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| quote: | Originally posted by Alccode
i think people today are too occupied with "what-ifs" to live in the here and now... why are you people speculating about useless garbage like quantum foam and wormholes? (not to mention time travel)
OK i'm about to type up quite a bit, it's taken from a book (michael crichton novel, in fact), but it will do infinitely better than any sort of explanation i can give.
if anyone's read the Lost World, you'll recognize this...  IMO the best and most moving passage in the book.
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"Are you listening to all that?" Thorne said "I wouldn't take any of it too seriously. It's just theories. Human beings can't help making them, but the fact is that theories are just fantasies. And they change. When America was a new country, people believed in something called phlogiston. You know what it is? No? Well, it doesn't matter, because it wasn't real anyway. They also believed that four humours controlled behavior. And they believed that the earth was only a few thousand years old. Now we believe the earth is four billion years old, and we believe in photons and electrons, and we think human behavior is controlled by things like ego and self-esteem. We think those beliefs are more scientific and better."
"Aren't they?"
Thorne shrugged. "They're still just fantasies. They're not real. Have you ever seen a self-esteem? Can you bring me one on a plate? How about a photon? Can you bring me one of those?"
Kelly shook her head. "No, but..."
"And you never will, because those things don't exist. No matter how seriously people take them," Thorne said. "A hundred years from now, people will look back at us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer and better fantasies." Thorne shook his head. "And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. You see all of us together? That's real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else."
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Why don't we just f*ck every single living thing on the planet, get rich, and die wealthy with 500 children and 500 wives. We can degrade ourselves the the pathetic animals that we watch f*cking everyday in the zoo. Wouldn't that add so much meaning to our life? Wouldn't that make our life so worth while living...
No..
Some people believe in exploration, in understanding more than what we precieve. To go where we have never been before, to discover more than we can understand...
That is life, that is gift of our conciousness.
imo
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DigiNut, very nice, I hope its true. 
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