Indeed. Life can be incredibly cruel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
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Indeed. Life can be incredibly cruel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
Either way nobody is able to come back and tell us conclusively so it's all theory. Can't be proven, can't be disproven.
I've never ruled things out, you can lean towards what you know or are told but the reality is humans will only ever be able to learn a tiny fraction of the workings of the universe and beyond.
Personally I think we are in a simulated reality.
I used to wonder whether I am actually part of the population and participating in society, or just a visitor who's observing everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
We are both, of course. We are the centre of our own world as we look from the motorway bridge at all the people we see rushing around but we are just extras in their lives, a figure on a motorway bridge that they glimpse oh so briefly.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Beautifully put although i've now got this image of David Brent uttering those words at a team meeting....with guitar in hand..Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
I used to have another thought as a kid: sitting on the moon looking down on our planet and realising that the language we speak, the religion we believe in and many of the ways we think are based simply on the location we are born and brought up in.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
And to this day I am obsessed with travel, languages, belief systems and other cultures.
I enjoy reading James Lovelocks ideas about Gaia and that there is eternal life but it’s for dna and not what dna produces as part of its role
The Gaia hypothesis proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
oh ffs shut up with this gibberish
Made the effort to voluntarily read a page and a half of it so you could tell people to stop writing it. The internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
Again we are very fortunate people that we have the luxury of debating such issues such as "life after death" when for so many people in the world "life before death" is a more pressing issue.
Those who believe in nothing will stand for anything
Trump? Boris? Glad you're finally waking up!Quote:
Originally Posted by RonnieBird
Beat me to it :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Very much so. Many of us have the luxury about thinking about the meaning of life whilst milliions of people around the world are just looking to get the end of the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gofer Blue
so so true and very sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Blueblade
1. What ‘magic’ are you referring to?
2. Are you saying that humans must be able to understand any phenomenon before it can be classified as true?
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Originally Posted by jon1959
"The King of Persia, he is My servant also".
Anglia East :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by RonnieBird