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| gender | | male | | soulseek username | | nir2 | | headline | | no country for internet comments | | about me | | thought with all its artificial constructs is analogous to computer data and how it is retained and perpetuated. a file, for example, can never be put on any media that will not eventually deteriorate. computer memory eventually loses its current, a hard drive eventually becomes demagnetized. even solid matter media like a cd or a stone tablet chiseled with a binary sequence will eventually fall apart. our technological solution for this problem is backup, we constantly move the data from one place to another, and try to have the data in as many places as possible. what we find impossible to come to terms with is that once the data is lost, and indeed it is inevitable that it will be lost some day with or without us, once that happens it will be as if the data had never existed in the first place. the same exact thing can be said of all thought and everything it has or ever will create. the creations of thought are part of our backup solution for thought, but on its own this is not enough. we must also maintain the thought within ourselves by the process of repeatedly backing up thought onto one another, through a multitude of processes one of which we call society. it is an equal inevitability that any thought, any creation, will eventually be lost. once it is lost, just like our data, it is as if it had never existed in the first place. the only thing in our reality that has any lasting power whatsoever is physical evolution which takes care to perpetuate itself. we must come to terms with the inevitability that all thought, all knowledge or identity or anything that comes from thought will eventually be lost in such a way that it had never existed. we may stall, but once the inevitability is arrived at we are destined to have achieved absolutely nothing. | | living in | | san francisco, california, US | | astrological sign | | leo | | myspace page | | www.myspace.com/soulseek | | game of the year 2006 | | Wii Sports (Wii) | | elite beat agents rank | | Five-star Commander | | things that make me homicidal | | car commercials, true ads on myspace, the wii sports tennis ranking system | | right-brain or left-brain? (see animation) | | right-brain (dancer rotates clockwise) | | game of the year 2007 | | Super Mario Galaxy | | game(s) of the year 2008 | | Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (ds), Silent Hill: Homecoming (xbox 360, ps3), LocoRoco 2 (psp), GRID (xbox 360, ps3, pc) |
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