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If you could go ahead in time, to the point where everyone and everything was dead and gone, would it liberate you, or would you feel your life was bereft of meaning?

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Probably both...

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what do you mean "everything"?

like the planet?

In general, I'd find it liberating.

Unless it was too hot and humid.

I'm not joking.

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fishin wrote:

Probably both...

You might then believe that to be free is to have nothing.

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If everything and everyone was gone - meaning a bleak empty space I'd wonder how the hell I ended up there and how the hell to get back home.

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where do you get that?

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quinn1 wrote:

If everything and everyone was gone - meaning a bleak empty space I'd wonder how the hell I ended up there and how the hell to get back home.

Well ya know, with your driving skilzz... :wink:

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Chai wrote:

what do you mean "everything"?.

That by which held importance to you.

Chai wrote:

like the planet?

If by your perspective it was of importance to you.

Chai wrote:

In general, I'd find it liberating.

OK, to be liberated into what precisely?

Chai wrote:

Unless it was too hot and humid.

If you did not care about air-conditioning then you could have it, otherwise fergetaboutit!

Chai wrote:

I'm not joking.

You know, I would never kid about such things either.

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quinn1 wrote:

If everything and everyone was gone - meaning a bleak empty space I'd wonder how the hell I ended up there and how the hell to get back home.

It's doubtful most people would pop into a vacuum, as most people in actuality care about very little in the grand scheme of things.

No more ice cream though........

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fishin wrote:

quinn1 wrote:
If everything and everyone was gone - meaning a bleak empty space I'd wonder how the hell I ended up there and how the hell to get back home.

Well ya know, with your driving skilzz... :wink:

Lucky for me your drive me around now, eh?

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Chumly wrote:

the point where everyone and everything was dead and gone

bleak empty space then - right?
Or maybe just some blank crater?

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Chumly wrote:

Chai wrote:
what do you mean "everything"?.
That by which held importance to you.
Chai wrote:
like the planet?
If by your perspective it was of importance to you.
Chai wrote:
In general, I'd find it liberating.
OK, to be liberated into what precisely?
Chai wrote:
Unless it was too hot and humid.
If you did not care about air-conditioning then you could have it, otherwise fergetaboutit!
Chai wrote:
I'm not joking.
You know, I would never kid about such things either.

nuh uh...air conditioning not necessary....just would have to be an un-hot climate.

anyway, something has to be important to everyone...air. if everything important, including air, was absent, you would be here to be liberated.

not liberated into, liberated from.

also, what did you mean "You might then believe to be free is to have nother" when fishin said "Probably both"?

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Chai wrote:

also, what did you mean "You might then believe to be free is to have nother" when fishin said "Probably both"?

An inference one might draw, based on fishin's response as per

Chumly wrote:

fishin wrote:
Probably both...
You might then believe that to be free is to have nothing.

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Chumly wrote:

Chai wrote:
also, what did you mean "You might then believe to be free is to have nother" when fishin said "Probably both"?
An inference one might draw, based on fishin's response as per
Chumly wrote:
fishin wrote:
Probably both...
You might then believe that to be free is to have nothing.

yeah...that's what I'm askin'

why would you draw that inference?

don't see the connection.

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Chai wrote:

Chumly wrote:
Chai wrote:
also, what did you mean "You might then believe to be free is to have nother" when fishin said "Probably both"?
An inference one might draw, based on fishin's response as per
Chumly wrote:
fishin wrote:
Probably both...
You might then believe that to be free is to have nothing.

yeah...that's what I'm askin'

why would you draw that inference?

don't see the connection.

Liberate = free
Bereft of meaning = to have nothing

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you are too weird.

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I will take that in the spirit of your intent; that being one of endearment.

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well of course.....I don't say that to just anybody!

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Both of my parents are dead. My grandparents are all dead. I lost track of my aunts and cousins almost 30 years ago (and only regret not being in touch with one of them). My oldest brother died more than 10 years ago, and my other brother and my sister won't talk to me (blessed relief). None of that has any significance in my life.

Why are people obsessed with life having "meaning?" It's a silly concept as far as i'm concerned. The presence of life on this planet is mere circumstance. The existence of individual humans is, at least by extension, an accident. One simply is. Attempting to assign "meaning" to life seems to me an exercise in childish conceit.

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I do sympathize with your loss, and you may well be right in that to impose meaning is nothing more than conceit.

However for better or worse the majority of people seem driven to impose meaning, and I might ask where would intent be without it?

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