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as an atheist, I believe that death is the end; the only way you continue to exist is through your actions before you died.

exactly. and i think thats cool if you leave a legacy behind

I used to think this, but it becomes meaningless to the death you become. If we are a blank slate of nothing when we die, even saving the world means nothing to the individual. It is only worthwhile to the living.

But, better to have lived an amazing life than a mediocre one. Only one life as the person you are, so f*ck being useless.

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To understand the cycle of Birth, Life & Death you need to have a basic appreciation of how energy, conscientiousness, light & love interact. Within the esoteric spectrum of quantum physics there is an acceptance that things exist that are currently unexplainable in everyday science. To be dismissive of this reality is to lose the ability to grow as a physical & spiritual being.

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To understand the cycle of Birth, Life & Death you need to have a basic appreciation of how energy, conscientiousness, light & love interact. Within the esoteric spectrum of quantum physics there is an acceptance that things exist that are currently unexplainable in everyday science. To be dismissive of this reality is to lose the ability to grow as a physical & spiritual being.

... this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Do you understand what quantum physics is?

Or have I misinterpreted a troll?

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To understand the cycle of Birth, Life & Death you need to have a basic appreciation of how energy, conscientiousness, light & love interact. Within the esoteric spectrum of quantum physics there is an acceptance that things exist that are currently unexplainable in everyday science. To be dismissive of this reality is to lose the ability to grow as a physical & spiritual being.

... this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Do you understand what quantum physics is?

Or have I misinterpreted a troll?

If you dont know what this means your fuckin stupid period and dont deserve to breath the same oxygen as i do.

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^^ The selfish gene theory be worth a read Joshua! Very brief summary:

D: The modern refinement to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. All living creatures are made up of DNA segments which compete with segments from other creature's DNA and cause evolution through survival of the fittest.

A far better explanation of Selfish Gene Theory can be found at www.world-of-dawkins.com.

Very broadly:

Every creature, in the long-run, acts to maximize the number of its descendants. Any creature which does not act this way will eventually be out-bred by those who do. While a creature may have enough for its own needs the number of descendants it can have is bounded only by the resources around it. Hence creatures are generally insatiable.

This may seem wrong for humans, who have free will and are not mere programmable automaton, but in fact humans make logical decisions to satisfy their emotions, and human emotions are as murky and as illogical as any of those found in their animal counterparts.

Many of Charles Darwin's thoughts and opinions were strongly influenced by religion, and also the lack of understanding of DNA molecules, and of the process of information replication. We think of Darwin as being the creator of modern evolutionary theory, but in fact in retrospect he was confused about the subject, and a fuller understanding came much later, with the recognition of work by Gregor Mendel, and James Watson and Francis Crick's elucidation of the DNA molecule. Darwin was simply the first to publish suggestions that evolution occurred by a process of survival of the fittest.

The purpose of evolution is not, as Darwin suggested, survival of the species, it is simply the survival of the information in the genes of the individual. The individual is almost irrelevant to the genes - they are useful containers of the genetic code, but are in the final analysis expendable, and can be cast away if doing so can cause a greater reproduction elsewhere.

Life and evolution is pattern reproducing for no other reason than this: patterns which are good at reproducing tend to reproduce themselves - other patterns do not. The behavior we see in living things is simply behavior which has a history of causing replicating the patterns. The genetic code dictates behavior, and behavior changes the success of the replication process. The genetic codes which cause behavior which causes a more replication of the pattern becomes more prevalent.

This is what we call survival of the fittest. We talk about purpose of reproduction or the purpose of evolution because it helps to explain behavior and to focus on the process, but in fact it has no more purpose than a group of random numbers. We might say that evolution has created leaves which are green so that they can photo-synthesize, but in fact the process of evolution has merely selected for DNA patterns which generate green leaves because they were better at reproducing themselves than other forms of DNA.

We are used to things moving in a certain direction because they have a purpose - a wild animal goes hunting because it is hungry, for the purpose of finding food. Evolution too appears directed. Animals develop fur for the purpose of keeping warm and so on, but this does not mean that there truly a purpose behind it - just a mechanism which makes it happen.

Selfish Gene Theory regards the visible organism (the cat, human, flower, amoeba or whatever) as the host. It is like a big lumbering robot whose purpose is to replicate the genes it carries in its cells.

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f*ck, ddn't know my post would be a hit...

Been away all weekend now need to catch up on this thread and then post my thoughts :D

LOL - you got some cells left to think with?! :pfft: :grin: Heard it was a big night at Homegrown!

weekend is over, time for some intense training aye :P no time for drinking. Not even this weekend !

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