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[teezzy]

Too many people seem to take existence for granted.

Not only do we exist: we yearn, we laugh, we love, we cry, we experience this entire plethora or emotions. Sometimes we even poop and coom. Hopefully not simultaneously


Makes ya think don't it? We each get a handful of decades of this madness if we're lucky... and then *poof* we're gone

I'm happy I get to experience this life. The human condition, whatever it is. Hopefully you are too

 

[INC]

How do u know this is alive?

 

[KrakenIPA]

How do u know this is alive?

 

[teezzy]

How do u know this is alive?

 

[TastyPastry]

we don't really know what it's like to not be alive so you don't know it might even be better and more amazing to not exist

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

One time I coomed while I was pooping. Broke my fucking neck, bro.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Do you have evidence that you're actually real and you're not a figment of my imagination? If so, can we prove that this evidence is actually evidence? Then how can we validate the truth of this evidence? (I do this to you, because what you're doing is dishonesty - you're not building a conversation.. you're just asking meaningless questions instead of acknowledging the ultimate point: we can't know, because we have no way of testing for the supernatural - god)

HOWEVER..

Because without God you cannot know anything. Without God, can you be wrong about everything you think you know?

Existence isn't dependent on a god, therefore you don't have an argument. In fact we have evidence against god or gods being responsible for any aspect of nature and we have proven they didn't do anything. For example ancient Greeks thought Poseidon was responsible for horrible weather, so sailors prayed for better seafaring conditions. We know today just how wrong they were.

 

[Stitch]

 

[Peggies]

Too many people seem to take existence for granted.

Not only do we exist: we yearn, we laugh, we love, we cry, we experience this entire plethora or emotions. Sometimes we even poop and coom. Hopefully not simultaneously


Makes ya think don't it? We each get a handful of decades of this madness if we're lucky... and then *poof* we're gone

I'm happy I get to experience this life. The human condition, whatever it is. Hopefully you are too

 

[Fugitive Sex]

What a stimulating thread. I'm glad you brought it to our attention.

 

[Zeroing]

I do not know, I am a bot...

 

[Onikaan]

You think that's air you're breathing now?

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[Spukc]

I am spraying my dna fucking everywhere

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

It's quite the experience indeed teezzy

 

[wondermega]

Of course we take it for granted, like all things in our senses it becomes normalized, dull, repetitive. That's just part of our survival instinct, when we get to a "safe routine" and can expect where to regularly sleep/eat/not feel threatened, then the arousing part of it all goes away. That's a drastic oversimplification of course, and meanwhile our natural urges will drive us to seek out other things as we fill that time (sex drive, competition, territorial, socialization, expand and learn from culture etc, further dominate our environment if at all possible).

It is crazy because there is nothing else to relate it to, except perhaps sleep, altered states of mind, and I suppose memories (particularly distant ones, however relevant those are). And yet it is only sometimes good, and sometimes unbelievably bad, and many of us (even a tiny sample like just those reading this forum) can have drastically different overall experiences in such a manner. Some people have decent middling lives, some are amazing, some know only pain and loss..

Anyway, I think a defining moment for me was probably a couple of decades ago, watching a short film or something with the abstract comedian Steven Wright, and he put it this way basically:

Before you were born, there was this unknowably long time where everything else existed except for you - and then you came into the picture. You grow up, have your life for however many decades, and then you are gone. After that, there is still this immeasurable amount of time that will pass. Essentially, you're entire existence is just the merest blip, with infinity preceding it, and another infinity after that blip.

...gah. It kind of gives me the chills to think of that. It really makes your life seem so incredibly important, and so absolutely useless and inconsequential at the same time.

 

[Ailynn]

This reminded me of this classic..

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Life is simply unfair, don't you think?

 

[Peggies]

This reminded me of this classic..

I didn't even know that. I love it. Thank you, my dear

 

[nkarafo]

That's not the craziest thing.

The craziest for me is the existence of the universe, space/time/matter.

Life is only a tiny part of this and an even tinier part of that is intelligence.

Yet, only with intelligence one can notice the universe, the existence of other planets or galaxies and the vastness of it all.

If intelligent beings didn't exist all of this would be just.... there.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

That's not the craziest thing.

The craziest for me is the existence of the universe, space/time/matter.

Life is a huge part of this and an even bigger part of that is consciousness. Only with consciousness one can notice the universe, the existence of other planets or galaxies and the vastness of it all.

If conscious beings didn't exist all of this would be just.... there.

Fixed <3

 

[nkarafo]

I don't agree life is a huge part. Only a tiny minority of the planets can support life and only a tiny minority of those could reach the point of having an evolution path to create beings complex enough to notice the universe.

That can still amount in millions of cases but that still is a tiny, microscopic part of the universe.

Personally, i think it's almost unnatural we exist at the state we do right now. I feel like existence/space/time/matter wasn't really meant to be noticed by anyone. It's far too crazy and pointless if you think about it.

 

[Catphish]

Before coffee: Fuck outta here

After coffee: Right on, brother

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Before coffee: Fuck outta here

After coffee: Right on, brother

After my fourth cup...

 

[ipukespiders]

we don't really know what it's like to not be alive so you don't know it might even be better and more amazing to not exist

Do you remember what it was like before you were born?

It's like that.

 

[Birdo]

 

[StormCell]

Life is simply unfair, don't you think?

It can sure feel that way, can't it?

Then I think about all those people I've known who already died. One died in his sleep at about the age of 6. Another drowned in a pool in his teens, and the depressing part is that he could have been saved but his friends thought he was just joking. There was a girl I went to school with who apparently committed suicide some time after I moved away. After high school. I guess she had fought depression most of her life. There are have been so many more than this, but what it helps me to understand is we're all going to go eventually, and it's probably going to feel too soon. I never want to feel like I'm being left behind (ie. dying while everyone else moves along without me), but how can I be left behind when there's such a huge crowd of already dead who left this game ahead of us?

That's just how it is, fair or not. As for me, I think I don't want to know when the end approaches. I'd rather go out suddenly and in a huge pillar of flames. And I hope a heavy metal band happens to be passing by and can't help but grab their instruments and rock out like never before in the wake of my destruction.

 

[QuantumZebra]

Too many people seem to take existence for granted.

Not only do we exist: we yearn, we laugh, we love, we cry, we experience this entire plethora or emotions. Sometimes we even poop and coom. Hopefully not simultaneously


Makes ya think don't it? We each get a handful of decades of this madness if we're lucky... and then *poof* we're gone

I'm happy I get to experience this life. The human condition, whatever it is. Hopefully you are too

I think about it more than I should. Thinking about it too much can kind of drive you insane honestly.

But it makes me appreciate my kids and my life much more, overall, than any kind of religion or feel-good faerie tale.

We literally shouldn't exist, mathematically. The possibility is so low it's almost dismissible.

 

[Astral Dog]

Yep very crazy

It kinda sucks sometimes though, people can be very toxic , learning how to avoid them is an art that is not easy to learn for anyone, and my little girl died on saturday :'( god bless her

 

[teezzy]

Yep very crazy

It kinda sucks sometimes though, people can be very toxic , learning how to avoid them is an art that is not easy to learn for everyone, and my little girl died on saturday :'( god bless her

Bless your heart, brother

I can't even imagine. Hang in there. You got this.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Here's to you. And all of us in the collective suffering and joy that is life

 

[Maiden Voyage]

 

[Kev Kev]

On the contrary, being crazy makes me feel alive!

 

[Reality Czar]

It is a miracle. Life is good.

 

[SoggyBiscuit]

Yeah, life's alright I guess. Innit?

 

[LaughingStock]

It's crazy how a tiny part of this universe becomes sentient for a few years and then goes back to being nothing.

 

[Nobody_Important]

If you want to have your mind really blown then imagine what it was like for someone who may have lived 100 years but was born in the 1880s.


Such a person would have seen the first widespread use of the automobile, Man's first flight, both world wars, watching man step foot on the Moon, and the dawn of advanced technology. All of which would have occurred within the span of his adult life.



Now that is a life that would have been crazy.

 

[thief183]

It becomes mind blowing (for me) thinking about the existance in general, Without humans the universe and everything else would still be there... but why? and How?

Why reality exists? (what we call reality)

How did it become a thing? Is it actually born? or it actually existed and that's it.

We live our life with the concept that everything gets created and then one day it will be over, but it is really like that. What if something just exist? What if the concept of time is just a reflection of our mortality?

So many questions that wil never get an answer.

The simple fact that we can make those questions is mind blowing...

 

[epicnemesis]

Sometimes we even poop and coom. Hopefully not simultaneously

We don’t fetish shame here.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Instead of being human, we could all be a rock molecule.

And a rock is missing out having the pleasure taking giant shits.

 

[teezzy]

We don’t fetish shame here.

No fetish threads

 

[teezzy]

If you want to have your mind really blown then imagine what it was like for someone who may have lived 100 years but was born in the 1880s.


Such a person would have seen the first widespread use of the automobile, Man's first flight, both world wars, watching man step foot on the Moon, and the dawn of advanced technology. All of which would have occurred within the span of his adult life.



Now that is a life that would have been crazy.

Lol they didnt even have Xbox back then

What a bunch of retards

 

[teezzy]

 

[Insane Metal]

I agree man. Even with all the shit and sadness and terror and evil around, there's plenty of good to be seen or felt.

Getting in love. Sleeping. Watching a nice movie. Just walking around in the sun. Seeing the rain falling.

Seeing the boobs thread.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I only listen to the first 3 minutes and the narrator is all over the place.

1. His take 100 people.... doesn't even add up to 100. Pulled the numbers out of his ass. I never knew decades ago, over 50% of senior citizens would be broke and only 10% of people doing well.

2. His definition of success is actually money and not being broke when you're old. Not everyone defines success as having a pot of money when retired. And someone who is rich (his 1 out of 100) doesn't mean he's a success in life. He might have a shitty life outside of his pocket book

3. Then he says success is about ideals. Who says broke people havent achieved success in other ways? Everyone's success definition is different

 

[Oberstein]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[QSD]

Instead of being human, we could all be a rock molecule.

And a rock is missing out having the pleasure taking giant shits.

A volcano is the earth taking a shit

Too many people seem to take existence for granted.

Not only do we exist: we yearn, we laugh, we love, we cry, we experience this entire plethora or emotions. Sometimes we even poop and coom. Hopefully not simultaneously


Makes ya think don't it? We each get a handful of decades of this madness if we're lucky... and then *poof* we're gone

I'm happy I get to experience this life. The human condition, whatever it is. Hopefully you are too

Crazy/madness means nothing without context. Compared to what? This life is the only thing we'll ever know, it's not crazy or normal, it just is.

 

[manfestival]

teezzy I am glad you are alive.

 

[teezzy]

I only listen to the first 3 minutes and the narrator is all over the place.

1. His take 100 people.... doesn't even add up to 100. Pulled the numbers out of his ass. I never knew decades ago, over 50% of senior citizens would be broke and only 10% of people doing well.

2. His definition of success is actually money and not being broke when you're old. Not everyone defines success as having a pot of money when retired. And someone who is rich (his 1 out of 100) doesn't mean he's a success in life. He might have a shitty life outside of his pocket book

3. Then he says success is about ideals. Who says broke people havent achieved success in other ways? Everyone's success definition is different

His definition of success is setting goals and sticking with them. The theme of the speech is "you are what you think."

Similarly to how many questions in this thread could very well be summed up with, "I think therefore I am."