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user-inactivated  ·  3205 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you understand about life?

We're born into a world of chaos and violence, no one can be trusted, and we die alone.





pseydtonne  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...so use Fight Club soap.

user-inactivated  ·  3203 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This?

Would that require me diving into dumpsters and scavenging for heavy, pendulous leaking bags of liposuction fat? That may be too high a price to pay.

Formerly_Me  ·  3205 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just playing devil's advocate, so please don't take this personally!

Will it always be that way? Will we never find peace? If we all hooked up into a single computer and somebody turned it off, would we still be dying alone?

user-inactivated  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The "we" I used refers to a pluralized "I", the kind philosophers use when being meta and solipsistic. As for you, personally, it may well be possible you'll find peace, and you may find a technological singularity that means you'll die in a multitude of interconnected minds.