the "how great it is to be alive" thread

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 1:45 pm

Life can't suck, for it to suck there'd have to be some sort of viable alternative, which there isn't, or it would have to have some definable qualities in and of itself that suck, which it doesn't (only things in it that suck when compared to other things in it). Don't make me quote Voltaire people :lol:

Hmm... that made a vague amount of sense to me, did it to anyone else?

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 3/30/2003, 1:48 pm

it made me think.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 1:48 pm

It made sense except for one part; there is one alternative...

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 1:51 pm

There is one alternative state, but there's no way of determining if it is in fact comparable to this one, and once you take it there's no way of going "Hmm, this isn't a hoot and a hollar after all, I'd like to go back please."

So it is in fact not an actual alternative :nod:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 1:52 pm

How do you know that? Maybe we can chose to come back to life whenever we want. Perhaps we simply come back in a new body, at birth.

Did you think of that? Hmmm?

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 1:55 pm

joe_canadian wrote:...but there's no way of determining if it is in fact comparable to this one...

It's still awfully inconvenient.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 1:57 pm

Ahh, put a sock in it.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 1:58 pm

[Voltaire quotage]

Maybe this is the best of all possible worlds! :clumsy:

[/Voltaire quotage]

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 2:00 pm

[Marshall quotage]

Maybe this isn't the best of all possible worlds! :clumsy:

[/Marshall quotage]

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 2:01 pm

Well, uh... shit :uh:

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 2:04 pm

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 2:17 pm

Noooo! I'm meeeeeeelting!

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/30/2003, 2:21 pm

Whoops, sorry.

*Turns off death ray*

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 3/30/2003, 2:24 pm

True happiness is action, not a state. We need the bad things in life to give us the ability to overcome them, to motivate us to act, and thusly be happy :nod:

We need a philosophy thread or something. And everyone should read Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, it's great stuff.

committed · Post by **committed** » 3/30/2003, 6:15 pm

woohoo

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 3/30/2003, 9:36 pm

these pretsels are makin me thirsty

committed · Post by **committed** » 3/30/2003, 9:58 pm

four alkaline trio concerts

fuck yeah

Mechanical Thought · Post by **Mechanical Thought** » 3/31/2003, 5:10 pm

i am jealous of you jeff.
damn.

committed · Post by **committed** » 3/31/2003, 5:53 pm

oh man.

this is exciting. i'm totally getting drunk with alkaline trio,

superboots · Post by **superboots** » 3/31/2003, 6:16 pm

what?

what happened to, "why don't you go drink a juice box" jeff?!?!?!?!?!? :wtf: