when you accomplish either. It's true.
However that doesn't allude to us being obsolete. The only thing it alludes to is that we aren't 'this way' or 'that way' ultimately, and that the concept of even being obsolete is utterly meaningless.
Humanity is, and that is that. You can try to measure the state of our existence and judge it in any number of subjective ways, but that doesn't mean that said state is going to be any different the instant after you've finished measuring it and forming your opinion, than it was the instant before. The only thing you taking the time to measure and judge the state of humanity has the potential to change is your mindset which is no more absolute than the fleeting human race that gave birth to it.
Don't fret over impermanence. Humanity will pass but so does everything else. Animals, plants, love, hate, happiness, suffering, civilization, anarchy, the earth, the moon, and even those stars that don't even wince.
Someone finally gets it.
It's peculiar that you agree with me and yet believe that humanity is obsolete as such a way of thinking as above is what allows me to disregard the concept of being obsolete.
4572
« on: March 03, 2015, 11:04:04 PM »
The universe doesn't have standards. It just does as conditions permit. The stars may not wince when you die but they don't cheer when you accomplish either. It's true.
However that doesn't allude to us being obsolete. The only thing it alludes to is that we aren't 'this way' or 'that way' ultimately, and that the concept of even being obsolete is utterly meaningless.
Humanity is, and that is that. You can try to measure the state of our existence and judge it in any number of subjective ways, but that doesn't mean that said state is going to be any different the instant after you've finished measuring it and forming your opinion, than it was the instant before. The only thing you taking the time to measure and judge the state of humanity has the potential to change is your mindset which is no more absolute than the fleeting human race that gave birth to it.
Don't fret over impermanence. Humanity will pass but so does everything else. Animals, plants, love, hate, happiness, suffering, civilization, anarchy, the earth, the moon, and even those stars that don't even wince.
4573
« on: March 03, 2015, 09:00:02 PM »
I don't have spring breaks anymore.
4574
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:44:21 PM »
Milk goes first if it's late so I can pour cereal in my room but put the milk away first. That way I'm not an insensitive loud obnoxious late night cunt.
How much noise does your cereal make
It can't possibly be loud enough to wake someone up
My house doesn't have the quietest layout.
4575
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:43:49 PM »
Milk goes first if it's late so I can pour cereal in my room but put the milk away first. That way I'm not an insensitive loud obnoxious late night cunt.
stop doing it wrong
Essentially what you're telling me is that you're a cereal pleb and can't pour yours either way, or even blindfolded in a typhoon like a G.
4576
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:40:22 PM »
Milk goes first if it's late so I can pour cereal in my room but put the milk away first. That way I'm not an insensitive loud obnoxious late night cunt.
4577
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:38:21 PM »
You know what's really fucking gross?
Sometimes I just eat it.
That will make your cholesterol worse, actually.
I like to think that I will slowly build a natural immunity to it and eventually evolve into a super human who can't develop heart conditions due to high cholesterol levels.
You know what your local EMTs and doctors like to think when you end up in their wing of the hospital? How much they get to overcharge you.
4578
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:33:07 PM »
You know what's really fucking gross?
Sometimes I just eat it.
That will make your cholesterol worse, actually.
4579
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:31:44 PM »
Better have some legendary one liners.
4580
« on: March 03, 2015, 08:25:41 PM »
I just scrape plaque off with my nails...
If I'm out somewhere I can feel it then I do the same. It's coming off then, I'm not waiting until I get home to brush it off.
4581
« on: March 03, 2015, 04:46:25 PM »
Are you as bored as me?
4582
« on: March 03, 2015, 04:45:14 PM »
My old roommate (who was bi polar/schitzo) lost his cigs one day and, after storming through the house looking for them, grabbed his giant buay knife and started chopping his desk up.
Needless to say it was some p psychotic shit and I didn't feel very comfortable.
lol wtf
also don't you mean Bowie Knife?
w/e who cares
4583
« on: March 03, 2015, 03:45:45 PM »
These hurt
I bet they taste like cotton candy.
4584
« on: March 03, 2015, 03:42:30 PM »
Needles don't even hurt.
Some do, some don't.
4585
« on: March 03, 2015, 03:19:16 PM »
An existence without happiness and suffering isn't much of an existence at all. In fact, it's hardly even a...human state of mind. You'd have to be pretty hardcore into meditation or something (or really drugged up) to achieve a state like that, I would think.
Well you have to consider what existence truly is, tbh. 'Being' without an ego doesn't necessarily equate to nonexistence when you realize that the ego is rooted in 'being'. I mean if consciousness did not exist then perception and conception couldn't manifest and thus no ego would ever form to give you an identity.
...okay you're just arguing pointless semantics there.
It has a very significant point for me as the logic behind it is what helps me understand the concept better. Was hoping it would help me convey it better as well.
I suppose the only thing I meant by that post is that an existence without suffering or happiness, whether or not it's a 'human' existence, is still an existence nonetheless.
I didn't say that it wasn't an existence just not "much" of an existence. So that's why I said you're just arguing semantics.
Sorry, I learn more about this topic by looking at concepts from certain perspectives that require I try to understand them in a different way. As I said, I was only trying to help convey a point. Which doesn't do much as a lot of the understanding of this subject has to really be gained on one's own since it deals with something that words can't exactly express in the most efficient way. It's w/e. I shouldn't try to force anyone to get that point. Especially in ways that aren't exactly simple.
4586
« on: March 03, 2015, 03:08:24 PM »
My old roommate (who was bi polar/schitzo) lost his cigs one day and, after storming through the house looking for them, grabbed his giant buay knife and started chopping his desk up.
Needless to say it was some p psychotic shit and I didn't feel very comfortable.
4587
« on: March 03, 2015, 02:58:07 PM »
An existence without happiness and suffering isn't much of an existence at all. In fact, it's hardly even a...human state of mind. You'd have to be pretty hardcore into meditation or something (or really drugged up) to achieve a state like that, I would think.
Well you have to consider what existence truly is, tbh. 'Being' without an ego doesn't necessarily equate to nonexistence when you realize that the ego is rooted in 'being'. I mean if consciousness did not exist then perception and conception couldn't manifest and thus no ego would ever form to give you an identity.
...okay you're just arguing pointless semantics there.
It has a very significant point for me as the logic behind it is what helps me understand the concept better. Was hoping it would help me convey it better as well. I suppose the only thing I meant by that post is that an existence without suffering or happiness, whether or not it's a 'human' existence, is still an existence nonetheless.
4588
« on: March 03, 2015, 01:43:55 AM »
An existence without happiness and suffering isn't much of an existence at all. In fact, it's hardly even a...human state of mind. You'd have to be pretty hardcore into meditation or something (or really drugged up) to achieve a state like that, I would think.
Well you have to consider what existence truly is, tbh. 'Being' without an ego doesn't necessarily equate to nonexistence when you realize that the ego is rooted in 'being'. I mean if consciousness did not exist then perception and conception couldn't manifest and thus no ego would ever form to give you an identity. It's true that 'being' without suffering or happiness isn't being human. To someone abiding by such a way of being, the concept of humanity doesn't even exist. For someone to experience no suffering like that, they'd have to abandon all sense of attachment to this reality and just 'be' as cliche and 'dudey' as it sounds.
4589
« on: March 03, 2015, 01:24:16 AM »
Happiness doesn't last, friendo. All good things come to an end.
If you have something that keeps you happy, enjoy it while you can. It's not really that you struck a nerve, it's that you on occasion seem to feel the need to come in towards me with some passive aggressive quirk.
Again, the only thing that matters is how you choose to move forward after something is lost.
There's a famous quote that says,"This too shall pass." It was inscribed on the ring of a Persian king and its purpose is to make a person happy when they are sad and sad when they are happy. All history aside, there's a profound wisdom in those words, really.
You want to know what else doesn't last? Suffering.
I'm sorry that you feel I'm trying to egg you on with passive aggressiveness. My original comment about the thread turning out depressing was directed at no one in particular. Sometimes It feels like you don't like me all that much really. =/
And yet life has a way of making happiness seem as though it passes in an instant even if it lasts for years and suffering for eons even if it only lasts a moment. One can't even comprehend what true happiness means without a good deal of suffering first.
This is a matter of perspective, however. View points are no more absolute than the ideas/concepts that help influence and form them. If we are to assume that one is the opposite of the other, then happiness and suffering are two sides to the same coin really. You can't have one without the other and neither of them is ultimately more permanent than the other. In all honestly, if a person wants true peace then they have to abandon both. Also, I do hope your lack of friendo's and Mr. Passive Agressives means you don't actually feel quite so negatively about me. =]
4590
« on: March 03, 2015, 12:59:54 AM »
Happiness doesn't last, friendo. All good things come to an end.
If you have something that keeps you happy, enjoy it while you can. It's not really that you struck a nerve, it's that you on occasion seem to feel the need to come in towards me with some passive aggressive quirk.
Again, the only thing that matters is how you choose to move forward after something is lost.
There's a famous quote that says,"This too shall pass." It was inscribed on the ring of a Persian king and its purpose is to make a person happy when they are sad and sad when they are happy. All history aside, there's a profound wisdom in those words, really. You want to know what else doesn't last? Suffering. I'm sorry that you feel I'm trying to egg you on with passive aggressiveness. My original comment about the thread turning out depressing was directed at no one in particular. Sometimes It feels like you don't like me all that much really. =/
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