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Freelance Philosophy
Contributed by
butterat_zool
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Saturday, 7th May 2005 @ 02:15:47 PM in AEST
Topic:
Lifepoems
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1.
There will come a day
when my sanguine personality
flows freely from my veins,
chest, nose, eyes;
when my education,
stock portfolio,
son, coke addiction
immediately becomes worthless;
when I completely blow by
the lightheadedness
of getting a CBC done,
and simply collapse
in a woozy, pale lump.
2.
Extrapolate:
There will come a day,
my darling reader, student,
or brunette at my lecture,
when some of your vital bits
will fail from misuse,
when you, by God, will die.
3.
Extrapolate:
Eventually, every human
will go through the same experience.
4.
Some day, the universe will end.
Whether by a Big Rip
or a Big Crunch,
entropy or gravity,
all matter will either recombine
to ignite, someday, a new Big Bang,
or disintegrate
into the tiniest of photons
before blinking
out of existence.
5.
Extrapolate:
One way or another,
either locally or universally,
the human species will be destroyed
and all evidence of its existence
will be either reshaped or crumbled.
6.
Extrapolate:
One way or another,
either locally or universally,
all life forms on all spatial bodies
will be completely destroyed
with all evidence of its existence
either masked or torn apart.
7.
Exception:
Anything existing
while wholly devoid
of all matter – including photons
and other infinitesimal particles –
could potentially exist eternally.
However, because of the connection
between matter and energy
and stated in “e=mc2,”
such an “eternal body”
would have to exist
in a state of zero energy as well:
a being wholly ethereal,
having no means of influence
on the material universe.
If something sentient existed
in such a condition,
it would be both amazing
and beyond human perception.
In reality, this shows that
only an absolute vacuum is eternal.
Therefore, God is the number zero.
8.
Extrapolate:
If all things material,
on an infinite time scale,
are destroyed,
then there are only two possible explanations
to justify the existence
of not only human life,
but all life, Earthly or alien.
Firstly, it is possible that nothing
has any meaning, significance, or,
most importantly, permanence,
in our entire being. If this is true,
then every action taken, other than
in indulgence in or pursuit of instinctual pleasures
has no long-term effect on anything meaningful,
but rather, serves simply
to make our time in life more pleasant.
Or, secondly, there exists some way
to transcend the material world,
and to allow life, that is, sentience,
to continue in the absence
of all matter and energy.
If this is true,
the life being described
would be merely an invisible consciousness
without the ability to interact
with anything made of matter,
and without the ability to move,
since it will lack all energy as well.
Therefore, the exchange is that
mobility and the ability
to alter our surroundings
are given up, but, for that,
we get what every human seeks –
immortality.
9.
Extrapolate:
If it is true of all life
in the universe,
that there is a drive toward immortality –
if not for the individual,
then for the species –
then all organisms in the universe
are seeking out, to whatever extent they can,
the exact same goal.
10.
Extrapolate:
Since immortality necessitates
existence without matter,
then all species seeking immortality
could pursue such a course
of transcending the material world
without ever risking taking away
from other species.
In fact, by a collaborative effort,
all species could push toward the same goal,
sharing freely all scientific and historical knowledge
and possibly reach that goal all the faster.
11.
Extrapolate:
Until such a time
as transcendence beyond the material world
becomes scientifically possible, if ever,
then human life, and indeed, all life,
will continue to die without hope
for anything greater than longevity.
12.
Conclusion:
Therefore, since we are all going to die,
and since nothing we could ever build,
dig, create, or destroy will ever be
truly permanent,
I recommend for everyone
to choose one of two paths
down which they will take their lives,
and to commit to that path wholly
and immediately.
The first path is a life of hedonism,
whereby every possible form of pleasure
is sought out and appreciated
to its fullest possible value,
including in such typically unpleasurable
areas of life as career, war, and pain.
If either for lack of means, lack if interest,
or lack of ability (for people who are too insistent
that their opinions should be law),
hedonism isn’t for you, then I suggest
the only appropriate alternative: suicide.
This is the only appropriate alternative
because it 1. Leaves more resources
available for the hedonists to enjoy, and
2. Since nothing will ever be permanent,
you are spending your unpleasurable time
seeking temporary solutions to “permanent”
(that is, lasting for the length of your life) problem.
Therefore, why not solve your problem
with a permanent, and noble, solution
by sacrificing yourself so that the people
who truly enjoy life can do so with greater ease?
Copyright ©
butterat_zool
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2005-05-07 14:15:47]
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Re: Freelance Philosophy
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by Former_Member on
Saturday, 7th May 2005 @ 02:36:29 PM AEST
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| What exactly can i say? This is complex, to say the least. You have really good ideas, though i don't agree with the last, in whole at least. Though i have to say, the ideas are written in poetry format, this almost sounds like a prose, not really like poetry. THats just my prospective however. The idea behind and in this, however, is niffty. |
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