Some of us choose not to perpetuate our DNA. See, for example, http://www.vhemt.org
It seems that religion (insert your religion, if any, here) promotes spirit as being central to the meaning and essence of human life.
Beyond that, however, perhaps anything else could amount to so much intellectual drivel.
Voodoo? Black magic? Please, remember the law of return.
What goes around, comes around.
That, is spirit.
There is no meaning…
nor any specific essence.
The concept… and the concept of concept is waste product of our brains mechanical function.
I got news for ya’ll.
Its very possible that just because you think you think does not mean you are.
No God, no Titans, no Quetzalcoatl, no Ahura Mazda… nada.
Oh that means no Jesus too… well not the stick your finger in me Jesus anyway.
There is Love.
So you say.
There is also “love you longtime two dalla”
I’m not sure they aren’t directly related in some way.
But hell is a fact?
Have you never loved or been loved without two dalla?
Someone always gets the dalla even if you are not aware of it.
Not that I’m aware of.
You been there?
I was talking about all types of love. I wasn’t talking about using folks for self-gratification in some way, shape, or form. If that is anvil’s only experience, I feel sorrow for him.
Lets be a little careful with handing down the self-righteous pity my friend.
I know what I’m talking about and I don’t think you are getting it.
Think about it for a while… or perhaps someone else will pick it up.
I have to take a meeting.
Well, I, for one, don’t know what you’re talking about either.
LOL!
BTW, and just because I happen to have a hot wood stove behind me, I’ve put on a pot, put some peanut oil into it, and soon I’ll have a basket of popcorn!
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
wasn’t Douglas Adams, was it?
ayup.
There is a third theory which suggests that both of the first two theories were concocted by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the universal level of uncertainty and paranoia and so boost the sales of the Guide. This last theory is of course the most convincing as The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the only book in the whole of the known universe to have the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover.
Agreed. There is such a thing as selfless love, which does not pass on DNA or provide the giver with enhanced comfort, survival, or reproductive capacity. It is rare, but it exists.
It is perhaps a mistake to assume that pity is always self-righteous, as it is a mistake to assume that love always has an underlying selfish motive.
$.02
Tom
You know, that makes a heckuva lot of sense. 
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