| Re: What's it all about, Alfie? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: Jul 1, 2008 21:09
On Jul 2, 5:30Â am, BURT yahoo.com> wrote:> On Jul 1, 10:40Â am, Osmium aol.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe I should have entitled this "What's it all about, Mitch?"
>> Is human existence really only about humans doing things to keep
>> existing? Â Is that it--everything we do is just to continue our
>> existence and that of our species? Â There is no other goal, just to
>> exist?
>> If so we're as useless as that little toy that when you turn it on a
>> hand comes out of a box and turns itself off.
>> Maybe we exist to find a TOE and that is our purpose. Â But no, that is
>> just a result of our instinct to find out everything about the
>> enviornment so we can continue eating and sleeping and making babies
>> so that we can continue etc.etc.
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> "I want to know hod God created this universe. I want to know His
> thoughts. All the rest are just details." Albert Einstein
Not bad for an intellectual.;-)
Of course, he used the wrong premise, being 'his' and 'thoughts'.
The details are like the clues in a treasure hunt, but they are laid
out in a circle, which is why he detected that space is curved.
Of course a helix looks circular when viewed from above.
BOfL
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