No matter what it comes down to, it's all about having fun. Wars and ice ages alike, they are all part of the cycle that enables us to have moments of fun. You work to eat and provide yourself shelter and transportation of some form, be it a bike or a rocket ship. Then you work and work some more for a while, up to the moment where you can afford to take a vacation or buy a car or a new home on top of that hill you used to stare at as a kid. It's great, isn't it? And you wouldn't have all that if it weren't for massive slaughters of many people. It's sad but true. I cry, but only for a moment.
What can I do to change this, you might think? Well, I'll tell you. Don't vote for George Bush. Anyone, but him, please. Thanks.
Or, you can just ignore it. Don't watch the news, or listen to the public radio. You can grow your own food on your land or in your home. Ignore everyone but the people around you.
Or, just give up the idea of home and live a life where the clock doesn't matter. The open road or unpaved trail or even the undiscovered hot spring is just enough to cure the soul of an adventurer, and it is the adventurer that we all seek to be becuase it is fun. It's all about having fun. That brings me to the real question, why live if it isn't fun?
Anyways, Hiker has a good point. I wouldn't go so far as to say we live for fun, because we live... to live... if that makes sense at all. In other words, the most important thing somewhere deep down in our subconscious is to survive.
I was talking to a guy on another forum about this. He had a similar (sort of) perspective on life--too many people take it totally seriously. I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was something along the lines of, "You can only take life seriously when you realize that it's not serious."
the greater things in life come with hard work and sacrifices. which don't count as fun for me. So yeah....the majority of people live their life with little fun. through soroughs and hard moments....from which you learn to be a better person. You wouldn't appreciate the 'fun' moments without them.
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beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the universe. the evolver of all.
When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme"
I don't think you live to have fun, I'd rephrase it to "you live trying to have as much fun as possible"
well, if you don't have fun at all (and you don't have a specific reason), that's probably not something that'll last forever, so you also live to enjoy the fun moments of life ... sad moments are the ones that lead you to more happy times
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for hating you I blame myself
seeing you it kills me now
no, I don't cry on the outside anymore...
I agree Ush!
(oh well, theres first time for everything)
Fun is not the only desirable thing in life. I also dont believe there is only one most important desirable thing.
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the First Couple stole fruits from every tree they passed
on their way to the gate, so as to spite their Creator.
And outside the Garden, crouched against the Wall
they gorged upon the Fruits, eating one after the other
until their bodies sickened with the excess of it,
and they puked them up
And the Seeds of Fruits were spilled in the dirt,
And from them came Monsters of the World,
Who were borin in filth,
And never knew there was such a thing as Love
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Hence why the legal age to vote is 18...not 17.
And it's true that too many people, KMC forums particular, don't enjoy life and have a good time. It's always about, I have school, don't do drugs, don't drink alcohol. BLAH! Save it you stick in the muds. Go run off to college for 6 of the best years of your life so you can rot away in a cubicle for the remainder of your life making $60,000 a year while b!tching the whole time about how you wasted your youth. I'll go trash my body doing extreme sports, drinking, and deprive myself of precious hours of sleep....and then worry about it when i'm old and decrepid.
Now if you don't mind, i'm going to take work off early to go surfing....then I'm going to get drunk with a bunch of my buddies and pick on some highschool kids. Man....life is grand!
Erm...I disagree Link! Id rather go to College and have best 6 years of my life, not working but studying and having rediculosly long holidays, so that after those best 6 years of my life, I can earn £60, 000 and afford to do whatever the hell I want, you're right, then, life is grand!
Or would you rather spend the best 6 years of your life, doing extreme sports, drinking, and deprive yourself of precious hours of sleep, so when you get old and wrinkly you can release that you instead of 6 years, you wasted your whole life?
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Sent out of Paradise Garden for their sins
the First Couple stole fruits from every tree they passed
on their way to the gate, so as to spite their Creator.
And outside the Garden, crouched against the Wall
they gorged upon the Fruits, eating one after the other
until their bodies sickened with the excess of it,
and they puked them up
And the Seeds of Fruits were spilled in the dirt,
And from them came Monsters of the World,
Who were borin in filth,
And never knew there was such a thing as Love
Gender: Male Location: Huntington Beach, California
Guess we share different points of view then.
I personally don't want to die of old age, i'd rather die doing the things in life that are most fun to me. If sitting at a desk 8 hours a day earning an average salary is your idea of fun....then best wishes on your future. My idea of fun involves going out and doing things like going to Las Vegas, surfing, skating, going to sporting events, getting rowdy and being myself. It's not, about being something that a corporation wants me to be.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by LilKitty
[B]Erm...I disagree Link! Id rather go to College and have best 6 years of my life, not working but studying and having rediculosly long holidays, so that after those best 6 years of my life, I can earn £60, 000 and afford to do whatever the hell I want, you're right, then, life is grand!
See, it's all about fun. You say you disagree with my view, but when it comes down to it, you want to go to school and get the good job and be secure so you can relax and have fun.
There's that word desirable again. People desire stuff because it's fun! Whether it's chewing tobacco or killing chickens, it is fun if it brings you joy, or if it satisfies the crave, mind you. Seriously.
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but only for a moment. 
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