Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- Krassy6
Chile, Atacama Desert, Valley of the Moon at sunset with volcano in background. 2000. By Thomas Hoepker
- drgs6
- Nairn3
One for drgs. Taken near here..
- I deciphered the side columns, but have trouble putting it all togetherdrgs
- Another fine mess. I’m so happy. Very very happy.monospaced
- BEN EINE. http://vantagepointr…autoflavour
- I thought it was in German to start with.webazoot
- Ben is good people. Met him in SF years ago when he exhibited with White Walls. Owner of that gallery stole a load of Ben monies and fucked off to france.dasohr
- He is definitely a character.. that’s for sureautoflavour
- Probably one of the drunkest guests we had, but he rolled in out of itautoflavour
- A drunk who makes a career designing nonsense? Sounds like i have a new personal hero.Nairn
- ********0
- drgs4
- I still wouldn't flyTurboslacker
- Covid will never make it around that divider!nb
- seats now cost 50% more to make up for lost seatsmoldero
- Great amount of space when there’s no plane or other seats.MrT
- not safer... everybody needs to go pee and will touch everything.nbq
- it‘s marketing...a way to justify higher prices.uan
- Gardener3
- nice they even put the wiper blades on the headlightssarahfailin
- money no object for the Russian MafiaGardener
- so he crashed into a giant turd is what killed him?srhadden
- tie askew to show pot belly********
- pango15
- neverscared4
- Ver el mar por última vez?OBBTKN
- powerful.utopian
- Source? Patient's dying wish?Akagiyama
- Patient Isidre Correa is taken to the seaside by intensive heath care staff outside the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona.neverscared
- not more info around.neverscared
- it's from a campaign for humanizing intensive care. https://proyectohuci…uan
- the pic is real, they advocate for the importance of the human aspect in intensive care treatment.uan
- mort_2
- Elmo, the PunkOBBTKN
- Photo Matt Rourke / APmort_
- Killing Oscar?Salarrue
- in year full of photos of the year, this one definitely is up thereautoflavour
- mort_7
- lol, what a stupid question.********
- What’s stupid about it?mort_
- Nothing is stupid about it.Turboslacker
- I wish more people would ask thisfuturefood
- We're here because QBN is the best spot on the interwebz, that's why.Krassy
- I wish more animals would ask this.mort_
- Because our ancestors won the natural selection gamedrgs
- Why not?yuekit
- for the lolzGardener
- Stupid ass question.monospaced
- @drgs Natural selection explains how we’re here. The question is why?mort_
- mort, "why" is our brains' way of making sense of the world. There is no why floating out there in space somewhere.yuekit
- Unless you believe in god, in which case you already answered the question.yuekit
- Why am I here?Ianbolton
- @mort_ Nature is indifferent and does not ask the question why. For our species as a whole the life is meaningless, we are just a complicated form of lichendrgs
- On individual level, the meaning of life is to find a mate and procreatedrgs
- That’s a common atheist perspective @drgs. Personally, I suspect there may be more to it than that. (I’m not religious nor believe in god).mort_
- The idea that there has to be a reason or meaning is ludicrous and based on nothing but a desire and a hunch.monospaced
- Reproduction is enabled by desire. Maybe desire for existential knowledge is a motivator towards some higher purpose or finding our true nature.mort_
- No. No it is not. Reproduction is a part of all life forms on this planet. It’s natural as anything.monospaced
- Our true nature is in all likeliness just what you see. We are species of apes and nothing more. Why is that not sufficient and amazing enough?monospaced
- It’s enabled by desire. You’re right in it enables. But the desire is to fulfill the purpose of reproduction. Which in turn fuels the process of life.monospaced
- Are you saying the desire to fuck is natural but the desire to know more about our existence is unnatural?mort_
- I want to underline there is a difference between life of our species as a whole, and life of each individual. So, need to be specific when asking the questiondrgs
- If you're asking what to do in life, its easy: your reward centers are programmed for one purpose, and you cannot be truly happy until you fulfill those crudedrgs
- biological needs.drgs
- Fulfilling those biological needs do not make you truly happy.mort_
- Start asking random people in the street "what was the happiest moment in your life". The are two groups of people: "the day I became a parent" anddrgs
- basically everyone else. Sure, there are exceptions, if your kid is an imbecile etc, but its a simple and worthy goal to have in lifedrgs
- The question for me is in the broadest sense. Why is any of this here. And at the species level. Why have humans developed the capacity to question existence.mort_
- "What is the meaning of life" is a question which looks ahead, as if something has been planned.drgs
- Why does anything exist at all is an interesting question, but maybe unanswerable.yuekit
- Why do humans question existence is not that mysterious...it's just an artifact of how our brains work.yuekit
- But the reason why we are here goes backwards: We are here because all previous life which was not vigorous enough, simply disappeareddrgs
- We are here because we are descendants of life forms which simply chose to live (without any reason to)drgs
- If you want to get really specific, everything is just a series of chemical reactions.yuekit
- It started out simple and a few billion years later, here we are.yuekit
- That doesn’t account for the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness.mort_
- Well there are lots of lifeforms that are conscious in different ways...even plants have a form of consciousness through electrical signals.yuekit
- I don't think consciousness necessarily indicates anything beyond the physical. But true we don't understand it, there might be things we will never understand.yuekit
- For sure!mort_
- Derp. The desire to reproduce. It’s natural. It’s what ALL life strives for, conscious or not. To act like we are exempt is fun, but not based on evidence.monospaced
- Consciousness isn’t really a hard problem when you realize it comes in many flavors and degrees. It’s not unique to humans.monospaced
- Check out Daniel Dennett's theory of consciousness. It's a bit depressing maybe, but seems plausible.yuekit
- Consciousness is a hard problem if you take the view that it’s an emergent property of matter. This can’t be proven by neuroscience.mort_
- Another interesting view is that matter is contained within consciousness. Reality is entirely subjective.mort_
- I thought we were having an interesting conversation. Why the derp comment @monospaced?mort_
- @yuekit Dennett’s consciousness-as-ill... theory is very plausible.mort_
- *cnsciousness as illusionmort_
- lol, what a stupid question.
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- Why are they here?utopian
- Because you haven't killed them yet.********
- https://www.youtube.…sted
- neverscared10
Standing for the protest at the corner of Roosevelt and Washington, and this Auschwitz survivor drove by to show her support for Black Lives. She wanted me to see the number tattooed on her arm. “There all sons of bitches”, she said. “You should see what they did to my brother.”
- Oh the irony: she's riding shotgun in a BMW.zarb0z
- Primo Levi said anyone who survived the camps should be treated with caution. Its' likely they did bad things to survive.Doris_McSquirter
- He included himself in this calculus.Doris_McSquirter
- "likely they did bad things to survive"
that's dumb. she was lucky.
probably watched her brother beaten several times, starved to death.sted - same like her. all of this while getting processed (teeth pulled out, hair shaved etc.). because that number on her arm means that.sted
- here she is:
https://www.youtube.…sted - @doris sooo, you're somewhat of a holocaust scientist yourself :)renderedred
- Enough to have read Primo Levi apparently. Thanks Sted, i'll check the link out.Doris_McSquirter
- an other white privileged !gonzalle
- be caution with germans, austrians and americans too...very bad hombres.neverscared
- ;)neverscared
- u'd think a jew might be a little more cautious about race movements promoting one over the other or sparking ideas of guilt for some.********
- oh. nevermind... no source.********
- i dont mind . soccer flip joke boy.neverscared
- if there are any facts of crime of holocoust survivors , please show them otherwise shut your ant-scientific mouths guys... u are embarrising to facts andneverscared
- knowledge, show your sources ..not just conspiracy esoteric bullshit.neverscared
- @doris and @deathboy, my mom is a holocaust survivor, so i may be a little more informed about the subject, apart from research i did, you two are sad trollsrenderedred
- but, if you have questions i'd be glad to give you my perspective.renderedred
