Nathan, you shall never grok these things. Simply examine the answers above. You are dealing with humanity, and that is nearly ungrokkable.

[djskrimp]

Goddamned "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Anyway, there are 6 billion people on this planet alone, Nathan. Of that number, there's SURE to be quite a large number of them who know something I don't. But....there are things I know that they don't. A certain smile on the face of a friend when sharing a secret moment, the laughter of someone who is unencumbered by outside influences and I get to witness that, the sunrise that looks just SO over the Pacific on the 4th of July. Known or unknown, you have a finite time to see, learn and do. You can waste it wondering about all that you don't know, or you could go out and learn. I choose the latter as often as I can.

"We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. Then there comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift."
-Kevin Spacey as David Gale in "The Life of David Gale."

"We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. Then there comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift."
-Kevin Spacey as David Gale in "The Life of David Gale."

Holy shit, this person is the only one who has NOT presented some form of narcissistic, cling to life view of humanity.

Death is death.

He groks.

We are part of the one existence, spirit of the universe. Unlock it inside you, turn it on and don't be outside, be a part of it.

Revolution of consciousness is needed on the entire earth. People should demand answers from the goverment. Those bastards know about life on another planets from years, but they're afraid to tell you that, so they can keep control.

What keeps us feel like in prison is their lies and our ignorance.

[swervedriver]

*passes out tin foil hats to everyone*

*passes out tin foil hats to everyone*

Thanks. I was getting a little edgy as I had just ripped a hole in my tin foil hat.

*passes out tin foil hats to everyone*

Thanks. I was getting a little edgy as I had just ripped a hole in my tin foil hat.

Well now, you need to quit using the cheap stuff!

Hey Nathan *waves*
Life isn't insignificant or unimportant when you're playing bass and guitar!
Never stop asking questions, even if they're unanswerable at the moment. Sometimes those questions lead you to new discoveries, or epiphanies - you could be the next Carl Sagan, Nathan. You never know. Living life to the fullest and in the best way possible is all anyone can do.
Long after we are gone or the sun has exploded, or what ever will happen... you will have been an important piece of the human puzzle if that makes any sense

EDIT: Tinfoil hats? This is turning a little X-Files, eh?

Long after we are gone or the sun has exploded, or what ever will happen... you will have been an important piece of the human puzzle

A puzzle which will have been eradicated by said explosion, or the big crunch, or the big rip, or the big freeze, or whatever the ultimate fate of the universe is.

Long after we are gone or the sun has exploded, or what ever will happen... you will have been an important piece of the human puzzle

A puzzle which will have been eradicated by said explosion, or the big crunch, or the big rip, or the big freeze, or whatever the ultimate fate of the universe is.

The big rip? That sounds unnervingly painful.

On a serious note on coping with the universe, I tend to think along the lines of this.

To our knowledge, we as humans are comprised of everything. The stars, the sun, the dust from space, the earth and lava beneath our feet, the air we breath, the things we touch, eat, drink, the people we meet, the things we do. In many ways, they make what we are, both inside and out. We are all made of everything phyiscally, and all contain a little of the "God Molecule" that scientists feverishly search for. Even in teh smallest way, there is a little bit in you that helped build the universe. Later on, it will help build another person, and they themselves, just like you and I and any other, will be as complicated, deep, mysterious, blatent, loud, quiet, subtle, threatening, destructive, submissive, beautiful, ugly, true and false as any universe, be they the big sky above us, or the little ones we hold in ourselves. The soul, the driving spirit, the darkness behind the eyes. When you feel the weight of everything crushing down on you, you crush right back, becuase you're as big as anything else. Infinite ends and infinite beginnings, man, infinite ends and infinite beginnings.

That's about as philosophical I'm gonna get on the internet.

Goddamned "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Anyway, there are 6 billion people on this planet alone, Nathan. Of that number, there's SURE to be quite a large number of them who know something I don't. But....there are things I know that they don't. A certain smile on the face of a friend when sharing a secret moment, the laughter of someone who is unencumbered by outside influences and I get to witness that, the sunrise that looks just SO over the Pacific on the 4th of July. Known or unknown, you have a finite time to see, learn and do. You can waste it wondering about all that you don't know, or you could go out and learn. I choose the latter as often as I can.

+1

My best friends' wife just found out she has a brain tumor. She just turned 40.
Enjoy those you love. The rest is just speculation.

But it is fascinating...

Death is death.

True enough...we all have to realize as well, that most to all things in life are transitory.

Goddamned "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Don't you love how the guy who wrote "Starship troopers" wrote THAT as well?

I forgot to wrote to Nathan: that wasn't tl;dr at all, that was good. Even if bit overambitious, isn't that too early to start wondering about life, universe and everything?