What is the meaning of life?

[Rune]

Our wisdom teeth don't fit because we have evolved shorter jaws - with todays diet is there any need for them etc. Thats the arguement anyway.

Exactly humans just don't behave in manner that fits with the rest of the animal kingdom. Makes me wonder why that is.

[Trueogre]

I thought we all had bad back from practicing crap sex, but there you go  

But yeah we are a fragile race.  We consume, we want the world.  But will the world be here, once we've taken away all it's resources.

Oh yeah look at disease.  More and more are becoming immune.  Now the scientists are going to ants for anitbac solution to the problem as ants don't get sick.

Surely if you do that and the disease becomes immune to that, the ants are doomed because we've created a bug that CAN effect them?

Also how many other animals must we harvest their ability before we wipe them out as well.

A really good programme to watch is an episode of Sapphire and Steel where a family from the future come to live in our present (their past).  To see what it was like to live in this time.  The thing is they brought something back with them, that isn't going to forgive them anytime soon.

Another good one to watch is Soylent Green, a more truer account of the human culture, in where we are overpopulated and unable to feed everyone that a substitute food is found.

[Dagger]

Our wisdom teeth don't fit because we have evolved shorter jaws - with todays diet is there any need for them etc. Thats the arguement anyway.

Exactly humans just don't behave in manner that fits with the rest of the animal kingdom. Makes me wonder why that is.

Yes, there is a dispute over the wisdom teeth thing, but shorter jaws would have taken millions of years to evolve, and teeth do not evolve fast enough to cope with a change in diet that has arisen in the last ten thousand years. Remember that vestigial features are not eliminated by evolution unless they are detrimental to the individual. Since having wisdom teeth doesn't increase your chances of death as a species, there is no selection against that trait and therefore they remain, despite the change in diet and apparent uselessness.

[Rune]

there is a dispute over the wisdom teeth thing, but shorter jaws would have taken millions of years to evolve, and teeth do not evolve fast enough to cope with a change in diet that has arisen in the last ten thousand years. Remember that vestigial features are not eliminated by evolution unless they are detrimental to the individual. Since having wisdom teeth doesn't increase your chances of death as a species, there is no selection against that trait and therefore they remain, despite the change in diet and apparent uselessness.

yup thats the theory, lets just see if they can prove it with something substantial or how many alternative theories they can come up with mean time.

Lets not forget War of the Worlds - where a virus came to the rescue of the human race.

[Dagger]

Yup thats the theory, lets just see if they can prove it with something substantial or how many alternative theories they can come up with mean time.

In that case, there's nothing 'special' about humans having wisdom teeth... they're just useless vestiges, just like our appendix. And myriad other members of the animal kingdom have useless vestiges too.

[Rune]

nope not special, just another piece of the jigsaw of the meaning of life

so many theories so little proof - drives you mad

[Dagger]

nope not special, just another piece of the jigsaw of the meaning of life

so many theories so little proof - drives you mad

Not really... I question, but I don't really care.  

[Rune]

apathy is the best defense agaisnt the unknown

[Dagger]

Well, put it this way... you're never gonna know for sure. So there's no point getting worked up about it.

I'm gonna go make me a sammich.  

[Trueogre]

Actually that same virus that killed the aliens in War of the Worlds is the same virus that's also killing humans too.  

Feel safe still?

[Rune]

Yes - as Guns n Roses put it 'i don't worry about nothing cos worryings a waste of my time'

everytime someone sneezes these days its a scare and we're all going to die. maybe we're more resilent than we give ourselves credit for.

[Orlis sex-slave]

I dont know what the meaning of life is, but there has to be...either to make someone else happy or just revenge

[Trueogre]

I dont know what the meaning of life is, but there has to be...either to make someone else happy or just revenge

What?

[EG]

 yeah... revenge for what

[Garfield666999]

meaning of life is to have fun

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