Our species is going nowhere

[Dubversion]

Exactly. So you agree we should discontinue, then kill all life on earth.

Fuck.

don't be a twat

 

[Callie]

Exactly. So you agree we should discontinue, then kill all life on earth.

Fuck.

wuld you wait until everyone else agreed with on this before obliterating them or would you just kill everything anyway?

 

[drews]

wuld you wait until everyone else agreed with on this before obliterating them or would you just kill everything anyway?

If I had the power, I would kill all life on earth now, right this second.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Exactly. So you agree we should discontinue, then kill all life on earth.

Fuck.

er no

because something is better than nothing

death is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay crappier than life

take the example... do i want to be kicked in the balls or shot through the head..


well the shot through the head may actully be less painfull in the long run... but i think i'll take the kick in the balls


life has it's problems... but life is still fucking brilliant compared to death

 

[Crispy]

If I had the power, I would kill all life on earth now, right this second.

Well, let me know if it looks likely, and I'll come and kill you first.

 

[Orang Utan]

If I had the power, I would kill all life on earth now, right this second.

Why? You're a prick

 

[Callie]

If I had the power, I would kill all life on earth now, right this second.

so you dont have the power?

not even the power of greyskull?

what are you going to do now?

 

[Crispy]

Why? You're a prick

Innit. This is what's known as "Forcing your worldview on other people" - a trick he's probably learned from the theists he hates. It's a horrible way of thinking.

 

[kyser_soze]

Left to their own devices dolphins might evolve to full sentience and make a much better job of things that we have.

Nah, there'd be dolphin racism against porpoises who are maybe a little SEN and all the governmental debate would be about fishin quotas...

 

[stat]

ps: don't worry, i'm not gonna kill anyone. I'm not a sicko murderer, you know.

If I had the power, I would kill all life on earth now, right this second.

(bit incongruent?)

Initially, I was kinda following your argument and felt that 1st time posters to the thread who were abusing you were out of line - particularily those who thought the best way to refute you was by taking the piss out of your age. But with this second quote of yours, you've lost me. wAnKeR~~ lack of respect for people's lives is totally uncool.

To respond to your 'dying in a buried coffin' scenario: I think hope is a marvellous thing. Even if all of the odds and 'rationality' say things will turn out shit, [even atheistic] hope alone can create incredibly strong feelings which make life worth living.

You and I disagree. I can respect that. But you want me to die, and I can't respect you for that. What's *is* interesting (to me) is the response that this thread has instigated: I'm quite surprised at the verocity of posts.

 

[kyser_soze]

As I've said on another one of these threads, if he wants to start exterminating life on earth he knows where to start.

 

[nosos]

Initially, I was kinda following your argument and felt that 1st time posters to the thread who were abusing you were out of line - particularily those who thought the best way to refute you was by taking the piss out of your age. But with this second quote of yours, you've lost me. wAnKeR~~ lack of respect for people's lives is totally uncool.

In all seriousness, I think these sort of sub-Nietzchean platitudes are so absurd that validating them intellectually simply because of someone's age is actually kind of patronising.

 

[nosos]

I'm quite surprised at the verocity of posts.

Nihilism is silly & offensive?

 

[kyser_soze]

WTF is 'verocity'? No word the dictionary has ever heard of, but quite cool soundnig...

 

[nosos]

If a google search comes up with more than 5 pages and it's not an obvious misspelling then I say go for it and add a new word to the english language

 

[kyser_soze]

Is it a contraction of ferocity and veracity?

Or has stat simlpy misheard 'ferocity'?

 

[stat]

Is it a contraction of ferocity and veracity?

Or has stat simlpy misheard 'ferocity'?

It's 2:25am here and I'm three sheets to the wind

 

[nosos]

Verociously so?

 

[kyser_soze]

I think the last couple of posts demonstrate admirably that far from going nowhere, our species is moving forward to a brighter day, where a word like 'verocity' - meaning utterly truthful ferociousness - will be used every day.

 

[nosos]

Ooooh, that's going into my regular rotation.

 

[stat]

Verociously so?

Weird tho', says there's 13,800 English pages with the word in it...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=verocity

...but has no definition of it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define:verocity

oops
I am Samuel Johnson and I claim my five pounds?

 

[nosos]

That's true of lots of words.

I love the internet because it gives you a grasp of the organic growth of a language. There's so many words that produce thousands of google hits but aren't in the dictionary. Almost certainly, a fair few of them will be one day.

 

[kyser_soze]

One day, I hope to turn to my grand-children and say 'I was there at the birth of verocity as a real word'

There - something else to look forward to in life

 

[nosos]

See Drew????

 

[yield]

One day, I hope to turn to my grand-children and say 'I was there at the birth of verocity as a real word'

There - something else to look forward to in life

Excellent and you nosos too!

 

[stat]

Ooh here's a conundrum!

Drews reckons nothing will outlive us, ultimately. But what if he went and invented a great big blowing-the-universe-up device, that destroyed all matter? His idea would have changed 'life, the universe and everything', and thus be a kind of eternal transmission of his ideas and therefore life, and thus negating his[oops: her? that's telling...] original argument...

Oh dear, I need a lie down now ;p

 

[drews]

(bit incongruent?)


To respond to your 'dying in a buried coffin' scenario: I think hope is a marvellous thing. Even if all of the odds and 'rationality' say things will turn out shit, [even atheistic] hope alone can create incredibly strong feelings which make life worth living.

What the fuck is 'atheistic hope'? This is what I'm trying to say: although I am an atheist and atheism is true, it's a hopeless reality. 'hope' to me means 'hope for Justice, Paradise, Eternal Life and/or Complete Understanding (JPELCU)'. Atheism (reality) has no hope for JPELCU, so what hope does it have? 'Gee, I hope I don't die horribly today, so I can go on living and die forever some other day.' What a wonderful 'hope' we atheists have (yes, I am really an atheist, but I'm an atheist who doesn't bullshit about 'hope' like you do; consider me Schopenhauer sans the german accent).

You and I disagree. I can respect that. But you want me to die, and I can't respect you for that. What's *is* interesting (to me) is the response that this thread has instigated: I'm quite surprised at the verocity of posts.

Verocity isn't a word, apparently. If by verocity you mean the posts have been biting, well, that's not true- they've been rather tame snarky posts, little else.

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

I already did:

"Nothing will ever save us from extinction, not even science. Let's accept this, then discontinue our species now rather than waiting for it to happen later. It's the most logical thing to do; just stop procreating, then kill all the animals. We are going nowhere but death/extinction, the only question is how much more millions of good people will suffer on the way there."

Well, my suggestion would be to take lots of drugs, that way you will be too occupied being on another planet to worry about this one.

 

[kyser_soze]

It's your choice to go around NOT having hope, but you're leading a miserable existence that will only lead to bitterness ,anger and ultimately self-loathing that you were never, ever able to look forward to ANYTHING - even the promise of a beer, or ice cream, or seeing a friend or partners face light up when you give them something good.

Atheism simply implies that one doesn't believe in deities - a-theist, the a- being a negator. It doesn't mean that you have to sink into some kind of existentialist nightmare of 'Well since there's no God and we're just a freak species why bother' - if anything, you're almost a parody of the stereotype of atheists that theists of many faiths have, someone whose denial of God has left them bereft of any hope for anything, anywhere, and your solution of killing everything is equally the kind of amoral shit that they think all atheists believe.

So...stop extending 'atheism' to include your 1st yr uni, sub Nietzschian witterings cos you give the rest of us a bad name, and go out and enjoy an ice cream...in fact, just go for a walk and enjoy the moment for NOW, for WHAT IT IS not what will inevitably happen in X billions of years.

Seriously - your anti-hope agenda has FUCK ALL to do with atheism.

 

[Zeppo]

Some of these posts are great and show that not everyone wants to end it all - in the doom and gloom of our species. So no Jonestown massacre of the human race.

I have said it elsewhere - better to have a dream than none at all. The ride maybe bumpy - but its better than no ride. Fight and fight again urban warriors.