Ultimate question

Ultrawolf · Mr. Roarke Gender: Joined: 04 Jul 2003

the ultimate question is actually "Where's waldo?"

Excel Zero · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

I found him once, little bugger stole my pepper shaker

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mikeypants · Junior Otaku Joined: 07 Sep 2003

I'm going to have to say its better to have loved and lost. I mean that even though you lost the person, their memory and effect on you still continues on. I guess in that way they aren't really gone.

As for the second question...from personal experience I say that you tend to appreciate and fully enjoy happiness much more after its been missing from your life for a prolonged period of time.

Excel Zero · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

So if I am getting this right mikey, you're saying experience is the way tolive and you regret nothing??
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mikeypants · Junior Otaku Joined: 07 Sep 2003

Excel Zero · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

Cool, sorry for missunderstanding, Good for you

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Therin · Gloompf. Iggle! Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

You've already heard my answer but I'm going to put it out here because I like to make myself feel smart :p

Loved and lost, or never have loved?

Loved and lost, definitely. Everytime you enter a relationship with someone, it's a learning experience all around. You cannot truly learn about yourself without exploring your extremes, and "loved and lost" puts you through pretty much every emotional extreme there is. Also, in terms of the purely physical, if none of us ever loved at all, we would be a very rare species :p

Happiness without Sadness?

Sort of. I think that you usually experience one first, but that the other is never far behind. So if we're splitting hairs, yes, if not, then no.

Excel Zero · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 3:42 am Post subject:

Another nugget of wisdom from the General Smile

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Daijaga · Chosen of Luck Gender: Joined: 17 Dec 2003

The question "Is it better ot have loved and lost..." is kind of a catch 22. As a species, we fall in love naturally and it doesn't always work out. I know the question is related to relationships, but we fall in love with a place/event we never got to go or a toy we didn't get at wal-mart when we were kids. I guess what I'm saying is its kind of nice to believe that there are those who have never loved at all in a theoretical way - but in our hearts we know that option isn't even out there. That we have all loved and lost, that its the huamn condition, and that that condition gives us an edge over those theoretical people that never loved. Suckers.

And as for this.
Happyness <---> Sadness
Can't have one with out the other. Which pretty much reflect what Mickey said. The more sad you are, the happier happnyness feels - just like being apart from someone for a while that you love.

Sperrit · Chosen of Earth Gender: Joined: 16 Oct 2002

The answer is simple, my friends. All that our lives are, in essense, is experiences. Our existence is contingent upon an almost endless string of experience created through the five senses, emotion and thought. If we did not experience we would, in all honest terms, be dead. For example: A person in a coma is not really living. Why? Because they have no experiences, external or internal. We keep them alive in the hopes that one day they will be able to come back to life. If we don't think that they will ever come back we pull the plug. And no matter how harsh that sounds, it's the truth.
Now, taking the previous fact into account, why would you ever want to avoid having experiences? Any and all experiences can only make your life richer, be they happy or sad, pain or pleasure, love or rejection. If you avoid love so that you don't have to experience pain they you're avoiding experience, and if experience is life then you're avoiding life. Let your emotions, good and bad, pour forth from your hearts. But we must always remember that as human beings we have the ability to determine the result of our actions. This gives us a responsibility to our peers that we respect their choices towards what experiences they choose to have and that we protect those that we care about from experiening too much pain, for too much pain can lead to a deadening of feeling, and thus a loss of life, which is the saddest state of being.

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