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Post by proksoup »

proksoup wrote: post #199
alphapapa wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You think there are answers? Yes. > The search for meaning is a poorly formed question. "Why are we here? What are we meant to do? Where are we going next?" These are not poorly formed or useless questions.

"Why are we here" and "where are we going" are vastly better questions than "what are we meant to do". Do you see the difference? "why are we here" can mean "how did we get here, how did we come to be here" ... but if it means "for what purpose are we here" than it turns problematic again, no?

The search for purpose and meaning assumes there is one. It's hard to understand how one can ask that question with presupposing that there is some thing as an "objective meaning and purpose" and it's just really confusing to me. If you don't see how the pasting of that quote is confusing, that's what I meant by confusing.

The search for reasons and hows and what happened and what's next seems a lot more interesting of questions, to me personally.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by proksoup »

proksoup wrote: post #198
alphapapa wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, so where are you going next, beyond worshipping self?

Not worshipping.

And for the record, finding the god within doesn't have any connotation of worshipping ones self, for me personally, the idea that it might I think is a vestige for those that see a value or need to worship a god without.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by alphapapa »

proksoup wrote: post #201
proksoup wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Why are we here" and "where are we going" are vastly better questions than "what are we meant to do". Do you see the difference? "why are we here" can mean "how did we get here, how did we come to be here" ... but if it means "for what purpose are we here" than it turns problematic again, no?

The search for purpose and meaning assumes there is one. It's hard to understand how one can ask that question with presupposing that there is some thing as an "objective meaning and purpose" and it's just really confusing to me. If you don't see how the pasting of that quote is confusing, that's what I meant by confusing. The search for reasons and hows and what happened and what's next seems a lot more interesting…

Well, whether "for what purpose are we here" is useful depends on the answer to "by what means did we get here" or "what caused us to be here". If we are here merely because of chance occurrences, then of course there is no objective meaning or purpose. But if we are here because something or someone put us here, then it's a good question to ask why we were put here and for what purpose.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by alphapapa »

proksoup wrote: post #202
proksoup wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not worshipping.

And for the record, finding the god within doesn't have any connotation of worshipping ones self, for me personally, the idea that it might I think is a vestige for those that see a value or need to worship a god without.

Well, by worshipping, I mean recognizing oneself as the arbiter of meaning, purpose, and morality. Essentially it means recognizing oneself as one's god.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by proksoup »

alphapapa wrote: post #204
proksoup wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And for the record, finding the god within doesn't have any connotation of worshipping ones self, for me personally, the idea that it might I think is a vestige for those that see a value or need to worship a god without.

Well, by worshipping, I mean recognizing oneself as the arbiter of meaning, purpose, and morality. Essentially it means recognizing oneself as one's god.

What need is there for purpose or morality and why ask that of your god?

That is where we disagree I think.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by proksoup »

alphapapa wrote: post #203
proksoup wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The search for purpose and meaning assumes there is one. It's hard to understand how one can ask that question with presupposing that there is some thing as an "objective meaning and purpose" and it's just really confusing to me. If you don't see how the pasting of that quote is confusing, that's what I meant by confusing. The search for reasons and hows and what happened and what's next seems a lot more interesting…

Well, whether "for what purpose are we here" is useful depends on the answer to "by what means did we get here" or "what caused us to be here". If we are here merely because of chance occurrences, then of course there is no objective meaning or purpose. But if we are here because something or someone put us here, then it's a good question to ask why we were put here and for what purpose.

Yes that's perhaps our disagreement as well, the odds of a being being involved.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by proksoup »

proksoup wrote: post #205
alphapapa wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, by worshipping, I mean recognizing oneself as the arbiter of meaning, purpose, and morality. Essentially it means recognizing oneself as one's god.

What need is there for purpose or morality and why ask that of your god? That is where we disagree I think.

Also, this is the most interesting conversation I've ever had, please feel free to email me at derekbreden AT gmail.com if that's easy.

Have a good one either way.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by alphapapa »

proksoup wrote: post #205
alphapapa wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, by worshipping, I mean recognizing oneself as the arbiter of meaning, purpose, and morality. Essentially it means recognizing oneself as one's god.

What need is there for purpose or morality and why ask that of your god? That is where we disagree I think.

> What need is there for purpose

Well, if we are just piles of goo that randomly became sentient, then there's no objective "need" for purpose; we can simply keep existing and eating and sleeping until we die and decompose.

However it seems obvious that most people, at some point in their lives, wonder about purpose and meaning--which raises the question of why we wonder. Is there something planted within us that causes us to seek answers to these questions?

> or morality

I suppose the sociological answer would be that morality provides guidelines for behavior which help society operate smoothly, as opposed to everyone doing whatever they want, stealing and killing without consequences, which would prevent any kind of civilization from developing.

Which I guess raises a chicken-and-egg question: where did morality come from? How did the first guy who realized that chaos was holding civilization back (before "civilization" even?) convince everyone else to stop doing what they were doing and follow these rules he came up with? "Hey, man, don't steal my stuff and kill me. If you do, we'll keep having chaos, and we'll never be able to develop a society and make progress." Somehow I doubt that would have been convincing to a wild-eyed savage who was in the habit of raping and pillaging.

> and why ask that of your god?

I think this depends on who your god is--or more specifically, whether you believe a god exists. If there isn't one, and we are our own arbiters of truth and morality and meaning, then I suppose it's personal preference whether you care about these things; many people seem happy to live in ignorant bliss, and then they die, and what does it matter?

But if you believe that a god does exist, who created us, who exists outside of our universe, then said god would necessarily have the power over our life and death, and any afterlife that may come, and so it would seem sensible to inquire as to what that god wanted of us--just as a child tries to please his parents if he wants his parents' approval and support, or a soldier tries to please his superiors, or an employee tries to please his employer.

Of course, many people either don't believe or don't care, and time will tell how it turns out for them. In the end, we'll all find out whether a god exists and whether there's an afterlife.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by thinkMOAR »

pearjuice wrote: post #180
thinkMOAR wrote: post #171

"so I wrote a script that checked the domain every second and sent me an email if it was available." Whats the use of checking it _every second_ if you still need to manually act upon your email?

That's what he thought, so he build park.io. Did you finish reading the article?

Yes and it quickly sidetracks to other things that the parts that are actually of interest, company goals etc. Not so much about automating tasks as the title would suggest.

Re: Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

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Post by trg2 »

z3t4 wrote: post #131
jondot wrote: post #64

I might get downvoted for this, but here's a story. We just finished picking a brand name, after 2-3 months of intensive work. Being fond of .io's I naivly googled my .io, and found that park.io owns it - this happened last week. I immediately sent an email to inquire. We considered the price, and then when I came to buy it today, a week after, the price is tripled. This was a fixed price domain, NOT bid. That's clev…

If you buy a domain from a squatter, you encourage domain squatting. Domains are not that important as most browsers send the url to a search engine. So just register brand-name.com instead of brandname.com. Or pick another TLD.

This is bad advice.
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