Meaning of Life

[jewpinthethird]

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when im stoned i can figure out the meaning of life. try that.

Yeah, and when I was stoned I thought the slice of pizza I was holding was melting all over my hands.

As the meaning of life: 42 is not the meaning of life. 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. But not the meaning of life.

I dont see why people keep asking this question. It isnt going to be answered on an internet forum.

I just try not to think about it. Philosophy is stupid anyway.

[Bodom13]

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when im stoned i can figure out the meaning of life. try that.

Yeah, and when I was stoned I thought the slice of pizza I was holding was melting all over my hands.

As the meaning of life: 42 is not the meaning of life. 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. But not the meaning of life.

I dont see why people keep asking this question. It isnt going to be answered on an internet forum.

I just try not to think about it. Philosophy is stupid anyway.

yea i hate how everything makes sense... =.=
but thats probly the closest ill come to anwsering the meaning of life. so whatever

[Lightknight924]

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Like it was said before. The meaning of life only has meaning if you put personal meaning to it.

[Rediahs]

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42.

well aren't you clever and original

Someone had to say it; the thread was asking for it.

[Lightknight924]

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What is 42 from?

[The_Q]

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Back on topic, the meaning of life. What is it?

And why should I care?

I personally don't care what it is because, guess what. I live. If you ask me, that's all there is to it. I'm here. In the words of Douglas Adams (yes, 42 indeed) "whatever happens, happens."

Q

[Bodom13]

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Back on topic, the meaning of life. What is it?

And why should I care?

I personally don't care what it is because, guess what. I live. If you ask me, that's all there is to it. I'm here. In the words of Douglas Adams (yes, 42 indeed) "whatever happens, happens."

Q

why should anyone care about anything? maybe thats the reason to life...?

O.o

[MonkeyFoo]

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The meaning of life? The meaning of life is to give itself meaning. Life means to you what you make it mean. If you want to just say there's no point, then fine, your life has no meaning. But when you think about your life, you tend to find that whether or not your life means something to you, it is what you mean to other people that really counts for anything. From this point stems a major part of my own personal philosophy:

Because I am an atheist, and because I believe that when I'm dead that's the end, I don't find that my life really has meaning to me. I'm just here to serve the rest of society through multifarious contributions. Just a few of these are friendship and comeraderie, buying things, contributing ideas to general discourse, and eventually contributing to the production of products for everyone else to buy (I also believe that capitalism and democracy accelerate the improvement of society).

So I guess that to me, my purpose to the general people of the country centers around my abilities to add to our economy and public discourse. A few levels smaller in scale, I make people happy by being a friend, or a good student, or fulfilling some other small personal role that makes it easier for others to do their part in society, like giving good mornings and thank yous to people. This of course all feeds back into the countrywide scale again. From there up, our country can help make others happy in all sorts of ways ranging from simple trading, to aid donations, even to removing inhibiting factors to this happiness (though I don't endorse the war). So that's the meaning of my life in general, to help improve the status quo for mankind.

This is because the purpose of life in general is to improve itself. It's not a goal set by and god, but that is what makes life what it is. If the first life had not tried to improve, it would not have wanted to reproduce, as reproduction is a method to improve life. Because life developed to the point of intelligence via sexual reproduction, sex has become an instinctive way to better the species. That's where we get the argument that sex is the best thing we can do for life on earth.

However, we live in an age where, in modern society at least, evolution doesn't really happen because there's no natural selection. Thus, sex isn't a way to actually improve the race. There are still fine reasons to make love, though. First off, it perpetuates the race, without which there would be no purpose to anything. Secondly of course, it makes people feel good so we can, again, contribute to the betterment of society.

So basically, my homebrewed school of thought says that the individual alone means nothing, but as part of society the individual is a vital tool to improve life. This is true in all societies, and again I feel that capitalism strengthens the individual to foster more development and improvement of life.

Or maybe we're just an inconsequential race of hairy apes inhabiting the surface of a giant computer which was built to find out the question of life, the universe and everything. Nobody really knows.

One last thing...

It isnt going to be answered on an internet forum.

I'd call this an answer, but indeed there is a lot more depth than I could ever write. Or think.

[omgitznpv]

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I'm too lazy to read all of it

[chickendude]

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Life is a quest to avoid death.

It's a futile mission, but we try.

[The_Q]

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To live.

Q

[Grandiagod]

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In instinctual terms every animals life is based on having children. But assuming that human beings have rose a step up over ardvarks, I would have to say there is no one-size-fits-all universal philosophy.

[Triking]

I tried to respond to this question, but I don't think I could without offending anyone faithless persons out there. Those people, who write off God without so much as a second thought. I think the problem is, that faithless people are far to trusting. Grown in a post-modernist world, they trust the Greek philosophy taught in schools, and do not question what the teachers say.


I've been seeing lately, that more and more people are debating on whether creationism should be taught in schools. Particularly, on the origin of the universe. My thoughts on the matter? IT SHOULD NOT!

Repeating, no creationism should be taught in schools..

And, as far as the state is concerned, none is.

So why then, is the theory of evolution taught as a means to explain the origin of the universe? Is that not a violation of church an state? After all, what is creationism, but a philosophical theory attempting to explain the origin of the universe?

So why then, is evolution allowed to be taught, without a counter-point?

Evolution, though it has many readily apparent flaws and gaps, seen by the scientific community, if you look for them, is a fine theory.
I don't think that the theory should not be taught in schools... just because animals experience minor genetic changes that casually affect small strains of species over a certain period of time does not make the theory incompatible with God or Christianity. For all I know, God intended it to happen that way. Who am I to question God's motives?

It is only when the theory is taught as an explanation to the origin of the universe that a problem arises. It is a violation of church and state. When you use the theory to explain away God, it becomes a religion.

The theory is no longer an unbiased viewpoint of science, but a philosophy.

[Grandiagod]

Hmmm... maybe start a new thread about creationism vs. evolution. Or not, as religious debates are impossible to win and generally just cause problems rather than find solutions.

[Triking]

hey hey, I'm not placing a case for creationism vs evolution... As far as I'm concerned the two theories do not contradict each other, until you use evolution to explain the origin of the universe.

But perhaps a thread on seperation of church and state would be nice

And as for arguments being impossible to win? That's just silly, everyone knows that! That's why I don't argue.