badenwurtca wrote:
There is a thread on the go here now asking if Chess is just a total waste of time. However one might ask if life on this tiny little planet is of any importance in relation to an endless Universe ?
--- Just a reminder.
How many people Think that Life is just a Total Waste of Time in this Endless Universe ?
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Estren wrote:
Life might be a total waste of time, but do we have any better ways to spend our time? If so, please let me know.
To such nihilism one has no choice other than to recite a thousand times..., one has no other option than to spoon them beauty.
"C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose, qui fait ta rose si importante."
Whatever or whoever your rose is, is not important really. But it does give a meaning to your own existence whithout becoming arrogant. In English it is: It is the time you have wasted on your rose, that makes your rose so important... A. de Saint-Exupéry ;)
May 30, 2016
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#64
I don't like to ruin a joke with an explanation, but I was merely playing with the OP's heading on this thread.
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Estren wrote:
I don't like to ruin a joke with an explanation, but I was merely playing with the OP's heading on this thread.
I know. I thought what you wrote was funny. But... you needed a kick in your butt.. it's healing too fast.
Your tonsils. (had to look up word 
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May 30, 2016
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#70
There's an erroneous human reasoning, that if something is numerous-to-awesomely numerous, in quantity - Then it somehow consigns the whole grouping, as being reduced in importance. ..{if you're still not convinced ..'Google' "Where is the 'piccolo' " {storyline}.
'Matthew, 10-29 through 32' - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father {knowing about it}.
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
May 30, 2016
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#71
shellman211 wrote:
Why do you require others insights into wasting time?
--- Require is a rather strong term to be sure. Nobody is " Required " to post anything in this thread or in any other threads in these forums. However if people want to chat on-line and/or leave an opinion that is very nice ( But might that ALSO be a waste of time ? lol ).
gerberk wrote:
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without an end.
Simone de beauvoir.
“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
This is the last one because I do not really like Sartre. (shame on me) I refuse to walk into his thinking
"Friendship is no ideal state of mind, it is a law... and a strict one on which the entire legal systems of great cultures were built. It reaches personal desires and self-regard in men's hearts. It's grip is greater than that of sexual desire and it is proof against disappointment because it asks for nothing."
Sandor Marai
“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
May 30, 2016
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#78
Nice quotes from you two, but it makes my punches against dumb-Don looks silly.
It was a little game of quotes I liked it
Don't try to think, you're just making a fool of yourself.