[Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

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On 05/09/2017 06:33 AM, mike.valk at gmail.com wrote:
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> 2017-05-09 11:48 GMT+02:00 mike.valk at gmail.com
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>     2017-05-09 10:45 GMT+02:00 Lyberta <lyberta at lyberta.net
>     <mailto:lyberta at lyberta.net>>:
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>         doark at mail.com <mailto:doark at mail.com>:
>         > I think you're caught in the same trap, unable to realize
>         your own
>         > potential for lack of a moral standard (it also suffers as a
>         result of
>         > an Atheistic philosophy), and unable to accept a pointless
>         existence.
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>         When I was 19, I was in a very bad situation. Everything I've ever
>         believed in was false. So I've spent the next 6 months looking for
>         truth. Thankfully, I have dropped out of college by this time
>         so I had
>         time to investigate.
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>         And in one moment it dawned upon me. There is no truth.
>         Everything is
>         relative. People invent their own truth and start believing in
>         it. So if
>         I want to stay unshackled I must not believe in anything.
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>     There are many truths but non come close to reality.
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>         The next thing was supposed to be suicide but I couldn't do
>         it. I don't
>         know the future and I don't know what will happen when I die.
>         In fact,
>         I'm trapped inside my own consciousness and by definition
>         can't escape
>         it and see the truth. Remember Plato's allegory of the cave?
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>         Another thing that bugs me is, since I don't believe in
>         anything, I also
>         don't believe in science. I can't predict what's gonna happen
>         in the
>         next moment. Every once in a while I get in this state of mind
>         where I
>         understand that I understand nothing.
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>     Believe that you are here. Your time here is brief. Enjoy it while
>     you can.
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>         > In any and all cases I think you might enjoy a book that is
>         eyeopening,
>         > insightful and uplifting, with respect to the world around
>         you, as
>         > opposed to your more dreary, despairing, world view.
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>         I was forced to read books at school and this gave a huge
>         hatred for
>         them. I remember I've tried to read a fiction book at psychiatric
>         hospital and after the 1st paragraph I was so enraged that I
>         quickly put
>         it away. Though this mostly applies to fiction.
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>     You can't control anything but a small part of yourself. 
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>     You do however have a choice. Not making a choice is a choice itself. 
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>     The're is no thing in this world that you must but one thing:
>     Undergo the results of your choice.
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>     Getting enraged by books is a choice.
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>     Don't get overwhelmed. When that happens you'll panic and reason
>     will vacate your mind.
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>     You are allowed to believe in things that are not real.
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>     Science is not a fixed thing. It's an ever changing truth towards
>     reality. 
>     http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
>     <http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm>
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> Found a more complete one:
> http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
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>     Religions mostly advocate absolute truth. There is no absolute truth.
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That I believe is an opinion, but the advice below is excellent.


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>     Sience is knowing that your viewing the universe through a keyhole
>     and you are probably be wrong in your assessment of what you see.
>
Except you spelled science wrong ;P

just pointing out for fun. ;)

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>     Accept that you'll need to base your choices on what you know now.
>     You cannot make choices based on things you might come to know.
>
>     Relax and live. It is worth your time. Don't anger yourself on
>     ignorance of others. But don't think you are above another. We're
>     all different. Be proud of it.
>
>     This life might just be a test for the next. And the more/fuller
>     you live the bigger your obstacles you must overcome. At least
>     that's how I see it.
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