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User	Saidin | 2007-08-31 |
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Message	What is a man worth? How much a man’s life is truly worth? It’s as if it’s worth anything. We’re nothing more than a rat crawling in a sewer or a fish in the vast ocean. It’s only our ego that tells us that we’re something more than just an animal. For all our splendor and glory, we are but a speck in the universe, and our existence in time is but a flash of lightning--one great flash for the tiniest moments of time, and gone. So really, if all we ever do and all we hope to accomplish will simply be washed away by the tides of time, what are we worth? Something like nothing. Again, it’s only our ego that tells us we’re worth something.

User	UnderINK | 2007-06-25 |
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Message	Every life is worth the same because of potential when you put aside its attachments. So, for lack of better wording, it’s worth its potential---which is everything.

User	ParanoidParadox | 2007-06-21 |
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Message	The only purpose I find in life is to touch as many lives as you possibly can, and to have a good time and a good life. We are only worth something to those we have truly touched in the most profound ways.

User	UnderINK | 2007-05-03 |
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Message	I don’t believe you’re ’worth’ anything, because that implies everyone has a matchable value. I believe one life is only outweighed by more lives of equal or higher contribution to society. Probably too much late night Republic reading.

User	ariesmind | 2007-05-01 |
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Message	you are worth something or else you wouldnt be here.. Also is a man who has no family or friends worth anything? What happens when there is nobody there to acknowledge you... You might not be worth something to some but to parents, friends , work place you are treasured.

User	sugami | 2007-02-13 |
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Message	The truth is life is insignificant and extremly precious its both meaningless and pointless. Just like many other things life has meaning and doesn’t and that goes for everything down to the fly you kill on the wall.

User	alteredlife | 2007-02-13 |
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Message	To me, the worth of my life would be connection to others (in a world that I feel largely disconnected from), all the feel-good experiences that are inexpressible and ethereal and ultimately gives that feeling of making a difference, however small and insignificant. Karma? Possibly. Love? Perhaps. Knowing you’re filling that emptiness inside (ie writing, art, music etc) by doing these things? I think so. It’s different for everyone I know, but that’s just my personal take on it. I’m hesitating posting this, due to the cheese-overkill of what I wrote just now, but what the hell lol...

User	Azuire | 2007-01-21 |
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Message	For some reason, the world we live in today has gone absolutely nuts about being people. You have to BE somebody big, somebody strong, somebody rich, somebody famous. Let me ask you a couple of simple questions. Can you name the people who won the Nobel Prize last year off the tip of your tongue? Can you name the people who were responsible for each and every horrific crime perpetrated throughout the ages? Can you remember who got the top video game player for CounterStrike in 2004? To be honest, I don’t know any of these, and technically neither should you. Let’s try a different set. Can you name five people who have made a significant impact on you? Can you think of three others who’d deserve prizes for what they’ve done in your community? That’s much easier isn’t it? Take a look back. These people are those who are remembered for the right things. So what if the world doesn’t care if you were famous, the only thing that matters is that the people you care about and who care about you are remembered when they pass on, not because they were famous, not because they were rich, but because they were ordinary beings who did extraordinary things in the lives of people who needed that spark of inspiration the most. It’s like I said before, we are worth nothing if we do not choose to live a meaningful life, in the service of God and our fellow men, and do our part to make the world a little happier, a little warmer, and a little better than the stuff we see around us today. It’s not who you are underneath. It’s what you do that defines you- Batman Begins Cheers Azuire P.S. You’re welcome crimson echo.

User	crimson echo | 2007-01-21 |
Subject	The meaning
Message	Hey, Azuire, remind me to thank you for that. The life’s choices define the value of the life--but, I want to add, sometimes the choice is forced upon the one living. I’ve met people who lived their entire lives as scum. The fact that they wanted to change into something better gave them a value beyond description. Similarly, those who were born with everything but never wanted to change their spoiled lifestyles have less worth than dust in the deepest Sahara. I’m a Christian, so I could say I understand ryeker03--but I can’t agree with him. In my opinion, God gave us the "talents" and chances to "accomplish" as a means of glorifying Him--that EVERYTHING WE DO is a means of confirming our worth. We are rare beings in this universe--but the spirit of our choices is what truly sets us beyond value. Eowyn, stay away from the swan dive, the pills, and the gun. You’re worth far more than that. I don’t even know you--but know this. You have already affected my life for the better by letting me think in a different way than I usually do. You will be remembered--if not for your face, if not for your deeds, then for your heart. --crimson echo

User	Vastmark | 2007-01-18 |
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Message	Ultimately, I would say nothing, the universe at some stage (billions upon billions of years) will cease to support any kind of life or planets going through the various stages of its own existence. So it doesn’t matter who you are or what you do good or evil etc, etc it will all come to naught in the end. Ofcourse if you’re religous you may support a different theory, I’m not! However looking more short term which is more immediately relevent to our situations, The chances of a planet supporting life are pretty damn slim, the chances then of us actualy being born out of the infinite different paths that come about are just ludicrous, So I say it’s priceless in that respect. We should savour every second unfortunately mankind is, it seems ill equipped to do that. Ofcourse then you could enter a debate on moral grounds about the death sentance and all that stuff, but I’ll finish there as I need to go to bed. V

User	Glen Bowman | 2007-01-17 |
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Message	Studying evolution. From this point of view, I see that everybody needs everybody and everything. Cut anybody off and they will go mad and die

User	Gordon | 2006-12-09 |
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Message	Perhaps this is just a testing ground for greater things later. When I was small and very lonley a stranger just smiled at me it cheered me up no end and I have remembered him all my life. We never know how we effect others so while we are here lets spread happiness and help. I dose not matter who dose or dose not remember us but what we do in this life. From a old man Gordon

User	eowyn | 2006-12-08 |
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Message	i meant because i started wondering, if i died no one would remember me, except those who i touched, but thier lives would be adversly affected. the net spreads much furthur out than ever considered in one split second, before taking the swan dive, from the top of abuilding, or swallowing those pills, or pulling the trigger. in that one second, thise thoughts dont come to mind, and i am glad that i was able to step outside myself to see that, to stop me being so selfish.

User	Azuire | 2006-12-06 |
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Message	What is one man truly worth? Absolutely nothing. It’s not who you are underneath. It’s not how you die. It’s not about how much you have. It’s how you live that defines you. That is significant enough for you. If not, you could always go searching for the meaning of life......and die trying.

User	ryeker03 | 2006-11-30 |
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Message	truth is, the only worth a man has is whether or not he has realized his and every other man’s purpose in being here; to worship God. you can accumulate things and a reputation for being talented or accomplishing tasks, but really, all that counts is whether or not you accepted the truth or not.