i began to wonder...

So that God can show Satan that he's the baddest mother f*#ker on the playground....

ah what enlightenment, why didnt i realise the truth sooner.

you have a better explanation? More eloquent doesn't count. :wink:

btw welcome to A2K.....you'll enjoy it...

thanks, i dont know if ive spoken to you before in the music forums but hey anyway!

i don't have a better explanation, i've just had questions in my head and i dont know what im hoping to acheive by sharing them with others because there mainly unanswerable, but humour's always good lol!

it's hard to say why we're here....so what I decided to do was pick a mission and go for it...so far so good....hell, what else can you do?

apart from sitting in a corner quivering, repeating the words "what is the meaning of life" in a hushed whisper to yourself, i guess thats the best thing to do. so ehats your mission?

I know you're kidding, but let's suppose you were serious about the futility of everything given our eventual end. I don't think living forever is the justification for the active and constructive life NOW. In fact, it seems right to think of my existence as being IN A SENSE forever: MY forever. Also, since my life is my experience of it, when I die, when I cease to experience my life (and all things within it), I take my life and its contents with me. Who says you can't take it with you? The reality is that we can''t leave it behind. When I die I'll take my house with me (that is to say my house as I experience it). My wife will continue to live at the same address and in the same building, but that will be HER address and HER building, not mine. Mine will have gone with me.
Sorry!

Hi, new. Welcome to A2K.

Here's my two cents on the matter: what will happen to the world in a million years, or a thousand years, or even tomorrow is irrelevant to today. One reason it's irrelevant is because, to a large extent, it's beyond our control. I can do nothing about a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, let alone a comet zipping its way here to put a new ocean the size of the Pacific right into the middle of what right now is the USA. It doesn't matter. What matters is how I live my life today because today is all I have.

I love physics, astronomy, archeology, history and all other studies of my environment. But they are all academic. All that they have to do with me is to increase my knowledge, not necessarily my understanding. I know a lot; in fact, I understand very little. To cite Aristotle, everything has a begining, a middle and an end. Through our studies we try to discover what the beginings were. Wee're pretty good at that but not so good at making exact predictions about the end.

The start or the end of the known universe is not my responibility. Living my life as well as I can today is. Which reminds me -- I have to start thinking about dinner.

interesting point, its strange to think that forever to one person is their own lifespan, and that could differ from person to person. i see what you mean about when we die we take with us our acheivements and, basically our lives, with us. so really we should live for the moment and make what we can of forever, whatever that may be.

this stuff sure does go deep.

Andrew, your distinction between what you know and what you understand would make a good thread by itself. What you experience (both the raw sensations and the meanings ascribed to them) would also make up an interesting part of that thread. I hope you had a nice dinner.

As the cute fluffy bear said. Pick a mission, any mission...

But you can't be the anti-messiah of the middle way. That's me, damnit.

Thank you, JL. Quite a nice dinner, thx. Cooked up a nice quiche with a garden salad on the side with my own secret recipe dressing.

You've put a bee in my bonnet. There is a great deal of difference between knowing a whole lot of facts and understanding how they all fit together with other facts and what they actually mean. I'll sleep on it.

Good, and I can imagine how it would grow in fruitful directions.

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"Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a new tree today". That's from Luther.

Val, that shows how mad was Luther.

Perhaps our new friend should comment on his choice of name.

Here's what I've got so far.

Guita1
Translation: Kicking Mule
Type/Species: Wurm
Origin: Spanish Legend

History: Note: The main source of this dragon says that its strange nature is due to the eroding of the legends of Spain.

Guita's name means "Kicking Mule". Very little is known of the dragon's past. During the festival of Corpus Christi and the Patum of Berga in Catalonia, this dragon is used in the parades to ward of evils that might harm the people. The dragon was said to have fiery breathe, and so, to recreated that, the people usually place fireworks and rockets in the dragon's mouth while on parade.

Symbolism: The dragon, in this case, is strangely seen as a sign of protection.

Physical Description: Guita had a black face with huge fangs and leering eyes. Its mouth is usually portrayed as opened and red. The body is long and serpentine with a neck that is extended.

i like your research into my name, but im afraid you'll be disappointed to find the true meaning. i recently started playing the guitar and i found this website when asking a question about playing the guitar, i joined the forum not giving a lot of thought to my name and thats pretty much it. i later discovered you can only have 25 letters in your name, not realising in my hurry that the full thing was 26 and the r had been cut off at the end.

i think i prefer your analysis, it makes me look less dumb!

Guita, Ha!. You don't look dumb at all.