With six degrees of separation and the butterfly effect at play we must influence others even at a subconsious level. So yeah we all do our bit here on earth and the bricks of humanity can only be laid on what came before and Inspiration can come from anywhere even a tramp.

nothing about the universe implies equality or fairness as a natural state - except what we feel but thats gotta be something.

thinking from an opposite perspective - if there is some grand plan, then we are helpless and replaceable (there's gotta be a backup plan) to change the world.

but with chance, we have just that, the opportunity to change things. everyone does, it's just a matter of scale.

Good topic! 🤩
On a cosmic scale we are truly insignificant collections of atoms and nothing makes any difference. Untold numbers amongst the trillions of stars are exploding and dying as I type and galaxies disappear into black holes in a continuous stream of entropy that makes all life on earth and our little planet nothing but a pointless blink in spacetime.
To bestow on ourselves a Grand Plan of significance in which we all play a part is an extraordinary display of hubris…😉

tldr please

"Have you not heard the madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place and cried incessantly, 'I seek God!, I seek God!' ... Why, did he get lost? Said one. Did he lose his way like a child? Said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? Or emigrated?... The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"'Whither is God'? He cried. 'I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are his murderers...'"

"...the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. 'I came too early,' he said then; 'my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering -it has not yet reached the ears of man."

In these passages Nietzsche is showing the inevitable unfolding anthropocentrism (lit. putting man at the centre of the world) implicit in philosophy since Kant. If we view our existence through human categories, then our concept of God is itself a human creation.

Nietzsche is not simply asserting his atheism; he is suggesting that once we are aware that the concept of God is our own creation we can no longer base our religious and moral beliefs on any notion of a divine external reality.

In the period that Nietzsche was writing, the death of God was just beginning. Western thought was starting to face the prospect of a radical change in its orientation, and it wasn't quite ready to own up to it yet.

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche represent opposite reactions to the inability of rationality to give a rock solid theoretical proof of God's existence. Kierkegaard calls for us to embrace God even if it seems an absurdity, while Nietzsche says it is time for us to create a new mode of being, with human creativity at its centre.

@oasis
Sorry - the above is probably the opposite of TLDR

i guess the irony missed you but i'm glad, outstanding post biggz

Very true, our receipt is our birth certificate. If you are aware of the strawman and the invisible cage that houses us all.
Sad but true :)

Our lives have been planned before we are even born.

Nonsense

I wish I was a believer like you. It’s annoying knowing you are caged. You are lucky because the best sheep are the ones who don’t realise they are fenced in for taxation

Paranoid weird ramblings. I'm not a sheep I'm a Shepard and have made a great life for myself, taking decisions and steering my own fate.

I am very happy for you

I'm at a loss as to why you need a right to choose who you work WITH. Work is a private agreement between you and an employer, so who the other workers are is irrelevant. Isn't it? Or am I missing something fundamental here?

you are assuming the person is not an employer who wants to work with someone or someone that wants to work with a particular employer.

i dont think they mean colleagues. you cant work for anyone unless each of your master states permit this. same goes for hiring anyone.

Oh hands down Foucault - he absolutely wipes the floor with Chomsky!

Did you know Foucault was supposedly paid in hash for this gig?

Thats fantastic and believable with a dutch tv show.

pas de compétition

The will to do anything, will forever triumph over the will to sacrifice anything.

Not every action will require sacrifice, while every action will require the choice of will.

The virtuous one

Imagine young Ludwig would love to poke that cali bud argument apart infront of a warming fire

wittgenstein makes a hell of a strain name

sativa fo shiz

if he had partied in the dorm with hitler we'd be in a better time line

adolf can you take it easy on the meth tonight? ive got a test in the morning.

And then later he realised that the meaning of a word was in its use, hence the idea of 'language games'.