Consumer Electronics What is life?

[treefingers]

What's the point? Why am I here?

Why are why? Who is what? And what is who? and what is life?

 

[Poseidon]

Baby don't hurt me

 

[Big Cox 88]

don't hurt me no more

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

What is life ?

Just waking up the next day for a start.

All of us are just baton passers in the human relay , so dont drop your baton.

Those before you managed to pass the baton onto you and those further down the track are counting on you to do the same and manage to pass the baton onto them.

 

[skilts]

What's the point? Why am I here?

Why are why? Who is what? And what is who? and what is life?

Questions more fruitfully asked of yourself.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

 

[Plugger35]

Thread is now about the Night At The Roxbury dudes, funny movie that one.

 

[Gough]

It's what you make of it.

 

[The Passenger]

life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead!

 

[Northworth]

comfortable shoes

 

[rayven]

I knew this bloke, his job in another states hospital was cutting up dead people to find there cause of death. The amount of people who died from smoking cigarettes was astounding, but they weren't allowed to say nothing. saw lots of other stuff kept quiet. Guy had issues with this, eventually packed his job in and become a cranky ol drunk, drifting from town to town chasing his kids to eventually landing somewhere. It didn't help that the mother of his kids was a **** who if he wouldn't provide her with more maintenance than required, she'd deny him access.

Anyway, smoking eventually killed him, but right up to the day he died, he kept learning, even though for 2 years he knew he was dead, kept it from everyone. Still he was cranky,rude,short tempered but considerate and thankful.He kept learning, kept trying to improve his character, right till the day he died of about 10 different cancers.

He eventually shacked up with for the last 15 years of his life a woman that was bout 12 roos short in the top paddock, looked after her, provider her with a roof and stability. They had nothing in common, his intellect was say the size of a football field, hers the bath in the changing room at said football field. He knew some rotten prick would take advantage of her if he didn't...as they already had

He kept plodding on, no matter what, kept being noble and honorable,chivalrous and kind but always fukin cranky..

he taught so more more in death, by the way he lived.

 

[skilts]

I knew this bloke, his job in another states hospital was cutting up dead people to find there cause of death. The amount of people who died from smoking cigarettes was astounding, but they weren't allowed to say nothing. saw lots of other stuff kept quiet. Guy had issues with this, eventually packed his job in and become a cranky ol drunk.

This part of your post is an uncannily accurate description of my best mate. He too has a gargantuan mind and has taught me lots. He too did that necessary job nobody else wanted to do, by dealing with human detritus at the coroner's court, and in the Air Force, during the Vietnam War. He saw the worst of the worst. He walked out of the coroner's court when they insisted that he attend the autopsy of one of his best friends, who'd sat in a bath and blown her head off with a shotgun.

If there be one, maybe life is given a meaning because most people choose not to exercise this readily-available option.

What you have written in the rest of your post gives lie to the assumption most people would have succumbed to about your friend - that his life was wasted, useless and an object of pity, from those who knew him less well than you did.

Similarly, one never knows the effect one has on others lives. Oh, we all know when we've shit on somebody, but people rarely mention the positive outcomes which might arise out of meeting 'the other'. We are a strangely negative bunch sometimes, and usually unaware of this aspect of our character, though to say we wallow in it would be too strong a phrase to describe it.

 

[Northworth]

This part of your post is an uncannily accurate description of my best mate. He too has a gargantuan mind and has taught me lots. He too did that necessary job nobody else wanted to do, by dealing with human detritus at the coroner's court, and in the Air Force, during the Vietnam War. He saw the worst of the worst. He walked out of the coroner's court when they insisted that he attend the autopsy of one of his best friends, who'd sat in a bath and blown her head off with a shotgun.

If there be one, maybe life is given a meaning because most people choose not to exercise this readily-available option.

What you have written in the rest of your post gives lie to the assumption most people would have succumbed to about your friend - that his life was wasted, useless and an object of pity, from those who knew him less well than you did.

Similarly, one never knows the effect one has on others lives. Oh, we all know when we've shit on somebody, but people rarely mention the positive outcomes which might arise out of meeting 'the other'. We are a strangely negative bunch sometimes, and usually unaware of this aspect of our character, though to say we wallow in it would be too strong a phrase to describe it.

I am quoting this because it deserves to be read twice

thank you for posting it

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

What's the point?

Why am I here?

Why are why? Who is what? And what is who? and what is life?

We are here to be absurd heroes.

http://evankozierachi.com/uploads/Myth_of_Sisyphus_by_Albert_Camus.pdf

 

[Cruyff14]

What you make it.

 

[skilts]

We are here to be absurd heroes.

http://evankozierachi.com/uploads/Myth_of_Sisyphus_by_Albert_Camus.pdf

Surely one of the acutest minds of the 20th Cent., if not all others. Such insight into the human condition. Such clinical precision of thought. Not bad for a journalist.

Edit: Despite all this, I'm led to believe he was in awe of the superior skills of his profession displayed by Caroline Wilson and Andrew Bolt, as he might well have been.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

A definite hero of mine.

 

[skilts]

A definite hero of mine.

It would appear your red card extends no further than the North Board. Our gain, their loss. Gee you must have pissed some people off there. I haven't posted on the Brisbane Board for five years. Welcome to the club.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

I appear to have taken on the form of bigfootys first official zombie.

 

[skilts]

I am quoting this because it deserves to be read twice

thank you for posting it

Now I'm blushing.

 

[skilts]

I appear to have taken on the form of bigfootys first official zombie.

None the worse for that.

 

[Marlowe]

It's a garden, dig it.

 

[mantis]

What's the point? Why am I here?

Why are why? Who is what? And what is who? and what is life?

Drugs are bad, mkay.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

it's something that happens between being born and dying. imo just do what makes you happy. unless its breaking the law or hurting someone etc etc