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User ID: 65969492 United States 01/08/2015 01:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | George Carlin is that you? It's "an ant in a ant hill" btw. But yeah, you are for the most part right though. Last Edited by A Mery Can on 01/08/2015 01:46 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66656282 United States 01/08/2015 01:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You are right. It's not important to be the nice guy. It is however fundamentally necessary to be the good guy. Crack a beer and die drunk? Or die with integrity, spine intact. To each his own Pinball, but the basic fact is, those with the right stuff, are in the USA looking for truth, and will find it. |
Don't Chip Me Bro!! User ID: 46706301 United States 01/08/2015 02:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why didn't Zeitgeist explain away the founding of the Church in Alexandria by the Apostle mark in the 1st Century?? Or why didn't Zeitgeist explain away Akhenaten. What a wasted half an hour of life!! |
Don't Chip Me Bro!! User ID: 46706301 United States 01/08/2015 02:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I will say the later Zeitgeists were better focusing on the Venus project and solutions. That first 20-30 minutes of Zeitgeist got it banned form many churches and many people were delayed from crucial messages in the documentary. If Zeitgeist was genuinely trying to tell me the truth of Christ it would have mentioned the Coptics!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 38084386 United States 01/08/2015 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So what did you all do, watch first 20 minutes of Zeitgeist and conclude Shapeshifter Jesus never existed?? Quoting: Don't Chip Me Bro!! 46706301 Why didn't Zeitgeist explain away the founding of the Church in Alexandria by the Apostle mark in the 1st Century?? Or why didn't Zeitgeist explain away Akhenaten. What a wasted half an hour of life!! Laziest crap-tastrotrophy I have ever seen mushed together. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 35307170 Japan 01/08/2015 02:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Life is an engine that produces "awe." The experience of "awe" (more colloquially known as "whoah!" or "wow, man!") is a feeling that is accessable to us at any moment when we stand back and regards the sheer enormity of the cosmos and we appreciate our tiny place in it and the fact that we truly know so little about it. When we are confronted with the vasteness of our unknowing, we have several options. Option 1: Make up a pretend "-ism" that explains the awe away. This is a very popular option. However, since it involves deliberate self-delusion, it is generally quite dangerous. It is also a tragic waste of the gift of awe. Option 2: Cynical, shoulder-shrugging fatalism and psychospiritual sedation. This is the option set forth by the OP of this thread. "Well, we don't know squat, so kick back and enjoy your pizza and neural tinglings of low-level pleasure, and wait to die." This is slightly more honest that option 1, but it is still a waste of the the gift of awe. Option 3: Stand there slackjawed in awe at the massiveness of the unknowing and the enormity of the space surrounding you. Just bathe in awe. This is the true answer, and its the easiest option, and its available to anyone at any time. This is what babies and young children spend most of their time doing -- just goggling in awe at the awe of it all. This is what we should be doing. Unfortunately, it makes us look like idiots to stand there with our mouths open just goggling in amazement at it all, so all too few of us actually do this. But we should, whenever we get a chance, beacuse that's basically what we are here to appreciate. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10375427 Philippines 01/08/2015 02:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Life is an engine that produces "awe." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35307170 The experience of "awe" (more colloquially known as "whoah!" or "wow, man!") is a feeling that is accessable to us at any moment when we stand back and regards the sheer enormity of the cosmos and we appreciate our tiny place in it and the fact that we truly know so little about it. When we are confronted with the vasteness of our unknowing, we have several options. Option 1: Make up a pretend "-ism" that explains the awe away. This is a very popular option. However, since it involves deliberate self-delusion, it is generally quite dangerous. It is also a tragic waste of the gift of awe. Option 2: Cynical, shoulder-shrugging fatalism and psychospiritual sedation. This is the option set forth by the OP of this thread. "Well, we don't know squat, so kick back and enjoy your pizza and neural tinglings of low-level pleasure, and wait to die." This is slightly more honest that option 1, but it is still a waste of the the gift of awe. Option 3: Stand there slackjawed in awe at the massiveness of the unknowing and the enormity of the space surrounding you. Just bathe in awe. This is the true answer, and its the easiest option, and its available to anyone at any time. This is what babies and young children spend most of their time doing -- just goggling in awe at the awe of it all. This is what we should be doing. Unfortunately, it makes us look like idiots to stand there with our mouths open just goggling in amazement at it all, so all too few of us actually do this. But we should, whenever we get a chance, beacuse that's basically what we are here to appreciate. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66751632 United States 01/08/2015 02:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i like to jokingly say to family when they ask how im doing, "oh im doing just great out here in outerspace!" i've stopped trying to reach people with what i have to say, for the most part. like trying to wake them up, or change their perceptions. i just keep drifting further and further from society's acceptable standards for thought, out here on my own journey, and it's way too far along now to turn back from. you're going to also have to accept the fact that people won't, can't, or don't want to listen to anything you have to say. once having accepted that, perhaps you'll still say what you want to say anyway. you probably should. and accept the ridicule and all that comes with voicing an opposing or variant idea. yes, people are getting a bit more unpredictable, but are they REALLY? haven't we always been this crazy? i guess i don't really even know what you're going on about, or where to go with my reply. you're telling everyone else to just get on with life already, but deep down im not certain you truly want them to. |
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User ID: 61984016 United States 01/12/2015 01:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Arrogant and self-important much??? If, and let's say you're correct, you previously were held in high regard here one must posit it was based on insight, research, and the sharing of such along with facilitating threads you started in a productive manner. Make sense? Looking at your threads, however, I can only offer sympathy as to the effect your apparent head injury or use of tainted drugs has had on your cognitive abilities. You do not know how to punctuate. You spell poorly. You use words of more than one syllable inappropriately. Your "reasoning" is self-centered, vague, insipid, vapid, and frankly boring after the first few, brief paragraphs. So, thanks for the post, it was largely useless but did give us an interior view of your psyche. A yawn inducing one, but useful nonetheless. Have a good day and a great year anyway. There is nothing quite as compelling as a bad idea whose time has come... Thulsa |
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