Brett

See, your smothering your spirit.

I’m serious about that. Post it; does everything have a purpose?

That’s an interesting point. Does everything have a purpose?

My feeling is that depression doesn’t work.

I think you’re caught in a loop, a vicious cycle as they used to say. I’m about to go out and buy myself a cup of coffee. You should do the same.

I really don’t know. Fed up at times, despondent, passive.

Eat it.

Probably.

Okay. I was playing in ignorance there. Y’know productive means something is produced.

I challenge you to change your profile name.

Define productive.

You’re the ultimate minority, aren’t you?

Yep. That’s what I’m saying about the elderly. But they get up, get out, then bitch about it. It’s good therapy.

The thing is everyone thinks their issues are only theirs, that everyone else gets by fine. But eventually you realise those issues are just the human...

Y’know, at 29 I was still full of the bullshit of my youth. I thought I was a mature male, but I wasn’t. You do seem to be pretty self indulgent and l...

I don’t really think this adds up to much. In the end all you’re saying is that we should be good and loving, not hateful and indifferent.

I don’t get you, but I don’t know you well enough to advise you. You do seem to have quite a strong personality and equally unafraid to use it here. I...

Thanks for that. Quite a neat little argument. I think this is a very blurry area. Females and males might be found in different categories in terms o...

I think you have to decide whether we are in a good place or not. If we’re in a good place it’s because of how we acted morally. Those morals formed s...

So where’s the good and evil? Why mention good and evil?

I don’t know how old you are. But I imagine what you feel is not unknown to older people. Being tired of life is a very common experience for them. Ma...

So what is this ’evil’ that wants to separate? Can you name it? What are these forces? Edit: and what is ‘hate’?

Can you elaborate on that a bit more?

I’d always, and still do, love little children: their minds, their little bodies, their purity of spirit. I was 30 when my first was born. I didn’t fe...

It seems to me that the purpose of all life is to survive long enough to procreate, that the only purpose/desire/will of life is to reproduce itself: ...

Philosophy of justice and morality. It’s interesting for me to find that I didn’t chose to focus on this, but that it’s more often than not the underl...

I have one troubling thought, though. Having been born I don’t want to die.

Of course, what might lie behind the insane human behaviour is not the hopeless and ethereal promise of happiness but just being born.

I’ve only glossed over a lot of these posts, but it seems to me you have a valid point. It’s possible that the aspiration for ‘happiness’ is behind a ...

I’m not sure that we do see that. I’m not sure if what we witness is the end, or death, of a star, or the birth of something. Using those as evidence ...

Someone help me here.

If you go back to the beginning if this thread you’ll see that I don’t actually deny the existence of something that has been forever. I actually ques...

I cannot see one post addressed to me by you.

You don’t read very carefully. The above statement I made was confirming to Devans99 what I believed he was saying. I’m not pushing any argument. As I...

Very.

So, there is no such thing as forever, because it doesn’t have an initial state. And if it did it wouldn’t be forever.

I think I was meaning that if there was a start then it suggests something greater, or earlier in existence.

I’m not disagreeing about anything, I’m just exploring.

Are you saying that ‘forever’ is a quality of time and therefore it cannot exist in timelessness?

Given birth by the wider universe.

Through the Big Bang?

My problem is with the idea that the universe contains everything. If it can’t have existed forever, if it was born, then it was born from something.

I’ve got myself confused. I was thinking along some other lines that I can’t even make sense of now.

What would cause the start of time? Shouldn’t a beginning have a place? What is time, anyway?

How would that work?

What's the alternative?

There seems to be a hell of a lot of good old bible bashing going on here and other posts. What’s up?

I think that in some ways, even though the south had been defeated many years ago in terms of slavery, and as a separate part of the country, as a cou...

This part, I believe, is true. But then what is thinking without emotion?

I think your post has taken me off the path a little. The appeal of logic to people, as I see it, is in its supposed purity and mathematical conclusio...