Are you happy that Michael Jackson died?

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Are you happy that Michael Jackson died?
some people are!!! they are haters

Answer

NO IM NOT HAPPY THAT MICHAEL JACKSON THE KING OF POP DIED! IM TIRED OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING THERE HAPPY HE DIED JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT HAD HAPPEND IN THE PAST. HE WAS A GREAT INFLUENCE TO THE MUSIC WORLD. AND HE SHOULD NOT BE HAVING BAD THINGS SAID ABOUT HIM.WHEN PEOPLE DIE YOUR SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER THE GOOD ABOUT THEM NOT THE BAD! AND TO ALL THE HATERS GO AHEAD AND MARK THUMBS DOWN ON MY ANSWER BECAUSE I DONT REALLY CARE! R.I.P MICHAEL JACKSON THE KING OF POP!

Are you good at remembering names?

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Are you good at remembering names?

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Not really, Im better on remembering other specifics about any one particular human being, but not always the name but is common, as once we learnknow any particular thing, we do tend to visualize them doing it, therefore we can remember that best about them.

The worlds most mind boggling question. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around does it make a noise

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The worlds most mind boggling question. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around does it make a noise
Back up your answer. Tell me why. Include if you believe in God or not. Age and gender too, it is a study for my psychiatry class.

Answer

If a spouse cheats on their mate and the mate is not around did that spouse make a noise or better yet did it really happen?brbrDoes the use of a shot gun jealous fit prove it happen?brbrIf you come home and find that your house burnt down did it make some noise as it caved in?brbrDoes no one being around to have seen the fire, mean there was no fire or that it did not happen?brbrThere is nothing mind boggling about your question other than if you really believe that it is mind boggling.brbrMind boggling is this go out in the middle of no where at night outside city limits where there is no light, so you can see as many stars as possible.brbrThen stare at them...and think if there was nothing where did it come from or when did it start? Dont cop out using God as an excuse...He is not going to be upset if you ponder that...He will be upset if every damn time you are faced with a challenge you use Him as a excuse. Get some balls and ponder that. ltin reference only to those who cop out and say, but Jesus Blah, Blah, Blah as the answer or response. Hi Ho ridem cowboy I am all for religion, but not ignorance.

The very thing you wish to control in another person will be the thing that will destroy you?

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The very thing you wish to control in another person will be the thing that will destroy you?
it will become your Frankenstein do you agree?

Answer

Of all the answers, MegOn the Run was the only one who expressed the quotFrankensteinquot in your question. quot...I have grown weary of letting it control me.quotbrThis is the Frankenstein, not the quotthing.quot brQuite a few perceived the quotthingquot as a mirror reflectionwhat you dislike in others is what you should work on yourself more, etc. Some pointed out destruction of the person one wishes to control. brI believe that any psychologically sound person would agree that that we should not wish, or attempt to control another. brIt is the motivation to control that can destroy you. It can be a fixation, amp a very unhealthy attitude. THAT is the root of the destruction.

The very thing you wish to control in another person will be the thing that will destroy you?

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The very thing you wish to control in another person will be the thing that will destroy you?
it will become your Frankenstein do you agree?

Answer

Of all the answers, MegOn the Run was the only one who expressed the quotFrankensteinquot in your question. quot...I have grown weary of letting it control me.quotbrThis is the Frankenstein, not the quotthing.quot brQuite a few perceived the quotthingquot as a mirror reflectionwhat you dislike in others is what you should work on yourself more, etc. Some pointed out destruction of the person one wishes to control. brI believe that any psychologically sound person would agree that that we should not wish, or attempt to control another. brIt is the motivation to control that can destroy you. It can be a fixation, amp a very unhealthy attitude. THAT is the root of the destruction.

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

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The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

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It is worse to feel nothing.brbrThe pain of sorrow is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they dont become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your womanman leaves you alonethose dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that womanman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day shehe is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.brbrLife consists of sorrow too. And sorrow is also beautiful it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sorrow he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.brbrThe man who cannot laugh deeply is the man who has repressed sorrow he cannot go deep because he is afraid of sorrow. Even if he goes deep into his laughter, there is a fear that sorrow may surface, may bubble up. He has to be always on guard. So please, whatsoever the situation is, start allowing it. If you are sad, you are sad. This is what God means for you at this moment at least he wants you to be sad. So be true...be sad! Live this sadness. And if you can live this sorrow a different quality of happiness will arise in you it will not be a repression of sadness, it will be beyond sorrow.brbrRemember, if you have not known sorrow together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial your sorrow is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface then you have known only the waves you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.brbrYou will be surprised if you can meditate on sorrow, sorrow will reveal its secrets to you and they are of tremendous value. And sorrow, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sorrow disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sorrow disappears out of meditation there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sorrow that surrounds it. In fact, sorrow is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born.brbrAnanda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was at Buddhas side constantly, attending to his every need for fortytwo years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his misunderstanding Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled he should be rejoicing. But Ananda said, quotYou misunderstand. Im weeping not for him but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at his side but I have still not attained.quot Ananda stayed awake for the whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the morning, it is said, he was enlightened. brbrTimes of great sorrow have the potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or selfpity.brbrGod Bless

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

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The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Answer

It is worse to feel nothing.brbrThe pain of sorrow is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they dont become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your womanman leaves you alonethose dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that womanman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day shehe is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.brbrLife consists of sorrow too. And sorrow is also beautiful it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sorrow he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.brbrThe man who cannot laugh deeply is the man who has repressed sorrow he cannot go deep because he is afraid of sorrow. Even if he goes deep into his laughter, there is a fear that sorrow may surface, may bubble up. He has to be always on guard. So please, whatsoever the situation is, start allowing it. If you are sad, you are sad. This is what God means for you at this moment at least he wants you to be sad. So be true...be sad! Live this sadness. And if you can live this sorrow a different quality of happiness will arise in you it will not be a repression of sadness, it will be beyond sorrow.brbrRemember, if you have not known sorrow together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial your sorrow is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface then you have known only the waves you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.brbrYou will be surprised if you can meditate on sorrow, sorrow will reveal its secrets to you and they are of tremendous value. And sorrow, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sorrow disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sorrow disappears out of meditation there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sorrow that surrounds it. In fact, sorrow is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born.brbrAnanda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was at Buddhas side constantly, attending to his every need for fortytwo years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his misunderstanding Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled he should be rejoicing. But Ananda said, quotYou misunderstand. Im weeping not for him but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at his side but I have still not attained.quot Ananda stayed awake for the whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the morning, it is said, he was enlightened. brbrTimes of great sorrow have the potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or selfpity.brbrGod Bless

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Question

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Answer

It is worse to feel nothing.brbrThe pain of sorrow is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they dont become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your womanman leaves you alonethose dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that womanman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day shehe is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.brbrLife consists of sorrow too. And sorrow is also beautiful it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sorrow he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.brbrThe man who cannot laugh deeply is the man who has repressed sorrow he cannot go deep because he is afraid of sorrow. Even if he goes deep into his laughter, there is a fear that sorrow may surface, may bubble up. He has to be always on guard. So please, whatsoever the situation is, start allowing it. If you are sad, you are sad. This is what God means for you at this moment at least he wants you to be sad. So be true...be sad! Live this sadness. And if you can live this sorrow a different quality of happiness will arise in you it will not be a repression of sadness, it will be beyond sorrow.brbrRemember, if you have not known sorrow together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial your sorrow is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface then you have known only the waves you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.brbrYou will be surprised if you can meditate on sorrow, sorrow will reveal its secrets to you and they are of tremendous value. And sorrow, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sorrow disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sorrow disappears out of meditation there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sorrow that surrounds it. In fact, sorrow is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born.brbrAnanda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was at Buddhas side constantly, attending to his every need for fortytwo years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his misunderstanding Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled he should be rejoicing. But Ananda said, quotYou misunderstand. Im weeping not for him but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at his side but I have still not attained.quot Ananda stayed awake for the whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the morning, it is said, he was enlightened. brbrTimes of great sorrow have the potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or selfpity.brbrGod Bless

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Question

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Answer

It is worse to feel nothing.brbrThe pain of sorrow is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they dont become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your womanman leaves you alonethose dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that womanman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day shehe is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.brbrLife consists of sorrow too. And sorrow is also beautiful it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sorrow he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.brbrThe man who cannot laugh deeply is the man who has repressed sorrow he cannot go deep because he is afraid of sorrow. Even if he goes deep into his laughter, there is a fear that sorrow may surface, may bubble up. He has to be always on guard. So please, whatsoever the situation is, start allowing it. If you are sad, you are sad. This is what God means for you at this moment at least he wants you to be sad. So be true...be sad! Live this sadness. And if you can live this sorrow a different quality of happiness will arise in you it will not be a repression of sadness, it will be beyond sorrow.brbrRemember, if you have not known sorrow together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial your sorrow is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface then you have known only the waves you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.brbrYou will be surprised if you can meditate on sorrow, sorrow will reveal its secrets to you and they are of tremendous value. And sorrow, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sorrow disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sorrow disappears out of meditation there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sorrow that surrounds it. In fact, sorrow is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born.brbrAnanda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was at Buddhas side constantly, attending to his every need for fortytwo years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his misunderstanding Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled he should be rejoicing. But Ananda said, quotYou misunderstand. Im weeping not for him but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at his side but I have still not attained.quot Ananda stayed awake for the whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the morning, it is said, he was enlightened. brbrTimes of great sorrow have the potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or selfpity.brbrGod Bless

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Question

The sorrow inside Is it worse to feel Sorrow or to feel Nothing?

Answer

It is worse to feel nothing.brbrThe pain of sorrow is not to make you sad, remember. Thats where people go on missing.... This pain is just to make you more alertbecause people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their heart and wounds them. Otherwise they dont become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your womanman leaves you alonethose dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that womanman so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day shehe is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, the pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.brbrLife consists of sorrow too. And sorrow is also beautiful it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sorrow he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.brbrThe man who cannot laugh deeply is the man who has repressed sorrow he cannot go deep because he is afraid of sorrow. Even if he goes deep into his laughter, there is a fear that sorrow may surface, may bubble up. He has to be always on guard. So please, whatsoever the situation is, start allowing it. If you are sad, you are sad. This is what God means for you at this moment at least he wants you to be sad. So be true...be sad! Live this sadness. And if you can live this sorrow a different quality of happiness will arise in you it will not be a repression of sadness, it will be beyond sorrow.brbrRemember, if you have not known sorrow together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial your sorrow is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface then you have known only the waves you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are.brbrYou will be surprised if you can meditate on sorrow, sorrow will reveal its secrets to you and they are of tremendous value. And sorrow, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sorrow disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sorrow disappears out of meditation there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have broken the ice of sorrow that surrounds it. In fact, sorrow is like the shell that surrounds the seed it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born.brbrAnanda, the cousin and disciple of Gautam Buddha. He was at Buddhas side constantly, attending to his every need for fortytwo years. When Buddha died, the story is told that Ananda was still at his side, weeping. The other disciples chastised him for his misunderstanding Buddha had died absolutely fulfilled he should be rejoicing. But Ananda said, quotYou misunderstand. Im weeping not for him but for myself, because for all these years I have been constantly at his side but I have still not attained.quot Ananda stayed awake for the whole night, meditating deeply and feeling his pain and sorrow. By the morning, it is said, he was enlightened. brbrTimes of great sorrow have the potential to be times of great transformation. But in order for transformation to happen we must go deep, to the very roots of our pain, and experience it as it is, without blame or selfpity.brbrGod Bless

There is a village where the barber shaves all those and only those who do not shave themselves.?

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There is a village where the barber shaves all those and only those who do not shave themselves.?
Who shaves the barber?

Answer

As stated in other answers it is a paradox. But the paradox is created only by asking the question. Therefore to resolve the paradox the question must not exist. Thus the paradox cannot be resolved unless the definition of quotquestionquot does not involve the definition of quotexistencequot. Since anything that is scrupulated by logic must have a state of quotisquot then any definition must involve the definition of quotexistence.quot Unless logic has no meaning. Therefore the meaning of life is to determine whether logic has meaning or not and to present your answer to others in the most meaningfull way.

The most fundamental question. Did god create human beings or humans created god?

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The most fundamental question. Did god create human beings or humans created god?

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i think personally that it doesnt really matter if one created the other....religion is a necessary aspect of life...without we wouldnt be where we are today....it brings not only hope, but fear and joy. The world as a whole would be in chaos without religion...and this is coming from someone who isnt religious!!! ha! I do however believe in a higher power...there are too many coincidences in this world!brbrif you believe something exists without a doubt does that not make it real? and im not talking about crazy pink bunnies or flying pigs...i mean beliefsbrbrread allegory of the cave....similar to this question i guessbrbrhope my unbiased answer made sense

Are you afraid of death? If not why?

Question

Are you afraid of death? If not why?
Can we avoid the usual supernatural stuff here please, ie JesusGodAllah etc. as I think that is all a bit subjective.

Answer

Of course. We all fear the unknown to some extent thats part of what it means to be human, and it is part of the survival mechanism that made humans such extraordinary survivors. We cant imagine what it would be like to not be, or to not wake up after sleep, so we imagine all kinds of afterlife that we could exist in. Im as scared as anyone of not being, but Im even more scared of people who believe absolutely that they know theres an afterlife and would have no problems with killing me because they are right!

Are we lucky to be alive or are we doomed for being born? why?

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Are we lucky to be alive or are we doomed for being born? why?

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We are only born once carnally now, to be born again requires repentance, changing ones way, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ... He makes life lucky! Failure comes from making our decisions and actions sinful after birth, years down the road. I am luck to be alive and be a Christian, when many are not chosen best answer, or not, still holds credibility years after my birth.

Are we lucky to be alive or are we doomed for being born? why?

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Are we lucky to be alive or are we doomed for being born? why?

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We are only born once carnally now, to be born again requires repentance, changing ones way, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ... He makes life lucky! Failure comes from making our decisions and actions sinful after birth, years down the road. I am luck to be alive and be a Christian, when many are not chosen best answer, or not, still holds credibility years after my birth.

Are we all wrong ?

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Are we all wrong ?
Are people made wrong? In design we age and our bodies are weak and the minds that control them are just as weak and unpredictable, this is not a good design.

Answer

I would imagine that if your goal was to design something that would have the best chance of lasting, such as the survival of the human race, then you would want something that could adapt to the changes we might encounter in our world. As our DNA quotblueprintquot is past down through the generations, there is a great potential for modification and an increase in efficiency as necessitated by those environmental vagaries.brbrIt is best to think of yourself as as Honda SUV, which is actually not a bad car! But to meet the problem of dwindling resources our survival as a car species depends on our offspring being more hybridish. And of course, none of this would be very helpful if we stuck around to compete for those resources. brbrUnfortunately, there is only a limited amount of room on our highways. Do we really want to foul things up with a bunch of old gas guzzlers?brbrOf course, it would then not be surprising to wonder if we could ever create such a perfect design that there would be no need for the potential for adaptation. In other words, could we design something that could meet all future contingencies?brbrMany people feel that the evolutionary process will only successfully end, when we have obtained some Godlike status. Of course, these same people are also running around saying that anything that doesnt kill them, makes them stronger, so I wouldnt take it on face value.brbrMy guess is that we will be able to stop evolving much sooner perhaps when we have obtained the status of those monsters from the Alien movies.

Are there objects that dont exist?

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Are there objects that dont exist?

Answer

This is just my take from a programmers point of view. If an object does not exist, it is null object. This means the definition for the object is there, but there is no instance of the object in existence. Let us say that we have an idea for widget X. We have a definition for it, but until it is built, it does not exist. However, once it comes into the mind as a physical thing, then it exists.

Are there objects that dont exist?

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Are there objects that dont exist?

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This is just my take from a programmers point of view. If an object does not exist, it is null object. This means the definition for the object is there, but there is no instance of the object in existence. Let us say that we have an idea for widget X. We have a definition for it, but until it is built, it does not exist. However, once it comes into the mind as a physical thing, then it exists.

Are there objects that dont exist?

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Are there objects that dont exist?

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This is just my take from a programmers point of view. If an object does not exist, it is null object. This means the definition for the object is there, but there is no instance of the object in existence. Let us say that we have an idea for widget X. We have a definition for it, but until it is built, it does not exist. However, once it comes into the mind as a physical thing, then it exists.