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:P its a realy hard question to think about.... no one that lived one life can say the true meaning of beeng alive... so whats the meaning of life to you?
Toiletnojutsu
07-23-2005, 07:44 PM
To find the true meaning of life is impossible, you have to die to figure that out I think. But you could also listen to the boring "blah blah blah each and every person have to find their own meaning of life blah blah=. But I guess life is what you make it.
As long as I'm happy I couldnt care less :knk
well the meaning of life...hmmm..... well life is what u make of it, i dont really think that life has a special meaning, evolotion just had its way and now we are here, we just have to make the best of the time that has been given to us i think :D so plz dont waste ur life thinking about it, just live.
Just live your life. Be kind to everyone, hold no grudges and hope that you find love.
Always put a smile on your face, never frown. Be sure to tell everyone you know how much they trully mean to you, and enjoy the little things in life; and all the joy they bring.
And most important of all, just be happy. With yourself, with what you have, and with everyone.
Kucheeky Badkuya
07-23-2005, 07:55 PM
Watch the Monty Python movie and you will know.
kapsi
07-23-2005, 07:56 PM
To find the meaning or sth
Just live your life. Be kind to everyone, hold no grudges and hope that you find love.
Always put a smile on your face, never frown. Be sure to tell everyone you know how much they trully mean to you, and enjoy the little things in life; and all the joy they bring.
And most important of all, just be happy. With yourself, with what you have, and with everyone.
well true, so true, but then again ppl all over the world dont have the same life conditions that some do. so they are probally the most pppl who like the little things in life and appriciate it, some take TV and cloaths and even food for granted, u really shouldn´t.
Tessen
07-23-2005, 07:58 PM
I think the meaning of life differs between ppl and their enviroments. So basically there is no true answer. For me it is to be there for the ppl I love.
How much do you guys want to bet that someone will say the meaning of life is 42?
why not just find your place in the world and hang on to it, i rather be with my friends and family then anything else, thats good enough for me i think :D hahaha
Toiletnojutsu
07-23-2005, 08:02 PM
The meaning of life is 42
Damn, no one made any bets.
The Mist
07-23-2005, 08:08 PM
This is such a easy question to answer.
012345789
07-23-2005, 08:08 PM
My meaning is doing what I need to do to survive and watching other people ask about the meaning of life.
Toiletnojutsu
07-23-2005, 08:10 PM
I'm so smart!!
<.<
42 + twisty = 24 = day + twisty = yay = Fun
Toilets guide to the galaxy.
Edit NOOO its wrong!! It's yad -___- Why is the meaning of life yad!
The Mist
07-23-2005, 08:13 PM
I'm so smart!!
<.<
42 + twisty = 24 = day + twisty = yay = Fun
Toilets guide to the galaxy.
Edit NOOO its wrong!! It's yad -___- Why is the meaning of life yad!
The number 42 as an answer to the question of the meaning of life is a reference to a joke in Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. An advanced race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings (mice) builds a gigantic computer called "Deep Thought" to find the Answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything!". Seven and a half million years later, the computer gave the answer: "42". After the answer was given, the pan-dimensional beings realized that they did not know the question and an even larger computer (the Earth) was built to find it; however the Earth is destroyed minutes before the final readout. The question is still found though, by Arthur Dent (one of the few that escaped the Earth's destruction). By taking random letters from a Scrabble set he gets: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" (which involves some artistic license, as there are insufficient letters in an English Scrabble set to make up this sentence). Since 6 x 9 = 54, (although, when in Base 13, 6 x 9 = 42) this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question.
yay wikipedia :P
moe//sorry old chap, that post already ruined the book for someone, though a spoiler tag would suffice =]
Kabuto_o
07-23-2005, 08:18 PM
Maybe everything is just logical and humans is made to think about stuff like that. People live to die, when they are dead, they do not exist anymore.
Some people think they will come to heaven when they die, but would that make any sense at all? Of course not, but if you think about it nothing makes sense. So it could be possible. Technology and physics is kind of strange too, I wonder if they are the same whereever we go...
Humans were probably made to survive, every being was probably made that way. It's like everything was made perfect, humans could invent new stuff, develop stuff survive on they own think logical. But still it's not perfect at all, why wasn't the world made perfect, no diseases, conflicts, pain, the possibilites are endless, so is the universe.
Think about this, what if there was no universe, what would there be? everything dark? How could everything be created if there was nothing in the first place. Don't think our brains could even handle that information. My thoughts on this subject are endless too so I'll stop write here :)
Zhongda
07-23-2005, 08:25 PM
hmm well it depends, some religions mention what you should do with your life.
If your an atheist then this can't apply to you.
for instance in Islam Life is supposed to be a test, when you die.. you enter Heaven or hell depending on what you did in your life...
the same can be said for most religions i guess.
Kabuto_o
07-23-2005, 08:27 PM
hmm well it depends, some religions mention what you should do with your life.
If your an atheist then this can't apply to you.
for instance in Islam Life is supposed to be a test, when you die.. you enter Heaven or hell depending on what you did in your life...
the same can be said for most religions i guess.
That's strange, one of my theorys was exactly like that and I don't know anything about religions. That's got to be it! :smile-big
"Life is obviously what you make of it, and perhaps it's my buddhist inclinations that make me believe that to live is to be in heaven, and so life is the gift that we were all meant to experience. Even at its worst, living is still better than not living. Experiencing pain is still better than experiencing nothing. Experiencing Love is better than experiencing anything else, and through that line of logic, the meaning of life is to love. It sounds somewhat cheesy until you really give it some thought. Those of you who have ever been in love know what I'm talking about...."
I'm quoting what someone( Twizted3584) said quite awhile ago. I stand by that statment as well.:)
kapsi
07-23-2005, 08:40 PM
The number 42 as an answer to the question of the meaning of life is a reference to a joke in Douglas Adams's book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. An advanced race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings (mice) builds a gigantic computer called "Deep Thought" to find the Answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything!". Seven and a half million years later, the computer gave the answer: "42". After the answer was given, the pan-dimensional beings realized that they did not know the question and an even larger computer (the Earth) was built to find it; however the Earth is destroyed minutes before the final readout. The question is still found though, by Arthur Dent (one of the few that escaped the Earth's destruction). By taking random letters from a Scrabble set he gets: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" (which involves some artistic license, as there are insufficient letters in an English Scrabble set to make up this sentence). Since 6 x 9 = 54, (although, when in Base 13, 6 x 9 = 42) this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question.
yay wikipedia :P
Hey thanks a lot for spoilers, I haven't read all parts of Hitchhiker's Guide yet :mad
Zhongda
07-23-2005, 09:12 PM
That's strange, one of my theorys was exactly like that and I don't know anything about religions. That's got to be it!
yup! :thumbs
akuma no omoigakenai saku
07-23-2005, 09:28 PM
Skittles. The creation of skittles was the sole purpose of life being spawned into our universe.
That's about as good an answer as any.
Sakata no Kintoki
08-25-2008, 10:03 PM
Nothing has a purpose until you give it one. A hair dryer, as a random example, doesn't have 'meaning' until you decide to use it to dry things.
AkiraDono
08-25-2008, 10:54 PM
sorry.. but you have to figure it out yourself...
if you follow what others say... would you call that a life?
Justice
08-25-2008, 11:21 PM
The meaning of life is 42
Agreed, the meaning of life is infact 42.
fantzipants
08-26-2008, 10:49 AM
To love and be loved... now go out there and enjoy life.
AbnormallyNormal
08-27-2008, 04:19 AM
this is a really poor question filled with assumpotions that need to be questioned themselves first. such as, IS there a meaning to life? If so, is there only one? Is it equal for all beings? etc.
quintessential
08-27-2008, 06:03 AM
The "meaning" of life is subjective,whatever each of us does,despite what it was we did is what we meant and is thus our meaning.
Blueberryz
08-27-2008, 06:08 AM
everyone has there own meaning of life
Kira U. Masaki
08-27-2008, 06:12 AM
Is there even a meaning? I find it interesting how an aethist would respond to this question; if we are just a random fluke , whos to say there is any meaning.
Legendary_Toad_Sage
08-27-2008, 06:21 AM
Urine.......
Tokoyami
08-27-2008, 06:59 AM
http://www.freewebs.com/lueshigetsyoumodded/LUEshi.jpg
This is the meaning to all in Life the universe and everything.
Lezard Valeth
08-27-2008, 07:35 AM
this is a really poor question filled with assumpotions that need to be questioned themselves first. such as, IS there a meaning to life? If so, is there only one? Is it equal for all beings? etc.
Real wisdom here, listen to AbnormallyNormal.
Life forms do not have a meaning, they just exist.
Life is a chemical process that evolves to more and more variety. The lifetime of a homo sapiens sapiens is almost not significant in the grand scheme of the history of Life.
parker pyne
08-29-2008, 04:24 AM
I'm having trouble understanding the question. I'll be forever indebted to anyone who can explain it in great depth.
Garlock
08-29-2008, 04:46 AM
42. As stated by the Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy
64palms
08-29-2008, 04:58 AM
What is it that is meant by "meaning" in relation to the meaning of life?
Are we talking about all molecules that arrange themselves in a manner that we call life? Are we talking about human consciousness?
It seems this has already been asked before, but I'm forwarding it again.
To answer the question to what the meaning of life here, we have to know what is meant by "meaning".
Sakata no Kintoki
08-30-2008, 12:20 PM
Lol, I love how many people answered 42.
Is there even a meaning? I find it interesting how an aethist would respond to this question; if we are just a random fluke , whos to say there is any meaning.
Not all athiests would answer the same thing. I'm sure this is what you wanted to hear:
Life forms do not have a meaning, they just exist.
Life is a chemical process that evolves to more and more variety. The lifetime of a homo sapiens sapiens is almost not significant in the grand scheme of the history of Life.(No offense, Lezard, but I think you're just depressed.)
However, I'm also an athiest and I think a better answer is don't worry about it, just go have a good time.
Real wisdom here, listen to AbnormallyNormal.
Life forms do not have a meaning, they just exist.
Life is a chemical process that evolves to more and more variety. The lifetime of a homo sapiens sapiens is almost not significant in the grand scheme of the history of Life.
So why didn't you kill yourself yet?
Pilaf
08-30-2008, 01:39 PM
So why didn't you kill yourself yet?
Wow...where did these antisocial tendencies you display so often come form anyway?
Eating meat? God making me that way? Kids beating me at school? Being choked by umbilical cord? Who knows.
Zarigani
08-30-2008, 07:32 PM
Enjoy each day. I know it's sounds fruity, but it's the truth.
Akira
08-30-2008, 07:36 PM
To do whatever you are passionate about.
mr_shadow
08-30-2008, 08:28 PM
All animals spend their lives trying to fulfill the goal set to them by their instincts. The human brain evolved so that we can use logic and creativity to better pursue our instincts, but they remain the goal all the same. When you satisfy a certain need; eating, sleeping, having sex, you are rewarded by a feeling of happiness.
Hence the meaning of life can be said to be the pursuit of happiness. However there are many different sorces of happiness, and in society they tend to be ranked after how long one "recharge" lasts. While eating provides happiness for a little while, you will find yourself hungry again just a few hours later. Reading a well written book can provide you with happiness for days, maybe even weeks, before you feel the need to read another one. Reading is hence a more "noble" pursuit than eating, since the happiness will stay with you for a longer time.
All cultures have some sort of religion or ideology that is said to be the most noble pursuit, holding the meaning of life. This is because religion seeks to attain the state of mind known as "salvation" or "enlightment", which once attained will ideally provide you with an endless sorce of tranquility and happiness.
So the meaning of life is to keep your happiness-tank as filled up as possible, and maybe seeking a way to make it un-depleatable.
Jello Biafra
08-30-2008, 08:58 PM
The meaning of life is whatever you make it. If there is truly no meaning to life for you (which I highly doubt), then it has no meaning. But if there is anything in this world that pleases you or makes you happy, then that is the meaning of life for you.
To do whatever you are passionate about.
What if I like killing and raping?
D:
To create life. Life was a mistake and it strives to reproduce for no reason except to survive.
So life has no meaning because life is simply life.
parker pyne
08-30-2008, 10:59 PM
Life /noun/
1. Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
2. In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
3. Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
/thread
Jello Biafra
08-30-2008, 11:37 PM
I must say, Mashed Potato, you win the thread. :p
|)/-\\/\/|\|
08-30-2008, 11:38 PM
To live it happily no matter what.
To take into consideration your afterlife.
I'll add one more personal meaning: to find the love of your life, the one who completes you; create an eternal bond with her (marriage) that lasts even in after life. I think a person exist through the bonds he makes, the stronger the bonds the stronger his existence is.
snowninja101
08-31-2008, 11:18 AM
meaning of life... is to seek the answer of these 3 question. why every time i wash my socks i lose one? is there life after death? where the missing sock when?
mednin
08-31-2008, 02:53 PM
To find your purpose in life.
Lux Aeterna
08-31-2008, 04:48 PM
That's not for humans to know, unfortunately. I hope the life leads to something more than death, anyway. Like some higher level of existence. Well, gotta live to see and gotta die to see, but life itself is enough to keep me curious of what will happen next and what else will I face before I go away.
Raiden
08-31-2008, 05:16 PM
Life is what you make it. If you believe that you have some sort of divine purpose in life, well, there you go. If you work from 9 AM - 5 PM with nothing spectacular in mind except wanting your kids to be something in life, your purpose is to make a better future for them. Fact of the matter is that as far as we know, humans are no different from the wolves that roam the forest and the birds that fly in the sky. We live and we die.
And before anyone calls me some sort of miserable atheist, for the record, I'm a Christian.
Dattebayo-chan
09-09-2008, 03:12 PM
I believe the meaning of life is to live, make a good life for yourself, be happy with whatever you have done in life . . . :)
Proxy
09-09-2008, 03:15 PM
To make the most of the time you've been given, while doing things which are beneficial to those who would come after you? Also, the whole aspect of enjoying it. Making each day as if it's your last.
Lindgren
09-09-2008, 03:24 PM
In one of 'The Path of Pain, 6 commandments' is one rule we chosen all share, it's crystal clear.
Just smile, it'll be alright.
escamoh
09-09-2008, 05:50 PM
why assume there has to be a meaning
FrostXian
09-09-2008, 07:15 PM
What if I like killing and raping?
D:
Do it, then. People do it. But you'll have to face the consequences, in which case can be death, prison, or getting raped yourself by the relatives of the one you tried to rape.
schnayder1
09-09-2008, 08:22 PM
to live its a simple answer but then u die
Harley
09-09-2008, 08:25 PM
Don't waste time thinking start living.
The Luiz
09-09-2008, 11:30 PM
Don't waste time thinking start living.
What he said.
Jello Biafra
09-10-2008, 04:40 AM
Don't waste time thinking start living.
To quote Socrates, "An unexamined life is a life not worth living."
Thinking is as much a part of life as action is.
The Dan
09-13-2008, 01:22 AM
Oh here we go
Everyone makes their own meaning of their own life. the meaning of Life in general is to Live, and the meaning of Self-Aware life is is to be aware of your Life's conscious meaning. in other words, people decide what they care about.
For example, the three things I care about most are Being Awesome, Being Rational, and Being Loving. These three things are my meanings of life. Some popular meanings of life include like uhhhhhh sex, having fun, intellectual pursuit, being good parents, teaching, stuff like that.
that's what i think anyway
Personally, I believe that the reason for my existence is to eliminate all life that exists, as I believe is the logical thing to do (as death solves everyone's problems. People who believe life is pointless have no reason to exist anyway, with their deaths being just another worthless event for them. People who believe in the afterlife usually think of that afterlife as better and more fair than life on Earth, so they're fine as well. And as for people who believe in reincarnation, if I'm not wrong they believe that the point of their life is to finally stop reincarnating, which will finally come true if everyone is dead, as there'll be nothing left to reincarnate into. So, unless some other scenario where existence after this life is actually worse happens to be true, then no matter who is right about their beliefs, murder of them all will take them to the next, better level, whether that is "the perfection of inexistence" or "the justice in the afterlife"). I hope that one day I will find the power I need to fulfill my purpose, because with everyone else limiting their sight to that with which they were born, I'm this world's only hope for salvation.
Sakata no Kintoki
09-18-2008, 10:54 PM
(^ummm...Is he okay? I think I'll just stay away...)
^No need to rush things, dude, take it easy.
Yakushi Kabuto
09-18-2008, 11:17 PM
The meaning of life to me? Just simply to find something worth living for. In that I hope to find my answers and to live as well as I can. Something along the lines of being as happy as I can be and maybe helping whatever I can along the way (if I actually like them :D). I don't believe I'll truly know the meaning of life until the end, which is the charm of it really. What's the adventure in knowing something like that before obtaining it yourself?
Do the android like tasks that have been assigned to me by fate that has been chosen to me by god.
On a more serious note, I think there is no meaning to life. It just is. We came into existence somehow so why not make the most of it for us and others that are lucky enough? That's why I live it carefree. I don't save, but I don't take many loans, I do physically daring things but only with limitations that my dear ones won't suffer. I say what I want but mostly without trying to offend.
What more would I want of it? Well, more devices to pleasure me of course. And once I get those I'll end up using them to help people that otherwise are incapable of doing it themselves.
Dream: To make and run my own orphanage for kids from all over the world and provide them with proper ethical education and enough supplies, teach them how to live on their own. I know it's too overt but hey, dreaming can motivate me to achieve at least a fraction of that.
Harley
09-18-2008, 11:55 PM
To quote Socrates, "An unexamined life is a life not worth living."
Thinking is as much a part of life as action is.
Socrates doesn't decide what life is worth living for and what one isn't.
You can waste your life searching for a purpose when you could be creating your own purpose based on your interpretation of life.
Personally, I believe that the reason for my existence is to eliminate all life that exists, as I believe is the logical thing to do (as death solves everyone's problems.
What if I don't have any problems? What if you become the problem? The logical thing to do would eliminate yourself since you claim that death solves everyone's problems.
People who believe life is pointless have no reason to exist anyway, with their deaths being just another worthless event for them.
Do you need a reason to exist? How can a death be a event if your dead? Events or anything for that matter is completely irrelevant at that point.
People who believe in the afterlife usually think of that afterlife as better and more fair than life on Earth, so they're fine as well.
If you never lived how would you know the meaning of fair or better? How would you know what good is if you never experience bad?
And as for people who believe in reincarnation, if I'm not wrong they believe that the point of their life is to finally stop reincarnating, which will finally come true if everyone is dead, as there'll be nothing left to reincarnate into.
They don't believe that the purpose of their life is to stop reincarnating its just something they have a belief in.
I hope that one day I will find the power I need to fulfill my purpose, because with everyone else limiting their sight to that with which they were born, I'm this world's only hope for salvation.
Your purpose fails because everything you live for and this whole purpose you have described is only based on beliefs and hope. You measure humanity as a whole and not as individuals. You think that your purpose is to end all other purposes, you think that your purpose is to solve everyones problems yet your part of everyone. You hope and you believe which leads me to think that you believe in God and the afterlife. How amusing one that places himself on such a high pedestal is truly on the same level as those he wishes to kill.
You are the problem do everyone a favor and kill yourself.
Registrator
09-19-2008, 01:16 PM
The meaning of life, is to pass on life. *WHICH MEANS TO HAVE SEX :nuts*
It's a cyclic process. No matter how you look at it, we only live so as to procreate, so that future generations will succeed us. There isn't an ultimate goal in life. Even if there is, we won't be able to uncover the divine truth.
What if I don't have any problems? What if you become the problem? The logical thing to do would eliminate yourself since you claim that death solves everyone's problems.
Denying the existence of your problems is only the result of your blind, selfish desire to keep on living no matter what. But the fact is, problems and suffering have, do, and will always exist in this current life state. The only hope to ever change that is to take a step forward, towards death and what happens after it. And if people are too idle and cowardly to take that step on their own, or if their religion prevents them from doing so, then I will force them to. For the sake of the future. I am not the problem. I am the solution.
Also, when I was talking about death, I was talking about elimination of all life in general. Things do not work the same on the short scale and on the greatest scale. Elimination of a single individual's life is evil and never truly solves any problems, but killing anyone and everyone that exists is an entirely different thing. It's progress. A truly meaningful one, not the illusive, but really pointless wandering we call "progress" in life.
Do you need a reason to exist? How can a death be a event if your dead? Events or anything for that matter is completely irrelevant at that point.
If you don't have a reason to exist, then your death will not change anything anyway. So why not die?
If you never lived how would you know the meaning of fair or better? How would you know what good is if you never experience bad?
To answer your questions, you obviously would never know the meaning of fair or better if you never lived, and you would never know what good is unless you experienced bad, but of course that does not mean that good does not exist. Good can exist without bad, people just won't know it's there.
They don't believe that the purpose of their life is to stop reincarnating its just something they have a belief in.
What.
Your purpose fails because everything you live for and this whole purpose you have described is only based on beliefs and hope.
Okay, so give me a reason to live that is not only based on beliefs and hope.
Also, your assumption that something "fails" before even seeing its outcome is completely irrational. What if my beliefs and hopes end up being true?
You measure humanity as a whole and not as individuals.
Measuring humanity in individuals is for theories that have to do with making the world better as it is. But I believe this world will never go anywhere, it will always be limited to its beings' mere survival. And the situation on the planet is only growing worse and worse, with the pollution of the environment, exhaustion of natural resources, crisis in people's moral values, overpopulation, and many other things. The progress of our civilization? Mass media to brainwash the crowds; medicine to prolong old people's lives so that doctors can take more and more of their money as they spend it to buy medicine; animals losing their freedom, breeding and living only to die as food and lab experiments; beautiful natural environments replaced with noisy cities; various technological utilities that are helpful but humans did exist and live before them; incredible amounts of resources being wasted on space exploration instead of at least trying to make our own planet better; and other stuff that have their pros, but also their cons to hold back their contributive worth. The world does not evolve. It just ages and mutates. That's why I'm trying to take things to the next level, where hopefully things will be better and possibly make more sense than this current state.
You think that your purpose is to end all other purposes, you think that your purpose is to solve everyones problems yet your part of everyone.
My purpose is not to end all other purposes. It is to take humanity to the next stage, beyond this simple survival. To a place of peace and justice (for religious people), or non-existence (for those that think life is meaningless and merely ends with death). Out of fear or religious beliefs, people alone are incapable of moving on. So I'll give this world a helping hand into the afterlife, whatever that may be.
You hope and you believe which leads me to think that you believe in God and the afterlife. How amusing one that places himself on such a high pedestal is truly on the same level as those he wishes to kill.
By that logic, everyone believes in God and the afterlife, as everyone has at least some beliefs on how things work, and hopes for the future that keep them wanting to live. Also, what places me on a different level than everyone else is the fact that, given the means, I would not hesitate one bit to eliminate all life. Any other person in my position would cower in fear, drown themselves in doubt, get trapped in a circle of reconsideration, and end up doing nothing. Because they place their self-preservation over a higher cause, a chance to something different and likely better. But I've made my resolve. There is no objective reason to keep this world into existence, so if I'm ever able to, I'll destroy it.
You are the problem do everyone a favor and kill yourself.
My mission is to kill you. I can not jeopardize my mission. I can not rest in peace before I have sent everyone else to their graves.
By the way, you're confusing you're (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you%27re) with your (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/your).
AkiraDono
09-24-2008, 09:33 AM
it depends from person to person... like if you lived your life by following others, that's not really living isn't it? You've gotta find your own meaning.
In other words, find out the answer for yourself! Don't follow what others say. Be original. It's YOUR life. Remember that life is our greatest project.
Pilaf
09-24-2008, 09:48 AM
Personally, I believe that the reason for my existence is to eliminate all life that exists, as I believe is the logical thing to do (as death solves everyone's problems. People who believe life is pointless have no reason to exist anyway, with their deaths being just another worthless event for them. People who believe in the afterlife usually think of that afterlife as better and more fair than life on Earth, so they're fine as well. And as for people who believe in reincarnation, if I'm not wrong they believe that the point of their life is to finally stop reincarnating, which will finally come true if everyone is dead, as there'll be nothing left to reincarnate into. So, unless some other scenario where existence after this life is actually worse happens to be true, then no matter who is right about their beliefs, murder of them all will take them to the next, better level, whether that is "the perfection of inexistence" or "the justice in the afterlife"). I hope that one day I will find the power I need to fulfill my purpose, because with everyone else limiting their sight to that with which they were born, I'm this world's only hope for salvation.
A question to the NF staff - is it possible to pursue some kind of immediate legal action against this obviously mentally unstable person? I feel he's displaying early warning sides of homicidal tendencies and it's the responsibility of the mature to turn him in to the proper authorities.
Dark Plague
09-26-2008, 10:55 PM
The Meaning of Life was a movie by Monty Python and was nowhere near as good as The Holy Grail
The true meaning of life however is based on your belief. You need to figure out for yourself instead of asking a bunch of nerds (myself included) with too much time on their hands.
RyokoForTheWin
09-28-2008, 11:07 AM
The answer is obviously 42. Now the problem is figuring out what that damn question was...
Oh, yes, and since Agent Smith isn't here, b proxy I'll also post his answer since he'd want a part of this action as well via saying 'The meaning of life.. is to end.'
AbnormallyNormal
09-28-2008, 02:46 PM
some people consider meaning of life to be equivalent to purpose of living. my purposes of living are to understand and improve as much as i can
Dragondoom01
09-28-2008, 03:06 PM
42!!! nah jk... IMO there isnt really any "meaning". I guess it just comes down to individual views and what a person's beliefs are.
poppy_9
09-29-2008, 04:49 PM
Learning to be.
parker pyne
09-29-2008, 09:11 PM
Don't waste time thinking start living.
They're not mutually exclusive.
The purpose of life is a pointless cycle. Continue livin and species survival (note all other species). All every animal (exception of man) does is survive.
Now since happiness is a survival mechanism that basically is implimented whenever you do something to further your survival. So in a sense, the purpose of life IS to be happy.
Tokoyami
09-30-2008, 04:47 PM
An odd cycle of increasing complexitty and replication.
itachi_uchiha666
10-02-2008, 04:55 PM
You know what? I thought I knew the meaning of life once but then I forgot.
A question to the NF staff - is it possible to pursue some kind of immediate legal action against this obviously mentally unstable person? I feel he's displaying early warning sides of homicidal tendencies and it's the responsibility of the mature to turn him in to the proper authorities.
Do your deduction abilities suck, or are you just an idiot? Judging by your custom title, I guess it's the second. Anyway, before you go making imbecilic comments like that again, remember that this is the philosophical forum - the topic of discussion is the ideas, not the individuals who mention them. If you disagree with the things I posted, then try to put up some arguments against them, else keep your hands away from that keyboard. Your ridiculous assumptions about other people on the internet you know nothing about do not belong here. If you really have to say them somewhere, then at the very least use the private message function.
To keep this a bit on-topic, I will say that the general meaning of life (in the sense that this is what keeps living beings alive) is interaction. As shown by the Pit of Despair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_Despair), without interaction, one would most certainly lose their will to live. I'm pointing this out for some people who believe life's only purpose is to survive. It is not. It is to survive decently, in an interactive way. Life is primarily interaction and probably also communication, everything else comes after that.
Now, as for things such as living according to certain rules or values and striving for certain goals, those "meanings of life" are only secondary. You don't need to love people, contribute to the society, or try to make the world a better place for your life to have a meaning. You could hate everybody, shit on society's values, and destroy other people's hard, respected work and lives and your life would still have a meaning, all because you can interact. Life's meaning only stops when you're out of interactions. Just follow your heart, mind, or instincts and live in whatever way you wish, but just be aware that whatever you do to affect other living beings, they can do the same to you. So just a bit of advice if your meaning of life isn't in accordance to the widely accepted human values, be careful and considerate. And remember that power decides everything, from the human values to the fate of the world. Don't make useless moves. If you set a high goal as the meaning of your life, then gain the high power you'll need to make it into reality. Whether that's influential power as in the case of people like Hitler, some religions, and the mass media, or pure force to oppress free will, like most forms of government, the Inquisition, and Vlad the Impaler's methods. Or a combination of the two, exactly the way order is kept in the modern society, with education and mass media (influential power) + police and military (oppresive power). Power decides all: always remember that. If you want your goals to come true, then gain the power to force them. Power should become the meaning of life for those who wish to change the world. The rest can be the fodder-level sheep that watch concerned only about their own lives, as the world they and their loved ones live in changes by humans with power greater than their own. All the crowd can do in their powerlessness is trust in their leaders, who shape the world and the crowd itself with it.
To shorten the stuff, if you care about the future, gain power to control its course. If not, do whatever. Just advice. And never forget the golden rule of life: In nature, there is no good and evil, only consequenses. Be yourself and contribute your bit onto the world, whatever that is.
Of course, do note that much of the mentioned stuff would probably lose their meaning before God (= a set of values that are good, therefore good and evil do exist). So... Well, make your own conclusions. That's what your free will is for.
Kind of a big deal
10-05-2008, 08:41 PM
The meaning of life is existance. Before the universe was created (by whichever means) I think we can all agree, there was nothing.
Nothing. Not even time and space.
We have become self-aware and this is what defines us. So think, and define yourself like that untill you die and become nothing again.
The best answer on so many different levels is simply two words:
To die.
:oh
Munsu's Light
10-11-2008, 11:25 PM
I have find something nice but it is in french (It's my vision of the meaning of life) :O So I will not post it :( Erf next time please learn french
The Bloodthirsty
10-12-2008, 02:42 AM
Life forms do not have a meaning, they just exist.
This.
I have find something nice but it is in french (It's my vision of the meaning of life) :O So I will not post it :( Erf next time please learn french
If it's not too long you can always translate it, or at least the significant parts.
Tokoyami
10-12-2008, 03:42 AM
http://img98.exs.cx/img98/4194/f8-LUEshi.gif
Garlock
10-12-2008, 03:43 AM
The meaning of life is hustleing everyday
Uchiha HAHAHA
10-12-2008, 03:43 AM
being a slave to the law.
Garlock
10-12-2008, 03:44 AM
being a slave to the law.
This is why we niggas be hustleing everyday, to make sure we don end up living your meaning of life
impersonal
10-12-2008, 04:47 AM
This is why we niggas be hustleing everyday, to make sure we don end up living your meaning of life
Isn't this "meaning of life" ('slave to the law') precisely where "hustleing" gets most "niggas" ?
Garlock
10-12-2008, 04:47 AM
Isn't this "meaning of life" precisely where "hustleing" gets most "niggas" ?
if you hustleing the wrong way, then you gonna get caught.
The meaning of life is to have fun. Everything in this world boils down to the simple fact that, to have fun, is everything.
DeLarge
11-01-2008, 06:19 PM
We only ask this question because we are self-aware of the fact that we are alive....But we are all born and all die in the same manner...The reason for life is because moms and pops were horny...There is no meaning in life so we create one...To enjoy it...We define ourselves...and then we die again....But what about extremely famous people who have immortalized themselves trough what they have done? Have they become "immortal" in a sense?...So many questions and no answers...
Ennoea
11-02-2008, 12:34 AM
Meaning of life? Its to live what else. We have no purpose, no fate, no meaning, nothing. We exist and live, nothing else. We are less important than a fly in this world.
Cronos
11-02-2008, 06:39 AM
you are born...then you breed..then you die...it's as simple as that..
Krazus
11-02-2008, 07:16 AM
Well for a man the meaning of life is sex. Thats why every morning men wake up with morning wood. Nature is reminding him of his duty.
BrianTheGoldfish
11-02-2008, 07:23 AM
If you mean some sort of underlying purpose behind everyone's life, then there probably isn't one since that implies some sort of design proponent behind your existence and I'm not a big believer in that. It's not like anyone has the right to say what you should be doing with your life to begin with anyway.
Ultimately, our lives and actions have little to no meaning either in the "grand scheme of things" as we're just fleeting blips living on one fleeting blip orbiting another fleeting blip in one fleeting spiral arm of fleeting blips, a tiny dot in the middle of a vast and fleeting universe.
But that doesn't give things like fun and happiness any less value. We fall in love, we watch movies and we can just enjoy ourselves while we're here and in our own ways. Why does there have to be any more to it than that?
To live is to die. To die is to live yet again.
The cycle keeps turning.
All I could say, is enjoy life while you can, don't be like me, who's a suicidal sadist. :argh
FreshBaked
11-03-2008, 10:04 PM
42
I don't think there is any meaning. For life to have meaning, there would have to be some kind of intelligence behind it's existance. Me being an athiest... well. :hurr
Drakestorm
11-05-2008, 12:05 AM
The meaning of life for me is to enjoy life while I can. The only thing I know for sure is that I have my time here on earth, whatever happens after is not important, because I do not believe there is anything that is going to happen after I die. So i try to do whatever I desire in life and to experience and fullfil all my dreams/goals while I can.
The Luiz
11-05-2008, 02:23 PM
It's not a complicated question,indeed. What makes your life worth? That's the meaning of life.
Verdius
11-05-2008, 02:26 PM
It's not a complicated question,indeed. What makes your life worth? That's the meaning of life.
Good answer but for me I always found this to be a faulty question to begin with as it assumes there is a meaning to life at all. Of course that doesn't stop one from giving life meaning or purpose for themselves. For me I live for my significant other first and then to better humanity second.
DaRkMaStEr
11-05-2008, 02:31 PM
The meaning of life in my view is seeking truth and pursuing goals. The topic of truth is a whole another philosophical topic, but for this, I define it as knowledge that we learned and already know.
parker pyne
11-07-2008, 10:07 AM
It's not a complicated question,indeed. What makes your life worth? That's the meaning of life.
Good (apart from the grammar). Now make it simpler. What is worth?
Also, does the question refer to human existence as a whole, or a single individual's life? Because most people have been answering for the latter.
~Zaxxon~
11-07-2008, 03:34 PM
Is it not possible that life ultimately has no higher meaning than to continue living?
DeterminedIdiot
12-20-2008, 04:07 PM
in my opinon............the meaning of life is reaching your goal and dream. something that you feel you need to do no matter what, even if other people dont agree with you
I'll bring it up again since the thread is up again. The meaning of life is to have fun. Prove me wrong if you think otherwise.
DeLarge
12-21-2008, 07:32 PM
I'll bring it up again since the thread is up again. The meaning of life is to have fun. Prove me wrong if you think otherwise.
Exactly....QFT....I respect this person...there really is no other point in life...Think about it...
This will only be my point of view but i am not a religious person...We all live because we have no choice...we were born in this world....And we don't want to die because we are afraid of death....So we live...Enjoying your life is really the only point in life...
My view on life is pretty simplistic but true...We are merely living-breathing creatures above ground...We are born ,We die...And that's it really , there is nothing to debate about....The world around us is an independent entity and we all see the world trough our own eyes....Everybody is living their own "life" we are just sharing the space we are living it in...
Hibari Kyoya
12-21-2008, 08:32 PM
Honestly I dont know.
The Precentor
12-21-2008, 08:39 PM
A question to everyone who said the purpose of life was enjoyment or having fun, does this include doing so at the expense of the enjoyment of others?
BAD BD
12-21-2008, 10:05 PM
To live.
Rikudou
12-21-2008, 10:19 PM
There is no meaning of/to life. There is no God and there is no Heaven.
Life is the only chance you get, so take it and live it to it's fullest.
There's no 'reason' for our existence, we just came to be due to certain laws of physics and how nature works.
A question to everyone who said the purpose of life was enjoyment or having fun, does this include doing so at the expense of the enjoyment of others?
The meaning of life is to have fun. If you give up having fun in yours to give fun to others, that doesn't eliminate the fact that the point of life is to have fun. Fun may not be the correct word, maybe something in the lines of happyness or joy.
Someone working 2 hard jobs at once, a single parent with 2 children, they're working for money. And they need money for food and other things. They need those things for their children, so their children can have fun/be happy. Even if they are not happy, the whole point is to try and be happy.
SmackyTheFrog
12-22-2008, 01:49 AM
The meaning of life is to have fun. If you give up having fun in yours to give fun to others, that doesn't eliminate the fact that the point of life is to have fun. Fun may not be the correct word, maybe something in the lines of happyness or joy.
Someone working 2 hard jobs at once, a single parent with 2 children, they're working for money. And they need money for food and other things. They need those things for their children, so their children can have fun/be happy. Even if they are not happy, the whole point is to try and be happy.
What about people in third world country born with aids? All they feel is hunger and pain, what is the meaning in their life?
Al-Yasa
12-22-2008, 09:20 PM
well first let me say in Islam, Man's ultimate life objective is to seek the pleasure of Allah (the Arabic equivalent for "God") by abiding by the Divine guidelines revealed in the Qur'an and the Tradition of the Prophet. Earthly life, is merely a test, determining one's afterlife, either in Jannah (paradise) or in Jahannum (Hell).
The meaning of Life according to Islam is to attain a relationship with God. To pray to God, worship God, believe in God, and have Faith in God when we are in full doubt.If we follow God, and in the correct and positive manner, we will attain that relationship with God, and will fulfill our purpose in life, that is to go to heaven.
so from this i believe that one must do good in his life, love his friend and family, help those who need help....so they are remembered by their friends and family and especially god
haydenKyuubi
12-22-2008, 10:11 PM
Meaning of Life? Obviously living it while you are alive...
yatai
12-23-2008, 07:54 AM
Life is just a fun game. You can play it anyway you want to.
Have fun folks.
:xzaru
eXtr3m3
01-07-2009, 11:03 AM
The meaning of life for me is to fulfill my dreams.Well...most of them.
Let's ask Hedonism Bot.
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HB: I apologize for nothing!
Hikaru-Kaoru
01-07-2009, 11:09 AM
Other than 42, I wouldnt really have any other idea than to succeed in life.
Pacchi
01-12-2009, 03:08 PM
Does life have a meaning?
Carsul
01-12-2009, 06:31 PM
There is no meaning of/to life. There is no God and there is no Heaven.
Life is the only chance you get, so take it and live it to it's fullest.
There's no 'reason' for our existence, we just came to be due to certain laws of physics and how nature works.
This :zaru. Well, that's what I believe anyway.
Either that or 42.......
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