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Scalytank
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An interesting read I found today. I am a fan of Alan Watts, so I really "like" this kind of philosophy, to read, or discuss.
I would like to hear your opinion about this...
PS: Sorry if this offends any of you, I really don't want to start a flame war over religion.
An interesting read I found today. I am a fan of Alan Watts, so I really "like" this kind of philosophy, to read, or discuss.
I would like to hear your opinion about this...
PS: Sorry if this offends any of you, I really don't want to start a flame war over religion.
The whirling clusters of galaxies don't even notice.
Until we conquer the universe and make those galaxies respect human authority. For the empire!
ubon
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I've never bought into the philosophy that since we're tiny and insignificant on a cosmic scale nothing is worth doing. it seems kind of dumb. like, whoah, if you scale things waaaaaay back, humans are comparatively tiny!
in the end, we just exist in the universe. when it ends, we'll end. but what's wrong with that? an eventual endpoint doesn't mean that the things we've done will un-happen. if something has to change the entire universe forever to matter to you, then maybe the problem is your perspective?
in the end, we just exist in the universe. when it ends, we'll end. but what's wrong with that? an eventual endpoint doesn't mean that the things we've done will un-happen. if something has to change the entire universe forever to matter to you, then maybe the problem is your perspective?
I don't care about what celestial bodies think about me, I have far more immediate concerns in my life. No it won't matter after the eventual heat death of the universe but it does matter today, tomorrow, and many years to come.
ubon
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nihilism is the laziest philosophy. mooom I don't want to get a job life is meaningless and we are but dust in the face of merciless time
author=mawk
nihilism is the laziest philosophy. mooom I don't want to get a job life is meaningless and we are but dust in the face of merciless time
ps I'm hungry when's lunch
e: For a bit of content I wonder how much nihilism is associated with privilege.
ubon
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I don't want to jump to conclusions or anything but yeah, it does seem like it's easier to decide that everything is meaningless when you don't have to worry too much about where your next meal is coming from. if you've been seriously hurt, then you know that while pain is ultimately a pointless concept on a universal scale it's certainly real enough from our perspective.
Dyhalto
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Maybe I'm being prejudiced...
but I see a tendency where when a blog uses a big font, it means the content is infantile.
but I see a tendency where when a blog uses a big font, it means the content is infantile.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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On the flip side:
the world and galaxies are spinning at a massive scale and are physically huge, yet I do not notice them. Their existance is ultimately meaningless because they are just an insigificant speck when viewed through my lens, which categorizes the importance of things by some method other than physical size.
the world and galaxies are spinning at a massive scale and are physically huge, yet I do not notice them. Their existance is ultimately meaningless because they are just an insigificant speck when viewed through my lens, which categorizes the importance of things by some method other than physical size.
ubon
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author=LockeZ
On the flip side:
exactly this! I don't understand the compulsion to reorient one's frame of reference for things like "meaning" to something that's so vastly unknowable and irrelevant.
author=mawk
if something has to change the entire universe forever to matter to you, then maybe the problem is your perspective?
Davenport
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Our visible universe is known to be finite in both space and time.
Yet it is probably a small drop in a vast multiverse.
There are more stars and planets in the cosmos than grains of sand in all of Earth's beaches combined. Yet this is only 5% of the matter, a tiny fraction of what the universe is made of. Dark matter and Dark energy make up the other 95%.
Yet it is probably a small drop in a vast multiverse.
There are more stars and planets in the cosmos than grains of sand in all of Earth's beaches combined. Yet this is only 5% of the matter, a tiny fraction of what the universe is made of. Dark matter and Dark energy make up the other 95%.
Scalytank
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author=mawk
nihilism is the laziest philosophy. mooom I don't want to get a job life is meaningless and we are but dust in the face of merciless time
Yeah, quite nihilist approach, but remember that there are actually two kind of nihilism, active, and passive.
"Passive nihilsim is indicative of a decline in spiritual power. It is characterized by the inability to create, or in the extreme to react. The passive nihilist is one who, when faced with the world's uncertainty, withdraws and refuses to enagage the world. For him, uncertainty is a sufficient condition not to proceed through life, and so paralysed by fear of the unknown and unknowable he does nothing. Nietzsche described this condition as ".. the weary nihilism that no longer attacks..a passive nihilism, a sign of weakness".
Active Nihilism on the other hand, is indicative of a relative increase in spiritual power. the active nihilist sees freedom where the passive nihilist sees absurdity or meaninglessness. He chooses action and creation instead of passivity and withdrawal. For him, the lack of objective standards of truth motivates self created standards and criteria. The active nihilist is not active despite the unknown but because of it. He possesses a store of creative energy and power which allows him to impose personal meaning on the world while never forgetting that hes is the source and progenitor of that meaning. He is heroic in this sense, facing the world with courage and purpose."
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