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    Have you just been dumped?

    I ask because it's usually something like that which causes outbursts like this, needless to say I dissagree completely.
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    Have you just been dumped?

    I ask because it's usually something like that which causes outbursts like this, needless to say I dissagree completely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marshal Murat View Post
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    I never understood the "the purpose of life is to continue the human race" line of thought, because what is the point in continuing something that has no purpose in itself? Gah, this backroom is making me too philosophical...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    I never understood the "the purpose of life is to continue the human race" line of thought, because what is the point in continuing something that has no purpose in itself? Gah, this backroom is making me too philosophical...
    You almost have it. There is no point, no purpose. We are, and that's all we have. Therefore we must work to keep it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
    You almost have it. There is no point, no purpose. We are, and that's all we have. Therefore we must work to keep it.
    Well I wouldn't say that's all we have but without that there is nothing else for us.


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    Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
    You almost have it. There is no point, no purpose. We are, and that's all we have. Therefore we must work to keep it.
    God is the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to existence. And I'm not talking just about humanity; the Universe itself is nothing without God.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
    You almost have it. There is no point, no purpose. We are, and that's all we have. Therefore we must work to keep it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
    You almost have it. There is no point, no purpose. We are, and that's all we have. Therefore we must work to keep it.
    But why work to keep something of no value?

    Also, going strictly along scientific lines, what exactly are 'we'? What is a human being? Obviously they have a body etc, but what about the mental aspect? According to science, aren't we really just biological robots, acting according to all the chemical reactions in our brains? We have no control over these (other than the controlling methods we could use through other chemical reactions in our brains to make the decisions to control them, but that just starts a cycle...), and so there is no such thing as choice. Miotas was saying about how he couldn't be happy not being able to control his life under an all-knowing God, and I would guess that in saying such a thing he must have presumed he has some kind of conscience by which he identifies himself. But then, does science even allow for such an idea as a conscience/soul?

    You could say your consciousness is the sum of the workings of your brain, but really that's not consciousness, that's just a set of complicated reactions which work every bit as mechanically and rigidly as the PC I'm sitting at right now.

    What is the point of living under such circumstances?
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