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>>15326886
If you are a pattern of atoms just kill yourself. Why does one pattern matter more than another? You've spent about 20 years living, why is dying for one moment so bad?

>>15326886
What you view as mundane I view as a miracle so profound that it fills me with profound wonder and is itself an affirmation of God

>>15326908
What are you talking about?

>>15326886
Being a pattern isn't "depressing", I think it's rather beautiful. You are an arrangement of particles that is particular to you and no one else. Doesn't matter what particles they are or where they came from or what they passed through in order to finally you, but what matters is that they fill YOUR form. Matter is subordinate to the immutability of self

>OMG ELON MUSK!!!

>>15326908
This line of thinking, if followed honestly and fully leads to the absurdity and arbitraryness of everything. including the act of killing yourself.

>>15326969
Yes. So just have fun bro.

>>15326977
But fun is just as arbitrary, and the meta-fun which prompts me to think of this is as well, and so on and so on.

>>15326886
Nothing wrong with the quote unless it's taken in the eliminative reductionist sense where we're "nothing but" a pattern of atoms.

>>15326908
>If you are a pattern of atoms just kill yourself
I don't follow

>>15326950
Bæysd

>>15327041
Same. Talk about pleb filter. So sad.

>>15326987
So.. don't have fun then? No one is forcing you to, and no one cares either way.

>>15326908
>just kill yourself lol
Why is this the dimwitted response to so much stuff, as though suicide ever followed from what is being talked about, and as if people were able to just rationally enact the apparently logical outcomes of their premises.

>>15327033
But if we're something more, that means we're more than elementary particles, not entirely physical. Materialism is nonsense.

>>15326886
how is that pattern arranged though

>>15328221
and by whom, or what

>it's random

no it isn't; if it was there would be no pattern to it

>>15326886
A little geometry and theology can rid a man of this line of thinking.

>>15328245
A good, strong monarchy helps, too.

>>15326908
>>15326921
>>15326956
>>15328221

>>15328295
>geometry + theology
>heraldry + divine right
This checks out

Prove it. Show me an atom right fucking now, i've never seen one

>>15326886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

>>15326886
Everything is a pattern of atoms. No fucking wonder, atoms are defined this way.

>>15328245
It's a good line of thinking though: forces a confrontation between empiricism and life itself. Let those who choose empiricism self-destruct.

>>15328308
brainlet interpretation

>>15328245
some taste and decency as well

>>15326908
becuase this specific pattern of atoms ( = me) make itself tend to conserve itself as much as it can ( = enjoy living)

>>15326886
10^27 atoms may get replaced over a year, it's not a lifo system though so 98% of your atoms don't get replaced.

>>15328308
Ask me how I know you haven’t read the Bible

>>15329522
when is won't to live anymore, it will mean the atomic pattern is changed.