What religon/belief......

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by Lux

Indeed the people on Mars only have three degrees of seperation.

I don't know if I believe in that but still we're talking about being significant to people so we're talking on an insignificant scale. Anyway, I think sometimes certain circumstances are in place to make even this level of significance unattainable.

Wiseass

I'm not sure I do completely either but think about it in terms of this...some guy starving in Somalia is seperated by five degrees to you and you've never even met the man. Don't you think that's sort of powerful as opposed to completely and totally insignificant?

[amber]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Did I say (or imply) that anyone had a responsibility to live?

No, you're right. you just said Lux was cornering and limiting herself when she said something about not living. Mea Culpa.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

Oh I don't think so. Although maybe people become more significant (still on such a small scale) as time progresses.

Oh, Lux. I don't know what else to say to you about it. But if you're comfortable and happy, then who am I to tell you that you should or must look at things another way, really? I'm not some crazy fundie who insists you must see things my way or there's no way you could be happy. I'm not that delusional. Only moderately delusional, I'd say.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by Lux

How does that make me significant and powerful? It just is. That just seems more like a statistic to do with population numbers, not an indication that it wouldn't have mattered if I died when I was born.

Think of all the things that wouldn't have happened--that would have changed the course of history (perhaps not major history but history nontheless because that's what the past is) if you hadn't been born. You wouldn't have met Joe on The Ledge. You guys wouldn't have gone and met Fleetwood Mac. Lindsey Buckingham wouldn't have connected with you on an intellectual level. He may have never seen Joe's tee and decided to play I Know I'm Not Wrong. Sound stupid? Maybe. But think about it.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Lux

That just makes me think of what if other possible realities were in place. The possibilities were missing out on because of my damned existence!

could be true.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by Lux

That just makes me think of what if other possible realities were in place. The possibilities were missing out on because of my damned existence!

Ahh....

*le sigh*

Maybe yes, maybe no.

If it weren't such a long and costly plane ride, i'd come down there and knock some existance sense into you (and then steal your Tim Tams )

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

Are there degrees of being delusional?

I think so. But isn't that for another headache-inducing thread?

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I think so. But isn't that for another headache-inducing thread?

You have to be at least a smidge delusional to make it through reality

[amber]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

You have to be at least a smidge delusional to make it through reality

oh! guess that's my prob.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

See now I feel even less significant because I've made you make me significant. How pathetic.

OMG. That makes no sense to me whatsoever!

[amber]

Originally Posted by Lux

Seriously, I thought the other day that I'd better not die in here because no one would know for a few weeks until the smell became unbearable. But now if you're going to come down then I'm forcibly significant. See now I feel even less significant because I've made you make me significant. How pathetic.

well, no one would know if most people died, really. If they live by themselves. I'm thinking, just make sure you clean your house before you die... but I guess Marissa would find you. It's fine to be insignificant. I take comfort in the fact that very few people would care if I died. It makes me feel free.... and? If you still have the cat? I don't think they can be counted on to alert people...

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by Lux

Seriously, I thought the other day that I'd better not die in here because no one would know for a few weeks until the smell became unbearable. But now if you're going to come down then I'm forcibly significant. See now I feel even less significant because I've made you make me significant. How pathetic.

Well ****, I just want your Tim Tams. That's all (i'm kidding!)

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Lux

I'm trying to comprehend it myself. I'm only significant when I warn people about my insignificance and they feel the subsequent need to make me feel some significance. So it's like I purchased some significance. Not the desired way to feel significant. Oh bugger it, I don't know but I think I should go and stand in the corner anyway.

Perhaps true but you in fact loved Stevie - at least before your sudden signature change - which means you cannot be that insignificant

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by Lux

Oh bugger it, I don't know but I think I should go and stand in the corner anyway.

Wait, now you're being punished?

[amber]

Originally Posted by Lux

I'm trying to comprehend it myself. I'm only significant when I warn people about my insignificance and they feel the subsequent need to make me feel some significance. So it's like I purchased some significance. Not the desired way to feel significant. Oh bugger it, I don't know but I think I should go and stand in the corner anyway.

Yep. that's how it works. I am right now in the insignificant corner of "no one answering my posts" again, I feel very free, as if I could say anything, and it wouldn't matter. Congrats on your significance purchase.