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Hi this is my submission about The Meaning of Life, i would firstly like to say a big thank you to the good people at my mental institute for letting me use their PC, and also a big thank you to all the people at SR for recommending me there.
I usually have a lot a free time on my hands (Explains things don't it?) and most of the time it is thinking about stuff, anything usually but most of all lately the meaning of life, it has come to me that the meaning of life is:
"Conflictions" (Ok keep reading so you can understand it) Basicaly the whole world runs on Conflictions it is what makes us tick, what makes the world go round, what life is all about, lets take an example:
A game (Computer and not) - If there was no way to lose there would be no point in trying, it is the Confliction that keeps you playing, not knowing which way the dice will role, not knowing if you will be wiped out on the final boss of FFVIII, if there was no way of losing there would be no point playing.
A 'Soap' - What keeps you watching is the Conflictions that happen, you WANT to see the fight when someone finds out their best friend is sleeping with his wife, or the Confliction of a big argument.
This is what we humans need to live without it we would not be able to survive, this rule also applies to the animal kingdom, without the Confliction of animals fighting for food, most of the animals would die of starvation or the Confliction of trying to find a mate otherwise thier species would die out.
Us as humans are a little more developed in our lust for Conflictions we need what i call a 'Focus Point' someone or something that is the attention of all the Confliction at the time and place (The words 'The Game' come to mind) of course with all rules there are exceptions, lets take an exception of both a Focused Confliction and a None Focused Confliction:
Focused:
Two words The Game, when he was on all of you attacked him directly, he was the Focus Point of all you rage and Conflictions that need to be taken out on someone, he was just a tool to rid you of your anger (For the time)
Un-Focused:
In our school, beating, bullyings, and general violence are a daily happening, a few days ago most of the people in our school were involved in a large scale fight at multiple people (Sadly i was involved :( ) this was 'Focused' but not entirly so, each person was focused on an individual person and not everyone against 1 or 2 people.
This brings me to my next point, something that is not usually talked about, religon, i am not sure but i think that Jesus Christ was another being, for he did not have any Conflictions (from him to someone else) but i am sure that he was something special, either another being (explaned later) or his brain was formed different from another humans irradicating (or almost) the need for Conflictions, i am going to leave it at that with the religon side of things as i do not want to provoke (too much) any Conflictions.
Attention i was going to say a little on the matter of sex< (Maturly) but i have otherwise decided not to as it could provoke too much.
So now i draw to an end :)
I would like to end this by asking you a question, or rather a riddle as it can not be answered by a human or using a human language, it can only be answered by emotion, but anyway:
Just for a moment suppose there is a higher intelligence, and in thier society there is no Conflictions, what would it be like?
Thanks for reading Va!
I usually have a lot a free time on my hands (Explains things don't it?) and most of the time it is thinking about stuff, anything usually but most of all lately the meaning of life, it has come to me that the meaning of life is:
"Conflictions" (Ok keep reading so you can understand it) Basicaly the whole world runs on Conflictions it is what makes us tick, what makes the world go round, what life is all about, lets take an example:
A game (Computer and not) - If there was no way to lose there would be no point in trying, it is the Confliction that keeps you playing, not knowing which way the dice will role, not knowing if you will be wiped out on the final boss of FFVIII, if there was no way of losing there would be no point playing.
A 'Soap' - What keeps you watching is the Conflictions that happen, you WANT to see the fight when someone finds out their best friend is sleeping with his wife, or the Confliction of a big argument.
This is what we humans need to live without it we would not be able to survive, this rule also applies to the animal kingdom, without the Confliction of animals fighting for food, most of the animals would die of starvation or the Confliction of trying to find a mate otherwise thier species would die out.
Us as humans are a little more developed in our lust for Conflictions we need what i call a 'Focus Point' someone or something that is the attention of all the Confliction at the time and place (The words 'The Game' come to mind) of course with all rules there are exceptions, lets take an exception of both a Focused Confliction and a None Focused Confliction:
Focused:
Two words The Game, when he was on all of you attacked him directly, he was the Focus Point of all you rage and Conflictions that need to be taken out on someone, he was just a tool to rid you of your anger (For the time)
Un-Focused:
In our school, beating, bullyings, and general violence are a daily happening, a few days ago most of the people in our school were involved in a large scale fight at multiple people (Sadly i was involved :( ) this was 'Focused' but not entirly so, each person was focused on an individual person and not everyone against 1 or 2 people.
This brings me to my next point, something that is not usually talked about, religon, i am not sure but i think that Jesus Christ was another being, for he did not have any Conflictions (from him to someone else) but i am sure that he was something special, either another being (explaned later) or his brain was formed different from another humans irradicating (or almost) the need for Conflictions, i am going to leave it at that with the religon side of things as i do not want to provoke (too much) any Conflictions.
Attention i was going to say a little on the matter of sex< (Maturly) but i have otherwise decided not to as it could provoke too much.
So now i draw to an end :)
I would like to end this by asking you a question, or rather a riddle as it can not be answered by a human or using a human language, it can only be answered by emotion, but anyway:
Just for a moment suppose there is a higher intelligence, and in thier society there is no Conflictions, what would it be like?
Thanks for reading Va!
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OK, at the moment i am not sure about god, i do believe there is something out there, but i believe that the idea of god as we see/hear/think/know about it is wrong and is in our own perception ie (My RE teacher told me this) say there is a place called flat land and everything is 2d in flatland and every so often a 3d sphere comes through all the people of flatfland see it as a dot a circle and a dot when it leaves, they do not see a sphere as we know it they are only perceive it as best as they can, this is the same with us humans we percieve god in our own way as we cannot and never will understand the true complexity of 'it'
vai wrote:
> FantasyMeisteŽ wrote:
> Tolstoy had the same reasoning as
> Vai, which means it's an important
> line of
> reasoning.
Becuase i thought of it?
Well, Tolstoy was a famous person who thought of it, but loads of people have had the same angst over the meaning of life before him, it's just that he was a great writer and he wrote it down so eloquently.
Basically, the guy had everything, estates, people working for him, a big family, and one day he just stopped and thought to himself: "Why? Why am I doing all this, what does it matter?" Then he got all depressed because he thought his life had no meaning, and very nearly committed suicide because he thought that if his life had no meaning then he should end it all. But then he thought "Hang on, my life does have a meaning because if there is a God then my life is to serve him." And so his depression cured and he lived out the rest of his life in adoration of his God.
So, people who believe in God will always have a meaning in their lives. For those of us who don't believe in God, we have to find our own meaning, which is sometimes difficult because God is a nice easy answer which covers every doubt, if you don't believe in him, what CAN you believe in.
That's they way Tolstoy expressed it, anyway. But then, he never had a PSX. If he had, he would never have thought about the problem in the first place, he'd have been to busy playing Ridge Racer and wondering when his PS2 was going to be delivered.
> FantasyMeisteŽ wrote:
> Tolstoy had the same reasoning as
> Vai, which means it's an important
> line of
> reasoning.
Becuase i thought of it?
Well, Tolstoy was a famous person who thought of it, but loads of people have had the same angst over the meaning of life before him, it's just that he was a great writer and he wrote it down so eloquently.
Basically, the guy had everything, estates, people working for him, a big family, and one day he just stopped and thought to himself: "Why? Why am I doing all this, what does it matter?" Then he got all depressed because he thought his life had no meaning, and very nearly committed suicide because he thought that if his life had no meaning then he should end it all. But then he thought "Hang on, my life does have a meaning because if there is a God then my life is to serve him." And so his depression cured and he lived out the rest of his life in adoration of his God.
So, people who believe in God will always have a meaning in their lives. For those of us who don't believe in God, we have to find our own meaning, which is sometimes difficult because God is a nice easy answer which covers every doubt, if you don't believe in him, what CAN you believe in.
That's they way Tolstoy expressed it, anyway. But then, he never had a PSX. If he had, he would never have thought about the problem in the first place, he'd have been to busy playing Ridge Racer and wondering when his PS2 was going to be delivered.
"Life = Gaming, Gaming is the future, therefore,
er, Life x Gaming = Future - 3"
FantasyMeister, 2001
er, Life x Gaming = Future - 3"
FantasyMeister, 2001
What sort of moderator are you if you don't put us back in subject.
Games!
It's a games forum you post about games!
In 75.6 billion trillion years, just as the universe breathes its last gasp of air, Sega will dream up the be all and end all killer advert that will finally start to sell their consoles.
5 seconds after this revelatory ad. meeting, the universe will implode.
Such is life, such is Sega.
5 seconds after this revelatory ad. meeting, the universe will implode.
Such is life, such is Sega.
So you're saying life hasn't got anything to do with gaming?
The closest to proving that is to try and conciously play games in your sleep! That is impossible! (Don't say sleepwalking cos that's unconcious!)
The closest to proving that is to try and conciously play games in your sleep! That is impossible! (Don't say sleepwalking cos that's unconcious!)
Post something that has something to do with gaming not life!
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