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Nernug
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posted August 09, 2002 09:42 AM |
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Edited By: Nernug on 9 Aug 2002
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Well actually love is a chemical reaction in your head. It has nothing to do with sitting by the fire and playing with each others hair or having a romantic dinner. Nope, it's just there for pure SEX. It's there to speed up the mating act. After the mating part is over, love will start to shade away, that's why so many couples divorce. Studies have showed that lots of old couples who stay by each other, do so for practical reasons, they are no longer in love.
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PsyChO
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posted August 09, 2002 09:49 AM |
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hm... life... easy, three words
Sex, Drugs, Internet
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Aculias
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posted August 09, 2002 10:02 AM |
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Well actually love is a chemical reaction in your head. It has nothing to do with sitting by the fire and playing with each others hair or having a romantic dinner. Nope, it's just there for pure SEX. It's there to speed up the mating act. After the mating part is over, love will start to shade away, that's why so many couples divorce. Studies have showed that lots of old couples who stay by each other, do so for practical reasons, they are no longer in love.
You are right but that is only part of what love is & it seems you have alot to learn because experiencing love is far more precious then a book can ever describe.
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Xenofex
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posted August 09, 2002 10:26 AM |
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One of these days I am just waiting for you to say somethang positive at least one time instead of all this negativity.
On this remark (I know it's not my buisness, but) I would like to ask.... what the **** did you expect. A discussion about life will eventually bring forth that it ,in the end, sucks. You get born with ONE purpose in life....To die!!
Thats all you know for sure. At some point we have to die! Please don't say that "then we'll need to get the best of it." Nobody knows if their going to die tommorov!
By the way...the love part. Love is the greatest weakness that mankind has been cursed with. Love may be a strong feeling but its nothing compared to hate. Pure hatred is the most energic force in a human being. So my answer to that question...A Curse!
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Aculias
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posted August 09, 2002 10:50 AM |
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Thats why you live your life to thy fullest because of course we are going to die but why think of it negatively.
Cherish life while you still have it.
Be happy you are alive & thank your parents for giving you such a precious gift.
You say hate that is on you.
You made a decision in life & mayhapos a wrong or right decision but that is on you but not hard to mend.
Actually it is I know believe me but i never hated.
I just in depression but I seen life I seen thangs I know thangs trust me I been through it in such a young age.
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Xenofex
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posted August 09, 2002 01:41 PM |
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You say you've never hated???
I find that hard to believe in a world were hate is the primary force. Goverments hate each other for no reason so that they can bind upon their followers that they have an enemy. Neo*******nazi's hate people because of their skincolor( which by my opinion is very despiteful).
True hatred is to hate someone for the person they are regardless of their nativety our anything like that.
Love on the other hand is a blind force that can lead you to great sufferings, perhaps also joy but primarily it will be the suffering therefore: A Curse
As a konklusion I would (without trying to offend you) say that your no hatred thingie sounds like some hyper-Christian thing trying to prove that the mightyest energetic force of our known world, is the death-sin they've allways tried to blindfold from seeing past.
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RyGuy
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posted January 14, 2003 09:03 PM |
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Love? Get real...
Love is probably the biggest joke I have ever heard.. what is love good for? Please don't tell me its for having children and marriage etc.. because marriage in today's society is a jok e 1 out of every two marriages ends in divorce and kids just have to put up with a crappier world than what we even have to live in.. Besides that, children are nothing but the end of your own life.. taking care of them puts your life on hold and gives you a responsibility that will be jumping on your back for the rest of your forsaken days.. Don't get married, dont have children and the love you can have is your love of freedom and the things you will only get to do if you dont let love screw it all up. Society is the biggest peer pressure group you will ever know... why do you have to get married? Even if love is in your life(dont see how) but if it is there, why get married? You can live with someone for the rest of your life, but that doesnt mean you have to have a legal attachment to it.. hmmmm.. sounds like a trap hehe.. have a nice day everyone.
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Pluvious
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posted January 14, 2003 09:15 PM |
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The main thing to keep in mind is that "intelligence" is our survival tool...which someone did mention before.
Intelligence helped us to survive our primitive age and now it tells us we are superior to other life forms. Its really an ego thing as I see it.
I greatly value my intelligence but I realize that it doesn't make me "betterr" to any other creature. But I simply can't find enough compassion to take the time out of my life to treat every other lifeform as equal...it just isn't conventional to do so in our society. And it would seem to be a waste of time anyway.
What is love and playing and all those other things asked at the beginning of this thread? They are part of survival. We need love to get together and procriate and playing helps maintain a society that allows for greater survival rates. Survival is the "basis" for everything of course.
I don't know why we glorify ourselves so much. There is really no proof that we are anything at all special. In the past religion played the part of "life's meaning" on a large scale. But now meaning seems less important and simple "enjoyment of life" is now prevelent.
But if enjoyment of life is the only reason to live then why do we "deserve" to live? What's wrong with someone just killing someone else? What's wrong with someone killing a fly or tiger? Just don't kill the person because they still have some fun to have? That seems superficial to me...
Or maybe this survival instince has a greater purpose? If so shouldn't people be exploring it? Then, wouldn't intelligence in humans become important? To learn why we survive and to give life meaning would seem to be the only reason to live...
Yet people largely prefer ignorance. Does this strike anyone else as sad? Our society, at least in America where I live, has become highly superficial. People don't seem to care to find out the one answer that really might matter. Why do we survive? Yet, all these rules of society protect this survival. Ridiculous...
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I
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posted January 17, 2003 09:33 PM |
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Mysia is that your real picture???
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Laelth
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Laelth rhymes with stealth.
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posted January 17, 2003 11:08 PM |
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Edited By: Laelth on 17 Jan 2003
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my two cents
What is life? Life is not being dead. Of the two, I choose life.
... and as for what makes humans different from animals, come on. Humans are animals. Personally, I think that's better than being a plant or a mineral.
Paraphrase of Douglas Adams: "Humans think they're the smartest species on Earth because they invented New York City and the wheel. The dolphins, on the other hand, think they're the smartest species because they didn't invent either New York City or the wheel."
-Laelth
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insatiable
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Ultimate N00bidity
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posted January 20, 2003 08:43 PM |
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hey pluvious..
..stop that philotelism and come over to GameSpy for a highly superficial hommIV game
btw,capitalistic society's nature wants us superficial,its the only way for it to work
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Pluvious
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted January 21, 2003 09:43 AM |
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Yeah, maybe that's why I'm all over superficiality...because I can't play homm online right now! Could it be that simple...?
Anyway, its just fun to think, not like I practice everything I believe is right. That would be cool though...
Long live turn-based games & gamers!
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...Pluvious...
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EmperorSly
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Destroyer of Liver
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posted January 21, 2003 04:50 PM |
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of animals, life and the pointofitall
Why bother how we differ from animals, after all the question was why to survive (live) and it wasnt about humans only. Animals can do it just as well. But if you really want to know -- animals have four legs...
As for life, it nearly has a purpose. On cosmic scale it doesn´t -- the nebulae wouldn't cry a bit if we all (including rats) die off tomorrow. But since we don't (at least not the rats), we might as well invent a purpose to it.
So lets think, what can the living do that non-living cannot? Many things, like eat, snow, think, work, feel fear and run away etc. But those are all simply things REQUIRED to survive, so thinking is not the purpose of living -- living is the point of thinking. But there is one thing that is totally not required to survive -- enjoyment. Life is the prerequisite of enjoyment. Enjoyment is the final purpose of it all.
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Skydancer
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Stealer of Wisdom
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posted January 22, 2003 12:56 AM |
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well...I dont understand why you can't see the obvious here..
As the great Aristotle said human is an social animal.
We ARE animals!But clever ones...we can think, we feel emotions, we aren't lead by instict.Instict made way for the brain, for logic and understanding.Animals use instict simply because they aren't capable of thinking.
The abitily to think is what seperates us from the other animals.Humans have given that great gift.With our brains we discovered so many things and made the world a more suitable place for us to live.
Life is....feelings just live it!
Just do all the things you can do now because when you become older you will look back and bang your head on some wall for not doing some things..
Oh and finally..I am a true lover of love! 
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Pluvious
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posted January 22, 2003 08:51 AM |
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"But there is one thing that is totally not required to survive -- enjoyment. Life is the prerequisite of enjoyment. Enjoyment is the final purpose of it all".
What?
Enjoyment and emotions were given to use so we would make babies and eat...to survive. That's the whole point of having fun. Its short-sighted to think otherwise. Enjoyment the final purpose! Ahhhh....!!!!
We have fun to get through life, but why we live at all should be the real question.
Hey, enjoy your time by all means but come up with SOMETHING that means something while you're here. Or else make room for someone else.
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EmperorSly
Known Hero
Destroyer of Liver
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posted January 22, 2003 09:13 AM |
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you CAN live your whole life without enjoyment of any sort. several people have. you can even reproduce without having fun. whether you'd want to, that's another question. if there is no enjoyment in your life, and you are sure theres none of it to come in the future, you simply feel there is not much point to continue living (or make babies, which is simply an advanced form of continuing living). and that is precicely my point: enjoyment is the point of living.
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