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What is our purpose?

#11
Zinjanthropos Online
#3. Nature is going to kill you.

Purpose or no purpose, in the end you lose. So do whatever the f*** it is you do without helping nature accomplish Rule #3.
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(Aug 8, 2017 04:44 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: #3. Nature is going to kill you.

Purpose or no purpose, in the end you lose. So do whatever the f*** it is you do without helping nature accomplish Rule #3.

Survival.  I already mentioned that, but is one more important than the other? Should we focus more on curing death or making life worth living?

Carol seems to be arguing for quality, and you, quantity.

So, who’s the winner?  Is it the happiest man or the last man standing? 
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(Aug 8, 2017 05:30 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote:
(Aug 8, 2017 04:44 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: #3. Nature is going to kill you.

Purpose or no purpose, in the end you lose. So do whatever the f*** it is you do without helping nature accomplish Rule #3.

Survival.  I already mentioned that, but is one more important than the other? Should we focus more on curing death or making life worth living?

Carol seems to be arguing for quality, and you, quantity.

So, who’s the winner?  Is it the happiest man or the last man standing? 

The inevitability of Rule #3 being, (ahem)....executed, means there will be no winners. Average life spans for humans indicate that the odds are more in favor of a last woman standing.
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(Aug 8, 2017 06:26 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: The inevitability of Rule #3 being, (ahem)....executed, means there will be no winners. Average life spans for humans indicate that the odds are more in favor of a last woman standing.

True, and any day now, you might become expendable.

Nah, we'll still need someone to kill spiders. Wink
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(Aug 8, 2017 07:04 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: True, and any day now, you might become expendable.

Am I supposed to argue that being expendable in this context is my purpose? Didn't someone, a famous philosopher perhaps, once say something along the lines of homosexuality being a beneficial evolutionary trait/mutation otherwise there wouldn't be any homosexuals. Now we know why. Didn't see this coming(npi). Big Grin
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(Aug 8, 2017 07:47 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:
(Aug 8, 2017 07:04 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: True, and any day now, you might become expendable.

Am I supposed to argue that being expendable in this context is my purpose? Didn't someone, a famous philosopher perhaps, once say something along the lines of homosexuality being a beneficial evolutionary trait/mutation otherwise there wouldn't be any homosexuals. Now we know why. Didn't see this coming(npi). Big Grin

Well, you did say that you weren’t able to access that cliteracy site, so there went that idea. You didn't like my pest control idea? Alright-alright, purpose, eh? Hmm, let’s see…oh, I know, you can mow our lawns, take out the garbage, and like C2 said, clean up your own shit. Big Grin
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I was kind'a ploughing my own furrow when I got as far as Rule 1. In the 'Bugs in a bottle' scenario the bugs all die when the resources run out. For a while they were happy bugs with a great future in front of them and then ... no more bugs. If just one of the bugs had realised they needed to evolve photosynthesis to survive they could have gone on forever (being bugs in a bottle). I am assuming the bug bottle wasn't placed in complete darkness of course. For the bugs clearing up their own shit would mean literally eating it - as humans (am I labouring the point too much here?) we can subcontract eating our shit to plants and animals and then eat them. Until shown to be wrong I suspect Rule 1 is both a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium, peace and long term harmony.
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(Aug 8, 2017 08:08 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Well, you did say that you weren’t able to access that cliteracy site, so there went that idea.  You didn't like my pest control idea? Alright-alright, purpose, eh? Hmm, let’s see…oh, I know, you can mow our lawns, take out the garbage, and like C2 said, clean up your own shit.  Big Grin

Get the leash ready and move over Rover. It's in the cards, men soon to be GIMP. I hope you owners follow poop and scoop protocol. Not getting my paws dirty.
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(Aug 8, 2017 08:28 PM)confused2 Wrote: I was kind'a ploughing my own furrow when I got as far as Rule 1. In the 'Bugs in a bottle' scenario the bugs all die when the resources run out. For a while they were happy bugs with a great future in front of them and then ... no more bugs. If just one of the bugs had realised they needed to evolve photosynthesis to survive they could have gone on forever (being bugs in a bottle). I am assuming the bug bottle wasn't placed in complete darkness of course. For the bugs clearing up their own shit would mean literally eating it - as humans (am I labouring the point too much here?) we can subcontract eating our shit to plants and animals and then eat them. Until shown to be wrong I suspect Rule 1 is both a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium, peace and long term harmony.

By George, I think we’ve got it.  

This is really, really, fucking brilliant.

Don’t be a snob because at some point we’re all going to eat shit and die.  

There you have it, Missy Manners.  Our purpose is to eat, shit, and die.  Big Grin

Problem solved. Well done, my friends. Well done!
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