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Why do we try to find meaning in life? Why is it so difficult to accept the possibility that existence is pointless? Because there are so many clues and feelings in the world that it makes a mystery and a mystery means there's a puzzle to be solved. Once you think like that you're booked on probably finding a meaning, and there' many avenues in life where we're given little indications that the mystery can one day be solved. we get little proofs, – not the big proof – but the little proofs that keep us searching. From a David Lynch interview. I know this forum as an EXTREAMLY anti-spiritual, anti-religious vibe, but I'd just like to say he sums up what I believe pretty well. I could never be as skeptical as some; even if the skeptic's path is the true path, taking it would make me far too depressed and empty. |
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goddamn, you're monoid without the dxm. |
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i don't quite understand the connection - what does this quote mean to you? |
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The meaning of life is life itself. The machine's running, best not to interfere. |
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dont bother about lifes meaning, you're never gonna get a truly correct answer - not in this life. just be happy. |
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seaman! |
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Are you trying to give us a cryptic message hobbes? Fish reaper? That's it, isn't it? Fish reaper. |
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When they came for the fish, I said nothing because I was not a fish. |
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Whatever you want it to mean my dear, Chihiro once said "we are fish that die"..... Also both those images the same movie, monty python anyone? |
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jesus is busy look coming. |
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yes, i resisted the urge to post from that movie yet again. it's my favorite mp film, actually. |
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Sorry Alex i sounded like a prick in that post i think. |
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the meaning of life is death |
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I find it odd that people who ask about the meaning of life turn around and take the position that it's meaningless unless it's somehow pumped up with meaning-juice from their own personal reified fantasy and nightmare personages. |
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Yarr, i sensed no trace of prick in that post my man. I like "the meaning of life" a lot more than the other python films. On a tangential note, a friend of my mum's had a terrapin called Mr. Creosote. That was one motherfucking fat terrapin. |
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I posted this because I see people here mock spirituality and religion, but I think there are plenty of hints that there is "more" (not least in the realm of the paranormal) and that Lynch quote explained it better then I could. I don't mind atheism, it's when it gets militant and mocking that I hate it. |
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hahaha! "i'm stuffed!" |
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i don't see what the quote has to do with spirituality, religion or the paranormal. is the quote out of context or do you mean this is your own interpretation of the quote? |
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finding your soulmate and doing things together that you both love. making each other smile, and losing yourself in each other's embraces. becoming one with your environment and clearing your soul from all chemical impurities and bad karma. that's what life is all about. .. just kidding. this shit is all just meaningless happenstance. |
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there is no meaning |
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Never mind, can't be assed to explain. Anyway, it's something that opposes most beliefs here, so I'll just run! Lynch was saying that there is more to our need for a meaning then a mere "need"...he was saying that the reality is that there is "more"....and NOT just because we have some emmotional need for more. That's expanded on later on in the interview when he discusses his religious experiences within Buddism. |
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I think hobbes summed it up with the monty python fish |
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I don't understand why you superstitious nutballs get all snippy when people don't want to share your absurd delusions. |
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thanks for the clarification about the quote... |
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the meaning of life is too reproduce |
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"I don't understand why you superstitious nutballs get all snippy when people don't want to share your absurd delusions." Fabulous example. Some people think they have the unviverse sussed, and anyone who disagrees with them must therefore be stupid and absurd. |
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i fucking hate pikeys |
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They're the worst. They can't even speak English. |
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burn the pikeys |
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goddamn, you're monoid without the dxm. the post title influenced u too much! |
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What's going on here? |
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"I know this forum as an EXTREAMLY anti-spiritual, anti-religious vibe" > extremely? come on, aren't you exaggerating a bit? or maybe you come from an extremely religious environment... or maybe i'm just not seeing it anyway, i'm not worrying about the meaning of life, i've thought about it several times but i think that... either there is none, either if there is one it's too unclear to determine what it is for sure. in my opinion, i think it's more probable that there is none. for all religious/spiritual matters, since incertitude doesn't make me depressed nor anxious (a lot of things make me depressed or anxious, but not incertitude), i stay in a position of incertitude which is ok with me : ) i just don't like to think about terrible stuff, like this "heaven/hell" thing... |
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Excuse me, I am not religious. That doesn't mean I can't sense the anti religious vibe here though. As an empericist, I beleive in what I experience. And if I've had spiritual experiences, I believe them. I don't need know-all skeptics ranting about how ridiculous a belief in something "more" is (though such people are actually rare.) |
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"Incertitude" is such an awesome word. |
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I dont know. I think this board is more anti-christian than anti spiritual. |
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with all due respect, how do you expect people here to respond when you've condemned their ideas from your first post? not to mention this is exactly the sort of topic that you must have known would be met with confrontation... so if you didn't want people telling you that they disagree, why post it at all? |
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I understand your point, and I should have been clearer. I don't mind skeptics, I simply dislike mocking. There's a massive difference between a rational argument and saying "Christianity is teH gay" or whatever (althought I guess that can be funny.) I don't mind skeptics, it's when someone believes something and thinks his/hers beliefs superior and mocks other beliefs that I get annoyed. Hope that cleared things up. |
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well, sure, being skeptical for everything isn't a good position in my opinion either : ) you can believe in what you want/feel, not believing anything and being too down-to-earth would bore me... seems sad to me. |
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i've been posting here for quite a while and i must say that i haven't sensed any anti religus vibe..maybe you missinterpreted something and also you should now by now that most people on this forum tend to be sarcastic and joke just about everything. as for the topic - i can't see a point of life but would be real glad to find ou there is one. |
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Oh Jesus. That same line of reasoning can be used to defend everything from astrology to drinking your own pee. And the world is full of urine-drinking Libras who bristle at the thought that anyone might subject their nonsense to even the most cursory scrutiny. |
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who cares if Lynch thinks there is more to life or not? |
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Change your fucking ghastly avatar and I might give two seconds to listen to what the fuck you're banging on about. |
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Award For Most Sensible Post of January 2005. |
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i know the meaning of life.. that's why I'm so bitter. I'd tell you but I can't. Hint: it has something to do with peanuts |
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this thread is teh gay |
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