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So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 12:27 pm

Interesting question I was thinking about today. What do you think is the purpose of life and if it's over once you die? Could be religious purposes, success purposes, historical purposes, anything basically. What do you think? This is not be debated but to be discussed and expressed on what you believe. Please be serious, too.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 12:56 pm

well my personal opinion is that you never know if there will be anything after this so enjoy life as you know it

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 1:15 pm

You exist and then you die. Hope you enjoyed it.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 1:31 pm

Agree with you QBaller. Benji....is that reason your explanation of life? No hope of anything later on? Interesting....

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 1:35 pm

There is no evidence of an afterlife or anything beyond death. It is not falsifiable and impossible to plan or hope for. What's the point of worrying about it? You exist here, do things for your personal fulfillment here.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 1:42 pm

Very agreeable Benji. But there have been signs and other things proving afterlife right. For me Christianity has shown me it and I've come to believe it because it's so real and powerful
Anyway thanks for the feedback though I guess I am with you.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 1:46 pm

x-uNdErRaTeD-z wrote:But there have been signs and other things proving afterlife right.

No, no there haven't.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 5:32 pm

Qballer wrote:well my personal opinion is that you never know if there will be anything after this so enjoy life as you know it


Sounds good to me.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 5:51 pm

benji wrote:There is no evidence of an afterlife or anything beyond death. It is not falsifiable and impossible to plan or hope for. What's the point of worrying about it? You exist here, do things for your personal fulfillment here.

a lot of people live life "planning" for an afterlife, but it would be a huge waste of time if there isn't an afterlife.

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 8:25 pm

Life is about you making decisions as you grow. And by grow, I mean length. :cheeky:

Re: So what's life about?

Tue May 17, 2011 9:27 pm

The purpose of life is life itself (i.e. procreation).

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:02 am

So what's life about?

(Life) begins with an elderly inmate named Willie Long (Obba Babatundé) at the burial of his two friends who have just recently died in a fire in the prison's infirmary. He begins to tell two young men (Heavy D and Bonz Malone) who are inmates at the prison their story.
Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) and Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence) are two New Yorkers in 1932 from different worlds. Ray is a small-time hustler and Claude has just been accepted for a job as a bank teller, trying to make something of himself. They are both at a club called Spanky's when Ray picks Claude as his mark to pick-pocket. Later they both end up in debt to the club's owner, a loan shark named "Spanky" (Rick James). Ray arranges to have himself and Claude do some boot-legging in order to pay off their debt.
They head down south from New York in order to buy a carload of Mississippi 'hooch'. Unfortunately, before they can get back to New York, a man named Winston Hancock (Clarence Williams III), who swindles Ray in a card game, is murdered outside of a juke joint. Through a misunderstanding, Ray and Claude are blamed for the crime, and are sentenced to life in prison. They are sent to an infamous prison camp called 'Camp 8', located at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
At first Claude tries to get out by himself legally by telling his girlfriend Daisy to ask his attorney cousin Melvin to file an appeal on his behalf. Later, Claude gets a letter from Melvin and the news is not good. The appeal was denied and whats more, Daisy has left Claude for Melvin and are now engaged to be married(Daisy was clearly put off by Claude's selfishness since he was planning to abandon Ray). With any chance of getting out legally gone, Claude attempts to make be partners with Ray, who has a plan of getting out. Ray and Claude make several attempts to escape the prison. Early in their incarceration, they simply try running away in the middle of the night, getting as far as Tallahatchie before being tracked down--they are sentenced to a week in solitary confinement. Around 1944, during World War II, they meet a mute inmate named 'Can't-Get-Right' (Woodbine) who happens to be a talented baseball player. He catches the eye of a Negros League scout who indicates he can get him out of prison to play baseball. Seeing this as a golden opportunity to get out of prison, Ray and Claude tell the scout to put a word in for them as well (as they relate to 'Can't-Get-Right' in that they can coax him best to play). A month before his release, a gay inmate, Biscuit (Miguel A. Nuñez), commits suicide by deliberately running into a gun line. After 'Can't-Get-Right' is released to play baseball in Pittsburgh, Ray makes another escape plan (namely, hijacking a Stearman cropduster in a comically failed attempt to fly back to New York City) but Claude wants no part of it, angry with the fact that 'Can't-Get-Right' was released without them. Claude resigns himself to perishing in prison. This leads to an argument, which in turn leads to Ray and Claude going their separate ways. During the argument, it is revealed that Ray's father was sent to such a camp, and hung himself in despair. With them not talking, Camp 8 gets "a little harder and colder", and as 28 years (1944-1972) pass, all of the inmates who were friends of Ray, Claude, and Willie are either released or have passed on.
Many years later, in 1972, Ray and Claude are sent over to live at the Superintendent Dexter Wilkins' (Ned Beatty) mansion to work for him. Claude drives Superintendent Wilkins to pick up the new superintendent (R. Lee Ermey), who happens to be none other than Sheriff Warren Pike, the man who framed them 40 years earlier.
While on a hunt one day, Ray sees Pike pull out a pocket watch, and realizes that is in fact his father's, which was taken from him 40 years earlier. Ray confronts Pike, grabs a shotgun and accuses him of murdering Hancock. When Wilkins asks if this is true, Pike brags that he not only committed the murder, but framed Ray and Claude, revealing that "The state of Mississippi got 40 years of cheap labor out of the deal". Enraged, Claude and Ray begin fighting over the gun, both determined to shoot him. Pike attempts to kill them with a hidden pistol, but is shot and killed by Wilkins, who now realizes that Ray and Claude are innocent. He tells Ray and Claude he intends to write pardon papers for the two of them, but dies of a heart attack in his bathroom before he's able to do so.
In 1997, the present day, Ray and Claude are now elderly, and living in the (now-integrated) prison's infirmary. They realize by now that the only way they'll escape the prison is when they pass away. Later, while playing poker with Willie and some other inmates, Claude tells Ray of a plan that he thought up, and after a short argument, Ray follows Claude to hear the plan. That night, however, the infirmary catches fire, and everyone is able to get out except Claude. Willie tells Ray he's still inside, Ray goes back in to find him, when the entrance caves in behind him, presumably killing him.
In present day, Willie concludes the tale and the two workers are saddened by the story, but he reveals that the fire was part of the plan thought up by Ray and Claude. The two bodies being buried, presumably of Ray and Claude, were actually taken from the morgue, and Ray and Claude planned to escape the fire and prison by hiding on the departing fire trucks. When the workers ask why the plan did not work, Willie tells them that he "never said it didn't work". Willie wheels himself away, laughing and smoking a cigarette, as the inmates realize that the bodies they buried are not Ray and Claude.
The film ends with Ray and Claude back in New York, at a New York Yankees baseball game, doing what they always do: arguing. It concludes saying they now live in Harlem together.


Wikipedia is your friend. It's not hard to find these things out.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:04 am

Thanks for spoiling it jackass.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:06 am

God moves in mysterious ways.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:10 am

Plus you just assume it's that film instead of the former NBC show starring Captain Winters:
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Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:13 am

This was my other thought.

The modern game consists of a track on which players travel by spinning a small wheel with spaces numbered 1 through 10 located in the middle of the board. The board also contains small mountains, buildings, and other three-dimensional objects. Playing pieces are small, colored, plastic automobiles which come in red, blue, white, yellow, orange, and green; each car has six holes in the top in which blue and/or pink "people pegs" are placed throughout the game as the player "gets married" and has or adopts "children". Some "early modern" editions have eight automobiles.
Each game also includes a setup for a bank, which includes play money (in denominations of $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000, and $100,000), insurance policies (automobile, life, fire, and/or homeowners' insurance depending on the version), $20,000 promissory notes and stock certificates. Other tangibles vary with the game version.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:18 am

Everyone knows the spinner doesn't work right.

A metaphor maybe.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:20 am

The Spinner always stopped on 6 for me.

And always three times in a row.

6

6

6


OH CUNTING FUCK.

Re: So what's life about?

Wed May 18, 2011 12:22 am

The answer is 42.

Re: So what's life about?

Thu May 19, 2011 3:52 am

Everyone knows Adams just claimed that to throw everyone off from the answer that he actually figured out.
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