Re: Martin Fowler and the meaning of life

[Cosmo Electrolux]

This is the best thread ever....EVER!

[kahljorn]

I was just talking about this recently because it seems that regardless of what the universe is, the "Ultimate End" we can reach is either non-existent or meaningless.

[FartinMowler]

Why would you talk about it if it were meaningless? Maybe you guys should study social ineptness.

[kahljorn]

uhh, because the point is in finding out if it IS meaningless. Also, if it is meaningless it dispels like 95% of everybody's personal belief system.

fartin, saying things like that is really stupid ;(

Am I the only one who thinks it's strange when people rag on philosophy? Especially in this modern age which is largely the summation of philosophy.

ps 3) Don't be an anti-topic poster. I know we all do it, but let's try to stop it. For example, if there's a thread on gay rights, feel free to post in support or opposition to the issue. However, if you make a post that says something like "omg, guys, why are we talking about this, it sucks, lol," I'll delete it. An abundance of stupid posts will drown out the quality posts, which we don't want happening. that's you fartin
Although I thought your question was a good question, I can just feel your anti-topic pretention through the computer.

[FartinMowler]

I can just feel your anti-topic pretention through the computer.

I'm watching A&E Biography of Courntey Love and I'm making an Egg sandwich

[Grislygus]

Originally Posted by kahljorn

ps 3) Don't be an anti-topic poster. I know we all do it, but let's try to stop it. For example, if there's a thread on gay rights, feel free to post in support or opposition to the issue. However, if you make a post that says something like "omg, guys, why are we talking about this, it sucks, lol," I'll delete it.

Kahljorn can delete other people's posts?!

[kahljorn]

yea dude look out

if i wasn't such a nice guy and understood that fartin is already suppressed oppressed and censored this thread wouldn't even exist. Put that in your existentialist pipe and smoke it.

[FartinMowler]

The meaning of Life by Fartin Mowler

Egg heads (someone that thinks they are smart) piss me off. An Egghead is in the same family as a Helmet Heat (someone with low mental capacity) that thinks that if they read a bunch of shit by people that someone said is smart they join a club of elite social outcasts. You know what? you don't and I'm smart because I've lived my life knowing that in any situation I might die and It wouldn't matter if I was smart when I did it.

[kahljorn]

"These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way. Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered by sweeping statements. "Life" does not mean something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as life's tasks are also very real and conrete. They form man's destiny, which is different and unique for each individual. No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situations calls for a different response. Sometimes the situation in which a man finds himself may require him to shape his own fate by action. At other times it is more advatageous for him to make use of an opportunity for contemplation and to realize assets in this way. Sometimes man may be required simply to accept fate, to bear his cross. Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand."

that's from a BOOK i was READIng last night.

ps I might disagree with that last statement a bit, for there's certainly ambigous answers to some problems, or even just problems that can have more than one solution. Some answers might be better than other answers, though, so there could be a degree of rightness ;o

[FartinMowler]

kahljorn "These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way. Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered by sweeping statements. "Life" does not mean something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as life's tasks are also very real and conrete. They form man's destiny, which is different and unique for each individual. No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situations calls for a different response. Sometimes the situation in which a man finds himself may require him to shape his own fate by action. At other times it is more advatageous for him to make use of an opportunity for contemplation and to realize assets in this way. Sometimes man may be required simply to accept fate, to bear his cross. Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand."

Yesterday I walked and thought and then it came to me that if I go back to the place that I walked before I might find what I was looking for. I went back and looked and there on the ground lay a little bird wounded. I knelt down and said to the little bird "Little bird what is the meaning of life?" and the little bird looked up at me with his little eyes and said "Don't fly into fucking windows"

[kahljorn]

I hope that's a joke mister.