Posts by Stewart
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I'll raise you an Eli Lilly
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Nommes de guerre?
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I had to put it up myself
as a demonstration of the importance of context.
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Jack, I like your refinement to our seeming meaninglessness, hippy drivel or not.
We are our own gods...
[Beware, slippery slope ahead...]
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I find
our very existence's utter meaninglessness
to be really rather liberating and I'm sorry, Danielle, that it depresses you.
That said, there's plenty of behaviour by other members of our species that depresses me...
Perhaps we need Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show ? (I'm at work & can't access YouTube, etc)
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We should probably leave a monolith somewhere etched with the Greens charter.
...and maybe a small apology for the mess?
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That's "happy chance" for us individually, but probably more irksome for the planet as a whole.
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Hey, Rich, my somewhat garbled little post was in no way directed at or against anyone else's post or, indeed, their philosophy.
You seem to have taken offence, for which I apologise.
I was just 'setting out my stall' and indicating where my own personal viewpoint sits. I tend to be somewhat saddened by the throngs who think that 'we' are the pinnacle and the objective of evolution and I was explaining that I view my/our existence as a 'happy chance' rather than something pre-ordained by any religious or evolutionary force.
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I tend to view the whole why question under these circumstances as a human conceit .
We have brains that tend to analyse, seek patterns and look for causality. It seems like a human-centric view of the universe/life/whatever to seek a reason for why we are here, or 'why does evolution occur' and that seems inappriopriate. Looking out to the stars at night I try to accept that we are here, & we are what we are, purely by chance. That of the gazillions of atoms swirling about, some of them have become arranged into us.
And given the way that our species is treating the planet I see us as a temporary construct only.
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It seems there's too many vested interests keen on retaining prohibition of the illicit drugs that we, as kiwis, like to take. It would take a politician with the cojones of a ram to seriously propose an end to prohibition.
I could see NZ doing well out of 'cannabis tourism' if we legalised it. Get the tour groups at immigration, micro-chip them (they won't mind - it's in a good cause), give them info on where to go, what to smoke/drink/eat and eventually round them up and ship them out again. They would be generally peaceful and compliant. We could organise good transport for them so they never have to drive while under the influence. Get that nice Mr Key on the phone, pronto!