Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by WalterBright on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:19AM
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I understand that sailing on the ocean is no small feat, but my problem with it is it doesn't actually accomplish anything. I want to do things that matter.
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Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by CPLX on Sunday December 30, 2018 @07:11AM
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This may be jarring to learn but we all enter the world naked, terrified, and alone, and fairly shortly thereafter leave the world the same way.
An individual might find meaning from travel, or meditation, or religious adherence, another from creating a family, another by being the greatest bullfighter to ever live, or creating an electronic simulation of violent war, but in none of these examples should anyone be incredibly confident that they have become an authority on which things matter more than others.
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by phkahler on Sunday December 30, 2018 @07:37AM
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In the end all we have is our story. Make it a good one.
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by state_less on Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:07AM
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More things matter than one might initially expect.
We all have a causal wake behind us.
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by mmirate3 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:21AM
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Spoiler alert: nothing can matter to you once you die. (And everyone dies.)
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by ben_w on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:50AM
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That’s like saying nothing can matter beyond the spatial extent of your body. Just another dimension.
Re:How the Valley treats experienced people
by mmirate3 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @09:33AM
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> nothing can matter beyond the spatial extent of your body
Insofar as the spatial extent of a body is extended by its brain's perception and knowledge ...
... the quoted words form a true statement.