Let's compose a list of reasons why you shouldn't take yourself/the world to seriously. I might make this into a post if it gets good.
1. You once climbed headfirst out of a woman's vagina. (from XKCD)
2. You are full of shit, piss, and vomit.
D. You loose consciousness for an average of a third of each day.
4. There are more bacteria cells in your body than you cells.
Add your own!
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
Your body has 10 times as many bacteria cells as human cells.
Therefore, you are only 10% human.
Quote from: Sir Remington III on October 11, 2009, 06:13:03 AM
Your body has 10 times as many bacteria cells as human cells.
Therefore, you are only 10% human.
Mathematically speaking, wouldn't that make us 9.09% human?
Anyway, since all of the cells in our bodies make up our entirety, doesn't that make the bacteria cells "naturalized" human cells? They are still part of us, and we would die without them. The human DNA is more like the nucleus or the framework of what we are built out of, and the bacteria that also comprise our beings are just as vital to our humanity.
Quote from: Nigel on October 11, 2009, 11:48:31 PM
Quote from: Sir Remington III on October 11, 2009, 06:13:03 AM
Your body has 10 times as many bacteria cells as human cells.
Therefore, you are only 10% human.
Mathematically speaking, wouldn't that make us 9.09% human?
Anyway, since all of the cells in our bodies make up our entirety, doesn't that make the bacteria cells "naturalized" human cells? They are still part of us, and we would die without them. The human DNA is more like the nucleus or the framework of what we are built out of, and the bacteria that also comprise our beings are just as vital to our humanity.
This. Absofuckinglutely this.
And further, if you want to be THAT mystic (and I do, oh how I do).
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 12, 2009, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
:lulz:
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 12, 2009, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
Dan Quayle?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 12, 2009, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
Dan Quayle?
Among other Nobel Peace Prize winners......
God I'm so fucking old. :sad:
I shoulda known nobody would get the reference.
Shaddap and take your Geritol.
Quote from: LMNO on October 12, 2009, 07:38:00 PM
Shaddap and take your Geritol.
Then I get too excited, and hobble around hooting unintelligible things from between my toothless gums.
TGRR,
Uses a foreign orphan as a walker.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:36:17 PM
God I'm so fucking old. :sad:
I shoulda known nobody would get the reference.
I got it, but I am old too so...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 12, 2009, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
Dan Quayle?
Was he Dutch too? That explains everything.
Your genetics are the result of the combination of a random selection of half of the chromosomes of one partner and the complement from the other (not counting doubled-chromosomes and mutations). Neither one of your parents (nor both as a group) influenced you as much as the arbitrary interactions you had or observed with arbitrary people and things. Most of your base personality was set when you were an infant too young to speak, and a large chunk was set before you could even crawl. A good amount of the rest was probably generated by advertisers, between children's television, periodicals, and schools (which are typically happy for money and equipment from corporations who like to print logos on things). Your interests are largely determined by your peer group, which is largely determined by your location and those personality traits you got as an infant. Your love life, likewise, is largely determined by your peer group and your infancy, and those first few attempts were probably modeled off of television and film romances. So, your whole life thus far was largely determined by random chromosome swapping, the coincidence of proximity, television, advertising, and ambient noise and visuals you encountered as an infant.
The best reason not to take yourself or the world too seriously is that it makes you a giant douchebag.
Of course, sometimes being a giant douchebag is funny.
Quote from: Nigel on October 12, 2009, 11:51:09 PM
The best reason not to take yourself or the world too seriously is that it makes you a giant douchebag.
Of course, sometimes being a giant douchebag is funny.
You calling me funny?!
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:walken:
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on October 12, 2009, 11:00:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:36:17 PM
God I'm so fucking old. :sad:
I shoulda known nobody would get the reference.
I got it, but I am old too so...
I got it and I'm 18. Fuck, that isn't old now, is it?
Reason #11: Because you put your pance on one arm at a time like every one else.
Quote from: dimo on October 13, 2009, 06:35:25 PM
Reason #11: Because you put your pance on one arm at a time like every one else.
Oh, the anatomy!
:asplode:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on October 12, 2009, 01:10:36 PM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 11, 2009, 01:22:37 AM
Your brain is basically the same at a rats, only grown to a ridiculous size
For a very superficial definition of "basically". In the same sense, your DNA is basically the same as that of a potatoe.
Dan Quayle?
:lulz:
Dennis Leary has a great example from his No Cure For Cancer routine. "We kill the cows to make the leather jackets...then we kill each other for the leather jackets made from the cows."
I think the best example I can think of is one I learned from Psychology about Maslow's Hierarchy, or at least in that whole section of the class. It's a been studied that, once reaching a certain point of income, you'll be at the same level of happiness as anyone else in any other pay rate. Sure, an increase will make you excited for a while but then it'll stabilize again. And I more or less agree. I've never been in a family with a large disposable income or anything, but I've run the gamut from middle class to lower class to below poverty line. And, at least for me, as long as I've got the shit that I need to survive and a few superfluous things I'm good.
It helps me not take the world as seriously because, really, I know that the people with shitloads of money have just as many problems as I do, just different ones. And with some of the shit that I've heard about, I'm glad that my problems are money related and not the shit they deal with.
Here are a list of reasons -
I) God doesn't even want to know us
II) The world doesn't care.
V) I don't care
VI) If they don't care, why should I?
Of course, having problems is a normal part of being alive (The challenge, right?). It just takes a resolve, you can react with humour, you can react with bitterness... all in all - it doesn't matter. Its what is known best to the person.
Quote from: Chief Uwachiquen on December 22, 2009, 06:28:45 AMonce reaching a certain point of income, you'll be at the same level of happiness as anyone else in any other pay rate. Sure, an increase will make you excited for a while but then it'll stabilize again.
I try to tell people this, and they accuse me of being a communist.
(http://www.mrpotatohead.net/politics/quaylepotatohead.jpg)
also, taken from potato museum(the spud has his signature)
(http://melaniehamlett.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dan-quayle.jpg?w=500&h=375)
oh, and you shouldnt take life too seriously because if you do you may piss ofoff a lawyer and then THIS will happen to you...
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/12/22/alg_nose.jpg)
Quote from: Hangshai on December 22, 2009, 04:32:03 PM
oh, and you shouldnt take life too seriously because if you do you may piss of a lawyer and then THIS will happen to you...
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/12/22/alg_nose.jpg)
:spittake:
Just because other people are doing it doesn't mean you have to.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:40:17 PMThen I get too excited, and hobble around hooting unintelligible things from between my toothless gums.
There are times when you don't do this?
Your great ancestors were simple single celled organisms.
The more questions you answer, the more confusing things become.
uhhh......hail eris?
Quote from: Kaienne on December 23, 2009, 08:51:53 PM
Just because other people are doing it doesn't mean you have to.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:40:17 PMThen I get too excited, and hobble around hooting unintelligible things from between my toothless gums.
There are times when you don't do this?
No.
These are all "reasons" not to take oneself seriously.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html
There's a real reason.
Quote from: Felix on January 22, 2010, 07:27:26 PM
These are all "reasons" not to take oneself seriously.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html
There's a real reason.
Beutiful video, Felix. The vastness of the universe can truly put much into perspective.
Quote from: Felix on January 22, 2010, 07:27:26 PM
These are all "reasons" not to take oneself seriously.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100120.html
There's a real reason.
I like how this video shows a masterful sense of scale and perspective without evoking the pitying fatalistic feelings of insignificance other such videos try at.
Home is always the center of ones universe, no matter what the great forces within time might say otherwise.
Yeah, it reminded me of that early astronomy video "powers of 10" or something, where it showed the universe at powers of magnification, from the cosmic to the nuclear. That one didn't have magnificent rendering and perspective though.
THAT was incredible. I'm so showing this to my son tomorrow. It gave me a real sense of peace too.
Man, thanks.
:mittens:
wow, the most unnerving thing was when it went back home. I was really like, "wait, where do I live again" and then a few moments later "wtf that's just our galaxy?!? are we there yet"
I wish it did the whole thing where it goes down to human scale, then shows all the magnifications down to quarks and muons.