The universe doesn't exist at all around us. If all we see on earth is what happened millions and even billions of light years before, who's to say these things even exist anymore?
If god exists, then we're here for nothing more than to entertain him. We're god's antfarm. His soap opera. His porno. He's eating popcorn and jacking his dick while we rape the planet and kill eachother. The sick bastard.
Interesting. I like to think God is in all of us. Life is just a test to unlock that higher being within yourself and when you get to the end of the cycle then you are God. The lower you are the less of a personality you have because this piece of God makes you what you are. Things like love and friendship are just these pieces recognising each other from a past life and trying to connect. If God was one super-being and in this mass distribution of him or her then we all have a piece of his or her personality. Some have and angry part, a sad part, a happy part, a funny part and so on and so forth. The Hindus have a huge amount of gods so I like to think each piece of the one God is a different being altogether. So maybe when you pray you're just looking for answers deep within yourself. Or something insightful like that
Highdea that I kinda like: I think that one reason (some) people from the outside look at the US being so big and powerful is because of all our little states. We're like a country made out of little countries! Each mini country even gets its own sports teams and laws! Opposite of insightful--> http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/nov22004/guide/meas/m33_opp.html
This is an excerpt from a huge discussion I had with a few buddies. We decided this line should stand on its own. "Perspective cripples thought" Funny how the most offhand, top of the head thinking often yields the best truths
A note from my facebook "I'll try to make this short. Yesterday when I was taking my IT midterm, there was a problem discussing infinite loops (a line/section of code that runs forever - yeah i know obvious), and for some weird reason I couldn't help but to think of procreation. Let me put it that way, at some point in your existence half of you was an egg in your mother’s womb. That egg existed in her body from the day she was born. And a long, long time ago, she too was an egg in her mother’s womb, who had that egg ready for use from the moment she squirmed out of your great grandma’s nethers. The point being, well technically speaking, there’s no break in the chain of existence, no time when you are not a life form of at least the most simple sort. Your family, at least on your mother’s side, could theoretically be considered an immortal, constantly-regenerating organism. Of course that would make men, whose sperm has to be created years after the moment of birth, just disposable donors here to fuel the everlasting fire of womanhood (you go girls). Least I think it's pretty cool to think of procreation it in that way."
I just thought of this today: One version of the technological singularity is that machines will become more intelligent than humans, and thus their behavior might as well be unpredictable to us. But, we're getting so close to being able to synthesize life and alter genomes. If we manage to do this before the machines can improve themselves, wouldn't that make US the singularity?
It was more of a profound understanding that goes beyond proper words. Weed does that :sunny: *edit* to the above poster: Human singularity = epic!!!!!
You can't call yourself a man if you still blame your parents/childhood for your current tie-downs in life.
Machines can delete their memories. We can not. If I locked you in a room for your whole life then you would be a shadow of a person, if that. The experiences you have in life are what make you, you.