For fucks sake...
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Reality is AMAZING! You are you because one sperm in a billion found that one egg in a 100,000, and that because one man in 2,000,000,000 found one woman in 2,000,000,000 and managed after several attempts to fertilise her. And they only existed because the same enormous odds. And once you were fertilised, you managed to survive long enough to be born, and against great odds you have survived long enough to get to today without dying from the hundreds of deadly diseases loose in the world, because of 4.3 billion years of evolution that has protected you from most of them, and all this on a planet at the exact distance it needed to be from a star of the right type in a fairly secluded and safe part of the galaxy. And you are here in an era of anasthetic and antiseptic, of computers and spaceship, where we can understand the observable universe and make sense of it. Where we can shape our destiny and outlive every generation of aour ancestors. Where we have become the Gods that the ignorant in the past have prayed to? And you think reality sucks? I have travelled the world, stood on every continent, gazed upon marvels both natural and human, seen great things and terrible things. I have been present at a million man march for peace in Madrid, and fought in a war. I am here, I have bred, I have witnessed life. I know at the end there is nothing but oblivion, but at that point, I think I will have deserved that long rest!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Dalek Dave wrote:
I know at the end there is nothing but oblivion, but at that point, I think I will have deserved that long rest!
Nicely put. :thumbsup:
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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Reality is AMAZING! You are you because one sperm in a billion found that one egg in a 100,000, and that because one man in 2,000,000,000 found one woman in 2,000,000,000 and managed after several attempts to fertilise her. And they only existed because the same enormous odds. And once you were fertilised, you managed to survive long enough to be born, and against great odds you have survived long enough to get to today without dying from the hundreds of deadly diseases loose in the world, because of 4.3 billion years of evolution that has protected you from most of them, and all this on a planet at the exact distance it needed to be from a star of the right type in a fairly secluded and safe part of the galaxy. And you are here in an era of anasthetic and antiseptic, of computers and spaceship, where we can understand the observable universe and make sense of it. Where we can shape our destiny and outlive every generation of aour ancestors. Where we have become the Gods that the ignorant in the past have prayed to? And you think reality sucks? I have travelled the world, stood on every continent, gazed upon marvels both natural and human, seen great things and terrible things. I have been present at a million man march for peace in Madrid, and fought in a war. I am here, I have bred, I have witnessed life. I know at the end there is nothing but oblivion, but at that point, I think I will have deserved that long rest!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Sure, the odds against existence are pretty ridiculous, though if you test a one-in-a-billion chance a few billion times, it's pretty likely to happen. Sure, it's a convenient time to be alive, but the utter meaninglessness of existence can be somewhat depressing. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but that's how I think about it. I'm not one of those people who will likely change the world... And even if I did, the universe wouldn't care one bit. Humanity itself is just a blip... Civilization has been around for thousands of years, but that's nothing compared to the Earth itself, to the solar system, the galaxy, the galactic cluster... The planet could be destroyed tomorrow in a massive supernova, and it still wouldn't matter. And even if you confine your perspective to humanity itself... An individual is, in most cases, pretty insignificant. Just one more cog in the great machine... And when you're done, all you have to look forward to is nothingness. You go to sleep one day (If you're lucky), and you never wake up. Kind of depressing.
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Sure, the odds against existence are pretty ridiculous, though if you test a one-in-a-billion chance a few billion times, it's pretty likely to happen. Sure, it's a convenient time to be alive, but the utter meaninglessness of existence can be somewhat depressing. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but that's how I think about it. I'm not one of those people who will likely change the world... And even if I did, the universe wouldn't care one bit. Humanity itself is just a blip... Civilization has been around for thousands of years, but that's nothing compared to the Earth itself, to the solar system, the galaxy, the galactic cluster... The planet could be destroyed tomorrow in a massive supernova, and it still wouldn't matter. And even if you confine your perspective to humanity itself... An individual is, in most cases, pretty insignificant. Just one more cog in the great machine... And when you're done, all you have to look forward to is nothingness. You go to sleep one day (If you're lucky), and you never wake up. Kind of depressing.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)So what next then? Suicide? After all life is pointless, so leave the rest of us some resources.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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So what next then? Suicide? After all life is pointless, so leave the rest of us some resources.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Nah, I've been through that phase... Too stubborn to give up like that.
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Sure, the odds against existence are pretty ridiculous, though if you test a one-in-a-billion chance a few billion times, it's pretty likely to happen. Sure, it's a convenient time to be alive, but the utter meaninglessness of existence can be somewhat depressing. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but that's how I think about it. I'm not one of those people who will likely change the world... And even if I did, the universe wouldn't care one bit. Humanity itself is just a blip... Civilization has been around for thousands of years, but that's nothing compared to the Earth itself, to the solar system, the galaxy, the galactic cluster... The planet could be destroyed tomorrow in a massive supernova, and it still wouldn't matter. And even if you confine your perspective to humanity itself... An individual is, in most cases, pretty insignificant. Just one more cog in the great machine... And when you're done, all you have to look forward to is nothingness. You go to sleep one day (If you're lucky), and you never wake up. Kind of depressing.
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What is this, are you the new harold? Using more fancy words to convey essentially the same message?
I had a message? Man, I thought I was just in a depressed mood and venting a bit.
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I can understand his frustration, as the UK is PC gone mad at the moment trying not to upset the minority religions
As barmey as a sack of badgers
Simon_Whale wrote:
the UK is PC gone mad at the moment trying not to upset the minority religions
Only if you read the tabloids. (The 'blacked out' swimming pool windows that never were, etc.) However, from what I have read (although I cannot find a link to the actual guide) it was not a question of upsetting Muslims, more advice on the possible effects of various school activities on those fasting. (Dehydration being a real bummer. :) ) I wonder if the guide also emphasises the importance of modesty in Islam, and recommends that teachers ensure that boys and girls have appropriate swimwear[^].
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Simon_Whale wrote:
the UK is PC gone mad at the moment trying not to upset the minority religions
Only if you read the tabloids. (The 'blacked out' swimming pool windows that never were, etc.) However, from what I have read (although I cannot find a link to the actual guide) it was not a question of upsetting Muslims, more advice on the possible effects of various school activities on those fasting. (Dehydration being a real bummer. :) ) I wonder if the guide also emphasises the importance of modesty in Islam, and recommends that teachers ensure that boys and girls have appropriate swimwear[^].
Bob Emmett New Eugenicist - The weekly magazine for intelligent parenting. Published by the New World Order Press.
but why couldn't the council advise the schools to offer alternatives to those affected by the religous periods rather than having it cancelled for everyone?
As barmey as a sack of badgers
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Exemptions are fine... Sure, if the kids have religious excuses for not participating, it's their loss... But this is going a step further. They're asking the schools not to schedule those classes AT ALL. For ANYONE. As in, no swimming classes or sex ed this month for any of the students, just to make sure they aren't encouraging some muslim student to break his own rules. So I'm right with digital on this... Bad form.
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
They're asking the schools not to schedule those classes AT ALL. For ANYONE. As in, no swimming classes or sex ed this month for any of the students, just to make sure they aren't encouraging some muslim student to break his own rules.
Where there are a significant (weasel word, I know) number of Muslims. I would hope that Allah would know if water was being swallowed deliberately, X| or whether the swimmer was making every effort to avoid drinking by using an appropriate swimming stroke.
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------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
I like its mockery of Family Guy, a show which I hate.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
They're asking the schools not to schedule those classes AT ALL. For ANYONE. As in, no swimming classes or sex ed this month for any of the students, just to make sure they aren't encouraging some muslim student to break his own rules.
Where there are a significant (weasel word, I know) number of Muslims. I would hope that Allah would know if water was being swallowed deliberately, X| or whether the swimmer was making every effort to avoid drinking by using an appropriate swimming stroke.
Bob Emmett New Eugenicist - The weekly magazine for intelligent parenting. Published by the New World Order Press.
Bob Emmett wrote:
I would hope that Allah would know if water was being swallowed deliberately, or whether the swimmer was making every effort to avoid drinking by using an appropriate swimming stroke.
Heh, and I bet in a SCHOOL swimming pool, the students would already be making an effort not to drink the water. I don't think I need to go into detail :)
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Bob Emmett wrote:
I would hope that Allah would know if water was being swallowed deliberately, or whether the swimmer was making every effort to avoid drinking by using an appropriate swimming stroke.
Heh, and I bet in a SCHOOL swimming pool, the students would already be making an effort not to drink the water. I don't think I need to go into detail :)
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Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Never swim in the sea, fish fuck in it!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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I like its mockery of Family Guy, a show which I hate.
South Park is great for one reason, and one reason only. Matt and Trey never pull their punches. When they attack something, they don't just give it a subtle jab... They tear it to shreds, no matter how politically sensitive it is. If you can look past the fart jokes and see the message, the series really is genius :)
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but why couldn't the council advise the schools to offer alternatives to those affected by the religous periods rather than having it cancelled for everyone?
As barmey as a sack of badgers
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Reality is AMAZING! You are you because one sperm in a billion found that one egg in a 100,000, and that because one man in 2,000,000,000 found one woman in 2,000,000,000 and managed after several attempts to fertilise her. And they only existed because the same enormous odds. And once you were fertilised, you managed to survive long enough to be born, and against great odds you have survived long enough to get to today without dying from the hundreds of deadly diseases loose in the world, because of 4.3 billion years of evolution that has protected you from most of them, and all this on a planet at the exact distance it needed to be from a star of the right type in a fairly secluded and safe part of the galaxy. And you are here in an era of anasthetic and antiseptic, of computers and spaceship, where we can understand the observable universe and make sense of it. Where we can shape our destiny and outlive every generation of aour ancestors. Where we have become the Gods that the ignorant in the past have prayed to? And you think reality sucks? I have travelled the world, stood on every continent, gazed upon marvels both natural and human, seen great things and terrible things. I have been present at a million man march for peace in Madrid, and fought in a war. I am here, I have bred, I have witnessed life. I know at the end there is nothing but oblivion, but at that point, I think I will have deserved that long rest!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Sure, the odds against existence are pretty ridiculous, though if you test a one-in-a-billion chance a few billion times, it's pretty likely to happen. Sure, it's a convenient time to be alive, but the utter meaninglessness of existence can be somewhat depressing. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but that's how I think about it. I'm not one of those people who will likely change the world... And even if I did, the universe wouldn't care one bit. Humanity itself is just a blip... Civilization has been around for thousands of years, but that's nothing compared to the Earth itself, to the solar system, the galaxy, the galactic cluster... The planet could be destroyed tomorrow in a massive supernova, and it still wouldn't matter. And even if you confine your perspective to humanity itself... An individual is, in most cases, pretty insignificant. Just one more cog in the great machine... And when you're done, all you have to look forward to is nothingness. You go to sleep one day (If you're lucky), and you never wake up. Kind of depressing.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again. "As I thought," he said. "No better from this side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is."
Bob Emmett New Eugenicist - The weekly magazine for intelligent parenting. Published by the New World Order Press.
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Religion promises everything and delivers nothing; it is a means by which the ignorant masses can be easily controlled. Someone once told me that the reason something bad happened was gods will. I told him to fuck off and never darken my door again. Ignorant twat. Him, not me. Hey, it's my post!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Take some LSD or mushrooms or something, you need a perspective shift.
Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (High Quality 2:14:01)[^] Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] The Truthbox[^]
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Take some LSD or mushrooms or something, you need a perspective shift.
Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (High Quality 2:14:01)[^] Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] The Truthbox[^]
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
Take some LSD or mushrooms or something
He could come to see that a meaningful life may be obtained through burger flipping.
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Eh, I'm an atheist, too, but I actually envy the religious folks... Reality is depressing... Having something to look forward to at the end, would probably make it a little more tolerable. "Where is Polonious?" "At dinner. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are at him e'en now."
Versus... "In heaven. Send one of your messengers forthwith. If he finds him not there, you may seek him out in the other place yourself."
(Both quotes from Hamlet, but all from memory, so I probably messed them up)Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Eh, I'm an atheist, too, but I actually envy the religious folks... Reality is depressing... Having something to look forward to at the end, would probably make it a little more tolerable.
My feelings exactly! :sigh:
Cheers, विक्रम (Got my troika of CCCs!)