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[quote name='Watcher' date='24 August 2009 - 04:09 AM' timestamp='1251101392' post='40148'] Research subjects thoroughly before you spout off nonsense. There are several theoretical ends to the universe. The first that comes to mind is a concept referred to as the "heat death of the universe," where the universe reaches a maximum state of entropy. There is no movement. There is no altering from one state to another. Without the movement or exchanging of energy, or "work," in another word, life is impossible. That is but one end to the universe. You would do well to think more before you speak at all. [/quote] Watcher, I know all of the major theories, big crunch, big rip, that heat death one you mentioned, etc. I was referring to matter. What could destroy the matter in the universe. It is considered impossible after all. In all of those theories matter remains, so how could one determine the the universe actually ends with these things. There probably wouldn't be any life, but there would be other things. And what of other universes? There must be one that is still "cosmos like" as we would define, or maybe even have a completely unique structure. And maybe the "end" is just part of an elaborate cycle of birth and death. You would do well not to judge someone's post before you grasp how much they know...

It is a natural human desire to reproduce, as we all know. This desire does not care how much money you have, it only serves to make us happy when we are not happy or when we are bored. During a depression you are both unhappy and bored. So it is logical that there is more baby making during a depression.

What could possibly cause the universe to end? There is no end, only a beginning. And what the beginning was or what came after is all speculation at this point. You can debate it all you want but you're not goint to figure it out.

Success is whatever you want or need it to be. Therefore everything could be a success depending on how you perceive the outcome. Success is a mental construct. Nothing more.

The bible is like a big anthology of fables, who's entire purpose is to glorify christianity. It's truly incredible how perfect a document it was. It gave christianity great power over most of the people who read it, for most realised the wisdom and the power of christ and were compelled to serve. This allowed the religion to gain great military and monetary superiority over most of the great powers of the age. Which allowed them to grow even more. The religion serves no purpose in modern society, but the bible does. The bible still has life lessons that can be applied today, and even though the religion is dying, the bible will remain useful forever. I've gone a little off topic i suppose but the fact remains that they are fables, and in fables, no one cares about where cain's wife came from. People should only listen to the story, and not tirelessly attempt to convince christians that their religion is nonesense. (let the hate mail rain down from heaven)

In truth we may not have to die. Our technologies are advancing to the point where this generation might have the option to live for much longer that it was believed possible. We could live all of our dreams, experience all the world has to offer. After that, our race could advance with great speed. But there is a place for death. Though i think that immortality would only be reserved for the rich people who don't believe they are rich enough already. Eventually it will become as common as owning a car, and at that point overpopulation could become a big problem, resources would be stretched thin. There is always a price to immortality. Others must die for you to survive. And at this point humans are not ready for that power. We are too primative in terms of technology. Until we solve hunger, energy crisis, how to live outside of earth, etc. Immortality could doom us.

Well, it depends on which lense you are looking through. Everything in the universe is almost entirely bound by laws. If this happens then that happens. In terms of physics, among other things, everything is entirely predictable and expected, and there for ordered in it's own way. On the other hand, everything is also chaos on different terms. Though there are these rules, there is an extreme variety of things that can occur within the rules. And when you account for scale it is nearly impossible to predict anything, thus everything is chaos and nothing is ordered. But i believe that the natural state of things is chaos, simply because if it was ordered, then we would not exist in any form. For it was from the chaos of nature that the anomaly of life was born.

Well there is also mental gain to consider. One doesn't play md for any physical gain, but because there is a mental gain of enjoyment and happiness that comes from playing it. And whenever you are doing nothing, like waiting for someone and just sitting around, You believe that there will be a gain in waiting, maybe you'll be able to leave faster because you're in a hurry, or maybe you have been waiting for this person to come back for a while and you miss them.Even if you're doing nothing at all, it's usually because you don't really want to do anything, you feel slightly better just sitting around. And i understand your point burns, A simple system cannot possibly work because there are too many variables. But i have come to realize that there are a lot less variables than one would imagine. Though there are still many variables to consider, it it still a fairly consistent way of predicting human reactions and behavior, based off of the average person's beliefs. AND, I'm only talking about Really gereral behavior. Like most people would not kill someone and steal his car, and most people wouldn't burn down there house with there family inside. That sort of thing.

Well, i believe that people who risk their lives to save others do it because it would be "evil" in their eyes if they didn't. If you had the means to save someone, but didn't, you would probably have a large amount of guilt. We all value life to some degree, and if i were to just let someone die and been able to do something about it, i wouldn't be able to live with myself, as with many people. But then there are also plenty of people who would just walk away and not care, i would imagine that those people value there lives much more than other people's. That is selfish, but it is not evil to value your own life.

I'm fairly certain my logic is sound jester. It may not be the way you would like to think but it is true. I would like you to try and name any instance where anyone has done anything that was not intended to gain something.

People will never do anything unless they believe there is personal gain involved. When someone works at a soup kitchen, (a free kitchen for the needy and homeless)It is not to help people, but to make yourself feel good through helping people. We are all inherently selfish that way and there is nothing we can do about it. On the other hand, a serial killer does not kill people to kill people, but because they believe that they will gain something from it that outweighs the mental cost of killing someone, which for them is very very low. Because of this there is no evil, only what others percieve to be evil. For no one will ever do anything that they truly believe is evil, unless the gain is greater than the cost. There are no exceptions.