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offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 14:47 [#02301053]
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I think that's the answer here, the phenomenal world is a
advanced holographic interface which we can interact with
and manipulate. the architect is another holographic
interface and so we have a kind of fake within a fake
reality, based on many sub realities. but what is at the
source?


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2009-06-28 14:47 [#02301054]
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outa space


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:49 [#02301056]
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v1 is merely a holographic forum running inside of the real
forum which is v2 and is already here


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:49 [#02301057]
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we just have to figure out how to turn off the holoforum but
the controls are locked


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 14:50 [#02301058]
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my earlier post had an analogy that would explain what i
mean better, "When fleas live in a dog's
fur are they one with the dog? No they coexist to perform a

function, and if the fleas are dead, the dog still exists."


Meaning that physically, they ARE separate. Not divided by
thought. Thought is a byproduct of the brain's function. Not
a separate entity outside of us that we chose to attatch to.
It is our brain's makeup to be able to interpret and
understand the universe, from what i see, you think of that
then as DE-evolution? Almost as if thought, or understanding
nature from an outside perspective is a lie or futile
exercise?



 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 15:11 [#02301069]
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actually reading this whole thread starting from your first
post, i understand what you mean, and like i always do, i
misinterpreted what was said. I thought you were saying
(well what gingaling said) was that nature and humans are
basically all acting on a single force, as if it's all being
controlled by one giant hand and we're all puppets to that
hand. I was just trying to point out that human life on
earth is all reproduction and division, and that thought IS
separate from that. But i laughed when i looked at my post
about nature's function, because that's the exact function
of a mother's womb. I just hate when the thought of
"everything's connected" starts to enter my brain, it just
feels so consuming, like i have no space to do what i want.
I guess that is me resisting nature., being
Anti-instinctual. But i like viewing life from an outside
perspective, i don't like feeling like life is not to be
analyzed, as of it's supposed to be experienced like a drug
or something, i don't know.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 15:13 [#02301070]
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fuck *as if. ok i'm done, enough boring repetition


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 15:27 [#02301075]
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Unfortunately, boredom is the major problem for mankind. We
have these thoughts, what to do with them? It seems that
eating, sleeping, procreating isn't enough - so we use
thought to try and give meaning to life through religion,
philosophy, culture, entertainment etc. yet truthfully all
of that is entirely meaningless.

So, to date, thought has not benefited man, for all the
medicine created by thouht, more have been killed by thought
for nothing except an idea, a philosophy, and millions live
in ignorance and poverty.

Unless thought is given its rightful place, there is no
point discussing a future for mankind, it will be a hell
hole for all except the fortunate few.


 

offline nightex from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2009-06-28 15:41 [#02301080]
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I think there is dificult to talk about stuff like:
nature, human, brain, thoughts, consciousness and so on.
Thats becouse there is no scientific explanation, there is
only philosophycal "explanation". So diging deeper meens go
to learn philosophy. Again that meens you need time, to find
good sources of information.

Sry to confuse you, the truth is that I rised hypothesis
that, human is completly seperate from nature and has no
conection with it if time stops. Time stops I meen we not
existing :D :D, becouse maybe we couldnt think...
ok I meesed up :D


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 15:44 [#02301081]
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Well wait, when you say something like entertainment is
meaningless, what then do you consider OF meaning?

To me, watching a television show that interests me is a
better way to spend my time than focusing all of my energy
on my life's direction or what i will do next. Not to
replace T.V. with reality, but for a means of enjoyment, for
amusement, while i'm alive. Just like music, it's a
practice, or activity that i like directing my energy
toward. Even if it gains me nothing in terms of my purpose
here on earth which is to reproduce, i still feel that the
time was well spent.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-06-28 15:47 [#02301084]
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dumbest. thread. ever.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 15:57 [#02301091]
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in terms of what? What is your logical explanation?HUH?


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 15:58 [#02301092]
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I just went to the garage to buy some sweets, on my way down
i saw 2 prostitutes, one fat one and one looks kind of sexy,
but it was dark...


 

offline nightex from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2009-06-28 16:01 [#02301093]
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There is no meaning in life. And this is good think.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2009-06-28 18:12 [#02301140]
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everything is connected, though. the universe in complete
is a system, and every part of it can be broken into systems
and layers. everything that exists or happens does so
because of one element relating to another. everything is a
chemical reaction, or a relationship or some sort of cause
and effect interaction.

do you mean that you don't think its connected like on some
cosmic quantum level or something? i think its all
connected in that way too.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-06-28 18:14 [#02301142]
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you're all cells of a giant alien but you didn't know that


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 18:24 [#02301144]
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no i mean like us humans are all just different spokes on
the same tire. I can't explain it other than to say that it
was the reason for my 2-night stay at a hospital. I just
felt as though everything was becoming connected, like all
my perceptions of everything, it was a scary feeling and
it's hard to explain. I just felt everything in my life
accumulating. Like i had nothing at all. I think it was just
a really big reality check. And now whenever i meet people
that for the most part reside on those intuitions, i tend to
want to stay away from them.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 18:26 [#02301145]
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I just freaked out about life. everybody does


 

offline MarXus from United States on 2009-06-29 02:11 [#02301200]
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You have made the most sense in this thread. Don't believe
the haters.

Pulseclock, I think I know what you're talking about. I have
had a strange, very scary experience of feeling a sort of
one-ness. That's seems contradictory, as that's supposed to
entail a good, even heavenly feeling. But I guess it was
more of a trapped, limiting, suffocating thing. It was like,
despite all the change that occurs in the universe, I saw it
as ultimately static, a universe caught in a strait jacket.
And I felt that a little bit to, not just thought it.

1. This didn't involve substances.

2. These are the kinda thoughts that can drive people
insane.

3. When someone says "it's hot in this room," it's them
that's hot, not the room. A parable.


 

offline MarXus from United States on 2009-06-29 02:14 [#02301202]
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It could have truly been more of a separation than a coming
together, when it comes down to it.


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2009-06-29 02:14 [#02301203]
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save it for a better tomorrow


 

offline cwnt on 2009-06-29 02:24 [#02301206]
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future micro/nano/pico technology body hacks

tiny little robots could enter your body
kill all cancer cells
repair all disease
heal anything, even make your arms and legs grow back if you
lose them
make your entire body bulletproof and damage proof
a way to make you fly like superman
a way to generate air and food anywhere you go so you can
fly to neptune and go sightseeing with richard branson's own
personal digital camera
perfect vision
x ray vision
night vision
telescopic vision
change hair and eye colour on command
audio output and visual output for the sounds imagined by
your mind


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-29 03:28 [#02301217]
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When I read that I begin to wonder if humans have a very
deluded viewpoint of the universe.
As if we are on the brim of evolution into a truer deeper
state of mind, or at least some of us.
I have felt many times extremely weird, as if everything
around me was unknown and strange.
If I really contemplate it, I have no idea why I exist, why
the universe exists.
And it seems odd that we already know the answer to these
questions. (We're all just animals running around on a
planet created through energy that began at the big bang.)

I mean is it really that simple?
I have always looked for something more than what meets the
eye, but I have never managed to find it.
The answer is not in religion, mysticism, spirituality or
anything like that, I find all those things are man made
creations and not the truth.
I'm not sure what I'm looking for, but I know little bits..

Like I want it to be more than just the normal life we
lead.
Like many people reject scifi because nothing in our world
is scifi, and if it is it is a bad prototype thats way too
human.
But in the end our world and universe is far more complex
and has far more secrets than we can ever imagine.

Or maybe it doesn't and the universe is just a boring place.


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2009-06-29 03:59 [#02301221]
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bla bla thread.

All dies.

This is the end, my only friend the end.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 06:08 [#02301247]
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Actually, we don't know the answer to everything. The Big
Bang is only a theory - and even it it wasn't nothing
explains what caused the big bang.

It's unfortunate, but you just have to accept that you don't
know why you exist and you're probably never going to know.


Inventing a belief system to justify your beliefs is absurd.
The fact that humans are still running around doing that
shows how primitive our use of thought really is. We're not
much more mentally evolved than a fucking monkey if we still
can't figure out how to accept the apparent futility of
existence.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-29 06:19 [#02301248]
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You can have a belief system created by yourself and still
realize reality and life objectivily is pointless.

We have to indulge in what we believe in otherwise we could
just commit suicide together cause there's no point then.
I don't believe nature created us for suicide, I believe we
have these belief systems in place precisely to indulge in
them.

I'm not sure what thought process you have in mind that
would transcend the current state of affairs.
Can you give an example of 'good' thought?



 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 06:33 [#02301249]
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When are you going to realise you're just an animal. As a
human being you're not any more special or relevant to
nature than a beetle or an earthworm. A pig doesn't need a
belief system and neither do you.

You're the same as any other animal, a multi-cellular
organism whose brain just so happens to have evolved into a
much more complex state.

You need a belief system to stop you from committing
suicide? Tragic. Why can't you just accept there is no
meaning, once you accept that as fact - not a philosophy -
then all your miseries will disappear. This perpetually
struggle to find out the meaning of life is the root cause
of your malais.


 

offline md_geist from Man's-Chest-Yeh? on 2009-06-29 07:39 [#02301254]
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NOBODY KNOS ANYFINK.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-29 08:02 [#02301256]
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I agree with everything you say, I just don't agree with
your conclusion.
The universe objectively is neutral, it has no value or
subjective meaning - this is created in our heads.
We don't have to accept objectivity when we have the
capacity for subjectivity.
In fact I don't think it's possible to reject all value
unless you commit suicide.

I'm not looking for anything remotely like a meaning of
life.
I'm looking for a way to enhance my siubjective experience
through the things I physically do and experience, and the
way I perceive those things.

You have to separate the objective from the subjective, and
truth be told, there is no such thing as objective.
You are clinging on to a feeling you have that there is no
meaning, without realizing that the word meaning, and
meaningless are created in your head. The universe knows no
such concepts as meaning or life.
Your opinion that life has no meaning is as subjective and
belief based as anything else is.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:08 [#02301259]
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Actually you're wrong to say that we're the all the same. We
are all very different creatures, though we have the same
chemistry and cna survive from the same things. But every
human is different like every animal is different. Being
born as human from the beginning separates us from being
like an animal, even though we are inhabitants on the same
planet, cellular organisms are the make-up of a differing
species here on this planet and which all have functions
that are not similar at all.

You group together all living creatures as "animals" But
every species has a different inherited function, but we ARE
related by the fact that we are alive, we die, we procreate,
and we are a reproduction.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 09:16 [#02301260]
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Facts are objective, opinions and ideas are subjective. So,
there is no such thing as subjective.

I have an objective opinion on the universe, because it's
based on the available scientific data. If I held a
religious view, that would be subjective, i.e. foundless.

I wouldn't call my objective views a belief - as in a belief
system, as there's nothing to believe in. Objectively
speaking, it appears as if there is no meaning to life,
there is no hard evidence for it - that's a fact, as far as
we can call it a fact. As far as I can say that I am now
sitting on a chair is a fact.

Why do you want to "enhance" your subjective experience?
Boredom? It would only be an escape, like any other form of
entertainment.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:22 [#02301261]
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entertainment isn't an escape. And don't use the word escape
if you're not meaning it literally since it really isn't
objectively valid or appropriate.

You must think anything besides surviving, and reproducing
is turning away from the truths of reality, which is not
true


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 09:23 [#02301262]
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We're all animals I said. That's a fact, unless you don't
know what the word animal means. We may be different types
of animal - behave differently, look differently, but our
purpose according to nature is the same. Survive in order to
procreate, then die. Anything above that is unnecessary, not
wanted or needed by nature, least of all the crap humans
come up with.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-29 09:24 [#02301263]
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no.humans are not same as animals.
we can talk and communicate via lenguage,
we can use the "word" so thats to create.

Technologic.

WE ARE NOT ANIMALS


 

offline md_geist from Man's-Chest-Yeh? on 2009-06-29 09:28 [#02301264]
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I'm a fucking animal in the bedroom.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:28 [#02301265]
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just because we are designed for nature's evolutionary
purpose as you say, then explain why a cat basks in the sun
if it does it nature no good. The point i'm trying to make
is that we as animals interact with nature and just because
we have a designed function doesn't mean that it is our
primary mode for living in reality as nature intended.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-29 09:28 [#02301266]
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Animals brains operate on a very linear function, they live
in the moment, that accounts for all animals, feel free to
dispute it.. I do believe animals have basic feelings, but
they are emotions for each passing moment

for example, i smack my cat and he's ears go back and he
lowers to the ground in a submissive state, he is upset and
angry, but then i stroke him and he is OK again. I'm sure my
cat is not sitting on my lawn thinking about what a cunt i
am, he is just feeling a cool breeze and looking at things
moving. nothing else.

Humans have the ability to reflect on past memories, or
dream ahead to the future. and we can live in the moment
too. this gives us a vast awareness of time and makes us far
more superior to animals, putting us into a unique category
of species, special even.

thanks

Larn





 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 09:42 [#02301268]
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What is our primary mode for living then?


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:43 [#02301269]
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we all think we can see nature for its entirety, we even
think our basic fundamental understanding of perception is
truth. So how does it make sense to think you have any
knowledge on the "needs" of nature. First of all nature
doesn't really need anything. It can survive without a human
fucking another human to make a child.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:44 [#02301270]
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i don't pretend to know. I think typing something like this
would make more sense,

21390543708943njklndrf0ru028-4jr

That is our primary mode for living.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 09:48 [#02301271]
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You might think you're superior, doesn't make you superior.
Nature would be just as indifferent if humans were made
extinct as if wasps were made extinct.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:48 [#02301272]
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haha i love when cat's emotionally react.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 09:50 [#02301273]
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whoops meant cats


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 09:54 [#02301274]
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What you on about? It's apparent that humans' primary reason
for existing is reproduction. The proof is all around us.

If there is another reason, there's no evidence for it
whatsoever. What's the point in saying "there might be" as
if it's fact. It's not fact. But it's a fact that animals
reproduce to survive - so leave it at that.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-29 10:04 [#02301275]
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no no no


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-29 10:10 [#02301279]
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No evidence?
Then why the hell do we have language, abstract thought
etc?
Isn't that evidence enough?

You are once again somehow denying that nature gave us
thinking facilities beyond mere reproduction and animal like
behavior.
If our main purpose was reproduction we wouldn't sit here
typing on the internet, we would be out having orgies in the
forest.

There is an astounding pile of evidence to show that humans
are more complex than other animals - you can begin with
art, technology and social behavior.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 10:17 [#02301281]
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You must misunderstand me. I'll try and spell it out.

I'm not denying nature gave humans the faculties they have,
how could it be any other way? However, that does not mean
humans are more important than any other animal.

Art, technology etc. is a by-product of thought, that does
not mean nature intended us to use thought to create art.
Like everything in the universe, the evidence leads us to
beleive that much of what exists, or gets created, is random
or down to chance.

By chance, humans evolved into a more complex form of
animal, but still an animal. Despite being more complex and
capable of being able to do infinitely more things than
other animals can do, there is no requirement from nature
for us to do so. In fact, there is no requirement for us to
do anything other than survive, fuck and die.

You can say there is, but there's no evidence for that.
There is evidence, however, that as an animal our primary
purpose is reproduction.

You can superimpose onto that what you like, doesn't make it
so.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-29 10:20 [#02301282]
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what you on about?

I don't know who you're quoting but i never said there might
be.

And i wasn't responding to your statement that the reason
for humans existence is to procreate. I was replying to your
little theory that things like entertainment or anything
beyond reproduction or survival has no meaning.

But you can obviously see through the eyes of nature, so
i'll just trust in you.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-29 10:22 [#02301283]
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Actually, how do we know what nature intended, and you even
say yourself that evidence leads us to believe most things
are random and created by chance.

A human has the power to consciously make a decision to not
reproduce, and then die without having children.
He didn't actually make this choice himself, nature already
created everything that made him capable of thinking that.
A human doesn't have any requirement at all, at least not
reproduction. That is a subjective opinion you created in
your head based on the information you have.

You don't seem to realize that this viewpoint you have is
completely fabricated in your brain.. There is no such truth
or requirement in nature itself.



 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-29 10:26 [#02301284]
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So what meaning does entertainment have then? Other than
being an escape from boredom. You get some pleasure then
forget about it - not saying there's anything wrong with it.


 


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