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  • Somebody basically summed up my outlook on life

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #90016  by Agent 57
 Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:35 pm
Some genius on DC's Craigslist wrote:Post Title: Help For The Confused

Let me explain: You are a bag of meat. Basically you are an ambulatory digestive system with some reproductive organs attached. Aside from that you would just be a tube sucking things in one end and crapping them out the other. It's just one of those sociological oddities that one end of your digestive tube is acceptable to expose in public while the other, in most circles, is considered rude to stick in someone's face. In between eating and excreting and working on using those gonads to make more copies of genetic material which is your only reason for being anyway, you will have some things called thoughts and feelings that really don't amount to much anyway. Then you will die, maybe after passing on some of your genetic material, maybe not, and probably after not being happy most of the time and posting on Craig's List a lot about how fucked up you are, apparently under the misconception that it actually matters. Then after you die other little alimentary canals will gobble you up to fuel their thoughtless, albeit not unhappy, little lives.

OK. That's it. Carry on.

 #90018  by Agent 57
 Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:48 pm
Actually, most of the latest batch of craigslist "best of" is pretty damn good this month. Funny stuff.

 #90024  by Tortolia
 Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:53 pm
HK-47 approves.

 #90033  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:59 pm
Tortolia wrote:HK-47 approves.
Or "ugly bags of mostly water".

 #90055  by Ishamael
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:08 am
May as well enjoy before we I get eaten by those alimentary canals!

 #90062  by Imakeholesinu
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:04 am
If I believed in that, then I wouldn't be with my bunny. There are better things in life, even if you are disolusioned into thinking there are. Who gives a shit as long as YOU are happy.

 #90066  by Agent 57
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:09 am
Okay, so I used the wrong words in my subject title. Perhaps I should have phrased it "Somebody summed up a point of view that I have occasionally when I want to remind myself why most drama is pointless, why most people are essentially the same, and why, in the grand grand scheme of things, humans really aren't such a big screaming deal anyway."

:)

 #90098  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:15 pm
That is an incredibly simplified view of things. The fact that we have the ability to write and do things means we can imortalize ourselves. Hammurabi died nearly four thousand years ago, we all know who he was. We are still living in a world forged by the actions of Adolf Hitler who died 60 years ago.
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 #90100  by Nev
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:28 pm
I think it could be safely argued that you took the "Legend In His Own Mind Award" completely the wrong way.

 #90101  by Agent 57
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:29 pm
The Seeker wrote:That is an incredibly simplified view of things. The fact that we have the ability to right and do things means we can imortalize ourselves. Hammurabi died nearly four thousand years ago, we all know who he was. We are still living in a world forged by the actions of Adolf Hitler who died 60 years ago.
Your troll bait is rapidly losing its subtlety.

 #90103  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:59 pm
You find it offensive that I feel that this particular opinion is far too narrow a view on human life? Please explain?
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 #90104  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:01 pm
Mental wrote:I think it could be safely argued that you took the "Legend In His Own Mind Award" completely the wrong way.
I really have absolutely zero idea as to what you are talking about.

 #90106  by Agent 57
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:48 pm
The Seeker wrote:You find it offensive that I feel that this particular opinion is far too narrow a view on human life? Please explain?
What, you think I'm offended? Not at all. You, in fact, make a halfway decent point in that some people can occasionally do something that makes a mark on other people enough so that they tell other people about it.

However, history is neither all-pervasive (not "everybody" knows who Hammurabi was, only people that have been told who he was) nor essential to human existence.

The opinion posted above does, as you mention, pare human existence down to its simplest terms, which I think can apply pretty well to those people who end up not being immortalized (which ends up being the vast majority of the human beings who have ever walked this earth). You therefore hold the opinion that the posted view is far too narrow for human life, whereas I find it just narrow enough for all of human life except for that of a miniscule percentage of extraordinary people. I find no reason to be offended by that difference of opinion.

I did find your post to be troll bait, however, simply by the harsh language used in attempting to gainsay me, the blatant spelling and grammar errors (which I thought was a sham at first, but then you actually corrected your use of "right" when you meant "write" so now I'm not so sure), and your choice of generally regarded "evil" historical figures (Hammurabi and Hitler as opposed to say, Buddha and Watson & Crick).

 #90107  by Nev
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:58 pm
The Seeker wrote:
Mental wrote:I think it could be safely argued that you took the "Legend In His Own Mind Award" completely the wrong way.
I really have absolutely zero idea as to what you are talking about.
I hope that someday the light shines through. :)

 #90112  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:32 pm
Agent 57 wrote:
The Seeker wrote:You find it offensive that I feel that this particular opinion is far too narrow a view on human life? Please explain?
What, you think I'm offended? Not at all. You, in fact, make a halfway decent point in that some people can occasionally do something that makes a mark on other people enough so that they tell other people about it.

However, history is neither all-pervasive (not "everybody" knows who Hammurabi was, only people that have been told who he was) nor essential to human existence.

The opinion posted above does, as you mention, pare human existence down to its simplest terms, which I think can apply pretty well to those people who end up not being immortalized (which ends up being the vast majority of the human beings who have ever walked this earth). You therefore hold the opinion that the posted view is far too narrow for human life, whereas I find it just narrow enough for all of human life except for that of a miniscule percentage of extraordinary people. I find no reason to be offended by that difference of opinion.

I did find your post to be troll bait, however, simply by the harsh language used in attempting to gainsay me, the blatant spelling and grammar errors (which I thought was a sham at first, but then you actually corrected your use of "right" when you meant "write" so now I'm not so sure), and your choice of generally regarded "evil" historical figures (Hammurabi and Hitler as opposed to say, Buddha and Watson & Crick).
All I can say about that typo is, WOOPS =)

Anyways, it is true, not everyone makes a mark on the worlds history, but that is really only a single example of what impacts a human life. Except for the cultural reference, the view explains a common survival need of every species of animal beyond the most basic phyla. As we move up the ladder, there are more than just those basic survival needs which factor into the lives of every animal. Human beings are an incredibly unique species, there is so much that factors into our lives. Anyways, I'll write more later, I have to get going. In short, essentially what makes us different from other animals is our hands in combination with intelligible speech and a very high intelligence level in comparison to most species of animal. Those are all basic properties of a human being.


And Mental, you're making no sense; get some sleep =)

 #90117  by Tortolia
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:39 pm
Why is this thread still going? It's been Godwinned.

 #90120  by SineSwiper
 Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:11 pm
Yeah, you're right. I wasn't paying attention:

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