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Kia Ora,

:eusa_think: Care to share your thoughts on life.............



Metta Zenda

Life is a rollercoaster. You get on for tons of ups and downs, only to get off with your hair a mess, feeling dizzy, and ready to puke, but I pity the sucker who doesn't want to go for another round.  :P

Quote from: DianaP on December 26, 2012, 06:39:49 PM
Life is a rollercoaster. You get on for tons of ups and downs, only to get off with your hair a mess, feeling dizzy, and ready to puke, but I pity the sucker who doesn't want to go for another round.  :P

Kia Ora Diana,

::) Well said ;D And so true....

Metta Zenda :)

A friend once said: Life's a bi*ch and so's your mother-in-law.

I personally see life as a means of learning something new everyday.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien on December 26, 2012, 08:33:06 PM
A friend once said: Life's a bi*ch and so's your mother-in-law.

I personally see life as a means of learning something new everyday.

Kia Ora Ms O,

::) I see your friend's got a humourous outlook on life [Well I hope your friend wasn't being serious  ;) :D :D

::) What have you learnt today ?[ apart from that, Zenda is a nosy ol cow  ;D]

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: peky on December 26, 2012, 09:00:09 PM
Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think

Kia Ora Peky,

  :icon_yikes: You definitely deserve a rep for that.....

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: peky on December 26, 2012, 09:00:09 PM
Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think

Haha, this is a good one. :D

This is so much easier to say in Finnish but I'll do my best in translating it...
"There are only two things in life you must do; take a dump and die, and the latter one only once."

Finnish proverbs ftw. ;D

Oh yeah, another one which is more related to my age difference with my friends (most of them are three years younger than me so they always say I'm an old fart:
"I don't get older. I level up."/"I'm not old, I'm a classic!" :D

Quote from: peky on December 26, 2012, 09:00:09 PM
Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think

^ This, I'm very tempted to steal it for my sig

thanks ^^

Kia Ora,

::) Sorry Hazel and Peky, unless you were born in the UK, you are not allowed to use this quote and from what I gather you are both uncouth  'colonials' which makes you somewhat undeserving  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :) 

Sorry Zenda but I was born in the uk  :P :laugh:  the sig stays ^^

Quote from: Zenda on January 06, 2013, 02:34:59 PM
Kia Ora,

::) Sorry Hazel and Peky, unless you were born in the UK, you are not allowed to use this quote and from what I gather you are both uncouth  'colonials' which makes you somewhat undeserving  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

And we ain't uncouth in Amuraca.

Quote from: hazel on January 06, 2013, 02:55:01 PM
Sorry Zenda but I was born in the uk  :P :laugh:  the sig stays ^^

Kia Ora Hazel,

::) Ok no problem....Will you be paying by cash, credit card or cheque for the privilege ? I give a discount for cash... ;)

Quote from: Ms. OBrien on January 06, 2013, 03:00:18 PM
And we ain't uncouth in Amuraca.

Kia Ora Ms O,

Oh what the yeck! I'm feeling lenient, I'll make you the exception !  ;) ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

I see life like a Tetris game: eventually it will collapse and the game will end regardless of your skill, score or time you played. But as long as the game goes on, it will keep you entertained! (yes, I've been playing Tetris lately  ;D)

Quote from: Zenda on January 06, 2013, 02:34:59 PM
::) Sorry Hazel and Peky, unless you were born in the UK, you are not allowed to use this quote and from what I gather you are both uncouth  'colonials' which makes you somewhat undeserving  ;) ;D

Aren't you from New Zealand, Ms. "Kia Ora?"  :P ::)

My signature sums it up

But I also like the following Vonnegutism 'We were put on this earth to fart around, don't let anybody tell you different'.

Quote from: Pica Pica on January 06, 2013, 08:17:51 PM
My signature sums it up

But I also like the following Vonnegutism 'We were put on this earth to fart around, don't let anybody tell you different'.

Kia Ora Pica,

::) Good one...I like it  ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: DianaP on January 06, 2013, 07:34:50 PM
Aren't you from New Zealand, Ms. "Kia Ora?"  :P ::)

Kia Ora Diana,

::) Moi ! A colonial? No, no of course not my dear Diana... I was born in Mother England but took up a position in one of the colonies " NZ,"  Just doing my bit for Queen, Country and Empire !  "Rule Britannia" ...  :D

Metta Zenda :)

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Emerson

I would quote a monolog I improvised once; "Livet är ett helvete" - "Life is a hell"

Now it is not to be taken negatively, because the actual message of the monolog was one of hope, that even though life is a hell, it's worth living because live is still the most wonderful thing you'll ever experience.

I don't remember much about it because it was some time ago and I was really drunk, so drunk that when I woke up the next morning I was still drunk. I just remember that it was amazing and I got several of the girls in the room to cry. And it sums up my view on life. A hopefully outlook coated in (fake) darkness.

:)

I think... the point of life for me is work on being more a gardener than a landscaper.  To grow rather than trim.  To cultivate rather than regulate.  To produce nourishment rather that cut and mold everything to conform to a vision of how things should be.  I just feel there is more grace in adding to the world than taking away, in letting things grow rather than boxing them in.

Quote from: Jen on January 30, 2013, 05:07:02 PM
I think... the point of life for me is work on being more a gardener than a landscaper.  To grow rather than trim.  To cultivate rather than regulate.  To produce nourishment rather that cut and mold everything to conform to a vision of how things should be.  I just feel there is more grace in adding to the world than taking away, in letting things grow rather than boxing them in.

Wow! I really like how you put that!

Life is primarily about pain. If all we had was joy, there would be no life.

Big hug! It's not primarily about pain, it's about finding happiness.  Pain is part and parcel to be sure. Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 30, 2013, 05:31:18 PM
Big hug! It's not primarily about pain, it's about finding happiness.  Pain is part and parcel to be sure. Hugs, Devlyn

Thanks hon. Not really sure I know what happiness is. Have I ever even felt it?

Quote from: Brooke777 on January 30, 2013, 05:08:55 PM
Wow! I really like how you put that!

Thanks! :)  It's just a thought i've had in my head for a while but this is the first time I tried putting it into words.

You can't change the past, so it's not worth spending too much time worrying over.  As for the future... "your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one"  - Doc Brown (Back to the Future III)

Quote from: Jen on January 30, 2013, 05:48:32 PM
Thanks! :)  It's just a thought i've had in my head for a while but this is the first time I tried putting it into words.

Well, you should try more often. It was great!

Quote from: Fat Admin on January 30, 2013, 05:38:06 PM
Thanks hon. Not really sure I know what happiness is. Have I ever even felt it?

You will now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QBK8tQxC0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QBK8tQxC0)

Quote from: Fat Admin on January 30, 2013, 05:38:06 PM
Thanks hon. Not really sure I know what happiness is. Have I ever even felt it?

*hugs*

The Conqueror Worm (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178359) by Edgar Allan Poe pretty much sums up my view of life:

"That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."

A Dream Within A Dream (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dream-within-a-dream/) by Edgar Allan Poe also works just fine:

"Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

Life is a continuous succession of opportunities.

It's up to us to notice them and make the best of it :)

Of course, sadly, most will be always missing them, and have no clue about how to notice them...

Indeed, my primary goal in life is to help others to find those opportunities, but first, I have to be *very good* at spotting them too!

Life is like peeing. When things pile up, you feel nothing but the need for a release. When you finally take the leak, you look back and realize that it wasn't so bad.

Yes, I'm weird!  :P

I view it as suffering.  For me, it's a long dark tunnel and I can't seem to find the light at the end of it.  If I had the option of not being born, then I would have chosen that.  I'm still living though despite the sadness I feel everyday so there must be something my subconcious is clinging on to-probably the idea that life will get better.  I can't see it yet, but we will see.

I've closed myself down so hard that I don't know I can answer honestly.  As a child and adolescent I was awkward and shy, hated my inability to be one of the popular crowd.  As an adult I'm successful and well regarded in a work environment, but have no real social life.  I don't try to have one.  I was married for 20+ years before my wife passed, and have a daughter who is now a young adult, although still at home. I have enough intellectual pursuits to occupy me, although lately those have been languishing as I'm spending too much time here considering the issues at hand, and in time wasting unproductive activities.  Sounds like depression, no?  But it's well suppressed and I'm generally upbeat and have always been an optimist although with an often sarcastic, dark edge.  I find joy and happiness in different interests and distractions.

So, how do I see life: for years my philosophy boiled down to just this: Stuff Happens.  There's no rhyme, no reason, no great purpose, no grand plan, and there's no point in looking for one - it's not there.  This doesn't equate to unhappiness, I think you can believe all that and still be a happy person.  Why are we here?  To enjoy life while we can, to help others in our circle, to leave the world a better place for those that come after, and to marvel in all the wonders that surround us that we have no hope of ever understanding.

-Ani

Afternote: Peter Gabriel's, Don't Give Up just popped up in the random shuffle:


Kate Bush has an amazing voice.

Quote from: Sandra M. Lopes on January 30, 2013, 09:06:36 PM
Life is a continuous succession of opportunities.

It's up to us to notice them and make the best of it :)

Kia Ora Sandra,

True.... Life's an advantageous combination of circumstances. Advantageous in that we are fortunate enough to be born in human form and with all the perks that go with it...

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Malachite on January 30, 2013, 09:20:48 PM
I view it as suffering.  For me, it's a long dark tunnel and I can't seem to find the light at the end of it.  If I had the option of not being born, then I would have chosen that.  I'm still living though despite the sadness I feel everyday so there must be something my subconcious is clinging on to-probably the idea that life will get better.  I can't see it yet, but we will see.

Kia Ora M,

Life is life and is always changing, we are in a constant state of flux... You just need to go with flow and change the way you look at things...Sometimes Malachite, just a subtle shift in ones perception and a whole new world opens before your eyes...

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Aaron Gabriel on January 30, 2013, 09:01:34 PM


"Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

Kia Ora AG,

Yes...
"But when one is truly awake
Reality's no longer fake !"

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Zenda on January 31, 2013, 02:46:25 AM
Kia Ora AG,

Yes...
"But when one is truly awake
Reality's no longer fake !"

Metta Zenda :)

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

Re: How do you see life ?

with open eyes

Kia Ora,

" Life is like a flower and towards the sun it grows-
its scent may seem unpleasant or pleasing to the nose.

However, this reality is an illusion-for a smell is 'just' a smell-
the attachment one gives to it can make life heaven or an hell!

Quote: The American Physiological Society

"We examined whether presenting an odour with a positive, neutral, or negative name would influence how people perceive it. In experiment 1, 40 participants rated 15 odours for their pleasantness, intensity, and arousal. In experiment 2, 30 participants passively smelled 10 odours while their skin conductance (SC), heart rate (HR), and sniffing were recorded. We found significant overall effects of odour names on perceived pleasantness, intensity, and arousal. Pleasantness showed the most robust effect of odour names: the same odours were perceived as more pleasant when presented with positive than with neutral and negative names and when presented with neutral than with negative names. In addition, odorants were rated as more intense when presented with negative than with neutral and positive names and as more arousing when presented with positive than with neutral names. Furthermore, SC and sniff volumes, but not HR, were modified by odour names, and the SC changes could not be accounted for by sniffing changes. Importantly, odour names presented with odourless water did not produce any effect on skin conductance and sniff volumes, ruling out the possibility that the naming-related findings were triggered by an emotional reaction to odour names. Taken together, these experiments show that there is a lot to a name, at least when it comes to olfactory perception!"



"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet !"


Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: peky on February 01, 2013, 11:23:07 AM
So, yeah, it is a well established fact that the brain creates an internal reality base on sensory input plus internal projections..The created reality may not be 100% that of the outside and biased by internal experience or expectation..

So what..it has successfully allows to conquer and dominate our planet and the year to come it will allows to conquer other planets...

The next few decades will see the introduction of brain-computer interfaces that would allows us to enhance and augment our internal representation of the outside universe....Got to love technology and sciences

Just like in The Matrix!  What if we're already in a computer simulation of the world and gender dysphoria is just a bug that happens when your simulated body doesn't line up with your real body?

Kia Ora,

::) When you say a 'bug' do you mean the machine had a 'male'-function ?  ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: peky on February 01, 2013, 11:23:07 AM
So, yeah, it is a well established fact that the brain creates an internal reality base on sensory input plus internal projections..The created reality may not be 100% that of the outside and biased by internal experience or expectation..

So what..

Kia Ora Peky,

"If you change the way you look at things-The things you look at change !"

Do you understand the full implications of the above statement, Peky ?

Life is what you make it !

What I was getting at with the piece from the American Physiological Society,is that we are open to 'suggestion' including 'auto'-suggestion...We are what we 'think'...So think 'positive' thoughts...

Metta Zenda  :)

Quote from: peky on February 01, 2013, 01:04:35 PM
Stick to you day job darling...as a comic writer you sure would starve yourself to oblivion  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Kia Ora Peky,

::) My day job 'is' as a stand up comic...That's why I'm on an ongoing diet !  ;)

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: peky on January 31, 2013, 09:54:55 AM
I see it as a mission...a misson from G-d

Let me say at the start, I respect that without reservation.

It is very Jewish. 

Might be interesting, some time, perhaps in the Spiritual section, rather than any specific denomination.

I have a few logical findings which might be of interest.

Quote from: spacial on February 01, 2013, 01:21:11 PM


I have a few logical findings which might be of interest.

Kia Ora Jill,

...Well what are they then ? Don't leave me in suspense  ;)

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: spacial on February 01, 2013, 01:21:11 PM
Let me say at the start, I respect that without reservation.

It is very Jewish. 

Might be interesting, some time, perhaps in the Spiritual section, rather than any specific denomination.

Kia Ora Jill,

I think [Peky,] like some other spiritual and or religious members, 'do' see life 'through' their god's eyes... If not through their 'creator', how else could they view their world ?

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Zenda on February 01, 2013, 03:33:03 PM
Kia Ora Jill,

I think [Peky,] like some other spiritual and or religious members, 'do' see life 'through' their god's eyes... If not through their 'creator', how else could they view their world ?

Metta Zenda :)

I think we all do, whether we are all prepared to admit it or not.

Still, as interesting as the point is, it's not quite the one I was alluding to.

Quote from: spacial on February 01, 2013, 03:48:19 PM
I think we all do, whether we are all prepared to admit it or not.

Please don't try to assert your religion as fact without any evidence. It's offensive to us nonbelievers, not to mention those of other religions.

Quote from: spacial on February 01, 2013, 03:48:19 PM
I think we all do, whether we are all prepared to admit it or not.

Still, as interesting as the point is, it's not quite the one I was alluding to.

Kia Ora Jill,

In one way or other, we have been conditioned from conception through pregnancy-birth, and as we grow we are continually conditioned, whether it be by religion, spirituality, political ideologies, 'life' experience [real or imaginary] etc...

We have been conditioned to react in a certain way...

The trick is to de-programme the conditioned 'self' and re-programme/ re-fit it with a more positive outlook, one that's more aligned with what 'is'...

Metta Zenda  :)   

Quote from: peky on February 01, 2013, 05:08:25 PM
You are so unmindful that you think you know how I see life....

"G-s has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
G-d's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless humans now."
after ― Teresa of Ávila

Kia Ora Peky,

Who is this "I" you speak of Peky ?

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: spacial on February 01, 2013, 03:48:19 PM
I think we all do, whether we are all prepared to admit it or not.

Nah, we see "life" through our own socially/educationally-conditioned perceptions. If that includes a religious view, then we see life from a religious viewpoint. If it includes a nihilistic view, nothing in life makes sense. If we view it through "our own view", than that's just self-conditioning. It's that simple, really.

In a sense, this is what this thread has already demonstrated: we simply cannot agree with a single view, although we can certainly find common points :) This is specially true if we have a similar background.

Quote from: peky on February 01, 2013, 05:08:25 PM
"G-s has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
G-d's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless humans now."
after ― Teresa of Ávila

Aw I love that!

There is something strange about the Christian mystics. They have such wonderful insights about reality — so often bordering on transmitting an experience which goes beyond the boundaries of our usual perceptions, just described using Christian words.

What Teresa of Ávila seems to be experiencing is this idea that there is a way to tap a source of compassion which is beyond description, but to put it into practice for the well-being of everybody, we ought to use our body and our will as the tools to bring that compassion to our fellow beings.

I can most certainly emphasize with that view.

(To Zenda: it's also so interesting how the mystics rarely need to use the word "I". They don't even talk about making big efforts to put things into practice. They just do it, effortlessly. It's fascinating, isn't it?)

Quote from: Sandra M. Lopes on February 01, 2013, 08:45:26 PM

(To Zenda: it's also so interesting how the mystics rarely need to use the word "I". They don't even talk about making big efforts to put things into practice. They just do it, effortlessly. It's fascinating, isn't it?)

Kia Ora Sandra,

"I" know You know all this....

It's important to understand what "I" is, that is the make up of "I" [this psycho-physical phenomena ] and how it comes into play with everyday life...But for the most part we give "I" no 'thought'... Even though we think there is an unchanging abiding "I" [self] whose thinking ...When in fact it's just 'thought' itself that does the 'thinking'...And "I" just go along with the thought for the ride... ;) ;D

But it's best we don't go too deep into this age old quest/search for 'who or what am "I"...Well not for this thread...Maybe you would like to start one up in the philosophy or spiritual section...

::) Thought has just planted another 'thought-seed' for a thought to germinate and grow-think about  ;) ;D

;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Sandra M. Lopes on February 01, 2013, 08:45:26 PM
(To Zenda: it's also so interesting how the mystics rarely need to use the word "I". They don't even talk about making big efforts to put things into practice. They just do it, effortlessly. It's fascinating, isn't it?)

Probably has more to do with the register of mystic writing than much else though.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 02, 2013, 04:51:28 PM
Probably has more to do with the register of mystic writing than much else though.

Hehe I have no idea — I'm no mystic, so don't know what "the register of mystic writing" actually means. All I can observe is what they write, but I cannot really speculate much about what they felt when they wrote about their experiences.

The register is the tone of writing, the certain stylistic elements that make it clear that you are writing to a friend or an MP for example.

It may be that the use of 'I' is not a standard one in mystic writing, either because influential early practitioners avoided it but more likely because of the setting in which the writing was shared with it's audience. This would then mean that certain mannerisms become part of mystic writing.

The point being that it is probably more a matter of style then how they felt or anything like that.

Now that's a very interesting point, Pica Pica! Do you think that the style is common across cultures? It's just because it seems to be independent of the epoch and the region where it was written; all write in the same way.

Of course, I'm aware that cultures were actually much more in touch with each other than we usually like to think, but, still, it's a bit strange.

It would be like finding a lot of different cultures around the globe spontaneously writing in English in the 12th century.

I'm not saying that you're not right; I'm just saying it's a very interesting point you make!

Kia Ora,

"Life" is what we make it...And the choice is ours and ours alone!......Or is it ?

Metta Zenda :)

If at first you don't succeed... then skydiving is probably not for you :P

Life is about learning whatever you can from whatever experience you get

Quote from: empty on February 14, 2013, 09:59:24 AM
Life is about learning whatever you can from whatever experience you get

Kia Ora Empty,

Sadly some people very rarely learn from their mistakes, and so it would seem are prone to repeat them again and again...

Metta Zenda :)   

I look at the universe and how incredibly vast it is and how insignificantly small we are and it makes me wonder how completely irrelevant life is. If humanity were to die out tomorrow, the universe would not care. The world would not care. Everything would go on as though we never even existed. It seems to me that everything we deem important is only so because we need it to be, not because it actually is.

To me, we're just a bunch of apes on a rock flying through space trying to get by as best we can and for me, I figure I might as well enjoy myself while I'm here =)

Quote from: Adelkhf on February 17, 2013, 02:53:43 PM
I look at the universe and how incredibly vast it is and how insignificantly small we are and it makes me wonder how completely irrelevant life is. If humanity were to die out tomorrow, the universe would not care. The world would not care. Everything would go on as though we never even existed. It seems to me that everything we deem important is only so because we need it to be, not because it actually is.

To me, we're just a bunch of apes on a rock flying through space trying to get by as best we can and for me, I figure I might as well enjoy myself while I'm here =)

Kia Ora Adelkhf,

In other words..."Life is what one makes of it !" I like the way you put it, you deserve a rep  :)

Keep on keeping on enjoying life :)

Metta Zenda :)

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Life is like a block of cheese. If you don't take a bite soon, it will eventually rot, and then you'll have an icky mess to clean up.  :P

Quote from: EmSchuma on February 17, 2013, 03:52:55 PM
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It's actually 14,683,187,142. Gosh.  ::)

Quote from: DianaP on February 17, 2013, 03:54:06 PM
It's actually 14,683,187,142. Gosh.  ::)

Somebody's not a fan of the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything :laugh:

Kia Ora,

Life is a state of flux ! So go with the flow and enjoy it !

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: DianaP on February 17, 2013, 03:54:06 PM
Life is like a block of cheese. If you don't take a bite soon, it will eventually rot, and then you'll have an icky mess to clean up.  :P

It's actually 14,683,187,142. Gosh.  ::)

Kia Ora Diana,

::) Well actually the answer will never end with two [2] so the real answer to everything is  'not two [2]'... ;)

Metta Zenda :)

But everything needs an opposite. Everything is a dipole, only changed to different scales. Therefore, the meaning of life must be an even number ending in two.  :P

Quote from: DianaP on February 17, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
But everything needs an opposite. Everything is a dipole, only changed to different scales. Therefore, the meaning of life must be an even number ending in two.  :P

Kia Ora Diana,

"Form 'is' Emptiness-Emptiness 'is' Form !" That's physics in a nutshell...Well physics according to Zenda's warped sense of reality that is  ;)  ;D

Metta Zenda :)

I'm more of an 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction', kind of person.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2013, 02:17:59 AM
I'm more of an 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction', kind of person.

Kia Ora Pica,

::) Karma...Don't you just love the universal law of cause-condition-effect...

Life is but a sequence of karmic events...For this to happen-That 'must' happen-And for that 'to' happen-This 'must' happen !   

For every action there's a reaction...And for every 'non' action there's 'also' a reaction... Do 'nothing' and everything that needs to be done is done, and that's another paradox of 'life' ...

@DianaP

Kia Ora

My warped understanding of life by numbers...

One [1] will always leave room for more to be added, three plus [3+] means there is already more added, 'not' two [ whole ]= encompasses Every-thing and No-thing= All that there is and will ever be =not two...

At school I was never any good at maths so I took the lazy easy way out  ;)

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: Zenda on February 18, 2013, 03:27:33 PM
@DianaP

Kia Ora

My warped understanding of life by numbers...

One [1] will always leave room for more to be added, three plus [3+] means there is already more added, 'not' two [ whole ]= encompasses Every-thing and No-thing= All that there is and will ever be =not two...

At school I was never any good at maths so I took the lazy easy way out  ;)

Metta Zenda :)

I had a discrete math class where we had to prove that some infinities were larger than others.  I don't remember how it worked now, but  I think it made sense at the time...

Quote from: EmSchuma on February 18, 2013, 05:11:43 PM
I had a discrete math class where we had to prove that some infinities were larger than others.

That's some old bullspit!  :P

Infinity can't be quantified since it goes on forever.  :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

It is a series of questions that prompt other questions: answers are unimportant.

Full retraction in Three... Two... One...

[ ... i actually believe the above, after a fashion - or rather adhere to the belief that knowledge is too subjective to be of any use to anyone other than the bearer... which creates a bit of a conundrum when suggesting that the idea has any merit...]

I prefer

Korma ::)


Or even a lamb saag.

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2013, 06:28:01 PM
I prefer

Korma ::)


Or even a lamb saag.

Kia Ora Pica,

::) Even your 'preference' is  Karma =Cause[my post]-condition[your thoughts on it]-effect[your 'action' response]  >:-) ...One can not escape  Karma   ;) ;D

Metta Zenda :)

Quote from: DianaP on February 18, 2013, 05:18:19 PM
That's some old bullspit!  :P

Infinity can't be quantified since it goes on forever.  :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

Kia Ora Diana & EmSchuma

http://io9.com/5909824/some-infinities-are-bigger-than-other-infinities-heres-how-we-know-that (http://io9.com/5909824/some-infinities-are-bigger-than-other-infinities-heres-how-we-know-that)

Bit too much for my simple mind to wrap itself around[I get an headache and break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it]  ;), but EmSchuma, does have a point...

Metta Zenda :)

Infinity cannot be quantified since it goes on forever. You can just keep on adding more numbers for each set. His argument is cute, but... no.  :P

Quote from: kkut on February 18, 2013, 07:38:00 PM
always look on the bright side of life (WARNING: you'll whistle this tune out loud and in your head for days to come if you watch, you've been warned)............

Life Of Brian - Ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1loyjm4SOa0#)

Kia Ora Kkut,

Good one...The song is running through my mind... :laugh:

Metta Zenda :)

I read this in a comic book while sitting on a plane yesterday:

"It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't"

Quote from: Anna Michele on February 25, 2013, 09:06:14 AM
I read this in a comic book while sitting on a plane yesterday:

"It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't"

Kia Ora Anna M,

Similar quote to this one...

"Tis better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all !"

Metta Zenda :)

Well, you know what they say; nothing ventured, nothing failed.

I see life as a chance to get off this rock and move to Alpha centauri and start up a planetary hunger games, sacrificing thousands of lives from each of the colonies in a controlled tribal warfare system to divvy up fissile resources for the sake of clean energy(and thus prosperity) for the colony that wins.

Oh, and pizza. Pizza is important to my worldview as well.

The true meaning of Life from our plastic pal who's fun to be with, Marvin.

Life? Don't talk to me about life!

Life. Loathe it or ignore it. You can't like it.

My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million: they were the worst, too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that, I went into a bit of a decline.