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[aid] => mick
[title] => Freelance Philosophy
[time] => 2005-05-07 14:15:47
[hometext] => A poem about the meaning of life, and some amazing conclusions that I came to.
[bodytext] => 1. There will come a day when my sanguine personality flows freely from my veins, chest, nose, eyes; when my education, stock portfolio, son, coke addiction immediately becomes worthless; when I completely blow by the lightheadedness of getting a CBC done, and simply collapse in a woozy, pale lump. 2. Extrapolate: There will come a day, my darling reader, student, or brunette at my lecture, when some of your vital bits will fail from misuse, when you, by God, will die. 3. Extrapolate: Eventually, every human will go through the same experience. 4. Some day, the universe will end. Whether by a Big Rip or a Big Crunch, entropy or gravity, all matter will either recombine to ignite, someday, a new Big Bang, or disintegrate into the tiniest of photons before blinking out of existence. 5. Extrapolate: One way or another, either locally or universally, the human species will be destroyed and all evidence of its existence will be either reshaped or crumbled. 6. Extrapolate: One way or another, either locally or universally, all life forms on all spatial bodies will be completely destroyed with all evidence of its existence either masked or torn apart. 7. Exception: Anything existing while wholly devoid of all matter – including photons and other infinitesimal particles – could potentially exist eternally. However, because of the connection between matter and energy and stated in “e=mc2,” such an “eternal body” would have to exist in a state of zero energy as well: a being wholly ethereal, having no means of influence on the material universe. If something sentient existed in such a condition, it would be both amazing and beyond human perception. In reality, this shows that only an absolute vacuum is eternal. Therefore, God is the number zero. 8. Extrapolate: If all things material, on an infinite time scale, are destroyed, then there are only two possible explanations to justify the existence of not only human life, but all life, Earthly or alien. Firstly, it is possible that nothing has any meaning, significance, or, most importantly, permanence, in our entire being. If this is true, then every action taken, other than in indulgence in or pursuit of instinctual pleasures has no long-term effect on anything meaningful, but rather, serves simply to make our time in life more pleasant. Or, secondly, there exists some way to transcend the material world, and to allow life, that is, sentience, to continue in the absence of all matter and energy. If this is true, the life being described would be merely an invisible consciousness without the ability to interact with anything made of matter, and without the ability to move, since it will lack all energy as well. Therefore, the exchange is that mobility and the ability to alter our surroundings are given up, but, for that, we get what every human seeks – immortality. 9. Extrapolate: If it is true of all life in the universe, that there is a drive toward immortality – if not for the individual, then for the species – then all organisms in the universe are seeking out, to whatever extent they can, the exact same goal. 10. Extrapolate: Since immortality necessitates existence without matter, then all species seeking immortality could pursue such a course of transcending the material world without ever risking taking away from other species. In fact, by a collaborative effort, all species could push toward the same goal, sharing freely all scientific and historical knowledge and possibly reach that goal all the faster. 11. Extrapolate: Until such a time as transcendence beyond the material world becomes scientifically possible, if ever, then human life, and indeed, all life, will continue to die without hope for anything greater than longevity. 12. Conclusion: Therefore, since we are all going to die, and since nothing we could ever build, dig, create, or destroy will ever be truly permanent, I recommend for everyone to choose one of two paths down which they will take their lives, and to commit to that path wholly and immediately. The first path is a life of hedonism, whereby every possible form of pleasure is sought out and appreciated to its fullest possible value, including in such typically unpleasurable areas of life as career, war, and pain. If either for lack of means, lack if interest, or lack of ability (for people who are too insistent that their opinions should be law), hedonism isn’t for you, then I suggest the only appropriate alternative: suicide. This is the only appropriate alternative because it 1. Leaves more resources available for the hedonists to enjoy, and 2. Since nothing will ever be permanent, you are spending your unpleasurable time seeking temporary solutions to “permanent” (that is, lasting for the length of your life) problem. Therefore, why not solve your problem with a permanent, and noble, solution by sacrificing yourself so that the people who truly enjoy life can do so with greater ease? [comments] => 1 [counter] => 154 [topic] => 21 [informant] => butterat_zool [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 3 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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