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Life

Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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“Life? Don’t talk to me about life!”
 
Ancient Herald said:
Gratitude is meaningless drivel to me, and accomplished nothing.

Because when the authority sees you not paying him or her gratitude, they will stomp you into the ground.

And all you can do is sit and suffer in silence.
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“Life. Loathe it or ignore it. You can’t like it.”
 
Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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Ooook then.

I see lots of other stuff out here in life. But if you want to sit here and complain that you're not finding what you're obviously not looking for, alright then.
 
Henrin said:
Tell me, when the right of conquest was no longer recognized as international law did any established states give up their territory? Do you think that any modern state that doesn't accept the premise of the right of conquest has any reason in existing? Don't you think that if they weren't being hypocritical they would have to accept the reality that their states were formed under such practices? Like I said, don't kid yourself into thinking that the declaration is of any importance at all.

The state derived its power by conquering and vanquishing everyone else and still to this day can only have power by taking power from the people. The very basis of government is one where every power you grant them is one less power you have for yourself. The government doesn't grant you anything, but takes everything it has from you.
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To answer your bolded question above (from the mid-1800's through the modern day):

- the Philippines, from the U.S.
- the Sinai desert, from Israel.
- most of the British Commonwealth (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Canada, several islands in the Caribbean, New Zealand, India - and I'm sure I'm missing a few), from England.
- East Timor, from Indonesia.
- Liberia, from America
- Israel, from England

And I'm sure I'm forgetting several African nations after the age of colonization. Note that I'm not including the nations that came into being after the dissolution of the USSR. And if you'll recall earlier this year England was going to voluntarily allow Scotland to declare full independence if the Scottish people voted for it, but they did not do so. America conquered both Iraq and Afghanistan...and we got out of Iraq, and hopefully someday we're out of Afghanistan.

In other words, "conquest theory" is good for the vast majority of human history...but no longer, starting at the end of the age of colonization, and especially after WWI.
 
Sincerity is the most important thing in life. If you can fake that then you've got it made.
 
Ancient Herald said:
Because that is all there is.

There is nothing more.
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I disagree. Life is about the progression of life, the furtherance of species, and along the way, love. Direction of life is very individual, but when looking at life from ANY perspective, be it a purely evolutionary accident or a planned design by a higher power, the purpose is life is...greater life.
 
VanceMack said:
I disagree. Life is about the progression of life, the furtherance of species, and along the way, love. Direction of life is very individual, but when looking at life from ANY perspective, be it a purely evolutionary accident or a planned design by a higher power, the purpose is life is...greater life.
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love is but an illusion.
 
Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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life has many meanings. the most basic is "pass on your DNA at all costs." the one i like is "find beauty, and stay interested."
 
Ancient Herald said:
love is but an illusion.
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Love is the primary driver of life. It is the source of all positive secondary emotionally responses. It is in fact the ONLY thing that is real.
 
Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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I agree and I am the one with Authoritaaah!

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Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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Not really.

That's one way to live life, it's not necessarily the meaning behind it.
 
Ikari said:
Not really.

That's one way to live life, it's not necessarily the meaning behind it.
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But it is the default condition of the human race as human beings are naturally xenophobic in nature, and anything that is different is a potential treat, and we must all be made to b safe.

so conform, and obey the authority, blindly, and unquestionably.

That is really all there is, and all tat will evr be.
 
Ancient Herald said:
But it is the default condition of the human race as human beings are naturally xenophobic in nature, and anything that is different is a potential treat, and we must all be made to b safe.

so conform, and obey the authority, blindly, and unquestionably.

That is really all there is, and all tat will evr be.
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If that were all, we'd never have developed our philosophies that say differently. We are by base social animals, and prone to grouping. But that doesn't mean that our base is some neigh totalitarian form of submission to authority.
 
Ikari said:
If that were all, we'd never have developed our philosophies that say differently. We are by base social animals, and prone to grouping. But that doesn't mean that our base is some neigh totalitarian form of submission to authority.
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So what philosophy out there doesn't say obey my authority?

I've read quite a bit of stuff but haven't come across any that does say that.
 
Ancient Herald said:
There is only one meaning to life.

Respect authority, obey authority, or be hurt and left out in the cold to starve.

That is all life is.

nothing more.

Carry on.
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Well, far be it from me to try and talk you out of misery but, when I feel alienated (which is... daily) I keep in mind that there are lots of people who are in the same boat as me, or even worse. If that doesn't help then I think that, even though at this moment life sucks, there are other people in the world right now whose life is far BETTER than mine. For them the experience is a good one. I don't know why, but that makes me feel better somehow.
 
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