The "What's on your mind?" thread

[Xtempo]

Originally Posted by Mike16

I just told my wife I was going to my ex's for Thanksgiving tomorrow, and she just said ok. A little worried about why she would be okay with that....hmmm

It's a trap but then I don't know anything about women

[Ray Jackson]

Have you accepted the fact that one day you’re going to die?

Even though the logical part of my brain knows it’s going to happen, I don’t think I’ve really come to terms with the fact that no matter what I do I’m going to die.

I can’t really wrap my head around it.

Could be 30 years from now, could be next week...could be ten minutes from now.

But it’s going to happen.

Lost in time like tears in rain.

Never to be seen or heard from again.

As though I never existed in the first place.

...and what was the point of it all?

[Show spoiler]

[BucketheadPikes]

^^There is great meaning to life for us while we are still in existence as a species. However, in the grand scheme of things, the totality of all of our accomplishments & anything any of us have done will eventually be rendered completely & utterly meaningless when our sun dies. All stars die, and eventually — in about 5 billion years — our sun will die too. Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted, the final, dramatic stages of its life will unfold, as our host star expands to become a red giant and then tears its body to pieces to condense into a white dwarf. The length of a star's life span depends on its size. Our sun is a yellow dwarf with a diameter of around 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers), or about 109 times the size of Earth, according to NASA. Yellow dwarf stars live for about 10 billion years, and at 4.5 billion years old, our middle-age sun is about halfway through its lifetime.

Our star will eventually grow to be larger than we can imagine — so large that it'll envelope the inner planets, including Earth. That's when the sun will become a red giant. The Earth & all of man's architecture, music, films, & everything else that we have accomplished will be completely annihilated as if it never existed, rendering totally meaningless that which once had meaning. If we are able to acquire the ability to colonize other planets before this happens & continue on as a species elsewhere, then meaning will also accompany us as we travel & reach our new destination(s).

Feel better now Ray?

[Captain Flint]

I'm officially an uncle. My younger brother had his first baby last night. A boy. Very happy for him. Just feels a little weird. Never imagined any of my younger brothers having children. Won't be long now till my mom starts asking when I'm gonna have kids. Sorry ma, never gonna happen.

[civiclx]

Originally Posted by BucketheadPikes

^^There is great meaning to life for us while we are still in existence as a species. However, in the grand scheme of things, the totality of all of our accomplishments & anything any of us have done will eventually be rendered completely & utterly meaningless when our sun dies. All stars die, and eventually — in about 5 billion years — our sun will die too. Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted, the final, dramatic stages of its life will unfold, as our host star expands to become a red giant and then tears its body to pieces to condense into a white dwarf. The length of a star's life span depends on its size. Our sun is a yellow dwarf with a diameter of around 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers), or about 109 times the size of Earth, according to NASA. Yellow dwarf stars live for about 10 billion years, and at 4.5 billion years old, our middle-age sun is about halfway through its lifetime.

Our star will eventually grow to be larger than we can imagine — so large that it'll envelope the inner planets, including Earth. That's when the sun will become a red giant. The Earth & all of man's architecture, music, films, & everything else that we have accomplished will be completely annihilated as if it never existed, rendering totally meaningless that which once had meaning. If we are able to acquire the ability to colonize other planets before this happens & continue on as a species elsewhere, then meaning will also accompany us as we travel & reach our new destination(s).

Feel better now Ray?

I certainly hope I'm here to experience that from the front row

[Xtempo]

Originally Posted by Captain Flint

I'm officially an uncle. My younger brother had his first baby last night. A boy. Very happy for him. Just feels a little weird. Never imagined any of my younger brothers having children. Won't be long now till my mom starts asking when I'm gonna have kids. Sorry ma, never gonna happen.

Congrats. My older brother had a baby girl Nov 7. It feels weird because it would seem that I would have and be married first but it's been to difficult for me even to start.

[VictoryAtNight]

It is raining pretty hard right now. Makes me feel good that I did my yard work yesterday. I was going to wash my car, but............

[VictoryAtNight]

I'm thinking that I will take it easy on my Best Buy Black Friday purchases tonight. Probably no more than 2-3 items.

[Xtempo]

I should really talk to work. I can't do the evening shift anymore as per my psychiatrist instructions. Now I had to go from 5pm to this morning 12 with only a 15. So far it's messed me up.

Also missing my father on his birthday. Love you dad.

[InuYashaCrusade]

This has felt like a very tame Black Friday. Only bought 1 Blu-ray. I was hoping to buy some anime but there's no good deals, so I've stuck to video games.

[sk33tr]

i'm thinking i have bronchitis.

it started tuesday of last week while i was at work. i had other symptoms, but now it's just a lot of coughing that i can't seem to make go away. i've had it before, and this is pretty much how it was, then; which is mostly just annoying. i feel fine, no fever, no chills, no....anything else; just a lot of coughing.

[The_Donster]

Feel better sk33tr.

OT: Trying to find an Internet provider around here is nuts.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by BucketheadPikes

^^There is great meaning to life for us while we are still in existence as a species. However, in the grand scheme of things, the totality of all of our accomplishments & anything any of us have done will eventually be rendered completely & utterly meaningless when our sun dies. All stars die, and eventually — in about 5 billion years — our sun will die too. Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted, the final, dramatic stages of its life will unfold, as our host star expands to become a red giant and then tears its body to pieces to condense into a white dwarf. The length of a star's life span depends on its size. Our sun is a yellow dwarf with a diameter of around 864,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers), or about 109 times the size of Earth, according to NASA. Yellow dwarf stars live for about 10 billion years, and at 4.5 billion years old, our middle-age sun is about halfway through its lifetime.

Our star will eventually grow to be larger than we can imagine — so large that it'll envelope the inner planets, including Earth. That's when the sun will become a red giant. The Earth & all of man's architecture, music, films, & everything else that we have accomplished will be completely annihilated as if it never existed, rendering totally meaningless that which once had meaning. If we are able to acquire the ability to colonize other planets before this happens & continue on as a species elsewhere, then meaning will also accompany us as we travel & reach our new destination(s).

Feel better now Ray?

What happens to our species after I’m gone is irrelevant to me.

Regardless of whether it survives or not, or for how long, I won’t know about it.

I’ll be drifting in the ether of the great, posthumous desolation.

Feeling nothing.

Knowing nothing.

...doomed to wander the dark void of non-existence for all eternity.

[Show spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGAoy5WZWY

[BucketheadPikes]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

What happens to our species after I’m gone is irrelevant to me.

Regardless of whether it survives or not, or for how long, I won’t know about it.

I’ll be drifting in the ether of the great, posthumous desolation.

Feeling nothing.

Knowing nothing.

...doomed to wander the dark void of non-existence for all eternity.

Unless I'm mistaken you seemed to be questioning what the "point of it all" is if you're going to die someday. I was merely making the point that there is purpose & meaning to life, but it's up to individuals to find what that is for themselves, & that the "point of it all" is found in purpose & meaning for many people. As a species we've proven time & time again that we search for & seek out purpose & meaning, although I'm sure that a great many people live a purposeless life by choice & are quite happy.

Yes, we'll all be gone by the time our doomed Earth is pretty much vaporized, but I was also attempting to convey the thought of looking at the bigger picture as it relates to purpose & meaning & what the "point of it all" is. I guess you could always adhere to the nihilistic point of view if that's what you want to do.

Death is a permanent sleep without dreaming, without feeling & without being. You won't be conscious of the fact that you're dead, so there's nothing for you to wrap your head around. Did you ever have one of those dreamless nights where you didn't dream anything at all? When you wake up from a dreamless night's sleep all you remember is laying down to go to bed & then waking up. You don't remember anything at all in between the time you fell asleep & the time you woke up. No dreams at all, it's just a blank blackness. Well, that time in between is what death is going to be like, a permanent nothingness that is completely void of consciousness. It's that simple, nothing to "come to terms with."

“There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.”

[VictoryAtNight]

I just saw the postal truck at my neighbors house. It looks like USPS is working on Thanksgiving, too.

[boringperson]

[Show spoiler]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Have you accepted the fact that one day you’re going to die?

Even though the logical part of my brain knows it’s going to happen, I don’t think I’ve really come to terms with the fact that no matter what I do I’m going to die.

I can’t really wrap my head around it.

Could be 30 years from now, could be next week...could be ten minutes from now.

But it’s going to happen.

Lost in time like tears in rain.

Never to be seen or heard from again.

As though I never existed in the first place.

...and what was the point of it all?

[Show spoiler]

[Bradsdadg]

There's too many BF sales going on right now. I can't stretch my wallet to most of em. Ah hell, what a thing to complain about

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by sk33tr

man.....i could really go for some authentic mexican.

As opposed to fake :Mexican? Like Chipotle?

[BucketheadPikes]

"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turned out after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Bradsdadg

There's too many BF sales going on right now. I can't stretch my wallet to most of em. Ah hell, what a thing to complain about

The B2G1 Steelbook sale is pulling me in. I've already spent so much.