Things that make you LoL (Part 3)

[Libertad]

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[Libertad]

The Disney Channel.

[Kethrian]

The Disney Channel.

That's not available to view here in Canada 

[Jackinthegreen]

The Disney Channel.

That's not available to view here in Canada 

It's a lawn gnome puking a rainbow for 35 seconds or so with cutesy music in the background.  And at the end of the puke out comes the Disney logo.

[dirkformica]

I honestly expected it to be 2-2 right now, because these teams always win home games.  But that's okay, San Jose's going to win on Sunday.

About that...

[phaedrusxy]

The Disney Channel.

That's not available to view here in Canada 

It's a lawn gnome puking a rainbow for 35 seconds or so with cutesy music in the background.  And at the end of the puke out comes the Disney logo.

The lost 8th dwarf, Drunky, who died of cirrhosis before Snow White ever encountered his brothers...

[Amechra]

"That's not alcohol, that's his magic bottle that makes all his problems go away!"

[bhu]

"God I would hate to see what that Gnome pees...."

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http://www.pinterest.com/pin/378443174907989701/

[bhu]

http://cheezburger.com/8168498688

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3346#comic

[Libertad]

[Raineh Daze]

The pointlessness of humanity and the fact we keep going anyway.

[Libertad]

The pointlessness of humanity and the fact we keep going anyway.

On a more serious note, I believe that death can give our lives meaning.  We don't really know for sure what lies beyond, but the possibility of an end can spur us on to accomplish things within our lifetime.

Or maybe we're just stringed instruments waiting to be played...

[Raineh Daze]

An end can't give meaning, just an incentive. And things don't need to end to have some sort of meaning.

[Kuroimaken]

Things that do go on forever end up taken for granted though.

Michael Jackson's death wouldn't have been such a shock if we assumed he'd never die.

[Amechra]

Endings do not supply a meaning (meaning is an extrinsic property; you, as the observer, supply it to allow you to understand your observations.); instead, an ending supplies differentiation and a place for renewal.

Each caesura is just that, a pause; the world continues, because it does not care. Live or die, suffering or bliss; the world is impartial. Meaning is just a property we throw together to shield ourselves from the fact that the world doesn't care.

It would be a terrible world that cared.

It would be a terrible world without endings.

[Raineh Daze]

It would be a terrible world that cared.

It would be a terrible world without endings.

I disagree on both counts. That's just sour grapes.

[Amechra]

Of course they are; I like my wine with a tang. 

More seriously, like it or not, we are designed to incorporate death.

We can't even eat without something else dying or losing the potential for life. Each movement of your muscles tears through muscle fiber, which then regrow stronger; your cells are killed systematically and continually so you can grow.

The thing to remember is that death isn't a bad thing; you need it to prevent stagnation, and as a release for suffering. Now, are there unnecessary, wrongful deaths? Yes, far too many.

As for a world that cares... take your opinions. Now make some of them objectively wrong. Now make them inarguable, because the set-up of the world means that such things have inherent, inarguable meanings. Again, I believe it would be a terrible world that cared; I vastly prefer a world that supplies the whats and hows but not the whys.

(Mods... perhaps fork this, if it is going to become a discussion?)

[Raineh Daze]

But your entire argument amounts to 'this is the way things are, thus it is clearly better than the alternative'. Without being able to spend as much time in the alternative as you have this, from the same starting perspective, all conclusions just amount to attempts to console ourselves about how all the bad or annoying things are actually good.

Humanity is such a silly thing.