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Underground eXperts United
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[ A Day For Tired People ] [ By The GNN ]
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"A DAY FOR TIRED PEOPLE"
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by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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If nothing matters, then nothing matters.
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If nothing matters, then it does not matter that nothing matters.
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If it does not matter that nothing matters, then something matters.
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If something matters, then something matters.
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They sat in Jim's old apartment, Jim and Charles, drinking whiskey,
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smoking cigarettes and talking about things that people usually talk about
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when they are having a terrible hangover. They had finished the sport and
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the political section of their topics which as usual led them to the
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meaning of life. It was sunday and a day for tired people. A day when
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people who are trying to cure a terrible hangover talks about absolutely
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nothing of value.
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Jim took a sip of his whiskey directly out of the bottle.
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- I guess there is nothing more in life than eating, drinking and failure
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nowadays, he said and froze the moment after when he realized that he knew
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what Charles was about to say. Jim knew and he hated it. As soon as he
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mentioned something about life, Charles would begin talking about
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determinism.
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- As long as we cannot come up with any arguments why life wouldn't be
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causal and mechanical, I think we just have to accept other thoughts about
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our present situation.
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- I knew you were going to say something like that!
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Charles bent forward and tried to reach the whiskey bottle. But Jim was
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faster and took it away.
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- Listen, Jim said annoyed, we have had this discussion ten times earlier
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so why do you bring it up once again?
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- Give me the bottle. Then let us talk about it for the eleventh time.
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The strong liquid ran down their throats and they prepared for another
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verbal war in Jim's old apartment.
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Charles spoke.
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- The world is mechanical and deterministic. Whatever you do, you are
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forced to it. Spinoza was right when he said that the world is one
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substance and not several, but he was wrong when he claimed that this
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substance was "god". The world is one substance, from the atomic view.
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If I drink whiskey, I never do it out of free will. The act of grabbing
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the bottle, take it to my mouth and swallow the liquid is predictable - if
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we manage to analyze the causal mechanism. Look at it this way; I take the
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bottle because I am thirsty. Why did I get thirsty? Because I ate food.
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Why did I ate food? Because I was hungry. Why did I choose that special
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dinner to eat? Because I have heard that it is tasty. Do you understand?
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We never do anything out of completely free will. We are only bricks in an
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enormous causal play. Of course, we believe that we do it out of free
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will, but in reality we do not.
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Jim spoke.
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- You may be right. But your thoughts require more facts. Why, for
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example, would everything be mechanical and causal? Is there any special
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reason? No, at this moment you fail. You cannot present any good reason
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why it should be like this. Everything has an reason, and it is this
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reason we must find. If the reason is unavailable, we would never bother
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to look for it. But we still try, and that makes a causal world wrong. If
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we can predict acts, we can change acts. When we change acts, we change
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your predictable world. Hence: The world cannot be completely causal.
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Charles spoke.
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- There may be a reason which we will never be aware of. Think of the
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world as a part of a computer game. In this game, we are pre-programmed to
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do certain acts without the knowledge of why. Our acts are logical to the
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situation, therefor we do not question them. They fit so good into our
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world, so we believe that we do them with free will.
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Jim spoke.
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- That sounds better. But this sounds like luxury topics. If we never
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can understand or see that we are in a game, why talk about it? The only
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result we will get to is that everything is without meaning. If we are
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only pixels in a game, why should we bother to educate us, work and try to
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find a meaning in our lives? Your cold scientific view does nothing good
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to the human race. It only creates frustration and confusion.
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Charles spoke.
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- That does not matter. Let me try to explain through an fictitious
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example. Imagine that this world is not externally created. The... let
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us call him the "global programmer" works from within our world. He sits
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somewhere on our planet, with a computer and creates the world around him.
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He can see everything, he can do everything. He is God. In the real
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world, he cannot do much. But from his computer he can change things. He
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is not "someone up there", he is here and we can find him. He only creates
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people and material, but it is up to his creations to do whatever they
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want. Then our world would not be causal and predictable in one sense, but
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in another way it would be.
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Jim spoke.
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- I do not follow you. How can the world be causal and predictable and
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at the same moment not?
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Charles spoke.
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- Well, the "global programmer" does not himself create the beginning and
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the end. He just creates material, substance. He does not create a
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predictable substance, but the substance in itself is predictable, if we
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can analyze its causal mechanism.
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Jim spoke.
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- Sounds weird.
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A short moment of silence told them that the discussion was over. The
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afternoon was getting late.
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Charles broke the silence.
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- My clock screams that the bar has opened downtown. Why not get there
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and see if we find our "global programmer"?
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Jim chuckled.
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- Yeah. Let's go and make the town stand on its head!
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Charles put down the bottle and they both went to the front door. But no
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one ever opened it and stepped out.
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The global programmer took a deep breath of relief.
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Work. Zwei vier zwei.
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Get that out of my way! Now! Call THE STASH! Check index!
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Kult rule made my day.
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