Agent Swan

The universe wants to rest, but it never will. Hah...hahahaha.... Hahahahahahahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAH!

Well everyone likes a good story.

duhhh big glowing rock is god!

Do patterns really exist? We see things like the orbit of the moon around the Earth, for instance. It seems to repeat its 29 and a half day journey around the Earth, and seems to do so the same each time. But you know and I know it isn't the same each time. Every time it's a little different. If we sped up time, we'd see that it's not a perfect pattern at all, but just the path the Moon takes naturally on its collision course with Earth. What we see in daily life isn't regularity, but rather we are witnessing something change very slowly. It appears to us as patterns and cycles because it is useful to do that, but it actually isn't patterns and cycles. I mean, it kind of is, in that it undeniably has some rigid structure that guides its behavior. When you say "God" above, part of me feels like what you really mean by that is "the source of human consciousness". "Because the source of human consciousness speaks in patterns." you might have said... I agree with that broader statement. I think while patterns don't really exist, there is a sort of rhythm to nature to which organisms have tuned in. While the Moon never orbits the Earth in exactly the same amount of time it had previously, like down to the femtosecond or whatever, even in billions of years, the Moon obviously does orbit it over about the same amount of time. Consciousness, being a feature of organisms, allows them to utilize this approximate regularity via awareness. Organisms are good at this because they are hyper-regular things. Your heartbeat never beats the same twice, never sends blood in exactly the same way twice, but has flexed approximately the same way for your entire life so far. Over and over and over again--successive, similar activity. All of life is like this. I think we have a natural inclination to abstracting nature's activity into patterns. It allows us to turn the VAST INTERCONNECTED EVERYTHING in front of us into little, pliable nuggets. This is a PHONE. This is a KEYBOARD. I am in a HOUSE. These objects are (again, approximate) patterns of activity, just like a heartbeat or the Moon. A phone looks like it's a stable thing but it isn't. As we all know, it'll eventually fall apart simply due to the forces of nature abhoring such stability. This is one of the core reasons I'd assert there's no such thing as a perfect, stable pattern. Everything becomes something else, and a pattern is something that stays what it is.

@MurderSwan That’s a result of having pattern recognition, not the why. But yes.

The reason we have pattern recognition is because recognizing patterns allows us to manipulate our environment to our benefit.

I fear to witness what ineffable hyper-object might contest your thesis here. Everything in the universe is a tiny little island. Are there any continents?

idk if you guys knew this but every number is within all of nature, look it up it's true

Why does a wave break over the coastline? Why does a wolf hunt at night? Why does a tree sway in the wind?

Hahahaha. Yeah man, let's all just hang out and get high and talk to aliens in other dimensions and stuff. It'll be totally rad. No, man. Nothing is saving us but hard work and honesty.

@CopicSquiddo I've written actual serious literature about my appreciation for the female ass.

@MurderSwan And you cannot lie?

I like chicks with big butts because

It is only a download insofar as the source is necessarily elsewhere. It's almost as if there isn't even really a "self" to "store" the thought, and more like it's a pattern occuring in your brain that you can be aware of. Of course, the pattern started long ago. Very, very long ago. Is a download a download if nobody clicked 'download'? Or is it more like the program that's running already had a file in it, and we simply discover the file?

what do you think thoughts are

And if you hear THE CREED SHALL BE UNTIL THE STARS FALL you know it's too late to run.

@tendollardanny Um shut up I have been rejected enough times by human people that I'm firmly in the 'making sure my beliefs about morality, society, and religion make sufficient sense' camp, and in addition I can proudly report that my beliefs still make absolutely no sense.

that depressingly high number being 100%

@ShaneFrakes I like the R word. I think I might need rehabilitated.

Emotional intelligence at its finest. He called me a commie, then blocked me so I couldn’t reply. IQ and EQ are connected. If you need curse words, the R-word, or the block button to make your point, you’re struggling. You probably just need a hug. Maybe everyone should check in on @rickydigital and ask if he’s doing okay

@theliamnissan Dios mio!

Meh, try again

@amaranthdahlia @AAsandwich43 That's the only thing for there to BE identical lol

@AAsandwich43 same like i didnt know it meant almost everything is identical like down to their DNA identical😅

finding out identical twins can never be the opposite sex is news to me LMAO

Well fucking duh though

grrrrr

I used to be kind of like that, but it was an unsatisfactory place to land as far as answering the question is concerned. I actually want to answer the question. I don't care about this tribe or that tribe. I never made any friends speaking my mind and I don't think it'll happen anytime soon. I still seek the answer, even after all these years. You can tell when someone's parrotting after a while.

Reddit style “sky daddy” atheists are the peak of midwittery