[Newfie]

OK, as you like it.

I prefer my view point.

To each his own.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tikib', '
')However assuming existence does have value (it doesn't) you think existing in a world without electricity, transportation or reliable food and water will be fun?

[Rod_Cloutier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ts the same reason all our lives are entirely pointless everything you have ever done has essentially been destroyed by the passing of time. And one day you will feel nothing at all.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'ve enjoyed this conversation Tikib but now I must leave now and do one of those things I do not find pleasurable. Mow the grass around my house. No one will appreciate that work but I don't want anyone to say at my funeral, "He had a crappy yard"

You have a nice day.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tikib', 'I') am not telling anyone how to live there lives, but my view is that life is entirely pointless. We just try and kid ourselves that enjoyment has value so we can follow our biological programming which tells us to keep on living.

Once you try and measure happiness/sadness you find its impossible for various reasons including the 'destruction' of the past. And if you can't measure them how do decide what actions to persue?

[ralfy]

I always thought that the problem isn't that human beings aren't intelligent but the opposite.

[Rod_Cloutier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;I've seen the future, brother, it is murder."

Leonard Cohen

[Tikib]

life IS valueless. Your only saying that it isn't now because you still have some time left but inevitably you won't soon.

I have thought about this a lot.

[onlooker]

Tik, the question of of how valuable or not life is to someone is a totally subjective one that thus cannot be minimized to a right or wrong answer. Our emotional outlook and life experiences inform our deliberation on this matter and what conclusions we may reach

[Tikib]

If thts what gets you up in the morning.

[Cog]

What gets me up in the morning is the dog.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'W')hat gets me up in the morning is the dog.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tikib', 'l')ife IS valueless. Your only saying that it isn't now because you still have some time left but inevitably you won't soon.

I have thought about this a lot.

[onlooker]

Magnificently put Ibon

[Cog]

I would say that nihilists would be happier being dead but since they don't believe in existence, that doesn't even work for them. Tikib should get a puppy and raise it through old age. He will know happiness through the eyes of a dog.

[Newfie]

I consider myself a nihilist, I've learned to live with it.

Great line from an old Julie Andews movie. Advice to a comatose guy who tried to commit suicide. Goes something like this.

Look Frank, I agree life is shit. Your just trying to do your self in the wrong way. My method of suicide is cigars, booze, and broads. Been at it for 25 years and never been happier.

[SumYunGai]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tikib', 'l')ife IS valueless. Your only saying that it isn't now because you still have some time left but inevitably you won't soon.

I have thought about this a lot.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ihilism is not a philosophy to live by, it is just the obvious realization that inherent meaning is an illusion.