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Someone please tell me what the hell is the point of anything?

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  • #21
    Originally posted by Arvestaked Are your school mates too young for you because you feel they are immature though they are you age or did you go into school late?

    I know I have a problem seeing my peers as equals and always tend to gravitate toward older people. Unfortunatley, women tend not to date younger men.
    I fear if I answer your question i'm going to be bombarded with suggestions that I private message you instead in order to spare the other forumers from being bored to death.

    Oh well, i'll answer it anyway.

    I am not that much older than my school peers, age-wise. Actually there are a few in my class who are older than me. But this being a community college class I am taking it is filled with people who either have just started taking college courses after high school, or have been stuck there for a while still getting through their AA degrees, or have decided to take a second career and need to start back from square one. As for me, I guess I tend to be a 'snob' school-wise because I graduated from usc when I was 20 and am now just taking extra classes that will look good on my graduate school resume. Hence, they are 'younger' than me maturity-wise, 'place in their life'-wise, not necessariy age-wise. Age is all relative anyway. Isn't it?

    Yeah, I know guys, booooooooooring. Sorry!
    The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    • #22
      It's not boring at all.
      Again I have very similar feelings though I am actually a highschool drop-out and a college drop out.
      Don't completely underestimate who's around you. I'm guilty of that and it has backfired. When I went to CC I was there for reasons like those you mentioned but who is to say there aren't people there that are like me.
      Congratulations on your academic success, by the way. Where will you attend graduate school and what will you study?

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      • #23
        Ck, in response to your initial post...

        That is the age old question. What's the point of life? I ask that to myself every single day. As Arvestaked so bluntly pointed out, the point of life is reproduction. So what happens when you DO find that special someone? You're bound to ask this question at some time after that also. You see, we as humans are blessed and doomed at the same time. We understand and question and ponder on things that simpler animals do not, such as the point of life and death.

        The thing is, if you look at life from an objective point of view (birth > struggle > reproduction > struggle > death), you're bound to lose interest. If you want to be logical about it, suicide is the way. Wow, I'm sounding more morbid by the second . The trick is to look at it from the subjective perspective. Suicide is also the way for the weak.

        Now we may never know if there is that extra reason for us being here on earth. Unfortunate for us, we have not yet found it, but if we do, I fear it will be worse...for knowledge is a curse. The more you know and understand, the more miserable you become, such as my animal example.

        Whatever we have, we always want more - human nature at its finest. So what is going to happen after we accomplish all that we ever desired to accomplish (successful career, finding a mate, having kids, raising those kids, etc...)?

        I know that my response is not the most joyful one, but I didn't feel like sugar-coating it, hehehe. Anyway, enjoy what life has to offer. Enjoy today, not the promise of tomorrow, for it might not be there. Although I give you this advice, I have yet to follow it myself .

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        • #24
          Arvestaked... I don't underestimate them. What I meant really was that they all seem to be very geared towards getting good grades, like I was when I did the undergrad thing. Whereas I am now at the stage where I would much rather go out than spend an extra few hours studying in order to get an A instead of an A-. Make sense?
          Anyway I am only taking one class, 90% of which is filled with girls.

          I think success in school is not the greatest thing ever. There is one girl in the class who is 24 and has been around the world and experienced so much, and in my opinion achieved much more that I have done because all I did was stick it out through some difficult classes. I'm sure there are plenty more like her there too. I think the school/educational experience can not be compared to the experience you get outside of the classroom. I much more value the willingness that certain people have to learn things, than I value intelligence. Some people test well and are book smart. Who cares when they don't have the ability to interact well outside of the classroom. right?. Anyone can pick up a book and memorize a few lines if they really need/want to. I can honestly say that even though I am in the field I studied in college, the only thing the four years of school taught me were how to study and manage my time (and I STILL suck at that, look I'm still posting instead of studying), and how to interact in interpersonal/social relationships. Everything I do at work I learned at work.

          Anyway. I lost my train of thought and I have to go. I will try to answer your question later....
          The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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          • #25
            Originally posted by ckBejug I can honestly say that even though I am in the field I studied in college, the only thing the four years of school taught me were how to study and manage my time (and I STILL suck at that, look I'm still posting instead of studying), and how to interact in interpersonal/social relationships. Everything I do at work I learned at work.
            I really like this...SO DAMN TRUE! My dad told me the same exact thing about how he acquired knowledge for his job, and what college really taught him.

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            • #26
              Thanks people. That was insightful. Bye now....
              The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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              • #27
                The only thing I can tell you is that the point begins with the self, self development, self realization, and spiritual transcendence.

                FOCK DA REST MON!
                Achkerov kute.

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                • #28
                  Have you ever just not wanted to BE anymore? Escape it all and disappear into a vast nothingness where you didn't have to see people, but you didn't have to be alone, or worry about bills you can't pay, or do any kind of homework/studying at all? Where you could just be minus everything that sucks here. Where there was no one to miss and no one else to constantly annoy you and you didn't have to live a lie of trying to be perfect and pleasing every one all the time when you know in your heart you're not anywhere near perfect? Where you could be yourself by actually finding out who that self really was living inside of you? Where you didn't have to get up and be bothered by anything, where life didn't make sense because there was nothing to make sense of? Where you could escape pain and worry and loneliness and fear and venture off into nothing at all? Where you didn't have to wait to be happy because there was nothing to be happy for?

                  Sometimes when things seem overwhelming and hopeless and bad I find myself in a 'wishing the world would be consumed in a ball of flames' mood. How sad.
                  The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by ckBejug Have you ever just not wanted to BE anymore? Escape it all and disappear into a vast nothingness where you didn't have to see people, but you didn't have to be alone, or worry about bills you can't pay, or do any kind of homework/studying at all? Where you could just be minus everything that sucks here. Where there was no one to miss and no one else to constantly annoy you and you didn't have to live a lie of trying to be perfect and pleasing every one all the time when you know in your heart you're not anywhere near perfect? Where you could be yourself by actually finding out who that self really was living inside of you? Where you didn't have to get up and be bothered by anything, where life didn't make sense because there was nothing to make sense of? Where you could escape pain and worry and loneliness and fear and venture off into nothing at all? Where you didn't have to wait to be happy because there was nothing to be happy for?
                    I'm willing to bet that you just unknowingly described death, hehehe.

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by sSsflamesSs I'm willing to bet that you just unknowingly described death, hehehe.
                      Except for this part "Where you could be yourself by actually finding out who that self really was living inside of you?" Because I guess after death we're not conscious enough to figure that out

                      Maybe what's called for is a little less death, a little more vacation from life. Why can't we do that, bombarded with, yech, responsibility as we are. No time to take a break from life. Sheesh.
                      The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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