The only way to live your life - General

[QUOTE=Omnipharious;25006485]Thread is a lie. It doesn't matter how hard you try at something, there is always a chance you'll fail. You could play guitar every day, and want to be the best guitarist ever, then get your hands cut off. Karma.[/QUOTE] Yes there is a chance you CAN fail but with much practice the chances of failing become very slim. Musical performances require a lot of practice. I've been practicing piano every day for 5 years now and I've noticed how slim chances of failing are when you practice a bunch. Do you even play an instrument? By the way, that's not karma. It would just be bad luck

It's not even bad luck, why would your hands be chopped off? Do you live in the middle east or something?

How to hell did you get banned again?

Also a good rule to live by: No matter how bad it seems, there is always somebody who has it MUCH worse than you.

My motto: Expect the worst, because when it eventually all goes to shit you won't be to disappointed.

[quote]Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.[/quote]Perceive it however you want. That doesn't change the fact it's true. [editline]04:26PM[/editline] I feel that optimism is the key to success. People who say otherwise are people who didn't know how to handle the situation when things didn't turn out the way they expected. Just shrug it off and move on. Don't expect the worst, otherwise you'll always end up doing your worst. Another key thing that I live by is let others do what they want. Let them live the way they want to live. The only time I don't follow that is when someone is constantly bitching to me about how they want something in life that requires them to change the way they live.

Who live like this

i dont think i could do "anything" if i tried hard enough but i get what you are saying also i think picking a goal in life is also importent

[QUOTE=OP]Everyone else are robots, pawns, actors, tools, machines -whatever you want to call them- for your life. They may be other people, but they aren't you[/QUOTE] hedonistic and terrible

i think op wants us to be selfish

I sincerely doubt that you are living your life to the fullest (because for starters, you wouldn't be on here). Secondly, who are you to tell people that this is the best way to live, and if we don't live by these rules, we aren't "living to the fullest". Fuck off, prick. [editline]08:49PM[/editline] [QUOTE=haloguy234;25007249]Perceive it however you want. That doesn't change the fact it's true. [editline]04:26PM[/editline] I feel that optimism is the key to success. People who say otherwise are people who didn't know how to handle the situation when things didn't turn out the way they expected. Just shrug it off and move on. Don't expect the worst, otherwise you'll always end up doing your worst. Another key thing that I live by is let others do what they want. Let them live the way they want to live. The only time I don't follow that is when someone is constantly bitching to me about how they want something in life that requires them to change the way they live.[/QUOTE] So, hypothetically, you're little sister is doing heroin. You let her continue this without trying to intervene? You don't try to intervene even in the slightest in someone's life?

Its not selfishness, you mugs. He isn't telling you to disregard others and not care.

[QUOTE=John-Fu;25002697]There is only one way to live your life, it's very simple, it's how I live my life. All there is to it is to understand a few basic principles which are: 1. Firstly and most importantly, you will die one day and when you die it's all over. It's a simple truth, you may be thinking [I]"Does this mean nothing matters so I can do whatever I want and in the end it doesn't matter?"[/I]No, it does not mean this at at all. You will live this life, you can't just kill someone because you can and spend the rest of your life in jail because when you die nothing will matter to you, while it won't matter to you, are you some kind of sadist? That'd suck hardcore. [/quote] Sadism doesn't "suck hardcore" for a sadist. [quote]2. You are the most important thing that ever happened. Everyone else are robots, pawns, actors, tools, machines -whatever you want to call them- for your life. They may be other people, but they aren't you. The chances of you, the person sitting there, reading this, not your clone, but you, to be born are beyond numbers, the events that lead up to you coming out of your mum are so precise and yet so random, just going back two hundred years makes the chances 1 in 6 untrigintillion (6 × 10^96) [B]MINIMUM[/B]. You are the impossible, you are the center of the universe.[/quote] To other people, i'm just another person, but I am not them. what's the difference between me and them if we view each other in this same way? To look it from another perspective, I am only myself for me, but a pawn/machine/whatever you call it for the other billions of people on the planet. Is any one person justified in saying that they are special? [quote] 3. If you work at anything long and hard enough, you will be successful. The time it'll take you is undetermined, but I promise you, if you want something - really want something - and you work at it then you [B]will[/B] manage it. It may seem like tearing down a mountain with a toothpick because maybe your target is, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible, all it means is that it'll take determination, not determination like winning a race (Unless that is your aim), more, harder; the kind of determination that puts Aron Ralston to shame.[/quote] You have already claimed that the the human lifespan is finite, thus anything that you will accomplish will be fleeting and short-term, unless you fashion your expectations in the other direction. But if one can simply tailor their expectations to fit the satisfactions resulting from their actions, what can stop me from not expecting anything out of my life and just passively living along, and say that i'm not living my life? [quote] And that's it, your life is now the only way to live it, this is thread is also my apology to Facepunch for my rudeness in past threads, I hope you can forgive me.[/QUOTE] Well, obviously, it's my life, so the only way I can live it is by said life being mine. a tautology if you will, but i'm assuming you mean that these are the only ways to live, which is not simply true. [editline]02:08PM[/editline] [QUOTE=looneyxl;25017385] So, hypothetically, you're little sister is doing heroin. You let her continue this without trying to intervene? You don't try to intervene even in the slightest in someone's life?[/QUOTE] Wouldn't the fact that it is his little sister change his reaction? If it was a complete stranger, i'll bet 90% of people would let them be.

"i am the most important thing ever" yeah great viewpoint you have there too bad it's not true

So if a guy with no arms was selling lottery tickets just to make ends meet (this happened to me the other day), he wouldn't buy tickets or just give the guy money? Maybe that's a better scenario, since he's not directly related.

[QUOTE=Faren;25017774]"i am the most important thing ever" yeah great viewpoint you have there too bad it's not true[/QUOTE] Thats not what was meant.

[QUOTE=looneyxl;25017784]So if a guy with no arms was selling lottery tickets just to make ends meet (this happened to me the other day), he wouldn't buy tickets or just give the guy money? Maybe that's a better scenario, since he's not directly related.[/QUOTE] He most likely will give the guy money for so long as the amount foregone is not detrimental for him in the long run, or too large, as giving it makes him feel better, the same way giving money for an item (shoes, movie ticket) makes you feel better. Again, that is what 90% of people would do. Here's a video explaining "moral selfishness". [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoAKer8lfds[/url] Basically, most charity is egotistic in nature, in that giving alms and buying goods that enhance our satisfaction are essentially interchangeable.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.... [editline]09:23PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Phoenix Ashes;25017925]He most likely will give the guy money for so long as the amount foregone is not detrimental for him in the long run, or too large, as giving it makes him feel better, the same way giving money for an item (shoes, movie ticket) makes you feel better. Again, that is what 90% of people would do. Here's a video explaining "moral selfishness". [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoAKer8lfds[/url] Basically, most charity is egotistic in nature, in that giving alms and buying goods that enhance our satisfaction are essentially interchangeable.[/QUOTE] K. We're getting too deep here. I just wanted to argue.

[QUOTE=haloguy234;25007249]Perceive it however you want. That doesn't change the fact it's true. [editline]04:26PM[/editline] I feel that optimism is the key to success. People who say otherwise are people who didn't know how to handle the situation when things didn't turn out the way they expected. Just shrug it off and move on. Don't expect the worst, otherwise you'll always end up doing your worst. Another key thing that I live by is let others do what they want. Let them live the way they want to live. The only time I don't follow that is when someone is constantly bitching to me about how they want something in life that requires them to change the way they live.[/QUOTE] Whenever I assume the worst, things always tend to end up better.

[QUOTE=looneyxl;25017929]Say what you mean and mean what you say.... [editline]09:23PM[/editline] K. We're getting too deep here. I just wanted to argue.[/QUOTE] no you didn't, which is why you didn't bother :colbert: [QUOTE=carcarcargo;25017965]Whenever I assume the worst, things always tend to end up better.[/QUOTE] isn't that superstition?

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25017965]Whenever I assume the worst, things always tend to end up better.[/QUOTE] Maybe by assuming the worst your standards are set lower?

[QUOTE=Faren;25018234]Maybe by assuming the worst your standards are set lower?[/QUOTE] Exactly, its always just a bit happier when things go right and when things go wrong its not as bad emotionally.

Everyone reading this thread is the most important person in the world. "Apparently".

I recommend you too watch this movie if you like this thread: Mr. Nobody (2009) [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/[/url]

[QUOTE=The Advisor;25021174]Everyone reading this thread is the most important person in the world. "Apparently".[/QUOTE] That idea pretty much contradicts itself. Everyone is apparently the most important person in the world, yet since apparently is also just a pawn in another persons world, nobody is important. It's pretty much a kind of social anarchism.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;25021328]That idea pretty much contradicts itself. Everyone is apparently the most important person in the world, yet since apparently is also just a pawn in another persons world, nobody is important. It's pretty much a kind of social anarchism.[/QUOTE] Every life means nothing, we're all randomized and placed in an always expanding universe. Why does the smoke from a cigarette expands in the air and doesn't go back in the cigarette? Why can we expand but not go back? Or we can't memorize the future while we already been there?

What a load of crap. The only actual directive is 1) Survive 2) Breed 3) Help ensure the survival of the species. Adding sentimental value to things only attempts to mystify the workings of nature.

[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;25021498]What a load of crap. The only actual directive is 1) Survive 2) Breed 3) Help ensure the survival of the species.[/QUOTE] Like bacteria, live --> get children (expand) --> use up all natural sources --> relocate to another place.

[QUOTE=Impracticable;25021520]Like bacteria, live --> get children (expand) --> use up all natural sources --> relocate to another place.[/QUOTE] I don't see a problem with that. Our species is growing towards being able to foresee resource problems. If you take into account genetically altered crops, then we are already being more productive than prior nature.

I was just analyzing your statement, as it's all true.