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hahahaha, yeah write less, you are gettin "ahead" of yourself, oh yeah first to bring out that bad joke

   

Why not?

How do you know you exist in all time and space? How do you know you can exist in Jupiter, 200 years from now? How do you know life is ultimately insignificant unless you "can't" exist in all places, if at all possible? Other than that, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

   

If you feel you exist then you exist, you are significant to yourself at the very moment, if there is after life you will probably continue that thought if there is none then the thought will not continue on your part, but others will remember you and find significance in you. You exist to yourself, as every other person exists to themselves. Its way too late for me to be thinking, hahaha.

   

...... We get some weird ass shit going in this sub-forum... NOICE! I may C&P Some Jung shit... hehe.

   

I think it was warranted


You said there had to be a point - why? I'm not question if there could be a point, just that there has to be one.

Read it again - I said we don't exist in all places, just like we don't exist in all times. Neither of those facts makes the times and places we do exist pointless.

   

Go for it... I should dig up some Alan Watts material to throw in the mix, and really screw it all up

   

hahaha, quite so Blue Nose, on the weird shit note, you know you can never really reach one, because if you think about it 0.9999999 just keeps going up for ever and whos to say that it even gets to that number, hahaha

   

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/colle ... cious.html

A quick one, doesn't go very indepth but you get the picture.

   

And I'm questioning why shouldn't there be a point. Not that there has to be one but why not? WHy do people do things? What motivates them?

After reading the nonsense several times and failing to grasp even the simplist of concepts you graciously laid out in "metaphysical" form, it does not compute...at all. How do YOU know it ISN'T pointless? Answer? You don't, I don't, nobody does.

We Don't exist in all places and we don't exist in all times! I could have just said that at the beginning to save trouble. Glad we agree on something.

   

   

No need for popcorn. This is a friendly discussion on people who think they are right after death.

   

Even "friendly" discussions deserve some popcorn

   

Salted or vinager?

   

Sweet. You want some too?

   

Personal reasons. Life would be boring if nobody were motivated.

In biological/evolutionary terms, we wouldn't be alive if we had no compulsion to live. Any species that doesn't have an inherent desire or capacity to live is going to die off. That's probably the simplest concept of evolution and natural selection there is.

You suggest that if we (our spirit, consciousness, whatever) doesn't exist in the time after our death, that our lives are pointless. I'm saying they aren't - Our personal lives are very meaningful during the time we're alive, and continue to have personal meaning afterwards, in the form of any contributions to the rest of the world we've provided.

Even if there is an afterlife of any sort, I fail to see how that makes our lives purposeful - what's going to be the purpose of that afterlife once you get there? Doesn't it need purpose as much as this life does? You assume this life purpose serves to lead us to something else, but if there's a destination, that purpose goes away, and we're back to dealing with life without direction.

If you're not getting after all this, I'm content with dropping it, and hoping others got the point.

   

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