Are you saying all Atheists should kill themselves? Dude.Yes... everyone is wasting their time between birth and death.
I guess it all really depends on whether you wish to waste that time getting uppity on behalf of a bunch of creatures that couldn't and wouldn't thankyou for it (even if they knew about it and were capable of understanding), or whether you instead choose to waste that time by enjoying eating said creatures.
The reason I haven't committed suicide is simple; it doesn't sound like much fun. Ultimately, the passage of time throughout my life might be insignificant and meaningless in the grand scheme of the universe, but whilst I am enduring it, I may aswell enjoy what I can.
I guess I just don't understand the mindset of anyone who would prefer to spend that time doing unenjoyable thankless stuff, only for it to turn out to be just as insignificant and meaningless as the life of someone who had a hell of a lot of fun.
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Tue 7 Apr 2009, 17:09,
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I guess it all really depends on whether you wish to waste that time getting uppity on behalf of a bunch of creatures that couldn't and wouldn't thankyou for it (even if they knew about it and were capable of understanding), or whether you instead choose to waste that time by enjoying eating said creatures.
The reason I haven't committed suicide is simple; it doesn't sound like much fun. Ultimately, the passage of time throughout my life might be insignificant and meaningless in the grand scheme of the universe, but whilst I am enduring it, I may aswell enjoy what I can.
I guess I just don't understand the mindset of anyone who would prefer to spend that time doing unenjoyable thankless stuff, only for it to turn out to be just as insignificant and meaningless as the life of someone who had a hell of a lot of fun.
Well why not fight for some potentially futile cause? It's ultimately still meaningless as everything else.And while you may seem enthralled by transient physical enjoyment, that's just your brain pumped full of chemicals I couldn't even name telling the fragile human psychological profile that things are good. Doesn't mean shit all.
If you want to take individual human perception and psychology as a given rather than take the bleak path, then you can't really argue they are living pointlessly because it obviously gives them a great deal of pleasure and fulfillment. In which case it can't be said to be more of a waste of time than enjoying yourself on the path of least resistance because ultimately none of these mean anything when it comes to life and death, but they can both still make the person feel like they have come to terms with and lived whatever concept of life they have. And if personal experience is what matters then their choice of life is no more or less meaningless.
QED
N.B. Suicide isn't meant to be fun, but what good is fun when you're dead anyway, just a way of cutting out the middleman.
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Tue 7 Apr 2009, 17:23,
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If you want to take individual human perception and psychology as a given rather than take the bleak path, then you can't really argue they are living pointlessly because it obviously gives them a great deal of pleasure and fulfillment. In which case it can't be said to be more of a waste of time than enjoying yourself on the path of least resistance because ultimately none of these mean anything when it comes to life and death, but they can both still make the person feel like they have come to terms with and lived whatever concept of life they have. And if personal experience is what matters then their choice of life is no more or less meaningless.
QED
N.B. Suicide isn't meant to be fun, but what good is fun when you're dead anyway, just a way of cutting out the middleman.
You make a very good case sir!And a nice little flourish of latin at the end!
Yes, I do enjoy transient physical enjoyment. But since all things are transient, and all enjoyment is based upon the physical interactions of brain chemicals, what other kind of enjoyment is there?
You're right tho - there is nothing more or less meaningless in veganism than in anything else. I'll concede that.
=D
Who's saying I'm dead anyway? I might be an nihilistic anarchist, but I'm very much alive and enjoying myself!
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Tue 7 Apr 2009, 17:44,
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Yes, I do enjoy transient physical enjoyment. But since all things are transient, and all enjoyment is based upon the physical interactions of brain chemicals, what other kind of enjoyment is there?
You're right tho - there is nothing more or less meaningless in veganism than in anything else. I'll concede that.
=D
Who's saying I'm dead anyway? I might be an nihilistic anarchist, but I'm very much alive and enjoying myself!