Strega

Thanks, Reg!

What if ones goal is to be a perfect serial killer?

Seriously, using the term ‘thrive’ is like using a blank card that you declare anything you like to be written on it.  It’s a contextual term that doesn’t have specific meaning between contexts.

I’m still waiting to hear why ‘meaning’ has any significance to survival and species prol…[Read more]

@simonpaynton

”Without meaning, life is meaningless”

Was this statement worth the font it was written in?  It’s more fun to note that without Ruth, life is ruthless.

I don’t have an award for stating the obvious, but if I did, I’d be awarding it for that one

Thanks for Kiva, Reg. Good website.

@simonpaynton Re meaning or lack thereof.

Who do you want to matter to?  Why do you want to matter? Why do you feel your life ought to have meaning? Where does the desire for meaning come from?

Bloody hell!

Thanks, Reg!  Snowed in, here. Nice to have some quiet reading today. Plow guys nowhere to be seen as 15” snow buries the garden and driveway.

Thanks, Reg!

Simon, if Jesus existed at all, he died before the religion was created.  Poor old J was simply a tool for the creation of Christianity and the controlling of the people and the nations.  This part is history. You can read all about it from many, many sources.

The Jesus was the token with which Christianity was designed and imposed, using the a…[Read more]

There’s a biological pressure to reproduce, Simon.  Once we are no longer able to reproduce, biology is quite relaxed about whether we thrive or don’t.  Try shifting your perspective a little.  The only thing that’s inherently biological is our need to reproduce.  DNA needs to replicate and mutate. All the rest is just bullshit stuff to occupy ou…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

“Who would want to be morally perfect?”

I once had a watchmaker try to sell me a $10,000 watch.  I suggested for that money I could fly to Hong Kong, stay in the finest hotel, and have an identical one forged for me before returning first class to the UK. He told me the watch was accurate to the extent it would lose 0.001 seconds over twenty year…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Thanks, Reg!