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[Pnx]

If the Universe is Finite, then everything we do, everything we know will one day not exist. The net effect of all life on earth in the long run will be Zero.

If the Universe is Infinite, then everything we do, everything we know is infintesimally small compared to the universe, and in the long run is Practically Zero.

Thought about that until 4am last night, unable to sleep.

If the Universe has no real meaning, then we have the utter freedom to create whatever meaning we want.

[Vattic]

How many movies has he been in?  He has a Bacon number of 2 through at least five different chains.

Having just skimmed through a list of the films he's been in I can see plenty I enjoyed but just as many I disliked. I must have just hit a run of bad ones that left me with a poor opinion of him. I had forgotten he was in a number of films I greatly enjoyed.

[Frumple]

If the Universe is Finite, then everything we do, everything we know will one day not exist. The net effect of all life on earth in the long run will be Zero.

If the Universe is Infinite, then everything we do, everything we know is infintesimally small compared to the universe, and in the long run is Practically Zero.

Thought about that until 4am last night, unable to sleep.

Realizing that was incredibly freeing, heh. Probably the best day of my life when I actually got around to internalizing that truth. Getting there took a few full out depressive breakdowns, but it was worth it

[Nadaka]

You can't judge Nicholas Cage based on Face Off, that also had John Travolta and it is against his religion to act in a good movie.

Lord of War for instance, was pretty good.

[Aqizzar]

True dat on both counts.  Face Off was terrible even though Nic Cage had to fill two different roles and filled them both the way Nic Cage always does, and Lord of War was just plain great.

If the Universe is Finite, then everything we do, everything we know will one day not exist. The net effect of all life on earth in the long run will be Zero.

If the Universe is Infinite, then everything we do, everything we know is infintesimally small compared to the universe, and in the long run is Practically Zero.

Except it's completely meaningless to anyone who's not going to live to see the end of the universe.  To the other mortals for whom your life might have consequences, the net effect of life is life.  It might be infinitesimal compared to the life of stars, but not human beings.

[kaijyuu]

The universe may be big and expansive and last a long time, but to what point and purpose? The universe is meaningless without someone to experience it. That someone is you, me, and everyone else. Without life to see it, the universe would be as pointless as a computer program no one ever sees the output of.

You don't need to justify yourself to the universe. It's the other way around.

[JoshuaFH]

If the Universe is Finite, then everything we do, everything we know will one day not exist. The net effect of all life on earth in the long run will be Zero.

If the Universe is Infinite, then everything we do, everything we know is infintesimally small compared to the universe, and in the long run is Practically Zero.

Thought about that until 4am last night, unable to sleep.

I'd like to add the possibility the very real likelihood that humanity will progress technologically to the point where expanding our civilizations to the furthest reaches of space, and bending the principles of space and time to do awesome shit to the point where the death of the universe won't even matter.

The forces of entropy will become our bitch, just you watch. Your actions do matter.

[Darvi]

The forces of entropy will become our bitch, just you watch.

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And then the plot of Madoka happens.

[Duke 2.0]

You don't need to justify yourself to the universe. It's the other way around.

Sometimes you gotta take a step back, don't really care what the Universe thinks about us because she is a bitch and I really shouldn't care, and swallow a few Humanistic pills

[Darvi]

OI, me 'n me dad are the only persons allowed to call my mom a bitch.

[Leafsnail]

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And then the plot of Madoka happens.

I will read every single fictional work in the entire universe, then I'll know it's safe to open this spoiler.

Although obviously marking this spoiler would make it a spoiler.

[ChairmanPoo]

Fun fact: when I was 15 I collaborated in writing an adaptation of Dracula in which vampires were fungal lifeforms.  We added that bit in order to annoy someone we called "the mushroom"

[Vector]

I actually just said "library" instead of "driveway" when I was reading off an email to my mom, and didn't notice that anything was wrong.  I sort of can't believe this, but the spoonerisms and substitutions are getting even worse.

[Pnx]

I actually just said "library" instead of "driveway" when I was reading off an email to my mom, and didn't notice that anything was wrong.  I sort of can't believe this, but the spoonerisms and substitutions are getting even worse.

This is a normal ordinary thing, that happens to everyone. Don't worry about it.

[Darvi]

It's called a Freudian Slip, Vec. Don't worry about it.