life is so bad Posted Tue Jul 18 01:58:26 BST 2000 by kinder surprise

What is the point of our existance? Anyone care to tell me?


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Posted By Peter Ohanraohanrahan on Tue Jul 18 15:19:38 BST 2000:

Haven't you completed the first level yet?


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Posted By dr_hackenbush on Tue Jul 18 17:36:33 BST 2000:

You're here because certain types of molecules are capable of getting themselves replicated accurately but not exactly. Variants of the molecules which replicate better naturally come to dominate. With time, this mindless process creates more and more elaborate vehicles for the replicators. Your mind and body, your desire to be accepted by a group, your religious beliefs, your love of your family, your need for sexual relationships and your paternal or maternal instincts are all there simply to help these molecules get passed on. Of course, it won't actually accomplish anything if you do.
Hope this helps.


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Posted By Al on Tue Jul 18 17:53:47 BST 2000:

>You're here because certain types of molecules are capable of getting themselves replicated accurately but not exactly. Variants of the molecules which replicate better naturally come to dominate. With time, this mindless process creates more and more elaborate vehicles for the replicators. Your mind and body, your desire to be accepted by a group, your religious beliefs, your love of your family, your need for sexual relationships and your paternal or maternal instincts are all there simply to help these molecules get passed on. Of course, it won't actually accomplish anything if you do.

Doncha just hate Darwinists? What's up KS? You usually seem so chipper. Life's not all bad. I remember once I was feeling a bit low, and a German guy who was staying with a friend of mine asked me what was up. I said that things seemed to be going OK but I didn't believe it could last so I was worried. He told me about this German folktale featuring a jester (whose name I have conveniently forgotten) who was spotted by some villagers climbing some nearby hills. As he climbed them he smiled and laughed, but when he reached the top he started weeping uncontrollably, and carried on all the way down. They asked him why he reacted this way and he replied that when he climbed the hill he was thinking how easy and fun it would be running down the other side, and as he came down, he wept because he was already thinking of the next big hill he would have to climb. I think the moral is to enjoy the good moments while you can.

Of course if the particular moment you are experiencing is shit my advice is:
a) have a kip
b) If you can't sleep, go for a drink
c) (If it's really serious) Eat comfort food and watch It's A Wonderful Life - that usually works for me.


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Posted By Arma on Thu Jul 20 15:34:01 BST 2000:

Don't worry. I love ya.


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Posted By J c on Fri Jul 21 12:58:25 BST 2000:

Kenneth Williams recalls in his Acid Drops book , a conversatoin he had with Tony Hancock about looking for the meaning of life.
Hancock tells Williams an analogy.
A man is searching frantically for something he has lost in a street at night under a street light.A policeman approaches the man and asks him what hes looking for.He replies that he is trying to find his key that he dropped several yards away.The policeman enquires why he isnt looking for it over there then?The man says"Well this is where the light is."
Aaaaaaaah!


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Posted By kinder surprise on Fri Jul 21 17:31:10 BST 2000:

In my street an electrician has lost the key to the lampost wiring box which has a short circuit and only ever comes on when it is completed by the occasional stream of urea.


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Posted By Peter Ohanraohanrahan on Fri Jul 21 20:48:05 BST 2000:

Have you explained that to the electricity board?


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Posted By Al on Fri Jul 21 22:32:57 BST 2000:

She did - but the man on the phone seemed rather confused. He said:
"I'm sorry, but this really has got nothing to do with us."


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Posted By kinder surprise on Sat Jul 22 07:53:54 BST 2000:

what's more...the more the electrician attempts to connect the circuit in order to provide light in which to find the key to the wiring box, the rustier the key becomes from the splashes of his urinate.

That is my life.


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Posted By Jon on Sat Jul 22 10:52:35 BST 2000:

What, you mean you're the electrician? Or you just sit around all day watching a man pissing on a lamp-post?

You're weird.


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Posted By kinder surprise on Sat Jul 22 12:33:15 BST 2000:

If only Jon. If only! If my life consisted of such an activity I wouldn't have any complaints at all. I'd be over the moon.

Can you offer any other analogy that might not cause such confusion?


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Posted By Gee on Sat Jul 22 14:31:42 BST 2000:


A SHORT HISTORY OF MAN'S EARLY DEVELOPMENT


What is the meaning of Life? Is there a Meaning? Well that all depends where you stand. Darwinists and atheists (can you be one without the other?) are convinced Man's dreams and ideals stem from one thing: Man's role as the dominant specie.
They believe that Homo sapiens (The name Man had given himself) gained the edge over animals when they developed their skills for hunting and began to use tools. In fact Man found the prefix Homo so useful that he added it to other words. Bored with foul breathed cave women he added it to the word 'sexual' and now had a sex life as varied as his diet (The invention of the bow allowed Man to kill and live off faster animals thus greatly increasing his diet). But Man did not have it all his own way. Homeopathy in the fight against disease proved to be more than hopeless and is now only practised by people who are either educationally subnormal or rich.


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Posted By Peter Ohanraohanrahan on Sat Jul 22 23:13:15 BST 2000:

>what's more...the more the electrician attempts to connect the circuit in order to provide light in which to find the key to the wiring box, the rustier the key becomes from the splashes of his urinate.
>
>That is my life.

Wait a minute... are you saying that the cow you want to milk is in the next field, while the cow you don't want to milk is eating your best grass that you were saving for the other cow and is simultaneously crapping into your mouth? If you get my gist?


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Posted By fizz on Sat Jul 22 23:46:20 BST 2000:

Light a candle. Make your own light. And for God's sake stop wallowing in your own piss.


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Posted By kinder surprise on Mon Jul 24 04:39:47 BST 2000:

Thanks for your words of wisdom fizz. Maybe an electrical fire is the answer.


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Posted By Mogwai on Mon Jul 24 09:13:18 BST 2000:

Going to bed at a decent hour might be a good starting point on your route out of this miserable mire. 4:40am for Christ's sake. *Everything* looks bleak and hopeless at tweny to five. Go the fuck to sleep, for your own good. :)


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Posted By kinder surpirse on Mon Jul 24 11:03:30 BST 2000:

Sleeping is so difficult though. Unless in an inappropriate environment.


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