What's your theory of life, the Universe and everything...

CrackerJax

New Member
You wish to know the unknowable. You minx!!

By my nature I stay only in the present tense. I don't dwell on the past (my own, not history), or think about the future much either.

By my own observations which is after all limited to a smart ape, I see that energy is not lost but recycled. I also see that life and death are completely random, although bad decision making and self abuse can certainly hedge your death randomness.

I certainly don't think everything happens for a reason. There is just no evidence to support that. There is no "destiny' mapped out ahead of you. It's a free wheel circus. Some can't handle that and are drawn to religion as comfort. That's fine. It's a choice.

I haven't the foggiest idea what happens upon ones death. Truly I don't and neither does anyone else. Of course this is the question which plagues and permeates us as a species. This is what led you to post this in the first place. Well done by the way, nothing wrong with asking.

I do think we are definitely recycled, but reincarnation is more an indication of our narcissism than reality. The only evidence is that recycling is done and we (the dead) decompose and our atoms disperse and reassemble into something else.

I believe the entire conscience transference and continuation of our spirit is merely (not to demean the complexity of it) an evolutionary trick in our brains so we don't get depressed about the reality that we live on a planet which is set up in an extremely violent way. Everything stays alive by killing something else. This does not seem to be a kind existence for anybody.

Perhaps there are planets out there where entities live on solar energy and killing is UNKNOWN. Of course our planet would come as quite a shock to them.


I could go on but this post is making me depressed. Just kidding!! I've got to go kill something to eat!!


out.
Here it is again, I'll recycle it just as one day I the amazing CrackerJax will also be recycled. :wink:

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threesixes

Active Member
i've boiled it down to this:

it is what it is.


example:

a = a

a rock is a rock. it is composed of everything that makes it a rock.

we merely describe what we interpret and not what actually is.

to truly understand everything would be quite boring wouldn't it? ;-)
 

CrackerJax

New Member
i've boiled it down to this:

it is what it is.


example:

a = a

a rock is a rock. it is composed of everything that makes it a rock.

we merely describe what we interpret and not what actually is.

to truly understand everything would be quite boring wouldn't it? ;-)
I don't personally feel "understanding" something is boring. I do feel there is only one way (that we know of, we have limitations) to achieve understanding and that is through the reason of science. Only science can peel the onion. Every other avenue says it already has the answers, but as science progresses, those assumptions keep coming up short or inaccurate... :peace:

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threesixes

Active Member
by truly understanding everything i was meaning something along the lines of being "god" or knowing it all.

knowing how it all ends or how it all works would take all the fun of "figuring it out"

science only explains what we figure out (to the furthest of our knowledge at the time).

i dare say anything has ever been truly explained and defined as it actually is.

:shrug:

i'm not so good at expressing my thoughts but perhaps somebody can munch on my them :]]
 

CrackerJax

New Member
I don't think anyone, certainly any one I know has the concept of we will be able to know it all. If anything science reveals that things are far more complex than we think and "knowing" it all is an impossibility. We just aren't very advanced at all.
However, science is the only path we have to the answers, if only partial answers.

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