Do you think that life is pointless? If not, then why is that? To me there seems to be no point in living, unless you can do so forever. I suddenly realized that I can do anything in my life, yet it will never really matter, nor will anything, done by anybody, matter to anyone in the long run, since everybody will still be gone forever at some point. It feels pretty bad when you think about it that way...
Basically, you're asking about the meaning of life. :)
There are countless different views on that question, but I suppose you're asking about mine.
I can present you two views.
One is materialistic. As biological beings, we all contain certain "hardwired" rules in the brain and the rest of the body, that are tuned with the continuous reproduction of the human culture and species as the aim.
There are a few points in the human's life, that form a set of items that once completed, the human feels like they have accomplished their life and fulfilled it. Those are, namely: generation of offspring (i.e. making of children), and passing one's knowledge and ideals of the way of living to the said offspring (i.e. education and disciplining).
Individuals of a biological species have a finite lifetime, but as a species, each species aims to live forever. These rewarding items I listed are the means by which the species ensures (or tries to ensure) that they will, live forever.
In me, the desire to pass forth a copy of my entire knowledge and ideals of the way of living, is very strong. Biologically speaking, I see it as my purpose of life. A subsidiary goal is to improve the knowledge (to make the species better in general), which ironically pushes that major goal further and farther. Still, every time someone learns something useful due to my actions, I feel great satisfaction.
And the other is spiritual. As God would have it, each human being is meant to live together with God, enjoying a happy life that is mutually pleasant: God supplies the humans with everything they can possibly need, and the humans supply God with gratitude and awe of his perfect awesomeness. However, such a relationship does not work if the human is selfish, or works against God's wish. Therefore a sort of preliminary exam was created, to sieve out those who refuse that kind of relationship.
This mortal life is that sieve; in this life God calls us, several times in our life, and whether we accept his call or not, decides whether we get to enjoy the life we were meant to live. If we do, he will join our life with us, here, on Earth, and it will continue forever. If we don't, well, then we have no business in front of his might.
Wow, that was pretty well written, I can see your points. Thanks a lot. :)
Next weird question (hopefully you wont mind):
Do you think that the universe (by universe, I mean, everything that exists, anywhere) has an end? I often find myself thinking about it but can never really work out a satisfying answer.
Hi Bisqwit,
Do you think that life is pointless? If not, then why is that? To me there seems to be no point in living, unless you can do so forever. I suddenly realized that I can do anything in my life, yet it will never really matter, nor will anything, done by anybody, matter to anyone in the long run, since everybody will still be gone forever at some point. It feels pretty bad when you think about it that way...
Sorry for the odd question.
Looks good! Have you tried delaying for a wile to avoid shooting the rocks its throwing at you? Maybe its slower.
also, just a question. but why arn't you using the [!] rom? It might help with desyncs. :D
I´ve been trying to do some stuff in Snes9x... but when using frame advance, if I for example want to press down jump+shoot+forward+frame advance, my computer sends out a beeping noise and ignores some button presses... I have a feeling that there is some obvious answer to this question... but I can´t figure it out.
Can someone plz help me?
the backwards movement gets old quickly for me. I belong to the majority of players who never played this game, thus can't guess where Link is heading, and it's annoying.