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What is Life to you?
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 01:50 PM (2,767 Views)
Troy Troodon
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In a world where people care less for the art and more for the money, a world where good people get punished while bad people are rewarded, and any good person who does stick around only becomes a victim to the oppression they try to reform, and where creatures are on the verge of extinction, disputes occur over pointless objectives, people say and do things they know are wrong but do them anyway, be it something lessor like the use of profane language and the use of drugs and alcohol, or of course more heinous deeds like theft, kidnappings, rapes, intent destruction and murders... Or simply just because you have bad days, you feel lonely, isolated and useless... how does one get around this?

What do you people do to keep a positive insight on life and have faith in a world of hurtful truths and plausible chaos where faith itself has little purpose, or even makes things worse by blinding people to their own inevitability?

Could there possibly be more to life than just acceptance? What does Life mean to you?
Edited by Troy Troodon, Nov 23 2014, 08:05 PM.
I was benevolent and good, but misery made me a fiend!
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I write of a better world in the hopes that I can use it to spread my message to people.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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trex841
Nov 23 2014, 01:54 PM
I write of a better world in the hopes that I can use it to spread my message to people.
Really? What's it about?
I was benevolent and good, but misery made me a fiend!
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I escape our cruel worlds through the doorways of the internet, books, art and spending time with friends. I know I'm a coward for fleeing the real world but that's the least I can and want to do at the moment.
The real world is just cruel and real in every bit and you can't run away from it, but that's what I do.
Treading the line between imagination and reality
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But the world has always been cruel we didnt live in the worse times
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Birds and good music.



Just listen to this and everything will be ok.
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New in Viam Alternatus: Nagas and other creatures of the Patalan Forests
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Martin
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Well I'm surrounded by not open minded, dumb and judgemental idiots. That being said, to escape that I play PC games, listen to music, draw, chat, watch series, memes and stuff, etc. Basically I internet.
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I have my script written. All I have to do is wait, and if necessary improvise.
Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

Terra Alternativa:
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Troy Troodon
Nov 23 2014, 02:11 PM
trex841
Nov 23 2014, 01:54 PM
I write of a better world in the hopes that I can use it to spread my message to people.
Really? What's it about?


Superheroes mostly, though I pride myself in being able to cover a wide range of topics using that concept.

Hananas59
Nov 23 2014, 02:30 PM
I escape our cruel worlds through the doorways of the internet, books, art and spending time with friends. I know I'm a coward for fleeing the real world but that's the least I can and want to do at the moment.
The real world is just cruel and real in every bit and you can't run away from it, but that's what I do.


martiitram2
Nov 23 2014, 02:42 PM
Well I'm surrounded by not open minded, dumb and judgemental idiots. That being said, to escape that I play PC games, listen to music, draw, chat, watch series, memes and stuff, etc.


Ya, I do that a lot too.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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Holben
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Rumbo a la Victoria

The crux of the dilemma is that humans and modern society are not compatible. Modern life stresses us to depression and suicide, throws so much information and emotion at us that we find them hard to appreciate, and directs our interests towards things with no intrinsic value.

I don't have any solutions beyond keep changing your environment, keep moving to places different from your own, and care about the right things.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Escapism, and I live with the hope one day the whole system will come crashing down and I can create my feudal paradise in the ruins.
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Are nipples or genitals necessary, lamna?
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Nov 23 2014, 02:56 PM
I have my script written. All I have to do is wait, and if necessary improvise.
What's it about?
I was benevolent and good, but misery made me a fiend!
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In my simplest opinion, life is living long enough till you get the chance to pass on your genes, and then die.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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I grow things, and try not to be awful. That's the best I can do, I think.
Flashlights, nightmares, sudden explosions.

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Nov 23 2014, 06:51 PM
try not to be awful. That's the best I can do, I think.
This is an important bit.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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