As I sit here, in my pitiful existance, reading fortune as I usually do *linux does have such fun games*... I does come across this interesting quote, spewed forth from the mouth of this wonderful toy...

A man said to the Universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane

Now, last night, myself and a few peoples got very drunk, and discussed many things, such as love, religion and *shudder* politics... all of which, for some reason *not sure why*, verged on the topic of humans...
me with my view that human kind is nothing special, that we are all just a bunch of self serving fools, blinding ourselves with our delusions of self importance, causing human kind to walk around with an bart simpson attitude *I AM SO GREAT, I AM SO GREAT, EVERYBODY LOVES ME, I AM SO GREAT* banging our proverbial pots and pans....

and conversely, we had the oposition, who was quite disgusted by my outlook on life, the universe and everything... stating that we are indeed 'special', that there is some greater purpose in life *although they weren't able to tell me why they believed in this greater purpose..*.. that there was something we were intended to do...

but my problem with this is that, if I am to conform to such a belief, that a greater power has a purpose for me.... something I must acomplish in my life time... does that not make me a puppet.. .does it not make you a puppet?

I'm starting to ramble, so I'll just get to the damn point...

Do you believe.. that your existence... is meaningful?