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What's the point?

So earlier today i was having an argument on existence in general with a friend of mine. We went on and on about this and that, he finally asked me what I thought is the point of life? to which I replied none. So he asked me to think of a sphere then asked me where is the point on this sphere? To which i replied none it's a sphere. He then said you're wrong, the sphere has infinite points but your perception is to distant and narrow to perceive them.
This made me think pretty deep about almost everything and i tried to think of something without a point. I then realized there is nothing without a point even the void of space which is essentially nothing still has a point. Because without that void everything would be together as a singularity like when the universe began. Then I realized the only thing that is pointless is what you perceive as pointless without having the knowledge of what its point is.
I eventually gave up on trying to think of something that was pointless as it was pointless. But it made me think of what other properties that a point possesses. I then realized every point has an end. I thought hmmm well does a car have an end? well yes it does when it breaks obviously but then what after that? what becomes of it after the end? what is the point of the end itself?
It then dawned on me that everything i could think of after it ended was reborn into something else. And everything is reborn even if it's not what it was originally. Now my previous example of a car wouldn't be the best as it would take a long long long time for it to decay to its elements and become one with the earth to wait another purpose unless, it was recycled. But everything is reborn into something else in one form or another.
Now i won't go that into my final thoughts on this as Ted wouldn't aprove. But with all these principles i asked what is the point of evolution, the universe and of god and what's their end? and what's their rebirth?


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    • Jun 26 2013: well infinity does have an end it is just infinitely far away just as the number is, same with the mirrors. But i'm sorry to burst your bubble but when i said rebirth i didn't in any way mean heaven i meant your dna moves on and your body becomes grass or worm food or someone else's body. Yes energy cannot be created nor destroyed but the electricity inside of your head doesn't get sucked up by gods soul vacuum cleaner we would have noticed by now.
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        • Jun 26 2013: i know i would be there for an infinite amount of time. oh well your right about perception everyone's is limited and actually most top scientist are atheist. science never correlates with religion. Religion may say it correlates with science but it's never been the other way around science is of facts and religion is of "magic".
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        • Jun 26 2013: yeah i watched that all he did is take scientific theory and apply it to what we perceive with our tiny brains of what we think god is. so just like i said religion may say it correlates with science but science doen't correlate with religion. It was interesting none the less but he just took what we will have in future technologies and and realized that Hey, god does some of those things so it's as i said.

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