the earth is 4.5 billion years old




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

slowly you begin to realize you are irrelevant

how does this make you feel




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

personally, try as i might to think what i do in the world is worth ****, i still end up caring about stupid stuff like my marks in class and what video games to buy and not to buy

spent about two hours today thinking about whether or not to buy MM9 i mean jesus christ this decision wont even effect me a week from now

never mind 4.5 billion years




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

panic would be the #1 guy to post in this thread holy **** his response would be fantastic




Posted by #061402

"You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. - Ambrose Bierce"

I'd hate to look like Mother Earth.




Posted by Klarth

What? The Earth was created in 2000 BC. Therefore I'm not irrelevant at all.

You're just a filthy apostate.




Posted by Klarth

In all honesty, yeah, I resigned myself to irrelevance years ago. Hence me flunking the **** out of high school at the last hurdle and having no clue what to do with my life aside from total hedonism and overindulgence.

**** yes




Posted by Slade

so my life is nothing and everything I do is nothing as well. there is absolutely no difference between coming into being millions of years ago and doing so now because every being's life is equally insignificant. so that leaves me with only one question


WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN A DINOSAUR I mean **** the universe really ****ed me over on that one




Posted by Ant


Quoting The X: spent about two hours today thinking about whether or not to buy MM9 i mean jesus christ this decision wont even effect me a week from now


well, if you didn't think about your purchase in a somewhat responsible manner then you'd kind of **** yourself over too. that's the other side of the...whatever.

but in regards of the topic of a meaningless existence. Yeah, I've thought about it. But I've also thought about living as a bum. no sir, I don't like it.



Posted by Iris

Nihilism is stupid.




Posted by The Judge

This reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin is standing outside at night, and screams "I'M SIGNIFICANT!" and then looks down and says "said the speck of dust."

We're nothin. Hell, humanity hasn't even been around for 1,000,000 years. We don't even have anything on turtles. Turtles, for Christs' sake.




Posted by #061402


Quoting Slade: WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN A DINOSAUR I mean **** the universe really ****ed me over on that one


You could've been.



Posted by Ant

Turtles in Time. What an amazing accomplishment of/for gaming.




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

but in the grand scheme of things... was it really that important?




Posted by Ant

Big Apple: 3 A.M




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

COWABUNGA




Posted by David M. Awesome

It's Turtles in ****ing Time, dude, of course it is.




Posted by WillisGreeny

If everything is nothing then nothing is everything...perspecitve perhaps?. Doesn't change much for me considering I haven't lost the urg to keep on eating, sleeping, and ****ing. Knowing the solar system is only 4.5 billion years old, and that everything came out of the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, is just fluff. I still have to pay my bills, and to me, that's pretty **** important, even if the universe disagrees.




Posted by The Judge


Quoting Ant: Turtles in Time. What an amazing accomplishment of/for gaming.


And cinema, right?



Posted by Lord of Spam

just because nothing is geologically important doesnt mean that the contemporary world is irrelevant. Last I checked, you nihilist ****ers still lived on a human timescale.

****, you guys are worse than nazis. Say what you will about the tennets of national socialism, at least its an ethos.




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

for how long after death will matt miller's name be spoken of




Posted by The Judge

Not a single second from my lips. I'll actually stop making any mention of him 20 years pre-mortem.




Posted by Slade

"you nihilist ****ers"

wait who are these guys




Posted by Lord of Spam

you all fail for quote recognition




Posted by WillisGreeny

I remember quotes pretty well.

And I'M GLAD PEOPLE DON'T REMEMBER.




Posted by Linko_16

I'm a Mereological Nihilist. I wrote a paper about it for the final in my philosophy class.




Posted by David M. Awesome

I almost remember what that means.




Posted by ExoXile

You stop at 4.5 billion years.
Just think about the universe and our unimportance to that.
In the grand scheme of things, we're nothing at all.

I've only been thinking about this **** since I was like, 6.
And I've been getting better at not doing so.

But really, as time is "infinite," I wouldn't call it time.
It's pretty much events, so every event is as meaningful or useless as the other, just depends on how you look at it.

Me? I don't care either way, just going to enjoy my life.




Posted by David M. Awesome

[quote=David M. Awesome;886862]I almost remember what that means.

I think it was something along the lines of it's possible that none of us even exist but that if we don't you wouldn't really care.




Posted by Linkman

[IMG]http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g175/majoracle/vgc/emo-image-saved-because-jesse-block.jpg[/IMG]

The new face of DA.

Shameful!




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

the judge's mom

the judge the judge the judge




Posted by #061402

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Posted by Linko_16


Quoting David M. Awesome: I think it was something along the lines of it's possible that none of us even exist but that if we don't you wouldn't really care.


The main theory is that it means objects with parts do not exist, only fundamental particles like quarks, leptons, bosons, etc (it's a long and complicated premise, which I guess I can break down if anyone's interested), and one of the problems with that is that it implies you do not exist. The opposite theory is Universalism, which states that the whole Universe is a single object, and it has the same problem of implying the individual's non-existence. My Philosophy teacher said he was a Universalist, but didn't have a problem with the suggestion that he did not exist. I don't understand how he can say that, seeing as it conflicts with the Cogito: I think therefore I am.

But one of the points I made in my paper in defense of Mereological Nihilism (and considering I started writing not knowing what to say, I'm proud of myself for coming to this conclusion) is that what "I" am has nothing to do with my body. "I" am the mysterious cognitive thought processes that are the result of electronic resonance surging through the mass of fundamental particles known as "my brain." "I" am not extended in space, and therefore "I" am in no way effected by the principles of Merelogical Nihilism. So, just because you believe objects without parts do not exist does not mean you have to believe you do not exist. It's a better conclusion than what Van Inwagen came up with, "Organicism," stating that objects with parts only existed if "caught up in a life," what seems to me to be a cheap, last-ditch effort to believe in Nihilism and prove he existed.




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

i'd rep you for this




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

what if we're just tiny organisms in the body of some incomprehesibly huge entity

or the blood cells in our own body have cultivated their own society and believe themselves to be of huge importance...




Posted by Lord of Spam

what if philosophy mattered?

nah just kidding, that'll never happen




Posted by Linko_16


Quoting The X: what if we're just tiny organisms in the body of some incomprehesibly huge entity

or the blood cells in our own body have cultivated their own society and believe themselves to be of huge importance...


Those kinds of questions about material composition are exactly why extremes like Universalism and Nihilism were thought of. You have to have an explanation that encompasses all things, and the only answers (all things considered) are either that everything is part of one object, or else nothing comes together to form an object.



Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

when you sneeze it's the little people inside your body going on interplanetary explorations

they're more advanced than us




Posted by Ant

I didn't read any of that




Posted by The Judge


Quoting The X: the judge's mom

the judge the judge the judge


Yeah, what about her and me? I read all the posts on this page, dickhead. You got something to say to me?



Posted by Linko_16

We were actually making fun of you.




Posted by Ant

actually he was just copying me(for reasons unknown to me) and my post in the daytime posting thread.




Posted by Linko_16

I got ninja'd. I was talking to you.




Posted by The Judge

Oh, I know what Ant's doing. And he's a really funny guy. REALLY funny.




Posted by Lord of Spam

but is he really cool?




Posted by The Judge

No. Jesus.




Posted by WillisGreeny

Ant is phat.




Posted by The Judge

That would imply he's cool.

Which he isn't.




Posted by Ant

just saw my name mentioned so I thought I'd pop in here and say "N[COLOR="Lime"]i[/COLOR]ggers" and leave.




Posted by ExoXile

You're pretty cool Ant.




Posted by The Judge


Quoting Ant: just saw my name mentioned so I thought I'd pop in here and say "N[COLOR="Lime"]i[/COLOR]ggers" and leave.


Sounds like me.



Posted by WillisGreeny

blahblahblah The Judge. blahblah.




Posted by The Judge

Mmhmm. That's me. The Judge. I like my name, and I like to hear people say it. It catches the eye, and makes you think of me. Usually in a positive light.

[spoiler]****ing lol[/spoiler]