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27 Dec 2012, 8:29 am

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Humanity has infinite potential.


Our potential is finite and we, as a species, shall be dead and gone in under ten millions years.

Mammalian species do not have a particularly long shelf life on this planet. Bugs like ants and roaches last much longer.

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29 Dec 2012, 8:59 pm

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This is more about humanity's collective potential. Every individual is a part of it, not apart from it.

Sure, we have finite resources on earth and we're stuck in linear time as far as I know. I still choose to believe perfection is possible with enough time and practice, even if it takes longer than a lifetime- both in a collective sense and on a personal level.

No one really knows what is and isn't impossible until we figure out the universe.


Perfection is an utterly meaningless fantasy.
You couldn't even define it if you tried. :roll:



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29 Dec 2012, 9:02 pm

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we can travel at the speed of love


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29 Dec 2012, 9:06 pm

NOC3 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
We cannot travel at the speed of light. ruveyn
Not yet, as living beings. What about in death? We can't say for certain all we can do is believe.

Belief proves nothing.

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Who is to say what is impossible.

Scientists.

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Science is about discovering you are wrong most of the time.

Science is self-correcting; belief is not.

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We just don't know.

Speak for yourself.

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There are common themes in all cultures that good is synonymous with light.

Same for darkness, shadow, birth, life, and death.

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I choose to believe in good things.

Do you also believe in silence?

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I believe therefore I am.

I believe you are wrong; therefore, you are wrong (Reductio ad Absurdium).


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29 Dec 2012, 11:07 pm

ruveyn wrote:
NOC3 wrote:
Humanity has infinite potential.


Our potential is finite and we, as a species, shall be dead and gone in under ten millions years.

Mammalian species do not have a particularly long shelf life on this planet. Bugs like ants and roaches last much longer.

ruveyn


Ants and roaches aren't bugs. True bugs have a proboscis.

Dragonflies and sharks are doing pretty well for themselves too... and higher on the food chain!

Mammals may not have existed for hundreds of billions of years, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a mammal genus that will find a niche and stay in it for hundreds of billions of years. Sharks and dragonflies were once the new kids on the block after all.



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29 Dec 2012, 11:11 pm

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When we are dead, the energy that we were leaves the body and vanishes?

No, the energy that once drove our bodies leaves the body as heat and dissipates throughout the environment. All that remains of us is inanimate matter.


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29 Dec 2012, 11:42 pm

ruveyn wrote:
NOC3 wrote:
Humanity has infinite potential.


Our potential is finite and we, as a species, shall be dead and gone in under ten millions years.

Mammalian species do not have a particularly long shelf life on this planet. Bugs like ants and roaches last much longer.

ruveyn


ruveyn ... the man that brings us all back to reality. :lol:



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29 Dec 2012, 11:43 pm

NOC3 wrote:
Humanity has infinite potential.
GOOD or BAD,
We can BE or DO
ANYTHING IMAGINABLE
Everything depends on what we let ourselves believe,
bad or GOOD.




...So be good for GOODNESS SAKE!! ! OOOOOOOHHHHHHHhhh


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29 Dec 2012, 11:59 pm

I want to be the next Justin Beiber
but I'm not as good looking
cant sing
have no entertainment lawyer
am too old
the place in the market is temporarily taken

no matter how hard I try or want
it aint going to happen