Furlosophy: A Thinking Thread

[Ryouko]

I get a lot of smiles, high-fives, and even a couple of kids wanting to feel my ears or tail, but more people just giving me questionable stares.

[Cecilia Peromi]

You can't let them get to you. You know what you're doing, and you know that most people don't understand. But you understand, and that's all that matters. Do what makes you happy.

[Salakar Crocoli]

Have you eber been in a super serious conversation, then someone slips on their words and that brings an image to your head that makes you die with laughter?

[Cecilia Peromi]

No, but that sounds funny.

[Salakar Crocoli]

Back to furlosophy. What do you think of the afterlife/death? Do you think there is something?

I personally think that there isn't, but I think that the most believable afterlife is reincarnation. I think that there is no point to souls if you jave to make a new soul everytime someone is born. It would make more sense to reincarnate people and recycle souls. Maybe something else that could happen is that your personality is just part of a soul, and that is extracted and put in an afterlife while the "core" (the part that makes something alive) of the soul is returned to develop a new personality, which would severely cut down on time spent making souls.

I like to think that it is possible to have something after death to make myself less afraid of it, but I think that death is probably the ultimate end. Another thing that doesn't add up is God. It isn't enough to just believe in him, you have to worship him every week to get into his special club. And I don't understand why so many Christians/Catholics think that there can be no morals without a supreme being. I am not an atheist or Cristian, or Catholic.

I am not trying to attack anyone's religion here, I am simply stating the thungs I believe about the world, and things that don't make sense to me. If you have an explanation for these things, then I am all ears.

[Cecilia Peromi]

I believe in god. I don't read the bible or go to church every Sunday but I still believe in god, I know that he loves everyone and because of his love we all experience the peace of afterlife. Now what the afterlife actually is, I don't know, no one knows for sure. But I have faith that it exists, and that's all you need. This is what I believe, and I don't think I'm right or anything. It's just what I believe.

[Salakar Crocoli]

Many things that are required for our survival seem too convenient unless there is a multiverse or god set up our universe. Speaking of the multiverse, it is kind of fun to think about. Each universe has natural laws tuat are slightly, or not so slightly, off from the ones next to it. Imagine trying to move from one to the other. Any space ship we could make would probably just fold up like a tin can when it crossed that border. Or, maybe it is not so sudden and the people flying the spaceship would be able to notice and turn around before they died.

Now imagine what those other universes look like. The shapes of the planets, the stars, and even the galaxies woupd look completely different from here. Like if pi was 3.16 like the Egyptions thought. What kind of circles would that make? What if gravity worked different? What if? That is all I can ask. There are so many possibilities in a multiverse, but we can only sit here on our tiny rock and think "What if". I want to be able to see these things, but it will most likely not be possible in my lifetime, or in anyone's lifetime.

[Cecilia Peromi]

That's what I love the most about the multiverse. Just think of something, anything, and there's a 100% chance that that thing exists somewhere.

[Salakar Crocoli]

I'm kind of disappointed that this thread hasn't been responded to again, so I'm gonna give it a quick revive with: How crazy should crazy be? What level of mental disorder should a person need to reach to be put in an asylum/mental rehabilitation center? Where should the law draw the line between sanity and insanity? How many ways do I have to phrase this before I am satisfied that I got my message across? Infinite.

[Cecilia Peromi]

The way I see it is that great ideas don't come around as often as you think.

Now about the mental illnesses thing: When someone acts in a way that presents a potential danger to themselves or others, that is when action needs to be taken. You can do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anyone or anything. Now the people who ARE mentally ill in that fashion shouldn't be locked up like a prisoner. Instead they should just be placed in an environment where they are safe.

If the world was perfect, that's how I see us handling mental illnesses. But unfortunately that just isn't true...

[SapiensUrsus]

Sorry to bring up something from two weeks ago, but I feel I have something legitimately unique to add on the death subject. 'Cause I'm morbid, I guess. As I've grown up, I've become fully aware of my utterly strange relationship with mortality, and, as is usual for me, I'll disseminate my opinion in a jumbled mess.


I've run a gamut of emotions with death; I used to be DEATH-ly afraid of it.  Lately I've transitioned from complete fear to complete acceptance, because I don't slowly shift, I go all in or don't go at all, for some odd reason.


 In short: I don't believe in souls, or an afterlife, or reincarnation,Though reincarnation is a wonderful concept. I want to actually be a bear) the reason being I see no particular evidence for any of them. The tricky part of that is they're all unfalsifiable hypotheses.
So from my point of view: Death is the end of our being. But I see no reason to fear it. Death isn't goos, it isn't bad, it just is.
While it is the end of being, death doesn't necessarily destroy everything. Hell, people still know the name of Khufu just 'cause he built a giant tomb 4500 years ago. I think in a way we always live in, be it through our descendants or our works.


Edit: I made typos. Now they're gone, maybe.

 

Post Merge: June 29, 2016, 06:44:21 PMCrazy should be allow to be as crazy as it wants, until it hurts someone else against their consent.


Or hurts an animal. Because they can't give proper consent.


If someone wants to go thinking that they're George III, King of Great Britain. Fine. You go do that, George.
If someone wants to make a painting out of their blood and scream about how they're a living god. Fine.


Just so long as they don't physically hurt anyone. 

[Cecilia Peromi]

That's a good way to look at things Sapiens. Immortality is achieved by being remembered. I don't mean doing something big and wonderful, although that does work. A good way to be remembered is to do good in the world, even the tiniest deed is remembered and appreciated.

[Styxx Von Doom]

But as time passes your memory will fade, just like stone Mountains will become tiny specks of sand, everything is finite. Call it a negative way of thinking. But it is simply put an absolute truth.

[Cecilia Peromi]

That's why it's good to help people out of your own will. In the end it doesn't really matter, but you'll feel good, and tiny things can cause big changes.

[Salakar Crocoli]

Relationships are kind of... weird. For example: you go up to some random person, ask them if they will accept an arbitrary label that attaches them to you and BAM, you're dating. It kind of doesn't make sense to me, but it's something that everyone just accepts as part of life.