Deep Thoughts (shower thoughts ok too but no Pit stuff)

[BIG APPLE CAT]

I dunno about you guys, but I think lots of deep thoughts. Figured I would create a thread for others to share their deep thoughts, as well as giving others the opportunity to reflect and hopefully learn something.

I’ll get started with a topical one:
I wonder how many women flashed their boobs at mardis gras before everyone was like “yes this is just part of the celebration”

I guess that could apply to many instances of being the first person to do something. Like I bet the first guy to milk a cow, everybody probably thought that dude was a pervert.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

As a kid, I was pretty sure that quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle were things I was going to have to worry about. These have now been replaced with parasitic infections in the skin of the parineum

[DaBigTrain]

Pit thread? Nah this is gonna end up in Wackys World.

However. I do have deep thoughts on stuff all the time. Will be interested in seeing where this thread goes.

[Spracne]

What's the deal with soup and bread? Whether you put the bread in the soup or the soup in the bread, you still end up with the same thing: sloppy bread.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

What's the deal with soup and bread? Whether you put the bread in the soup or the soup in the bread, you still end up with the same thing: sloppy bread.

Given enough time, everything has an entropy of 0

[Spracne]

Right. I often have deep thoughts about the inevitable heat death of the Universe.

[star seed 7]

Is it true that if you don't use it you'll lose it?

[Katpappy]

I dunno about you guys, but I think lots of deep thoughts. Figured I would create a thread for others to share their deep thoughts, as well as giving others the opportunity to reflect and hopefully learn something.

I’ll get started with a topical one:
I wonder how many women flashed their boobs at mardis gras before everyone was like “yes this is just part of the celebration”

I guess that could apply to many instances of being the first person to do something. Like I bet the first guy to milk a cow, everybody probably thought that dude was a pervert.

Pretty sure goats were milked way before cows.  This brings up a deep thought about which event came first, goat roping or goat milking?

[Katpappy]

As a kid, I was pretty sure that quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle were things I was going to have to worry about. These have now been replaced with parasitic infections in the skin of the parineum

Your deep thought has made me remember as a kid I quit fishing catfish and peeing in the water after discovering candiru, sometimes known as the “penis fish,” a small Amazonian catfish. It's reported to lodge itself in the urethra of people who may be urinating in the water.

[DaBigTrain]

As a kid, I was pretty sure that quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle were things I was going to have to worry about. These have now been replaced with parasitic infections in the skin of the parineum

Your deep thought has made me remember as a kid I quit fishing catfish and peeing in the water after discovering candiru, sometimes known as the “penis fish,” a small Amazonian catfish. It's reported to lodge itself in the urethra of people who may be urinating in the water.

Katpappy no!

[Katpappy]

As a kid, I was pretty sure that quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle were things I was going to have to worry about. These have now been replaced with parasitic infections in the skin of the parineum

Your deep thought has made me remember as a kid I quit fishing catfish and peeing in the water after discovering candiru, sometimes known as the “penis fish,” a small Amazonian catfish. It's reported to lodge itself in the urethra of people who may be urinating in the water.

Katpappy no!

Hey Big Train, WTF?

[Pete]

What it MIGHT be like when we die, is what it's like when you are under anesthesia.  During that time you are under, did you have any memories or perceive the passage of time?  I have been placed under anesthesia and have no memories and I did not experience the passage of time. 

That's what non-existence "feels" like.  Of course non-existence cannot be experienced, but you get the point.

If THAT is what happens when you die, then death is not a misfortune for the person who dies (cannot perceive anything). It is a misfortune for their loved ones though. 



I'm very much hoping for heaven, but it's nice to know that non-existence is there as a fallback plan.

[star seed 7]

My preference and belief is non-existence and I find that pretty comforting. I also think it's pretty cool that my body will be broken down and returned to the universe.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Pete I used to really struggle with the idea that my consciousness could ever cease to exist, like surely there must be an afterlife where my spirit goes…but then I remember that like, literally any night where I get a really good sleep and I don’t have any recollection of dreaming…I mean, that right there is like 8 hours where I have no account for anything that happened over that time. So if I can experience that in little 6-8 hour episodes then that makes me think it most definitely is possible that when we die our consciousness just legit is done

[Spracne]

My preference and belief is non-existence and I find that pretty comforting. I also think it's pretty cool that my body will be broken down and returned to the universe.

I'm with you brother 

[Katpappy]

My preference and belief is non-existence and I find that pretty comforting. I also think it's pretty cool that my body will be broken down and returned to the universe.

As God's religion tells us, "from dust we came and to dust we shall return".

[cfbandyman]

The concept of forever. Like, true forever, has always scared me. I guess I look to the futurama episode when they keep going so far into the future they "come back around" but it scares me.

I'm terrified of the void, the "end," the degradation of the universe and it's ultimate demise. I know I won't be around for it but I have that knee jerk, wide awake panic attack when thinking about the permanence of that. And even trying to assuage that with the thought of everlasting bliss in heaven seems, once again, scary cause how can you ever comprehend forever. What if it's actually not great, not actually good? I like that the Good Place explored that concept. IDK, just so hard to comprehend. I chalk it up to ultimately our mortal lives can only comprehend something with a beginning and an end, so not having that ultimately throws us off.

It really the last few months also pushed me out of a darker place, truly treat my time as more precious. I guess I see our lives like that futurama episode, we always come back around again, but it's so long in the time space everything is forgotten and it's new (to us) but the "forever" of time has washed away all concept of memory and we relive it again.

[Spracne]

The concept of forever. Like, true forever, has always scared me. I guess I look to the futurama episode when they keep going so far into the future they "come back around" but it scares me.

I'm terrified of the void, the "end," the degradation of the universe and it's ultimate demise. I know I won't be around for it but I have that knee jerk, wide awake panic attack when thinking about the permanence of that. And even trying to assuage that with the thought of everlasting bliss in heaven seems, once again, scary cause how can you ever comprehend forever. What if it's actually not great, not actually good? I like that the Good Place explored that concept. IDK, just so hard to comprehend. I chalk it up to ultimately our mortal lives can only comprehend something with a beginning and an end, so not having that ultimately throws us off.

It really the last few months also pushed me out of a darker place, truly treat my time as more precious. I guess I see our lives like that futurama episode, we always come back around again, but it's so long in the time space everything is forgotten and it's new (to us) but the "forever" of time has washed away all concept of memory and we relive it again.

When the inevitable heat death of the Universe occurs, time will cease to exist. Fear not, my friend. ~10^92 years is a long ways away.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&feature=shares

[BIG APPLE CAT]

Not sure this really qualifies as a deep thought per se, but the “all characters are fictional” disclaimer you see at the beginning of films/tv shows is a direct result of the plot to kill Rasputin and I think about that fact all the time

[Pete]

I’ve read sci-fi books of the concept of shared experience amongst a population (we all feel and share the pain or joy) that makes existence more pleasant. There are some that take it a step farther and have everyone assimilate into a single entity like the borg on Star Trek. One idea that seems cool to me is like the borg, but the shared knowledge is the entirety of the universe.  The higher power is this collective of everything that ever was and will be. It knows me like my grandfathers knew me, and every blade of grass I have ever walked on. Every star that was ever born or died. When my life ceases, my energy joins with that.

[Pete]

What if Jesus was just really terribly misquoted?  What if it is “whoever believes in THESE VALUES THAT I AM TEACHING shall not perish.” You think “God” needs to be “believed in” in a very specific fashion? Wouldn’t the omnipotent, omniscient one true god be secure enough to not need you to believe in it, and instead merely want you to believe in the principles of love and good orderly direction and want you to continue to strive to put those to work in your life?

Whoever practices these principles in this life will experience it to the fullest, and by doing so they will help enable others to do the same.  That is loving “God,” which is the sum of all things.

I am willing to gamble with my soul that this is more important than believing in a virgin birth and resurrection of a corpse.

[catastrophe]

What if Jesus was just really terribly misquoted?  What if it is “whoever believes in THESE VALUES THAT I AM TEACHING shall not perish.” You think “God” needs to be “believed in” in a very specific fashion? Wouldn’t the omnipotent, omniscient one true god be secure enough to not need you to believe in it, and instead merely want you to believe in the principles of love and good orderly direction and want you to continue to strive to put those to work in your life?

Whoever practices these principles in this life will experience it to the fullest, and by doing so they will help enable others to do the same.  That is loving “God,” which is the sum of all things.

I am willing to gamble with my soul that this is more important than believing in a virgin birth and resurrection of a corpse.

What would be the point of believing in Jesus at all if you were going to believe he was misquoted that badly?

[Pete]

Makes one wonder, doesn’t it.

[nicname]

What if Jesus was just really terribly misquoted?  What if it is “whoever believes in THESE VALUES THAT I AM TEACHING shall not perish.” You think “God” needs to be “believed in” in a very specific fashion? Wouldn’t the omnipotent, omniscient one true god be secure enough to not need you to believe in it, and instead merely want you to believe in the principles of love and good orderly direction and want you to continue to strive to put those to work in your life?

Whoever practices these principles in this life will experience it to the fullest, and by doing so they will help enable others to do the same.  That is loving “God,” which is the sum of all things.

I am willing to gamble with my soul that this is more important than believing in a virgin birth and resurrection of a corpse.

Non-dualism.

Christ’s teachings, Taoism, Plato and Proto Christians, Krishna and to an extent, the Stoics.  Krishna and the Indian Brahms as well I believe, but not really sure.

Kundalini Yoga and the Sacred Secretion take it a step further.

[catastrophe]

Makes one wonder, doesn’t it.

I mean, yeah. You’d basically be inventing a new religion. The Jesus in the Bible was incredibly clear about the supremacy of God.