Age-old question.

 

Do you have a clue?

 

What are we living for, anyway?

 

Are you able to put it into words?

 

What are we living for....

 

 

That is the question.

 

Regards,...

 

 

Poon tang

41 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Age-old question.

 

old-age question

 

there fixed it for you. 

You seem to be having a Ray Davies moment?

 

 

We were created because we could be, not necessarily by design.

 

We were born not through choice, it was because we could be.

 

We will die not through choice.

 

Sit back and enjoy the ride and the view because at some point you'll have to get off the bus, in the meantime, don't think too much.

31 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

old-age question

 

there fixed it for you. 

 

Please....

 

Don't twist my words.

 

 

31 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

You seem to be having a Ray Davies moment?

 

 

 

 

If, a NOBEL....

 

Ray Davies....YES!

 

Bob Zimmerman....NO..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ray was so much better.

 

But, Zimmerman seems to have been much more popular with the Swedes...

 

 

 

Sex

Golf

Booze

More sex

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Please....

 

Don't twist my words.

 

 

 

please face the truth. 

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Age-old question.

 

Do you have a clue?

 

What are we living for, anyway?

 

Are you able to put it into words?

 

What are we living for....

 

 

That is the question.

 

Regards,...

 

 

 

There is no underlying reason we are just here. 

 

Or if you must have one? -To procreate.

What are we living for ......tomorrow...and hope its a better day , than yesterday.

 

 

regards worgeordie 

20 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

What are we living for ......tomorrow...and hope its a better day , than yesterday.

What are we living for ......tomorrow...and hope its as good as today or yesterday.

Edited December 27, 20232 yr by KhunLA

We've been given the GIFT of life....

Based on 76 years of living = it beats the alternative....

 

That may vary person to person....

 

I have a good wife to go through life and with  laughter, an upbeat outlook, a cuddle, and (still) more - we have family on both sides that offer love, support, and willingly share their lives with us - sprinkle in a few dogs & cats, a few interests and hobbies along the way.... Our health is good + active....

As mentioned before....

It beats any (known) alternative....

 

Back to you Gamma....

Is the pursuit of imponderable questions satisfying? Or is it a bottomless abyss who's itch we just can't fathom  to reach & scratch.....

 

Life aint nothin but bitches and money -NWA

*and beer

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Age-old question.

 

Do you have a clue?

 

What are we living for, anyway?

 

Are you able to put it into words?

 

What are we living for....

 

 

That is the question.

 

Regards,...

 

 

The sole purpose of us being here is exactly the same as every other living thing on this planet. To propagate our genes. (The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins 1976)

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

What are we living for, anyway?

It's NOT your posts, that's for sure!

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Age-old question.

 

Do you have a clue?

 

What are we living for, anyway?

 

Are you able to put it into words?

 

What are we living for....

 

 

That is the question.

 

Regards,...

 

 

To be, or not to be? That is the question.

I didn't get a choice in it.

 

If I can go back in time I'm going to make my father be elsewhere on the night he impregnated my mother, so I never get born.

Mindless and senseless consumption, accumulation and waste. 

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I didn't get a choice in it.

 

If I can go back in time I'm going to make my father be elsewhere on the night he impregnated my mother, so I never get born.

 

1 hour ago, zzaa09 said:

Mindless and senseless consumption, accumulation and waste. 

 

 

To be happy and carefree like these two

shakespeare answeret that question.

 

“Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

I live for only one thing....

 

WATERLOO SUNSETS....

 

And other beautiful songs, such as this one, if only we could find one, these days.....

 

 

 

Note:  Bobby Zimmerman....  Eat Your Heart Out....  You, Bobby, are GARBAGE...compared to Ray Davies...

 

Ray Davies is REAL

Bobby is a FAKE, a faker in every way....

 

So solly....

 

 

Edited December 28, 20232 yr by GammaGlobulin

Most people don't live for anything. They just use up resources until they die.

On 12/27/2023 at 10:20 AM, pgrahmm said:

We've been given the GIFT of life....

Based on 76 years of living = it beats the alternative....

 

That may vary person to person....

 

I have a good wife to go through life and with  laughter, an upbeat outlook, a cuddle, and (still) more - we have family on both sides that offer love, support, and willingly share their lives with us - sprinkle in a few dogs & cats, a few interests and hobbies along the way.... Our health is good + active....

As mentioned before....

It beats any (known) alternative....

 

Back to you Gamma....

Is the pursuit of imponderable questions satisfying? Or is it a bottomless abyss who's itch we just can't fathom  to reach & scratch.....

 

Transient joys.

On 12/27/2023 at 4:27 PM, Gandtee said:

To be, or not to be? That is the question.

The postman's conundrum

On 12/27/2023 at 8:13 AM, bkk6060 said:

Sex

Golf

Booze

More sex

Listen to his nonsense all day every day.

16 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

Most people don't live for anything. They just use up resources until they die.

 

But, I am here to tell you that I am the exception to the rule....

 

I use resources, but only sparingly.

 

I do not waste my juices, nor my precious bodily fluids.... Mandrake....!

 

I have been waiting, and husbanding my juices,...until....

 

One day, when I am ready....

 

I will gush forth, and spread my bodily fluids, like Melville's sperm whale in heat....

 

Mark my words...

 

I have been husbanding my strength, biding my time, waiting for the moment....

 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

The postman's conundrum

 

The Postman Only Rings Twice...

 

And, The Bell Tolls for Thee....

 

 'Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'

 

Who said that?

 

Some fisherman?

 

Some fisherman, fishing among the Islands In The Stream?

 

 

1 minute ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

The Postman Only Rings Twice...

 

And, The Bell Tolls for Thee....

 

 'Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.'

 

Who said that?

 

Some fisherman?

 

Some fisherman, fishing among the Islands In The Stream?

 

 

Kenny Rogers killed the Project Director's budgerigar, back in the day, back in Hong Kong.

We had a project apartment, and Kenny Rogers was the only one staying there over Christmas, so the PD gave him the budgie to look after, and came back to find it dead.  Worse things happen at sea.  Worse things happened in that flat.

 

The other guys had gone out for the day, mentioning that for some reason they had lost power in the upstairs - just to be clear, the flat was three flats joined together, two and one upstairs.  I mentioned this to the security guard, and (my recollection is hazy wit the mists of time) for some reason we looked in the upper flat mailbox, and had it not been rammed absolutely full of utility bills, we'd have struggled to get them out with a coat hanger.  Anyway, I took the most recent Demand For Money With Menaces to China Light and Power, and settled their griveances, and the boys had power (and light) when they came back that evening.

 

I spoke, some years later, in another country, to a chap who mentioned that he had stayed in a mutual friend's former apartment, but had moved out when the Municipal Planning Department came round asking for some ad hoc balconies to be removed (again - treat this as subject to the vagaries of recollection of pub conversations....) 

 

Anyway, the moral of this story is "Regardless of whether the Postman Knocks, check your mailbox".  As St Peter said to the cheating domino player "Don't you ever knock?" 

I think Americans should be kept out of this topic.