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Postby Derping » Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:17 am

This's probably been said a million times before, but...42!

Sorry. I had to.

Anyway, that aside, your question is flawed. Allow me to quote:

"You can't just scoop a noun out of a pile and ask what it's 'meaning' is. Meaning is determined by conscious judgement, not inherently built into the universe. What if you asked 'what is the meaning of yellow?' or 'what is the meaning of butterscotch?'

YOU'D GET THROWN OUT OF THE DINNER PARTY BUSTER!

These chestnuts are as meaningless as your dusty old 'meaning of life' foofarah. You can ask life's purpose, definition, function, even it's taste- but you can't ask for it's 'meaning'."
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Postby The Batavia » Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:33 am

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
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Milk chocolate master race :^]

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Postby Zanera » Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:33 am

Hammer Britannia wrote:
Garden at 6th Mile Road wrote:
Life is like a random box of chocolates - sometimes you get the sweet, sweet white or milk chocolate, then other times, you get the bitter dark chocolate.

(This ain't a racist statement; I'm using the literal fact that the dark chocolate tastes bitter than the white one. :?)

NAh, Dark Chocolate is way better than that white crap.


White chocolate is nasty, dark chocolate is the meaning of life.
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Postby West Leas Oros 2 » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:11 pm

Garden at 6th Mile Road wrote:
Alvecia wrote:Having just had lunch, I can say with absolute certainty that the meaning of life is chocolate


Life is like a random box of chocolates - sometimes you get the sweet, sweet white or milk chocolate, then other times, you get the bitter dark chocolate.

(This ain't a racist statement; I'm using the literal fact that the dark chocolate tastes bitter than the white one. :?)

I always get the ones with the goddamn coconut shavings! Life knows I hate coconut!
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Postby Valrifell » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:38 pm

Zanera wrote:
Hammer Britannia wrote:NAh, Dark Chocolate is way better than that white crap.


White chocolate is nasty, dark chocolate is the meaning of life.


You've got it backwards, friend.
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:40 pm

It disturbs me how many of you actually like dark chocolate.
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Postby Zanera » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:45 pm

Valrifell wrote:
Zanera wrote:
White chocolate is nasty, dark chocolate is the meaning of life.


You've got it backwards, friend.


All I see is the end when I bite white chocolate.

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Postby Geneviev » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:45 pm

Washington Resistance Army wrote:It disturbs me how many of you actually like dark chocolate.

It's the best chocolate you know.
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Postby Garden at 6th Mile Road » Tue Jul 17, 2018 5:32 pm

I'm saddened by the large number of people against the white chocolate.

Why not both? I love both. Sometimes you need the sweet and fattening white chocolate, then other times, you appreciate the bitterness. :P




Back to topic, life still gives me an existential crisis. How did I... just pop up here? Why this time period and not in the far and distant past, or some distant space-faring future?

With all that said, I still appreciate everything that's been happening around so far (minus the actual politics). I don't know, it's been quite a ride, through ups and downs.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:09 am

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you andd to hear the lamentations of their-

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.
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Postby Garden at 6th Mile Road » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:15 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:To crush your enemies, see them driven before you andd to hear the lamentations of their-

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.


That is good.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:28 am

Garden at 6th Mile Road wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:To crush your enemies, see them driven before you andd to hear the lamentations of their-

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.


That is good.


I stole it from Therns who used it in the worst thing in the world thread.

Surprisingly, it works here too.
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Postby Page » Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:50 am

Valrifell wrote:
Page wrote:What, when, where, who, and how have objective answers, but "why" exists only within the minds of sentient beings. The meaning of life will always be subjective.


No offense but the "its subjective" answer always feels like a cop-out, especially when there is an objective answer.

There isn't a meaning, the universe gives zero shits.


That the universe gives zero shits is exactly why meaning is subjective.
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Postby Risottia » Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:17 am

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Hammer Britannia wrote:NAh, Dark Chocolate is way better than that white crap.


Dark chocolate is objectively the worst kind of chocolate.

The meaning of life is being objectively right in calling "heathen" those who prefer milk chocolate, because the only chocolate thou shalt have is 70% cocoa powder minimum.
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Postby Garden at 6th Mile Road » Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:46 am

Risottia wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Dark chocolate is objectively the worst kind of chocolate.

The meaning of life is being objectively right in calling "heathen" those who prefer milk chocolate, because the only chocolate thou shalt have is 70% cocoa powder minimum.


Never mind, still got milk chocolate.

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Postby Valrifell » Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:08 pm

Page wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
No offense but the "its subjective" answer always feels like a cop-out, especially when there is an objective answer.

There isn't a meaning, the universe gives zero shits.


That the universe gives zero shits is exactly why meaning is subjective.


That's like saying a void in space is "subjective" because nothing exists in it, and it could be whatever I wanted it to be.
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Postby Risottia » Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:37 pm

Garden at 6th Mile Road wrote:
Risottia wrote:The meaning of life is being objectively right in calling "heathen" those who prefer milk chocolate, because the only chocolate thou shalt have is 70% cocoa powder minimum.


Never mind, still got milk chocolate.

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Heathen :P


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Postby The Batavia » Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:47 pm

Risottia wrote:
Garden at 6th Mile Road wrote:
Never mind, still got milk chocolate.

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Heathen :P


Thou shalt be smelted in the fires of the Hellish Chocolate Patisserie like a low-fusion-point, second choice milk chocolate bar from Lidl, then peppered with hot dried raisins and recast into pralines.
REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE PURE DARK ONE!

That's it, I'm gonna write a book called "95 Reasons Why Fuck Dark Chocolate"
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Postby Zanera » Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:13 pm

The Batavia wrote:
Risottia wrote:
Thou shalt be smelted in the fires of the Hellish Chocolate Patisserie like a low-fusion-point, second choice milk chocolate bar from Lidl, then peppered with hot dried raisins and recast into pralines.
REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE PURE DARK ONE!

That's it, I'm gonna write a book called "95 Reasons Why Fuck Dark Chocolate"


Was it the hot dried raisins?

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