Why is it so bad that life has no meaning?

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  • Because people are so arrogant, they can't understand they are a blob of biochemical matter with no more rights (apart from invented ones) than amoebae. Most people on this planet are so unable to cope with the idea that when certain processes stop, their only existence will be at an end and all involvement with the Universe will cease beyond the last syllable of recorded time (this phrase itself that of a corpse long since perished and whose second unconscious mortality lasts only as long as people remember him).

    However, in other news, a minor celebrity has "discovered" a new foundation which fights the seven signs of aging. We should waste our life reading more things about that. And by "discovered" I of course mean the new sense of the word discovered, i.e. a cosmetics company phoned their agent and offered some money if they'd be pictured "discovering" it while a voice over artists tells us they "discovered" it.

    Don't listen to any of this. I'm ranting just for the sake of it.

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    • Tell us more about this exciting development....

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      • Well, see, what you do is look for something sciencey like an amino acid (I know, let's choose argenine) then you shorten the name to make it punchy and add the word "pro" before it. Then pluralise it to make it more than it is. Pro-Argenins! No cosmetic is any good now unless it has incredients prefixed with pro.

        Then you call it something new so it sounds like a new product, i.e. instead of foundation you call it resurfacing confactant.

        Then you make up some perceived wisdom (i.e. that there are seven signs of aging). You pick seven because people then associate it with something established like the seven wonders of the world or the seven deadly sins, and you thus imply that these "signs" of aging were found on ancient stone tablets (as opposed to written last week by ad men).

        Then, you shoot an ad which shows molecules of crapfactant hitting skin cells and making them perk up a bit. In the ad the molecule will be the same size as the skin cell, despite a skin cell being 100,000,000,000,000 times bigger than a molecule. The molecule will also be shaped like a snooker ball despite molecules being nothing like that.

        Then all you need for your advert is a glowing model, despite her being the last person in the world who actually needs the product, like spectacles for people without ears.

        Two rants in one day! Good times!

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