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when you fit a song perfectly to how you feel... nothing is better then that! |
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other great things... music in general, doritos, sunsets, the summer, Christmas, weekends, sleep, coffee, friends, love, beautiful women, laughter, reading, playing games, traveling, etc... |
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friends (this has been hit home to me more than ever this year); my girlfriend (too many reasons to list); smile/shiver-inducing, mood-altering moments in music; keeping busy (with things you enjoy doing); sunshine (especially on your face); a cool breeze; laughing from the gut; sitting comfortably; my favourite jeans (like home from home); headphones; the sea; sunset; dawn; dancing all night long (when you never want it to stop); unexpectedly hearing from an old friend; waking up refreshed; getting lost in a moment.. |
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"when you realise you're about to see aphex twin" so true...so true!!! |
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thats nothing unusual since you act like a child who wants to fight everyone, Tom. |
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So...... you people like stuff huh? |
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having my parents' house and well-stocked refridgerator all to myself (+ girlfriend and smoking companions) for a week. bliss. |
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what's to say life isn't special? every little moment saturated with specialness? |
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yes yes man, I've had my house to myself for weeks on end at times, and it's awesome! |
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mine is supersaturated with specialness! |
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what's to say life isn't special? hmm.. if you look at it from a scientific approach, one life is only one among many, which doesn't make one single life special. the phenomenon of life itself, on the other had, is very special, 'cause EVERYTHING that is alive falls under its description, and therefore, there is only one "life." Maybe I'm lost in semantics, and maybe i'm talking about unique instead of special, but I don't see how those two things are too far apart. |
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Special? Is there a single thing that is more every-day than life? |
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Pleasure |
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milk, eagles and sex with curious lesbians. oh and of course my dog: 'Jubba' he is a genius |
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au contraire, the esteemed mr. mastah is correct. life is exceedingly special because - as far as we know - it exists in only one lickle part of the universe. life is a most peculiar phenomenon because it creates order from less order, against the natural direction of entropy in the universe (if you ignore the heat released). |
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There are lots of places where that happens. Crystals, snowflakes, planets forming into orbs from scattered dust. |
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hmm. yes, that is true. i am making a cordial retreat from my statement. *much head-scratching ensues* |
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Kisses and cuddles |
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[nothing personal - I was looking for an excuse to post that] |
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That's all good and well, if it wasn't true car engines wouldn't work or anything of that nature. The second law of thermodynamics isn't really an absolute (as it was first formulated), it's now been explained by a statistical interpretation since the turn of the 20th century really. That is, entropy increases because it is far far far more likely to, but it is statistically possible for (a common example) all of the air molecules in a room to suddenly move into one corner. Cool book I'm reading by John Gribbin, quote: "This has interesting implications in cosmology...where we deal with vast stretches of time and space. The bigger the region we deal with, the more scope there is for unlikely things to happen someplace, and sometime inside it. It is even possible (though still not very likely) that the whole universe, which is an orderly place, by and large, represents some sort of thermodynamic statistical fluctuation, a very large, very rare hiccup that has created a region of low entropy that is now running down." |
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drunkenm. ah .. i sort of fucked that up. i wasn't intending for it to come across so third person. if "life" in the third person = "special", well then, that doesn't really do much for my person (b/c i'm not a third person). which i think you were getting at? i think what i was getting at was that specialness in life is surely determined by the moment-to-moment progression. i.e. the constellation/form of the moment more so than the content of the moment. (the way you live, not so much what you live?) - feck. might be time to take some anti-pyretics ... coz this seems to be saying not much. :) |
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haha =oD I aint kissing you with that mouth! O_o |
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yes, I know. I just enjoy picking at sentences. Probably a result of having logics and rhetorics + an deep interest in linguistics and language-theory. It annoys me that I enjoy it, 'cause it seems philosophy today is more about language than anything else, and I would like to end up somewhere outside of language (heh.. not possible, but I won't study how language relates to itself at least!) when I'm done with my studies. Simply put, the way I saw your original post before I got stuck in language, was: "the unique state of each and every moment is special," but I see now that I wasn't completely correct in that either. |
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I like it when my harddrives die all the time and I lose everything all the time. .. |
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ah no worries. i do philosophy meself, so i have quite an appetite for "nit-picking" and arguments etc. ;) i find language theory can be a bit of a self-imposed cage tho ?. but yes, i can see how you got those christian overtones from my original post. |
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I won't study how language relates to itself at least! if you mean "language" in general, then yeah - tends to cause a bit of a headache - and it seems a rather metaphysical presupposition that it does or could "relate to itself" - that doesn't mean its wrong of course ... |
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I'd like to point out that snowflakes, tornadoes, crystals, and lightning are great examples of natural order but are poor analogies for life. Life is unique due to the extreme amount of information it contains (DNA, Protein Synthesis using syntax, rules of grammar). Those examples you mentioned, while orderly, have very low information content. It's currently unknown how information of this kind can arise naturalistically. |
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Yes. Thank you. My head scratching, whilst forever continuing, will be slightly less painful. |
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That wasn't the point though, it was in response to this: life is a most peculiar phenomenon because it creates order from less order, against the natural direction of entropy in the universe |
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God you wankers can't help but make everything a stupid fucking philosophical intellectual arguement. If you want to do that shit do it in some other topic and don't ruin perfectly good ones with your inane ramblings. If I wanted to see this shit I would have called the topic "Discuss the philosophy of being a wanker by misinterpreting other peoples comments as much as possible" Thanks. |
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yes i was still mistaken to say that. i was thinking about ordered information from disordered matter, but instead i talked about ordered matter from disordered matter. |
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Gawd, go cuddle with that girl you really like or whatever. |
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Whoops. Oh well, still nice to know. Anyway, I'd just like to say that I'm constantly amazed by my own self-awareness. Even without drugs. |
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You're just adding fuel to the fire |
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Hmm, that just made me think. It's kind of like a self-feedback system. Thinking about your brain which is thinking about your brain which is thinking about your brain, ad infinitum. Hall of mirrors type thing. No wonder you see crazy fractal shit when you take hallucinogens. |
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this thread only because its by you ecnadniarb :D |
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Cool, fill in the blank! "this thread ____ only because its by you ecnadniarb :D" vomits |
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yeah it's crazy shit isn't it. another good one: if we had an all-encompassing grand unified theory of physics, we could in theory (and ignoring quantum chaosy bizness) predict the movement of every particle (atomic and subatomic) in the universe. we could therefore predict the future with 100% accuracy if we had an infinitely powerful computer. (this is a theoretical 'proof' of determinism) but!: said computer would also be part of the universe, and would therefore have to predict its own computations... arrgghhh.... infinite regression.... hall of mirrors... does not compute does not compute does not compute |
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Yeh, well I was determinist until about a week ago. But you can't get around quantum theory. |
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I can't even predict what kind of samwitch I'm a have for lunch. |
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I've got a hunch that your post will make someone mention Godel's Theorm. |
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Hey, I was right! |
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:P up yours!!! ok this makes life special and this, because hes just soooo cool to look at. |
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*goes and reads about Godel's Theorem* I love this stuff. afxnumb: hott11./[ |
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I hope he loves you as much as you love him. |
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hmm, im gonna walk away. |
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I dont "love" him...we've only been dating for a little over a month, hes good company |
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My mistake |
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getting post 100 in a thread is the best! |
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