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Related: About this forum"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
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"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal." (Original Post)
rug
Jan 2017
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uppityperson
(115,681 posts)1. Wrong. Be here now.
rug
(82,333 posts)2. I take it you like broccoli.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)3. Purple on Thursdays
rug
(82,333 posts)4. I had never heard of such a thing.
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)5. The Universe seems to have some kind of structure
And some kind of future. And it lives on after us.
Some people find some consolation in that.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)6. Beethoven lives!
No illusion. Unlike religion and all the visions of the virgin.
rug
(82,333 posts)7. Well, all I can say is that gif is one of the funniest things I've seen.
I thought the Sartre quote made it funnier but, there you go.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)8. Tell Dr. Flicker!
The universe will eventually have no structure due to entropy.
Well, it's possible it will "lay an egg" to create a new universe.
Sean Carroll explains after the 50-minute mark here:
rug
(82,333 posts)9. Brooklyn is not expanding!