Comments on: The Meaning of Life

By: Hip E.

Hip E. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:27:30 +0000

Oh wait, I haven’t posted anything in three months.

By: Hip E.

Hip E. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:27:12 +0000

Andres Galaraga is reading The Jo-tel? I can now stop blogging and die in peace.

By: Patttttt (the real Big Cat)

Patttttt (the real Big Cat) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:08:53 +0000

Laguna Hills. Who is that? I also got a disturbing email yesterday from originalbigcat@yahoo.com. The stalking must come to an end (unless, of course, Andres Gallaragha is staking his claim).

By: Shark

Shark — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:23:40 +0000

IP address of impostor Patttttt:

209.76.234.10

By: Patttttt (the real Big Cat)

Patttttt (the real Big Cat) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:49:18 +0000

The horror.

By: Pattttttt (the real Big Cat)

Pattttttt (the real Big Cat) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:52:37 +0000

On second thought, I have moved away from Tanqueray and begun drinking lots of macro-lagers … but not Natural Light! It’s all about the Michelob Ultra pomegranate at the moment.

Good, good stuff.

War Kirby>Pikachu, and Bill “Hoodie” Belichick being allowed to make his own fashion statement.

By: Patttttt (the real Big Cat)

Patttttt (the real Big Cat) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:06:03 +0000

Oh, and nice work Shark. Way to throw the Jo-Tel on your back and say “follow me” for the last twelve months.

And congrats on getting engaged and what not.

By: Patttttt (the real Big Cat)

Patttttt (the real Big Cat) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:03:53 +0000

My favorite part of this blog is the Big Cat impersonators. Can someone check the IP and let me know who this is? It’s vexing, as the impersonation is spot on re Super Smash Brothers Melee yet so far off re Natural Light.

By: pattttttt

pattttttt — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:35:54 +0000

All this philosophical mumbo jumbo makes me tired. Give Big Cat some Super Smash Brothers melee and a case of Natural Light and Big Cat is content.

Big Cat out. War Hope Solo telling it like it is.

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:44:53 +0000

i used to lie in bed awake as a child and wonder if my life were merely an alien experiment, that i was one of the alien children, and my life on earth was merely an education on the species of mammals on this distant planet that we would one day go to take over. essentially, my entire life that i would live would merely be a computerized fantasy impregnated in my mind in order to educate me on the meaning of human life, and that when that program ended, i would merely wake up into another life on another alien world. i guess that doesn’t seem very realistic now that i am older.

but seriously, i will never look at my groceries the same way again.

By: M. Bock

M. Bock — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:06:44 +0000

Animals that pass basic tests of self-awareness (i.e., are sentient) should, in general, be afforded the same basic protections as cognitively deficient humans. Since we don’t have a United States of Earth … yet … we can’t do too much internationally, but we could at least stop allowing the butchering of whales in U.S. waters.

By: Hip E.

Hip E. — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:43:18 +0000

While humans are obviously extremely different from other forms of life we know about, I think the uniqueness of our self-consciousness is probably exagerated. The size and structure of our nervous systems differ from those of apes in degree, not kind. Not to mention dolphins. No I’m not saying this means we should start making ash trays out of people hands. But it could mean that eventually we start giving other large-brained sentient animals more of the protections of our human laws. On the other hand, there are a ton of humans who are not getting the protections of our laws.

By: M. Bock

M. Bock — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:33:24 +0000

Always! drill into their brains just to make sure! Plus, you can festoon your bedposts with entrails.

Shark needs to be oppressed by the heavy weight of religion: living free as a bird in communist San Francisco immunizes one to what it’s actually like to deal with religious folk, policies, and beliefs. If he was beaten down a bit more, he’d probably be more like Hippy in his proselytizing of rational thought.

By: Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:29:02 +0000

Other people are Definitely not robots!

By: M. Bock

M. Bock — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:13:11 +0000

If you choose to see yourself as a biological automatom whose meaning is defined by his cellular/molecular/physiological structure, I suppose that is quite reasonable.

However, unlike all other forms of matter we know of, humans have a conscious WILL. Rather than meandering along your predestined biological route, choose your path and purpose, and make it so. It need not be grand, just fulfilling to you.

No God. No Kings. Only Man.

**Also, the “I can’t be sure of my surrounding argument”, while interesting when drunk, is essentially a form of mental masturbation. It reached its “climax” with the awesome “It’s overwhelmingly likely that we are living in a computer simulation” hypothesis by someone whose name I can’t remember.