# The point of life/living

**URL:** https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-point-of-life-living/11076
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 28, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-point-of-life-living/11076 "2024-08-28T04:28:10Z")
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### Author: ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/the-point-of-life-living/11076/473 "2024-11-20T15:31:39Z")

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> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> It’s not silly when you have people saying so and proving so. It’s not proof of concept when your evidence evaporated.

Guess you aren’t noticing what is happening to this country,  
or what is happening all over the world with rise of armed over-lords and _self-serving_ being the call of the hour.

You will have much to learn grasshopper in the coming years.

> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> Saying “just look around” at the news  
> isn’t evidence either. Hardly scientific.

Yeah, I’m expecting you to have a rational brain and be capable of becoming informed of societal trends and such.  
If you want to play stupid, with gotcha and chase-your-tail-games, fine,  
Incidentally, this is a discussion and not a scientific symposium.

> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> > [@citizenschallengev4](#):
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> > NOPE - It is how we **perceive** the reality beyond our bodies that is based on the thoughts we play for ourselves, in our heads.
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> Also incorrect.

How’s that?  
Please explain

> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> > [@citizenschallengev4](#):
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> > NOPE - The reality around us is based on what Earth’s Evolution created. Matter and the law it operated under has been doing its thing for billions of years, yet you presume you’ve created all that in your head?
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> That’s an assumption, not proof or truth.

So, you are saying evolution is an assumption?  
Atoms, molecules, chemistry and biology are assumptions?  
And that physical evidence is nothing?

And Lausten wonders why I’m disgusted by modern popular philosophical nonsense than has as enable people to become so grindingly rudderless.

> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> Incorrect again, there is nothing beyond our conceptions. Everything we understand about reality is a concept.

So physical matter is nothing, but only a conception we’ve created in our heads.

Do you ever trying to follow the logic of that?

Oh yeah, God created us, and everything else is vapors - is that how it is?

> [@inthedarkness](#):
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> Wrong again, they’re now able to keep brains alive outside the body so the brain in a vat is getting closer.

Now that’s wrong - That is keeping a lump of flesh alive by pumping it full of chemicals - remove the brain from the body and it’s useless.

Just because today’s human-God’s can manipulate that flesh is meaningless when it comes to understanding oneself or the mind in action.  
(sure it’ll teach some about the brain’s neurological plumbing, nothing more, we are an organism, requiring all it’s various parts to play their role.)

This discussion would be helped with a bit of good faith curiosity - but your simplistic pat responses sound more like the certainty of Faith, rather than the actions of seeker.  
To each their own, . . . _I guess._

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