existentiallylostdumbell

I would pat your avatar on the head

Eat some pizza, go home, wonder about the nature of this person who has a crush on me, decide I'll worry about it some other day, drown myself in hedonistic activities, fall blissfully asleep, unless I can't, then repeat the aforementioned activities until I can.

Uncomfortably with a solid back pat and half a foot between our chests, the kind of "I don't know you, but I have to pretend I do" hug awkwardly exchanged at large family gatherings.

ooh, ooh, me, "the one with the boobs"

I express my fanmanning by scratching my armpits and belching as loudly as I can.

Nope, dunno who she is, but she looks like a crazy bitch, I'll keep my torso in a range she can't stab at it

@ItsSammy If you're suggesting there an be no morality without religion, I disagree. I guess we just have different views and will have to disagree. Anyhow, at least I know your not a depressed kid. In the beginning, I thought I was arguing with a sad nihilist, change your perspective, change your life. You've got your own sort of meaning though, so long as you have a meaning there's nothing I really need to say. Personally, my view is that so long as you have something to strive for and can find a way to live a life worth remembering, that is meaning enough. All we really have is our experience, everything else is illusory, transient, the past is gone and the future is an idea. So yeah, we've got different beliefs. Some day I'm gonna get myself a Bible, a Quran and whatever the Buddhists have, and read them. I may not be religious or believe in God, but if they've lasted this long there must be some wisdom in them.

I was in a shit mood before the gym, now I ain't bad, existential dread has passed me over for a bit

Dunno, I have balls, 0%

I would make paper mache with it and airplane glue, the I would knock you unconscious, tie you to a chair, coat you with it and light you on fire. Next item, a retarded T-rex with brain damage

Sated

@ItsSammy If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that in comparison to the meaning we find in the afterlife, the only meaningful thing we can do is something as grandiose as changing the world. Look around you then, all of the technology and social progress that has occurred sits on the backs of great people, people who changed the world. Every day we change the world a great deal, we are collectively on the brink of making this world uninhabitable for the sake of industry. However, nothing we have achieved up until this point would have been possible without the efforts of many different people including those worker bees. Henry Woodward may have been the inventor of the light bulb, but without the efforts of Thomas Edison, and all of the factory workers of today, we would not have light bulbs. What you seem to be having difficulty with then is not existence itself, but your existence. The fact that you are not someone who has "changed the world", yet. I understand, sometimes I used to think to myself that the adult world was full of nothing but miserable fucks, slaving away purposelessly every day. Now I think that the world is full of lost people, who don't really know alot more about life and it's purpose than I do, but like to pretend they do. As a religious person, I'm sure you believe your God had a purpose when he made this world and you, so saying the act of existence is worthless is contradictory. You've asked me what we as humans are meant to do, and my answer to that question is "fuck if I know", I don't believe in fate to begin with. It seems to me that you have difficulty living with ambiguity, the truth is we will never know any of these things, while we are still alive anyhow. Wouldn't life be dull if we had all the answers? Would there be any reason to strive, any reason to worry? Purpose is something we find within ourselves, being told what our purpose is in my mind is akin to slavery. Does it matter what we do with our lives? Objectively, no, nothing matters, but if nothing matters we have the freedom to decide what matters. Hope is nothing more than the belief in possibilities, it is a perhaps, without it, we'd all just resign ourselves to our "place" in life and be miserable. Nothing in this world is set in stone. You are right to believe much is wrong with the world, society and how we live our lives, much is wrong with it. I don't mean to say blindly hope without taking into account the reality before you, but you've got to hope for something; when it comes down to it, that might be all that keeps you alive. Do I think that all humans are good people? No, I believe we are what we make of ourselves and are neither inherently good or bad. There are evil people and there are good people, but that really just comes down to the choices they were given and which ones they took. We all die, all things are ground to dust with time, no matter how grand, it is unavoidable. From my perspective that is the one thing that can take away meaning and the one thing that gives life meaning, because if we lived forever, would anything we do really matter?

The exceptional are called that for a reason, if your sole metric for meaning is being better than others or being someone who changes the world, that is arrogance. To answer your question, no I do not think my life has had a major impact on this world. But you don't have to be Einstein or Stephen Hawking to make a difference in people's lives. There's a famous quote, one that everyone seems to like, however it is one I disagree with, it goes:"Be in this world, but not of it". What that quote fails to take into account is that we are all of this world as much as it is of us. It is impossible to separate ourselves from the world, with every waking moment every thought we have, every action we make we shape the world around us. Similarly, everything we witness, everything we experience, even in this moment, shapes who we are. We cannot think of a thing unless we have seen it, something similar, or things which make it up. Everything we do and think impacts the world in some way, take for instance the reason I started lifting: One day during my first year of college, I met a girl I knew from highschool, she was busty and hot af, she told me I was hot. That was around the time I had inexplicably developed panic attacks and extreme fear of people, so all I did was nod. However, after she told me that, I started doing pushups in the hallway, then sit-ups and so on. Eventually, after making myself exercise this way, I started going to the gym, I've been lifting 2 and a half years since then, and I've gotten stronger. Lifting was and is important for me, because it was the one thing in my control, it was an area in my life I could improve in and do only for myself. More importantly, I believe it played a big role in overcoming my newly developed people phobia, along with meditation, something I need to pick up again. Am exceptional? no, was she? no, but all it took was a few words from her to alter my life. Now you've said that we humans never do anything worth knowing, what metric are you basing that on? Societies? Why does it matter whether what we do is important in the eyes of the world? Society is merely a collection of people, all of them the same living, breathing, shitting humans we are. Whether what we do is popular or not is really irrelevant. Who defines what is important anyhow? I think that what matters is that the things we do are important to us, not anyone else, not for anyone else, even if it is an act kindness. We are the only ones in our lives who can decide what is worthwhile and what isn't; what is worth knowing and what isn't. Living to be remembered, to be important is incredibly foolish anyhow, regardless of how many millions you save or kill, we are nothing more than a speck in the universe. No matter how mighty a man is, he is still an ant. He cannot hope to do something worth knowing in the eyes of the universe, as the universe is indifferent and importance is all relative anyhow. Does that mean his strivings aren't important? No, it certainly does not, they are important to him and maybe even some of the ants around him, and that is enough. That is more than enough reason to continue his tiny existence, and it's the only reason he will ever find. One more thing, if you believe that life is worthless, you will live the life of someone who thinks that life is worthless. Your thoughts and so your actions and so the world around you, will be that of someone who believes that life is worthless. I cannot afford to believe that life is worthless, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe it is worthless, but if I have to choose between hope and despair, I think hope is the better option.

try me, I'll slip all your punches

I'll get back to you, but I have a rule where I can't stay on after 9:45, it's 9:50, g'night.

I would hesitate to define life as worthless, in an objective sense, it can be said that nothing has value, however, I am of the belief that we create our own meaning. We create and define the meaning of our own lives, for, without a god, we are the only ones who can give anything meaning. On the other side of that, you say life is worthless, worthless compared to what? That's nothing more than a subjective evaluation of it, a sort of bias. You would think that if anything were to have worth, it would be the life of one of the most intelligent and powerful species on this planet and perhaps even in the universe. The only thing that can have any value is life, because it is all that is, the other side of it is nothingness.

People make war and kill each other because they are human, not because of religion. Because they are greedy, hateful, misfortunate or afraid. Religion is just one of many excuses used to cover up war, you get rid of it and I'm sure they'd just find another one. If the world only had one government, and nationalism wasn't a thing war in the traditional sense might end, but I have no doubt there would still be conflict and radical groups and things like that. It's human nature.

Suuuup, you know I used to think I'd like to be a mortician. I heard it was a pretty chill gig, heard you get to work with your headphones on and it's quiet, sounded like it would be my kind of thing. Is it really that chill? Also, how do people normally react when you tell them you're a mortician?

Shut up, I'm not arguing, I'm never going to argue, you're wrong!

I've used them, the round ones you get at Thai restaurants suck

Do tell number 9. please

1. Condom 2.Dye my hair orange, become president of the United States, form a global government with the appropriate checks and balances to make sure it does not go awry, Kill Kim Jon Un and other dictators, invade during the political unrest, set up governments there and leave people behind until the country can transition into democracy, silently inform the culture there of western values while doing the utmost to respect theirs, foster free thought, and then figure out a way to deal with all of the misery modern western society brings, perhaps by fostering and emphasizing the need for local traditions and customs to remain mostly unchanged. 3. Wolf 4. Motorcycle, even though I've never been on one, a guy can dream can't he? 5. Porn, punch walls and things, play my guitar, watch TV, wait for it to go away, if it's really bad scream into a pillow and beat the shit out of the sofa. 6. I would try and fail as I have nothing to offer, no knowledge or anything else that could help them, in the end only they can help themselves. Or maybe someone else. 7. I am a beginner at guitar, I lift weights, I take boxing lessons and generally like martial arts 8. No idea, my mother was never around much when I was growing up for a number of reasons and I have never had any close female relationships. So, you could say I know nothing about women. However, given the fact that many many women are sexually abused as children, raped, assaulted, shamed for having a sexuality, denied equal pay and in less civilized places in the world not even seen as human, I'll go with women. That doesn't mean I'm not afraid of them like caged tigers mind you, especially when they're in loud groups, I know how to handle men, women on the other hand mystify me. 9. Louis C.K's bit on hating deers. 10. Uhhh, I took Biotech in college.

Human' themselves limit it, just like every other human endeavor. But I haven't really said anything new. As for what I think it's lacking, hmmmm..... human sized chests, drama which features real normal reactions, an anime which critically evaluates Japanese society itself, one which doesn't bastardize European or any other history, a harem anime with consequences and one in which one person is chosen, more serious-ish fantasy animes like berserk.

Honesty: Being honest and vulnerable takes guts Courage: I'm not a very courageous person, fear is the most limiting thing I find in life, so if you're courageous, you have my respect, and envy, let's be honest. Discipline: I am a serial procrastinator, and aside from my ability to pull myself together so I can go lift heavy things or hit a bag, I am a complete mess. I admire discipline, almost as much as courage, discipline is hard, people who do hard things have my respect. Kindness: Having the capacity to look at someone, understand what they're going through and help them, is admirable, and necessary in a society in which we are increasingly disconnected from one another. If everyone was kind the world would be a very different place, that goes without saying. Of course that's not how the world is, so all of us, including myself, must walk around armed to protect ourselves. There is evil in this world, maybe not in an objective sense, as evil is an idea, but it is nonetheless present.