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About LinkBacksGive me an example of one of the beautiful things in this life. What is it?Originally Posted by Dupree
Give me an example of one of the beautiful things in this life. What is it?
Wouldn't it be your kids?
And life is beautiful
Just waking up and enjoying your life....
Sounds corny but it is
I'm with GGrass... for me there is ONLY the meaning of life.. everything else is a distraction... that I tend to enjoy anyway in a "This isn't really serious sort of way". ..55
My only experience was in a pie making factory managing the gravy team
The thing about causal determinism is that you don't have a choice.
Lets pick a major choice you "think" you made in your life, if you could somehow transport yourself back to that point in time without the hindsight (future knowledge) causal determinism says you would make exactly the same choice as you did the first time round.
So you don't really have choices, just the illusion of them.
That's the first mistake right there, causality and determinism aren't separate things, they are termed causal determinism.
People often get causal determinism and predeterminism, fatalism and self-determination mixed up when they are very different things.
Basicly causal determinism means that an event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions (something that existed before) together with the laws of nature
predetermined basicly means events determined in advance which is different as its doesn't take into account conditions
Fatalism basicly means things where fated to happen ie Fate has arbitrary power to act.
Sorry they are very different things like I posted above
New things still exist, it's just that a series of events have lead up to it.
The more interesting thing that you are starting to think about is it right to judge someone as "bad" when they had no free will in their actions? Get back to the Buddhist view in some ways of compassion.
Flowers are pretty. That's one..
I just girl in bar. Buy me one dink?....
Sam gets it, but is all to casual about it as he can't handle the truth.
Going off topic, but lets explain real quick, think the last 20,000 years of human knowledge learnt by a computer in a week!
Now lets extrapolate that forward a week and compare how far humans have come in 20,000 years then another week and so on.
Scary stuff.
Oh your one of those don't know we are already in the simulation.
For the simple verison
Elon Musk
"The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation, is the following: 40 years ago, we had Pong, two rectangles and a dot…That is what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, the games will become indistinguishable from reality."
The more involved read about the Trilemma or the Bostrom's "simulation argument"
1."The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or
2."The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero", or
3."The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one"
Without trying to be obtuse, do some research on what I and Distantpeak have talked about without it you most likely won't understand, which is obvious to us from your questions.
But basicly you are judging yourself/life on something you can't possibly have changed. So why are you doing that? is doing that going to make you happy?
BTW humans aren't biologically designed to be happy, hence the Buddhist view "life is suffering"
We are all only star dust
Amen to that.
I'd like to do more reading and study on what you said, but... to be really honest, I'm too lazy. But little by little I will study.
In real life, I often get told by people, sometimes even complete stranger, that I should shave my head and become a monk. They say if I do that I will understand the meaning of life better and the suffering will be less. But I never go around telling people about my life's suffering or stuff like that, they just see me and feel sorry for me that they tell me a way to ease the suffering.
In cyber world, it is the same. I talk about stuff in my head and it doesn't take long before someone tells me to study one of the religions. Often Buddism is suggested, but I've been suggested other major religions, such as Islam, Christian, etc.
I feel like a patient in a hospital, seeing different specialists for my disease.
I for one are so glad Distantpeak and Phaisan are "so superior" to the rest of us (in their humble opinions 555!) that only they "understand" - so let them worry about this stuff and the rest of us mere mortals can get on living in reality.
You should join us Ggrass.
Last edited by Zablive; 9th December 2017 at 13:12.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end!
I think I pass as a mere mortal because my immediate and most recurring worries are
1. What to eat for breakfast?
2. What to eat for lunch?
3. What to eat for dinner?
4. What to do for living?
And every once in a blue moon I worry about the meaning of life.
Meaning of life is 42 Read hitch hikers guide to the galaxy lol
"Man cannot discover New Oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore"
Who said anything about being superior? You all have the chance to understand if you want to... and I am sure there are many who do understand... that haven't commentated because they don't feel the need to... (I suspect Jonty is one of those)
We all have different motivations in life... I have been obsessed about the idea of "Why, What and Where am I?" since I was a kid, so it's become part of who I am... some people are obsessed by motorbikes or football and understand those fields more than most.. doesn't make them superior...
My only experience was in a pie making factory managing the gravy team
In other words, kill them all and let God sort it out. If it feels good at the time then go for it. Maybe Donald Trump was right all along.... Just grab them by the pussy.
Just came back from the newly opened Central Mahachai and... my kids left both of their Ipads in two separate places and we only realized they were gone on our way home, so I made a quick U turn and returned to the shopping mall and to my surprise, both have been returned to the front desk, it was amazing. It tells a lot about Thai people's morality. I am thoroughly impressed. Wow...
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