What have you learned from life?

[scrambledeggs]

you run faster with a knife.

Did you know you actually run faster with a scout?

 

[Romblen]

I've learned that it's best to expect the worse. If the worse comes to pass, you'll be ready for it and you won't be disappointed. If something better happens, than you have only gained.

 

[Cody211282]

Life's a ***** and then you die.

I learned that if you really want to be succesfull at anything. You need to practice.
To the zone. And if you realy want that high level of skill. Stop caring what others think of you.
Legendary quote: " I dont give a fuck what anyone else on this planet thinks of me "
brought me succes with women, karate, and my studies.

I hope that when you are about to die, that practice gives you the comfortable knowledge that your life has not been an exercise in selfish futility. I mean that.

Because existence isn't ultimately futile.

If you have the faith to believe that, more power to you. It's why humans evolved the capacity for faith, after all. If I may quote early man as he looked up at the stars and wondered why he didn't fall up into the utter blackness, "I don't like not knowing."

Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

Not faith, pure fact.

Nihilistic/existentialist views on the world are ultimately correct. Why? Because as far as what we know about universe goes, at some point everything will be reduced to nothing. If we're still stuck on one planet, the sun's not gonna burn forever. Otherwise, heat death from good ol' buddy entropy, or the potential big crunch (I haven't read much in the field of astronomy lately, don't know if that theory still holds).

So, ultimately, everything will be destroyed with no retrievable evidence of it's existence because there wouldn't be anyone to retrieve it.

In much shorter time periods, like a lifetime, one can devote his or her time to various shorter-term goals. Basically, existentialism. You create your own meaning, because there is no meaning otherwise.

Well aren't you a little rain of sunshine.



Also pain is fleeting, glory is forever.

 

[Velvo]

Life's a ***** and then you die.

I learned that if you really want to be succesfull at anything. You need to practice.
To the zone. And if you realy want that high level of skill. Stop caring what others think of you.
Legendary quote: " I dont give a fuck what anyone else on this planet thinks of me "
brought me succes with women, karate, and my studies.

I hope that when you are about to die, that practice gives you the comfortable knowledge that your life has not been an exercise in selfish futility. I mean that.

Because existence isn't ultimately futile.

If you have the faith to believe that, more power to you. It's why humans evolved the capacity for faith, after all. If I may quote early man as he looked up at the stars and wondered why he didn't fall up into the utter blackness, "I don't like not knowing."

Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

Not faith, pure fact.

Nihilistic/existentialist views on the world are ultimately correct. Why? Because as far as what we know about universe goes, at some point everything will be reduced to nothing. If we're still stuck on one planet, the sun's not gonna burn forever. Otherwise, heat death from good ol' buddy entropy, or the potential big crunch (I haven't read much in the field of astronomy lately, don't know if that theory still holds).

So, ultimately, everything will be destroyed with no retrievable evidence of it's existence because there wouldn't be anyone to retrieve it.

In much shorter time periods, like a lifetime, one can devote his or her time to various shorter-term goals. Basically, existentialism. You create your own meaning, because there is no meaning otherwise.

Oh certainly I agree with you, sir. But I thought that your point was that existence is NOT ultimately futile. Oh well, misunderstanding I suppose.

It seems to be more likely that the universe will continue to expand forever, or at least expand asymptotically to a certain size, depending on dark energy quantities and the possible production of dark matter. There's still the possibility of a big crunch, but it really depends on whether gravity can pick up the pace in beating expansion.

It's not necessarily fact that humans will ever die out. We could expand to the furthest reaches of the universe and engineer ways to recycle every bit of energy in it (preventing heat death) and reproducing until we reach the point that the universe can no longer sustain any more of us. (that's how you beat the game, I guess.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question .

The point is NOT whether the eventual end of humanity is inevitable rendering anything we do now moot. The point is whether or not there was any meaning to existence in the FIRST place. We can't really know, as "outside existence" is not really part of our playbook.

We can only understand "meaning" in terms of ourselves, and some people make that dangerous and unprovable extension to "the universe was made for us." I understand why that's silly, but people do much more dangerous things than that for peace of mind. I can relate.

Maybe one day people will find less silly things to sink their faith into, like faith in the concreteness of reality or in the good of generally being good to each other, but faith (of some kind) is part of being human, I think (you can't know anything for sure, after all).

Anyway, faith is important is what I've learned.

 

[Wayneguard]

you run faster with a knife.

Did you know you actually run faster with a scout?

are you joking? I never knew that o_0

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Trust no-one

 

[LogicNProportion]

Final Fantasy VII taught me:

"Life. It's kind of like a train. It can only run where its tracks take it."

-Cloud Strife

 

[The Rockerfly]

Ha! You are going to be unhappy in time with that attitude, friend.

-Humankind is a social species. You find a group you can rely on, or a community you can rely on, or a government you can rely on, or you die lonely.
-Nothing is free. You pay for it with the hours of your life.
-No one is so essential that the world will not forget you in time. If you fuck up, don't fret too much. It won't bother you long.
-Life is not taken from the womb like an opportunity seized. It is given, both in sorrow and joy. The opportunities to become a better person are, again, given. You are a combination of your environment and your genetics (arguably also environment), so feel lucky if you're not "down."

I'm sorry, I think of the image of the "self made man" and I think of a fellow being birthed out of his own womb. Ridiculous.

It's not a case of loneliness but if you ask someone to do something, make sure they do it and don't make a leap of faith on that. More something you should apply for work

How can you rely on something that changes constantly with thousands of human variables. Such as internal problems, external problems, emotional, reactions to changes you make. Relying on someone is a really bad idea and will get you hurt in one way or another

Nothing is free? Things are free, the beauty of nature is one good example

I do agree with the last one though but you are still the master of your own destiny, you can move to any country at any time. The only thing stopping you is you own mindset


Also I am not lonely, I have a girlfriend of 7 months, a bunch of close friends and a best mate. Don't make assumptions like that without knowledge of the person

 

[HardkorSB]

In your experiences in real life experiences, movies, games, books and basically any situation ever, what have you learned?

Erm, everything I know?

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I know nothing.

 

[open trap]

I have learned that heavy metal is totally awsome and is the only culture that i finde to be pure and totally awsome at the same time.

 

[AngloDoom]

Confidence is the key to pretty much everything. Especially relationships.

 

[Woodsey]

Don't eat yellow snow.

 

[Lizmichi]

Oh god I could go on and on and on with this topic. Ok well, life is what you make it so work you're ass off to get where you want to be, there are no free handouts, don't cut you're self off from people that care about you, friends should respect your feelings and never let anyone tell you who you are. That would be the bigger lessons I've learned. I'm 21 and I can already write a book filled with the things I've learned in life.

 

[Blackjack 222]

Trust 3 people total and don't be shocked if they backstab you
Never rely on anyone to do something, when they fail/don't do it don't be shocked
Want something done you need to do it yourself
When your opponent gets to the goal don't be surprised when your entire defense is sleeping or 7 snipers who can't even hit the wall behind the guy they shoot at
Just because you can sing dosen't mean you should
If you CAN'T sing and DO please stop before everyone in the world kills you
If act like your about to die you had better be about to die
When you do stupid shit your going to hurt yourself

If you can't lead don't
If you can't lead and try and pass blame onto someone else go kill yourself now we don't need more politicians
If you want to lead but have no business doing it please go to politics and leave us the hell alone

 

[superbatranger]

Anything can and will happen, so be prepared. Even though the world is full of those who do not care about others, there are still good people out there.