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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 13:05:29 GMT
...and no, I haven’t been smoking anything, just a bit of pub phylosophy.
I’m not suggesting life is a puzzle (but it does seem that way sometimes). My question is, if life is a puzzle, what do you think might be the solution?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 13:15:19 GMT
Yeah but even if it was death, why doesn’t the King in chess get taken? The King always lives for another battle (actually chess should be banned nowadays as it’s blatantly sexist...)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 13:36:46 GMT
For some poor souls it's a puzzle with no box lid.
We should be thankful that we're the fortunate ones.
Rog
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Post by Gone on Jun 17, 2018 13:45:52 GMT
Yeah but even if it was death, why doesn’t the King in chess get taken? The King always lives for another battle (actually chess should be banned nowadays as it’s blatantly sexist...) Actually the end of a chess match is when the king faces certain death - can not avoid being taken - or commits suicide, signified by tipping the king over.
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Post by Gone on Jun 17, 2018 13:49:01 GMT
...and no, I haven’t been smoking anything, just a bit of pub phylosophy. I’m not suggesting life is a puzzle (but it does seem that way sometimes). My question is, if life is a puzzle, what do you think might be the solution? From an evolutionary view the puzzle is how to have lots of offspring that also go on to breed before you die, otherwise the blood line fails........
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 14:14:36 GMT
My question is, if life is a puzzle, what do you think might be the solution? Cider
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 14:50:42 GMT
Yeah but even if it was death, why doesn’t the King in chess get taken? The King always lives for another battle (actually chess should be banned nowadays as it’s blatantly sexist...) Actually the end of a chess match is when the king faces certain death - can not avoid being taken - or commits suicide, signified by tipping the king over. Maybe that’s where I went wrong...I have never tipped my king over...
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Post by Delta9 on Jun 17, 2018 14:51:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 14:56:34 GMT
My question is, if life is a puzzle, what do you think might be the solution? Cider No haven’t started on that yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 15:42:17 GMT
...and no, I haven’t been smoking anything, just a bit of pub phylosophy. I’m not suggesting life is a puzzle (but it does seem that way sometimes). My question is, if life is a puzzle, what do you think might be the solution? From an evolutionary view the puzzle is how to have lots of offspring that also go on to breed before you die, otherwise the blood line fails........ It seems that way. however we all die in the end. So what was/is the point? Maybe, having the ‘experience’ is a key to this?
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Post by dyertribe on Jun 17, 2018 15:46:11 GMT
Life is a puzzle? Scrabble mixed with Monopoly laced with Snakes and Ladders
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 15:58:39 GMT
Life is a puzzle? Scrabble mixed with Monopoly laced with Snakes and Ladders Yep, I used to enjoy playing those games...
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 17, 2018 16:15:16 GMT
We should be thankful that we're the fortunate ones. "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?" Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 16:34:01 GMT
I try not to worry about all that sort of thing. At the end of the day humans are made up of chemical components interacting with an environment in predictable ways. There is nothing else going on. Just because people think there is doesn't mean there is. If someone could be bothered it would be entirely possible to work out everything and predict all events. One of the things which people get all agitated about is how it all started. Simple answer. It didn't start and it will never end. Not rocket science
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Post by patty on Jun 17, 2018 19:27:23 GMT
During my 'ill health phase' when I lived in fear/anxiety/hidden in the dark under tables etc etc..Life seemed so very complex...I then started going to a dharma centre and 'found' meditation...as with everything I tried there were no half measures..I went nearly every day, attended courses, went on Retreats..vows of silence, intensive Meditation weeks/chanted prayers..the whole caboodle...Anyway slowly slowly the 'puzzle/confusion' that was my life resolved....I did so much Meditation I felt within grasping distance of something so calm that I wanted to go there permanently...In trying to achieve 'whatever' I felt more at one with the world and life so much more simple So is life a puzzle?..yes but one of our own making....if we chose to agitate on the meaning of it all I think we will all find our own answers and way forward. Reproducing is a way of ensuring continuation of all species....perhaps the World belongs to Ma Nature and she deals the deck in the game of life. Our memories and experiences we can document..though will any in the future be interested? This is a complicated topic really. Scientists believe what they believe...thats bit to cold and factual for me.
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