- me: tell me
- what's the meaning of life
- Kevin: i've told you this before
- 2 tiered philosophy
- on the base layer
- the universe is meaningless
- there is no right
- no wrong
- me: this is good
- go on
- Kevin: everything is meaningless
- ok?
- that said, as fairly conscious beings we want to have something resembling reason to live
- i use this comparison
- say you got jumped, blindfolded, and drugged
- next thing you know you're shoved out of a helicopter or something and you wake up in the middle of a huge body of water
- in all directions all you can see is water
- and you have no idea what way the helicopter went
- so, basically, you're fucked
- that said, you want to live
- so you gotta decide what to do
- and thus you construct a reason to go in one direction
- maybe you think the water looks shallower in one way
- or you think those clouds in the sky are clumping around an island mountain
- whatever
- who knows?
- you just come up with a reason to go in some particular way
- me: ok different but related question
- Kevin: and you run with it
- hang on
- i think humanity is like that
- me: sorry
- Kevin: we're in a massive ocean
- with no fucking clue what is going on
- but we need to have SOME direction
- so we create a fake island, or fake shallow water, or whatever
- to give us that hope
- and those fallacies are the basis for social contracts
- fake morality
- fake truth
- me: social constructs?
- like spelling?
- idiot
- Kevin: no, fucker
- CONTRACTS
- me: haha
I played Starcraft under the alias smalter.
I live in New York City.
I read email sent to smalter at gmail dot com.
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2009-11-12
