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Whats The Point?

Pighead · 2005-04-21 09:24:27

Just watching a program on the telly about geography and stuff. Talking about a vine that grows around a tree and suffocates it (like some girlfriends). Whats the point to its existance? If it dont have a reason then why should we? :confused:

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21-04-2005 10:24am

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Just watching a program on the telly about geography and stuff. Talking about a vine that grows around a tree and suffocates it (like some girlfriends). Whats the point to its existance? If it dont have a reason then why should we?

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#2 21-04-2005 10:33am
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I suggest you try here Pighead whats the point

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#3 21-04-2005 10:46am
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Pighead wrote:

Just watching a program on the telly about geography and stuff. Talking about a vine that grows around a tree and suffocates it (like some girlfriends). Whats the point to its existance? If it dont have a reason then why should we?

Biologically its "point" is to grow and reproduce and provide a safe environment for its offspring to grow.

Biologically our "point" is to grow and to reproduce, provide a safe environment for our offspring to grow.

Good enough answer for you?

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#4 21-04-2005 10:52am
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Wicknight wrote:

Biologically its "point" is to grow and reproduce and provide a safe environment for its offspring to grow.

Biologically our "point" is to grow and to reproduce, provide a safe environment for our offspring to grow.

Good enough answer for you?

Yes!
You have opened my eyes and i can see the light once more.
Thank you sir

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#5 21-04-2005 10:53am
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Pighead wrote:

Just watching a program on the telly about geography and stuff. Talking about a vine that grows around a tree and suffocates it (like some girlfriends). Whats the point to its existance? If it dont have a reason then why should we?

We don't have a "reason" either - just a cause. Nature doesn't give a proverbial airborn copulation about us - as famously put by [iirc] Richard Dawkins, the universe is "pitilessly indifferent" to its contents.

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#6 21-04-2005 12:04pm
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Eoghan-psych wrote:

We don't have a "reason" either - just a cause. Nature doesn't give a proverbial airborn copulation about us - as famously put by [iirc] Richard Dawkins, the universe is "pitilessly indifferent" to its contents.

I think you can safely expand on Dawkin's remark and declare that "the universe is pitilessly indifferent to its contents and people are pitilessly indifferent to non-kin".

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#7 08-07-2005 12:53am
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Pighead - this is the kind of thing that we talk about all the time in Lubnip. You should request access to it - I think you'd enjoy it.

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#8 08-07-2005 6:01am
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Macros42 wrote:

Pighead - this is the kind of thing that we talk about all the time in Lubnip. You should request access to it - I think you'd enjoy it.

Stay on target

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