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No.  Another special snowflake decided they were too unique for the actual intro thread and started one here.

Since this is the top forum on the site, it is the one most new people look at and...well, you can figure out the rest.

Oh. So there was an intro thread.

So far,  you are my favorite new guy this week.

This week? My ego won't allow that, I'll have to shoot for favorite of the month instead 

Alright, if this is a newb/introduction thread, my turn.

My story has to do with a neo-helenistic new age pagan girlfriend I had about a year ago who did all sorts of weird things, so I was bored one afternoon and looked up helenistic paganism. On Wikipedia. You know how that goes.

Two hours of clicking later, I had found something even weirder than she was. You see, I was reading a book at the time by James Gleik about Chaos as science and found that particular section profoundly interesting, which naturally led me from one thing to the next... hey, it's not as bad as the time I had a conversation where the transition went "food porno -> porno-funk as a music genre -> Jewish reggae -> Adolf Hitler's humanitarian side -> napkin eating contest" and made perfect sense. Don't judge me.

As for what discordianism is, well, I still don't know if it's real or not. But it hung around and she's gone now, so that's gotta count for something. Maybe. Or maybe it's more like Hobbes, part of and yet external from Calvin. I don't know. I just don't know.

Ah, yes, the teenage existential crisis. I had one of those myself, about a year back.

You could try not trying to justify life at all. I really think human life quite insane and completely illogical, but that's the beauty of it. 7 billion little confused creatures floating on a rock asking the same question; "why?" Truth is, happiness and pleasure are actually completely unrelated to life and "the bigger picture", if I can call it that. In fact, life isn't yours at all, not as a birthright or anything. It's a gift that can be easily revoked. Neither is there any meaning to it, besides that we put into it by searching for meaning - which also happens to be ultimately superficial.

And yet, life finds a way. So let it justify itself. That isn't order or a grand plan, that's chaos at its finest - both a big joke and a serious work of art.