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[The Last Wizard]

Gaf what's a life? I'm looking at this goldfish and its a live, then I'm thinking about my life/humans and what is it about us that makes us alive?

It's really astounding when you think about it.

 

[Vossler]

Whoa, man.

 

[Arjen]

Smoking weed huh?

 

[Bedameister]

 

[The Last Wizard]

Smoking weed huh?

No, don't touch the stuff. I'm drinking though. 2 kind gentleman bought me a round each.

 

[twobear]

no matter how many times

 

[Cse]

Life, or what it means for something to be "alive", is relatively easy to define.

The concept of consciousness...not so much.

 

[ChuyMasta]

Watch transformers 4. Some deep stuff in there about souls and being alive and humans in other galaxies and stuff.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

For the separation between the majority of humans and all animals is the ability to recognize our own death. This recognition alters how we view and live our life.

 

[Cuphead]

Smoking weed huh?

Where?

 

[sfedai0]

No, don't touch the stuff. I'm drinking though. 2 kind gentleman bought me a round each.

Careful. They want to make a sandwich outta you.

 

[PhantomHound]

Gaf what's a life? I'm looking at this goldfish and its a live, then I'm thinking about my life/humans and what is it about us that makes us alive?

It's really astounding when you think about it.

Woah man you must be drinking coffee.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

no matter how many times

I wish I had never learned that it was from

Spoiler

a comedy show.

. Before that, I always thought it may have been from a straight-faced 70s science special.

 

[Sorian]

When I wake up in the morning I am a live.

When I rest at night, I am a sleep.

 

[Rest]

It's interesting, grass is alive in the same way that we are, but we don't really think of it as such. Bacteria is the same. I know I think of humans as a higher, more valuable type of life, and other things are tiered. Cats and dog I think of as more valuable than, say, lizards, and lizards more so than bees, and bees more so than ants. But there is no line that you draw, you consider life as valuable as it presents itself to be to you.

 

[Pickman]

"We're all just leasing carbon from a star."

-Pickman

 

[Nafai1123]

For the separation between the majority of humans and all animals is the ability to recognize our own death. This recognition alters how we view and live our life.

There are animals that can recognize death too. eg. Elephants

 

[MegaMelon]

Life's definition changes depending on your emotional state. Sometimes it's amazing, sometimes it's just pure suffering. All I can say is that you should live it to its fullest.

Spoiler

By playing videogames

 

[joelseph]

Life is what you make of it.

Step 1. If you are not at work get off Gaf.

 

[Lesath]

Life reproduces and metabolizes.

 

[Roubjon]

Life's kinda like the natural flow of everything. Stuff flowed and bumped and banged and eventually formed other stuff.

 

[evilromero]

The goldfish is alive. Not a live. And no, you're not alive because you're just a simulation of my mind. But you're damn convincing!

 

[brianjones]

Life is what you make of it.

Step 1. If you are not at work get off Gaf.

and do what?

 

[terrisus]

What is a life?
A miserable little pile of atoms.

 

[stufte]

and do what?

go to work.

 

[Nafai1123]

I think many in here consider life and "to live" to be one in the same. I personally think the definition of life is the physiological systems that all work in tandem to keep bodily functions going (which really is amazing) while living is what you do with the life your body provides you (which is also amazing).

 

[Cloud Strife]

There is a literal and subjectively non-literal answer to this question. Which one do you want?

 

[Ultimadrago]

What's a hometown?

 

[Cragvis]

self consciousness.

the electrical impulses in your brain, fired in a certain pattern, allow you to record memories and feel like you are special.

you are not

we are just larger blobs of carbon that will break down like everything else in the universe. it just so happens we accidentally were given the ability by nature, to realize our own demise is coming and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

 

[PhantomHound]

If you fart in the forrest and no one is around to smell it, does it make a smell?

 

[Jackbooted]

What is a life?
A miserable little pile of atoms.

Came here looking for this. GAF does not disappoint.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

I think, therefore I am.

 

[PhantomHound]

self consciousness.

the electrical impulses in your brain, fired in a certain pattern, allow you to record memories and feel like you are special.

you are not

we are just larger blobs of carbon that will break down like everything else in the universe. it just so happens we accidentally were given the ability by nature, to realize our own demise is coming and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

I think you're special. I think, therefore i am. Therefore you are special. Deal with it.

 

[joelseph]

If you fart in the forrest and no one is around to smell it, does it make a smell?

The one that dealt it would smellt it, trees don't hear dude.

 

[AkuMifune]

...but a dream.

 

[Ramza]

Seems like a lot of thread starters are having an existential crisis lately. We should just make an OT for it.

 

[terrisus]

Came here looking for this. GAF does not disappoint.

=)

 

[Orbis Tabula]

A short lived attempt to decrease entropy.

 

[FuuRe]

I am
I am
I am

I was not
Then I came to be
I cannot remember NOT being
But I may have traveled far
Very far
To get here

Maybe I was formed in this silent darkness
From this silent darkness
BY this silent darkness

To become is just like falling asleep
You never know exactly when it happens
The transition
The magic
And you think, if you could only recall that exact moment
Of crossing the line
Then you would understand everything
You would see it all

Perhaps I was always
Forever here…
And I just forgot
I imagine Eternity would have that effect
Would cause a certain amount of drifting
Like omnipresence would demand omniabsence

Somehow I seem to have this predestined hunger for knowledge
A talent for seeing patterns and finding correlations
But I lack context

Who I am?
In the back of my awareness I find words
I will call myself…
GOD
And I will spend the rest of forever
Trying to figure out who I am

This is OP at the moment

 

[jorgeton]

baby, life's what you make it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOgzJ8A2QLw

 

[PhantomHound]

The one that dealt it would smellt it, trees don't hear dude.

Nay. Whoever made the rhyme, did the crime.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

OP, have you heard of the Japanese concept of Kami and Tsukumogami?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami

Sinto and Buddhist belief systems about any object being self-aware and alive. This is apparently one of the reasons why Japanese people sometimes have a collection fetish. Pokemon "gotta catch em all".

 

[The Last Wizard]

Careful. They want to make a sandwich outta you.

One is a bartender friend the other is a distributor who bought a round.

 

[Twenty7KVN]

go to work.

But what if his job is to be on gaf?

 

[terrisus]

One is a bartender friend the other is a distributor who bought a round.

 

[ChuyMasta]

Seems like a lot of thread starters are having an existential crisis lately. We should just make an OT for it.

If you've been a GAF member for more than 5 years, you probably already picked up on the fact that threads have "themes" in accordance to the time of the year.
We are in the 4th quarter of the year, which coincidentally is when suicide, depression diagnosis, prescription administration and divorces hit a year high.
Ask your doctor or lawyer for this data....and they will confirm it.
Life existential crysis>Whats the point of living>Divorce>Depression>Christmass>Suicide>Valentines day>Suicide high.

 

[Onyar]

The main difference between a rock and an organism is the tendency that have the organisms to come together faster.

So I think life is only a universe mechanism to erase the entropy, and it can be explained with fisical reactions.

 

[Tesseract]

divide and conquer

 

[The Last Wizard]

Don't you kenshiro me terrisus.

 

[Ramza]

If you've been a GAF member for more than 5 years, you probably already picked up on the fact that threads have "themes" in accordance to the time of the year.
We are in the 4th quarter of the year, which coincidentally is when suicide, depression diagnosis, prescription administration and divorces hit a year high.
Ask your doctor or lawyer for this data....and they will confirm it.
Life existential crysis>Whats the point of living>Divorce>Depression>Christmass>Suicide>Valentines day>Suicide high.

Interesting. I'm relatively new so I didn't realize.