Why do humans cling to the delusion of "purpose"?
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matt_shade — 6 years ago(July 23, 2019 11:52 AM)
Because it gives us some valid and credible reason to exist.
No, it doesn't. Our ancestors could have gone extinct 3.4 million years ago and that would be an equally valid universe.
What's the point of even being alive unless you serve some useful purpose in your life?
There is no point and there is no "purpose", it doesn't exist outside the imagination. You might as well be asking what's the point of being a hammer unless you are used to hammer specific types of nails into a specific type of wood. A hammer has
utility because utility is real.
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings' -
matt_shade — 6 years ago(July 23, 2019 10:29 PM)
I am sad at the thought of "Don't use your brain so much, have sex instead!" It makes me want to build a spaceship so I can die alone on the Moon away from this alien species.
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings' -
matt_shade — 6 years ago(July 23, 2019 11:23 PM)
Human beings are the reason 50% of Earth's plant species and 50% of the animal species (80% if we only count wildlife) have gone extinct in the last 100 years and the ice caps are about to turn into Waterworld. It took 3.4 million years for our ancestors to reach 1 billion, we went from that to over 7 billion in the last 200 years.
You know what you can do with your bonding and "taking joy in life" by rubbing your genitals together? Peddle it to someone else.
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings' -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 11:43 AM)
Human beings are the reason 50% of Earth's plant species and 50% of the animal species (80% if we only count wildlife) have gone extinct in the last 100 years and the ice caps are about to turn into Waterworld. It took 3.4 million years for our ancestors to reach 1 billion, we went from that to over 7 billion in the last 200 years.
You know what you can do with your bonding and "taking joy in life" by rubbing your genitals together? Peddle it to someone else.
Oh, so you're a depressed person babbling about a philosophy you've created because you're unhappy in the universe. I commend the poster who pulled you back down to our level. Ever since you arrived, I'd been reading your posts thinking what the heck your problem was. I think you're delusional. I really hope you we van help you start feeling better about yourself. -
matt_shade — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 11:50 AM)
I'm a broken and damaged and frustrated and depressed misanthrope, well done, Sherlock, but that does not make me delusional or wrong in what I'm saying.
I commend the poster who pulled you back down to our level.
What level is that? "What do you think nimda's feet smell like?" type threads?
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings' -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 03:43 PM)
I'm a broken and damaged and frustrated and depressed misanthrope, well done, Sherlock, but that does not make me delusional or wrong in what I'm saying.
You're just trying to make us as depressed as you and I'm not trying to hear your delusions. -
Alpha Raven Andromeda — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 05:40 PM)
Well, you're a misanthrope. That kind of explains itself, doesn't it? You're depressed and you hate people. I wouldn't put a misanthrope to get back at society by joining a message board to promote his depressing philosophies.
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matt_shade — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 10:07 PM)
"Hate" is too strong, more like dislike to the point I wish people were already extinct.
And what exactly is depressing about "my philosophy"? That the universe does not revolve around us? Way to prove you're not an egomaniac.
'(sigh) We humans are stupid egotistical self-deluded beings'