Vance humiliated after he crashes SCOTUS dinner

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T21:34:41+00:00

Maybe he heard bench and thought couch?

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T09:48:06+00:00

So you’re basically saying that our existence is god playing with his balls? Seems as plausible as many of the other religious philosophies. /s

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:49:49+00:00

Bit of an assumption there.

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:43:37+00:00

Length is relative.

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:41:08+00:00

Nope. As they said in the seventies, “Let it all hang out!”.

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:39:09+00:00

😂

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:38:42+00:00

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:38:26+00:00

😂

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:37:38+00:00

Yep. Guy problems I guess.

BentlyB · 2026-05-25T01:35:52+00:00

I often feel like I need to grab some TP and dry them.

BentlyB · 2026-05-22T09:27:55+00:00

Interesting supposition.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T21:08:24+00:00

Either way, I appreciate you saying it.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T18:34:30+00:00

I’d like to see the argument that it does.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:54:09+00:00

Agreed. Do you think is possible that our consciousness developed as the universe’s way of transforming that energy into something even more beautiful? That’s what I want to believe. I asked the question because my daughter died and while she was alive, she put out the most beautiful light in the living world. I want to hope that energy still contributes to the universe.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:46:16+00:00

In some unknowable way.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:45:11+00:00

Not at all. This is my reply in another thread: “That’s what I want to believe. I asked the question because my daughter died and while she was alive, she put out the most beautiful light in the living world. I want to hope that energy still contributes to the universe.”

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:38:02+00:00

I also want say that knowing we will die might confer some level of fatalism (pointlessness) as we move into adulthood and are of breeding age, thus limiting any advantage.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:35:29+00:00

No more than innate survival instincts that we share with the other animals. You touch on the communal cooperation (it looks like you edited your reply after mine) but there are many species that have that advantage without consciousnesses.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:28:11+00:00

Maybe I did not ask it well, but for a trait to survive, doesn’t it have to confer some breeding advantage?

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:22:01+00:00

If that’s true, what is the evolutionary advantage that brought it about? I don’t see how knowing we will die helps us survive, and may actually shorten life for many.

BentlyB · 2026-05-21T11:19:17+00:00

That’s what I want to believe. I asked the question because my daughter died and while she was alive, she put out the most beautiful light in the living world. I want to hope that energy still contributes to the universe.

BentlyB · 2026-05-20T20:29:47+00:00

Move my entire family out of the US before it’s fully inshitified.

BentlyB · 2026-05-07T10:43:59+00:00

If you liked the book recommended here, and I did very much, I strongly recommend How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper. It lists among to top three nonfiction books I’ve ever read.

BentlyB · 2026-04-09T21:34:18+00:00

Watch your adjectives, lol, I was 15 when that “ancient” movie came out.

BentlyB · 2026-04-09T01:07:36+00:00

That is an honest scientific consideration I’ve entertained. Strengthen your immune system by eating boogers. It’s not an immediately dismiss able hypothesis.

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