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What is Life to you?
Topic Started: Nov 23 2014, 01:50 PM (2,770 Views)
Holben
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Clearly we should set up a suffix system with special endings for nouns, verbs and adjectives which allows you to tell whether they are animal, vegetable, mineral, historical, spacey, or other.
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.

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To me, life is breeding. Nothing more, nothing less.
The fact is, the human species has since a long time stopped caring about that, which is good.
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colddigger
Nov 23 2014, 11:58 PM
A good example, which is used often from what I can tell, is that you can say "pussy" in reference to a cat without censorship but if you say "pussy" in reference to genitalia you will be fined.


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Troy Troodon
Nov 24 2014, 12:02 AM
At last, now I know!

And knowing makes it even more confusing!


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Life, huh?

The experiences our senses have perceived during our stay on this planet which is shooting silently through the cosmos, all collected into one anonymous jumble, bounded together by our biological evolutionary traits to form a conciousness.
I travel this world, often without moving, interacting with fellow concious objects, their images projected onto me. I reach out my hands and lend my voice, projecting myself onto their own canvases.

My emotions fight incessantly with the thin film of reason that coats my mind. Paths extend this way and that way before me into darkness and halls of mirrors and in the corner of my eye I see the destinations of missed exits. Escapism festers amid moral responsibility, as my adolescent hormones settle and my eyes begin to glaze over with a veil of indifference. The Drug fills my bloodstream.

Life? Hmmm. Good question.
Pass it by with your head hanging and your eyes droopy then, you loser. Yeah, loser, afraid to get hurt. But hey, we're all afraid to get hurt, and most of us are losers. Take a moment, sit down maybe. Do some reflection and count your lucky stars.

Looking up, you see it's cloudy.

Now get up and stare Life in the eye. Your reflection may stare back at you. You are welcome to be afraid. Wrestle with Life. Passers by may stop and lift their necks to watch. Life though, will kill you. But that's only the beginning.
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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I get why people believe life is about reproduction, but if you really think about it that's a side effect of selected behaviors and reactions.
It's no more the meaning than protein production, apoptosis, or heterotrophy/autotrophy.
All side effects of the way in which a cell or larger organism may be constructed.
Just all lines that were not constructed in a manner that provided that behavior ended a long time ago.
We still see structures incapable of reproduction, for themselves, occurring. Sometimes even selected for [so long as they support a cycle that can continue to produce them in some manner].

The question is about life for a person, specifically, I would suspect anyway, as opposed to finding the meaning for the existence of physical bodies of life in general.
Edited by colddigger, Nov 24 2014, 12:13 PM.
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Life, to me, is staying alive, and staying relatively happy, and hopefully doing what I can to make life a little less difficult for other people. Everything else comes second place for me.
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lamna
Nov 24 2014, 04:34 PM
I resent that, Mr. Barbarian!

Edit: Yeah I know this is a joke, so I'm joking to.
Edited by Troy Troodon, Nov 24 2014, 04:36 PM.
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I've been waiting for someone to do that!
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Someone's got to laminate the women.
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I didn't realize plastic wrap was obscure.
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I'm pretty sure their is a thing called short wheelbase about girls with no torso, just a head attached directly to the hips.
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I started this subject because I am honestly in a position where I feel as thou there's no point in my existence. I am still recovering from all the tragedies that happened this year, and now I'm in an online writing class... and half-way through, the remainder of the term has nothing to do with writing.

I want to pass this year so I can transfer to another, better college, with a prescription, so I can get into the study of hand-drawn animation.

I want to get a career in animation so I can share my creativity with the world, no more Breadwinners or Brickleberry nonsense, just making better animated shows and films for both kids and adults to enjoy. But now apparently I am in an end where it just seems like I'm gonna spend half my life at the same campas, wasting my time and not having a job.

I don't got alot of friends to hang with or to help me out with my assignments, nor can my family help, I honestly feel like if I don't pass, and considering all the gray moral epidemics around the world, I just want to take the pain away and be through with myself.
I was benevolent and good, but misery made me a fiend!
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http://jessleycrusher.tumblr.com/post/103980459406/curiouslymistook-healthycomfyhappy

This is all I can really say. Just keep going.
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