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Tim Raines IRL posted:if scared of death, smoke a large amount of DMT. yeah but then you stop fearing death and start fearing the machine elves at least i would. gently caress that
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A misanthrope posted:“One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush. From the studies of Krafft-Ebbing onward, we know that it is possible to become excited about anything—from shins to shoehorns. But it would be nice if just one of these gushing eggheads would step back and, as a concession to objectivity, speak the truth: THERE IS NOTHING INNATELY IMPRESSIVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE OR ANYTHING IN IT.” He missed the point that it is on the individual to decide for himself as to what to take awe in.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:13
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lol somebody posted about thomas ligotti
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Jul 17, 2014 04:18
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VendaGoat posted:He missed the point that it is on the individual to decide for himself as to what to take awe in. i think his view is there's objectively nothing worth being awestruck about
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Jul 17, 2014 04:25
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A misanthrope posted:i think his view is there's objectively nothing worth being awestruck about I'd love to ask him. "What is art?" And for an explanation of his own work.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:27
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Wendigee posted:Can anyone fancy that up? It's rather boring. Sure. I propose the following additions to the English language, just to popularize the idea that we all die alone. Words Deatherosexual: Like being asexual, because you're dead. No Tumblr for you. Lonelyikes!: The feeling you get when you're surprised because you've been alone for some time and are suddenly dead. Necronymous: The condition of being dead and inevitably forgotten. Funeralmost: People gathering to celebrate the person you pretended to be while you were alive, rather than the person you actually were, revealed yourself to be while dying, and who they found repellent and were relieved to be rid of. Phrases It's worth turning "everyone dies alone" inside out. Dying isn't as much about a person being gone as much as it is a process of pushing away the people closest to you -- either because you're leaving them behind in death or have become such an inconvenience that you effectively kill off your closest relationships. So when you're dying, you're not just leaving. You're a kind of killer, right? The you that people liked and is going to be killed off by the less-likable you who's scared, depressed, frustrated, and confused by his or her impending death. So: quote:We all die murderers quote:All deaths are murders Of course that misses the intimacy that makes the process of dying really, really horrible -- you don't just murder your relationships by dying. You murder your relationships with the people closest to you. And all of them. I'm sure you can see where this is going. So: quote:Every death murders a village quote:Every death murders a household But we can get a little more profound. Every relationship carries with it an unacknowledged truth: that the relationship itself will end not at death, but at some time before death. That's horrible, and we pretend that exactly the opposite is true as a kind of defense -- you know, that the dying are kind and wise, and that deathbeds are family gathering places instead of lonely, antiseptic, and deliberately isolated corners where mortality takes out the trash. So we're not really any more distant from the kinds of murder we commit as we die. In fact, we're as close to it as we are to the villages and households we kill by dying. So: quote:Murder, you are family quote:Murder you're famil;
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Jul 17, 2014 04:29
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Dying seems like a big relief tbh. Im pretty stoked about not giving a gently caress forever.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:34
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I do not fear death, but rather am only certain of my own disappointment when it comes my time. Disappointment that the full breadth of my ambition is not yet finished, and will remain forever incomplete.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:40
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I don't fear my own death nearly as much as I fear the deaths of others.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:42
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This is all super profound but Wendigee's avatar looks like it's being strangled to death so I'm laughing.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:43
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You can never die alone as long as you are remembered, you hold the weight of the dead, and tells others the travels. best quote.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:43
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VendaGoat posted:I'd love to ask him. "What is art?" i think he would say beauty and art are lies we tell ourselves to help distract from the truth: that we are nothing but spoiling meat on crumbling bones on a rock hurtling through an uncaring void and we are all going to die and go away forever as for what that has to say about his own work, i dunno i'm not done reading yet  i think he admits he's distracting himself too
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Jul 17, 2014 04:44
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I, for one, plan on being spontaneously reformed as a Boltzmann brain. See y'all in about 10^10^10^10^10^10^10 years.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:45
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A misanthrope posted:i think he would say beauty and art are lies we tell ourselves to help distract from the truth: that we are nothing but spoiling meat on crumbling bones on a rock hurtling through an uncaring void and we are all going to die and go away forever It's cool yo. He's just a nihilist.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:48
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VendaGoat posted:It's cool yo. He's just a nihilist. yeah i like nihilism also atheism sounds weird but it makes me feel good, you know? i'd be really pissed if it turned out there was a higher power ruling over me -- even if i got into heaven (which i wouldn't because lol) plus eternity anywhere sounds real loving tedious. like to the point that i used to get freaked out about it as a kid, thinking how much it would suck to live 5 billion years and know it wasn't even close to the end i don't care if there are 5 billion angels to suck my dick. that poo poo would get old
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Jul 17, 2014 04:53
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"when you fall, trees will grow, and your bones will be the cement of a great empire, and your blood the lakes the size no man has ever seen"
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Jul 17, 2014 04:55
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A misanthrope posted:yeah i like nihilism lol
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Jul 17, 2014 04:57
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A misanthrope posted:yeah i like nihilism Same. There's confidence to be gained in knowing you are the master of your own destiny, random poo poo notwithstanding. Also, Christian heaven sucks and it doesn't even make sense why folks would be motivated to get there.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:57
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Wendigee posted:and why is this a fearful phrase? You are born alone knowing nothing and coming from non-existence. And if you came from non-existence before, it stands to reason you'd come again and again. There's a sort of sense to reincarnation.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:57
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A misanthrope posted:yeah i like nihilism You make atheism sound like a belief structure.  So Devil's advocate here, remember that it's supposed to be eternal bliss. Bliss can mean anything that gives pleasure. So eternity of doing anything and everything that ever brought you happiness. It's an attractive offer.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:58
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"At the end, you will be greeted by angels, and gifts, and you will rise, sword in hand."
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Jul 17, 2014 04:59
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redshirt posted:Also, Christian heaven sucks and it doesn't even make sense why folks would be motivated to get there. right? you don't even get angel blowjobs
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Jul 17, 2014 04:59
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I'd love to die but I have such a full schedule I don't think I can fit it in during this universe.
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Jul 17, 2014 05:02
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VendaGoat posted:You make atheism sound like a belief structure. nah i mean realizing there was no god had the added bonus of freeing me from existential fear of eternity and try doing something you love doing every day for 10 years straight. you would get sick of that poo poo. now try doing it for 10 billion years with the prospect of another infinity years ahead of you
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Jul 17, 2014 05:02
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then think how god would feel living for eternity no wonder he's loving crazy jk there is no god lol
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Jul 17, 2014 05:03
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congratulations redshirt and a misanthrope on sharing the banal spiritual outlook you're too old for
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Jul 17, 2014 05:04
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A misanthrope posted:nah i mean realizing there was no god had the added bonus of freeing me from existential fear of eternity  A misanthrope posted:and try doing something you love doing every day for 10 years straight. you would get sick of that poo poo. now try doing it for 10 billion years with the prospect of another infinity years ahead of you There are many things that I do now that I would love to spend a thousand years attempting to perfect. And there are an infinite number of things I have yet to find, that I would love the same amount of time to enjoy. I have but one lifetime.
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Jul 17, 2014 05:06
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Cucking Mama posted:congratulations redshirt and a misanthrope on sharing the banal spiritual outlook you're too old for thanks cucking for having the worst opinions in the thread like you always do 
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Jul 17, 2014 05:06
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cucking's god is a big fat penis in his mouth he fears death because it means the end of blowing dudes
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Jul 17, 2014 05:08
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A misanthrope posted:yeah i like nihilism lol
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Jul 17, 2014 05:09
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Cucking Mama posted:congratulations redshirt and a misanthrope on sharing the banal spiritual outlook you're too old for So bitter for such a young person. I weep for the future.
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Jul 17, 2014 05:09
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redshirt posted:So bitter for such a young person. I weep for the future. How about you make my penis weep some cum, with your mouf
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Jul 17, 2014 05:09
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never before have i witnessed such brutal and severe ownage, shiiiiiiit
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Jul 17, 2014 05:11
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it's all bullshit. I don't enjoy videogames as much as I used to and I'm pretty sure heaven would get old so fast
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Cucking Mama posted:it's all bullshit. I don't enjoy videogames as much as I used to and I'm pretty sure heaven would get old so fast lol u play video games
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Jul 17, 2014 05:16
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videogames kick rear end
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Jul 17, 2014 05:17
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Cucking Mama posted:videogames kick rear end yeah i was just kidding i like video games
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Jul 17, 2014 05:19
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A misanthrope posted:yeah i was just kidding i like video games Same, let's play some Warcraft
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Momplestiltskin posted:They might be physically present, but they are not experiencing what you are experiencing and thus could not be fully "with" you. hth This is why you make them drink the punch with you. Its cool though because you and all your brethren are all going to heaven to meet God and be a happy family.
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