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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
What the statement "life is meaningless" means is that any attempt to establish meaning subverts itself. That's incredibly scary. That means that every thing you could possibly do ever will undo itself. That's true meaninglessness. That's not something you get around by saying, well [bleep] it playing guitar is what will be meaningful for me. It means that the more you get into playing guitar the more you will realize that it's only making you suffer.
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Playing guitar is extremely fustrating do to the fact it is finite instrument, with a infinite potential for creativity. It looks easy but is extremely hard arrive at the potential that meets one's expectation. The more you learn the less you know.
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Originally Posted by Barnard17
The irony of the two bits you decided to pick up on and complain about by countering their meanings when de-contextualised to strawman my point about strawmanning is not lost.
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Your irony surpasses mine. Because you are strawmanning me for strawmanning you who in all actuality was strawmanning Cardboard for strawmanning Boo.
OK you got your two bits in so I'll add my two bits in too, by reiterating what zevokes said:
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Originally Posted by zevokes
what the crap does "strawmanning" mean?
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Originally Posted by duga
I've mentioned this somewhere else before in a different context, but it works nicely here as well. I'm going to quote one of my favorite scientists, Carl Sagan. The man. According to him, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
I'm a personal believer in collective consciousness and experience. We don't have individual souls, just a common experience of life in individual bodies.
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People do have individual souls. Even though people may have personal experiences that are in common with each other, in truth each person's individual experience of life is unique to that person never to repeated by anyone in whole history of the universe.
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Originally Posted by duga
"I think, therefore I am"
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I like to past-tense that. "I thought, therefore I was" because it makes me think whatever happen to my past self and did I really exist in any point of time in the past?
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards