Zygimantas

I agree. My friend was not allowed to turn in his short-story that referenced oral sex, while many people turned in stories that included murders. Also people tend to think of movies that have sex scenes and references to be much more "inappropriate" to children than movies that have murder scenes and violence through out. So basically, through the media, society is sending the message of "Killing isn't that bad, but sex is" to kids.

Exactly. Most people in gangs who have guns get them illegally anyway. So you pass a law that makes them illegal, they'll still get them. Nothing much will change... The problem isn't that guns are available, it's that people want them in the first place.

Relax. It will all be good :)

Some people can sleep for 5 hours a day and still be fine, it depends on the person. for a few days you can be fine sleeping 5 hours a day. For weeks/months? not exactly healthy and your body won't function as well as if you slept 7-8+ hrs. Again, depends on person. http://www.medindia.net/news/Scientists-Identify-Why-Some-People-Sleep-Less-Than-Others-58295-1.htm

Some people can sleep for 5 hours a day and still be fine, it depends on the person.

I voted other because I don't give a [cabbage] :)

I'm friends with Lily, she still plays and is maxing dung but I don't think she is trying for all 200m. I think her goal is still 200m prayer. She was the queen in the era of DIY. I still think very highly of her. What's DIY?

Stay indoors this weekend. What movie was it where they realized a zombie virus in animals would eventually mutate and jump to humans just because it would be impossible for it not to, given infinite time? Actually, never mind, the probably happens in tons of movies. But yeah, start building your Armageddon shelter. I rather die outside than die later when there is nothing left of the world :P

Saw a dead bird near my school today... :unsure:

So is time. So is everything. The person is still alive though, that's the thing. They have the ability to make up for that time. What chance do they have for that when they're dead? At any rate, any system of punishment has its flaws, but there are some cases in which one is better than the other. I'm not trying to debate for the death penalty here. I don't think it is necessary to murder others, but to each his own...

So is time. So is everything.

Put yourself in the shoes of the victim. This guy, killed your entire family, burned down your house, blew up your car, and killed all your pets. Could you honestly say you're ok with just letting him live? If you say yes, that's means you're a bold faced liar. Lets go kill all murderers!!!!!!!! Revenge and hate FTW@@@@@

And yet... your actions betray you. If you truely believed what you say, then I can not imagine you actually caring enough about the question to answer it. That's the problem with Nihilism. It's so, so easy to say the words, but nobody ever actually behaves as though they believe the words coming out of their mouths. That is the real test of an ideal: will people actually act as though it were true? So someone who thinks there is no meaning or reason will do nothing? No. I know that I don't have to do anything. Though I still end up doing stuff just because it does no harm if I do them. It does not mean I care so much. I don't have to care much or put in much effort to do anything. It just happens, seemingly effortless. If I don't get what I am trying to get, then that is perfectly fine. Nothing is ever lost or gained. It just is the way it is. :) The human brain is designed to keep the body alive. A person will naturally try to stay alive even if he or she doesn't care. Exactly. I think if one appreciates how limitless and subjective everything is, then they will find themselves enjoying and really living life even more then when they were before. This scares people if they think they are important... but get rid of that idea too and then you're all good :) True Nihilism doesn't exist. People have their values, be it health, taste in music, choice in politics, etc. You may be saying "nothing" is the base of everything and accept the pointlessness of everything including living however you are an emotional being. You will actively seek out things that make you feel good. You will eat when you are hungry, wear warmer clothes when you are cold, talk to people when you are lonely, try and avoid pain when possible, etc. No one, not even the morbidly depressed person that never leaves their room truly cares about nothing. Sure, I agree.

And yet... your actions betray you. If you truely believed what you say, then I can not imagine you actually caring enough about the question to answer it. That's the problem with Nihilism. It's so, so easy to say the words, but nobody ever actually behaves as though they believe the words coming out of their mouths. That is the real test of an ideal: will people actually act as though it were true? So someone who thinks there is no meaning or reason will do nothing? No. I know that I don't have to do anything. Though I still end up doing stuff just because it does no harm if I do them. It does not mean I care so much. I don't have to care much or put in much effort to do anything. It just happens, seemingly effortless. If I don't get what I am trying to get, then that is perfectly fine. Nothing is ever lost or gained. It just is the way it is. :) The human brain is designed to keep the body alive. A person will naturally try to stay alive even if he or she doesn't care. Exactly. I think if one appreciates how limitless and subjective everything is, then they will find themselves enjoying and really living life even more then when they were before. This scares people if they think they are important... but get rid of that idea too and then you're all good :)

And yet... your actions betray you. If you truely believed what you say, then I can not imagine you actually caring enough about the question to answer it. That's the problem with Nihilism. It's so, so easy to say the words, but nobody ever actually behaves as though they believe the words coming out of their mouths. That is the real test of an ideal: will people actually act as though it were true? So someone who thinks there is no meaning or reason will do nothing? No. I know that I don't have to do anything. Though I still end up doing stuff just because it does no harm if I do them. It does not mean I care so much. I don't have to care much or put in much effort to do anything. It just happens, seemingly effortless. If I don't get what I am trying to get, then that is perfectly fine. Nothing is ever lost or gained. It just is the way it is. :)

I don't think there has to be a reason for existence, it doesn't have to be meaningful. I think people just get that idea because we always like to make ourselves feel important. But I will not say there is no reason, for I can not know, nor can anyone else. I just don't think there is.

Yep, and nothing is being aware of those reactions.

In a sense we don't just have a "soul", we are nothing but the "soul". It doesn't matter what you call it really, it doesn't change the "it." To me it seems as if the "it" is empty, free, infinite and simply beyond ideas. I might as well call it nothing. But to each his own :) Beyond, or below ideas? Beyond,below, before... it doesn't matter.

In a sense we don't just have a "soul", we are nothing but the "soul". It doesn't matter what you call it really, it doesn't change the "it." To me it seems as if the "it" is empty, free, infinite and simply beyond ideas. I might as well call it nothing. But to each his own :)

This just made me question my existence. As for God? You either believe or don't believe. Logic won't get you anywhere because we have never experienced the great beyond. If we could be infinite, we would know. I exist. But it is not a matter of if I exist but rather what is the "I" that exists. It is definitely not personality or an ego... that just seems to be an illusion that I am aware of. I just like to ask myself "Who is aware of this thought,feeling or situation?" I think: "The mind, signals formed by reactions in the brain." Then I ask "who is aware of those reactions between atoms and the signals that they form?" Then no answer comes to me... I just feel nothing. So, I that is truly aware of everything, seems to be nothing. I am simple and truly nothing, all words that label me are not really true, only relative to the mind they might be. But even the mind... is just some manifestation of nothing.

That is perfectly fine, just remember that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. You can point to the direction of god with words and ideas but to actually know and understand it one must go beyond words and feel it himself. ;)

I used to label myself as an atheist. But I don't see a reason to label myself anything anymore.... God is nothing, and nothing both exists and doesn't exists ( depends how you want to look at it).

Have you ever read Sartre? I imagine that you might enjoy his book, Being and Nothingness. His thesis, in a nut-shell, is that the world around us is full of an apparent realness which he refers to as "being." Consciousness on the other hand is intangible. Irregardless of how we attempt to define it, what consciousness is continues to evade us. Sartre believed that is because consciousness is some sort of nothingness, but very peculliarly is capable of apparently modifying the modes of being around it. I daresay that it is a rather silly stance to defend, but he does a good job of defending it, and it is a very enjoyable read so far as Philosophy and Theology go. By the way, the reason I can not believe in some intangible life force or pantheistic God is that personality seems to be a virtue. If so, then if God exists He must be personal (more likely super-personal in some surprising way). Further, there appears to be virtue in relation, and therefore God is also relational. However, I daresay that the Eastern Mysticisms seem much more developed then their Western counterparts. (Please don't confuse that with monotheisms though... I mean stuff like neo-Peganism, decendents of Native American Animism, Cosmos worship, and simmilar pantheistic systems. It isn't really fair to compair pantheism and monotheism. It's true that God can only be one or the other, but the boundaries are very difficult to chart between a mature and coherent pantheism and a mature and coherent monotheism. The only critical difference I recognize is whether God has personality or not.) The thing is, the more attributes or ways I describe god, or being,or nothingness or whatever it is, the further away I am moving away from the truth. It seems to be beyond humans to correctly label it or describe it, so I don't see why I should....

I can't correctly define it because it is truly undefinable. God is..... nothing. Yet naturally as humans, we even think of nothing as something.

I don't see much wrong with Zealot's idea of god. I basically agree with him, accept that I don't like to use the term "god". When I think of the word "god" I tend to think of one higher-being that is somehow separate from others. The way I see it, god is before everything, but it is not something, rather god is nothing. So "everything" came from nothing to me is also synonymous to saying everything came from god. Though true personification of god is not possible, so any religious ideas or beliefs are strictly just ideas and beliefs like everything else and hold no absolute value. God is just aware, and everything we do to try and comprehend it just gives us a deeper illusion of what it might be. God is beyond ideas, beliefs, words,time,space... simply it is there before all of it. It caused all of it, and at the same time is it. There is just god, or there is just nothing. Either way you look at it doesn't matter, the idea by itself is not going to allow you to understand something beyond ideas. Why is it like this? I have no idea, there is one thing we will never be able to truly answer and that is the question "Why?"