"All of humanity's suffering, up until now, has been preordained just for the express purpose of allowing US at THIS MOMENT to BASK in our GREATNESS and LUCK."
And here I seem to begin the flame wars for real and in complete honesty.
I do believe in God. I believe that that God wishes us to be good and kind to oneanother and that in being good and kind to oneanother we will enrich one another into collective greatness. I don't believe you need to believe in God to work towards this goal because the goal is worthwile completely outside of any sort of theological mandate. Point of fact, this belief in God will have no impact on my esteem of you in any way. This is my path, I don't expect it to be yours.
What I will judge you on is how you treat your fellow human being, especially those of lower socio-economic status than yourself. But how you treat your neighbor has nothing to do with your religios affiliation or lack thereof. It relies entirely on your not being an asshat.
I see the meaning of life as simply to insure your own survival unto the point at which you can procreate, and then to do that as much as possible until you die. Eat, breathe, and screw, people, its the trifecta of existence. It is a tad daunting to consider that the entire rest of our social strata and civilization are built around such simple survivalist points. That all of our social culture is in fact simply a vast and over complicated courtship ritual that leads, by ends, to sex. Beyond which, we are essentially useless in the scheme of things. For what real purpose is there beyond insuring to continued survival of your species?
With that in mind, I look to the virgins and ask them how dare they defy your divine purpose? God, the Tao, the universe, whatever, has imbued you with the sublime occupation of getting laid!
So stop gaping at the monitor and hop to it!
I heistate to post this because either there will be no response because it's the 42nd post or there will be a response and the poetic number will be broken but here I go anyway...
Many people seem to ascribe to the idea that the meaning of life is to screw and propigate the species. If this is indeed the case where does that leave the gay population? Should they be killed because they obviously hold no purpose other than to use up resources the breeders could be using? What about the barren? What about post menopausal women? What about people who just don't want kids? If life is so simple what should become of these people?
I have nothing to add to this discussion, just that I find it hilarious that I had 42 unread messages in this thread. And 42 messages total, but thats beside the point.
I feel like homosexuals while not able to necessarily propegate the species, still possess that inate desire to screw and survive. The meaning of life doesn't necessarily apply to viability of it. Simply because someone is homosexual doesn't mean the abhore sex, its still hardwired into their system.
Someone once told me that homosexuality was a bridge between different tribes in any given species. Because the alpha males would always feel challenged from other competitors, the homosexuals would allow the two groups to merge. I don't even know if that is true or not, just something I heard through the grapevine, so take it as it is.
Quite conveniently, I just noticed that boinboing featured a link to a book called Evolution's Rainbow which discusses homosexuality's role in evolution.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/20/how_do_homosexual_an.html
Sounds intriguing.
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A Dream only has meaning when you yourself make meaning of it.
So therefore life only has meaning with you ascribe meaning to it like a dream.
"All of humanity's suffering, up until now, has been preordained just for the express purpose of allowing US at THIS MOMENT to BASK in our GREATNESS and LUCK."
I do believe in God. I believe that that God wishes us to be good and kind to oneanother and that in being good and kind to oneanother we will enrich one another into collective greatness. I don't believe you need to believe in God to work towards this goal because the goal is worthwile completely outside of any sort of theological mandate. Point of fact, this belief in God will have no impact on my esteem of you in any way. This is my path, I don't expect it to be yours.
What I will judge you on is how you treat your fellow human being, especially those of lower socio-economic status than yourself. But how you treat your neighbor has nothing to do with your religios affiliation or lack thereof. It relies entirely on your not being an asshat.
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With that in mind, I look to the virgins and ask them how dare they defy your divine purpose? God, the Tao, the universe, whatever, has imbued you with the sublime occupation of getting laid!
So stop gaping at the monitor and hop to it!
Many people seem to ascribe to the idea that the meaning of life is to screw and propigate the species. If this is indeed the case where does that leave the gay population? Should they be killed because they obviously hold no purpose other than to use up resources the breeders could be using? What about the barren? What about post menopausal women? What about people who just don't want kids? If life is so simple what should become of these people?
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/20/how_do_homosexual_an.html
Sounds intriguing.