Meaning of life
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Any meaning or worth you find in life, you have to find yourself. Others may help you along the way... but generally not over the internet. The best advice I can give you is this: You've started practicing a little introspection. That's good. Now define what's important to you and chase it.
Immanuel Kant said:"Even if the purpose of our existance is the most simplest thing there is we would then be so stupid that we couldn't figure it out"
Message if you can't understand it is that our mind is formed so that we can't understand why we live and exist.
So far no one managed to do it so I would say he was right.
Message if you can't understand it is that our mind is formed so that we can't understand why we live and exist.
So far no one managed to do it so I would say he was right.
Hey...everybody makes sense of life in their own way, so whatever works for you...works for you. But don't you find that view just a little bit simplistic and bland?Pinkamena said:
Also, doesn't it technically have the capacity to induce madness? If the point to life is to reproduce...then from the total viewpoint (not the individual one)...the point of life comes down to doing the same shit over and over....ad infinitum ad nauseam.
I don't know....just my 2 cents is all.
Reproduction is the obvious one, but what's the point of being sapient if we just continue to do the same as when we weren't? If we have the power to choose, we should use it.
The sooner people stop expecting a meaning to be given to their lives by some deity or the universe itself, the better, in my opinion.
If you think about it, it's the most liberating thing possible; you aren't intrinsically bound to any imperative, whatever religions or governments or those awful newspaper-weekend-how-to-live-your-life-supplements may say. Your life can have whatever meaning you want it to.
I kind of see it as a species-wide transition to adulthood that mankind doesn't seem to have gotten its head around yet. As a child you're told what to do and what's 'important', you go through school, everything is laid out. Then you're an adult and you can do pretty much anything the universe allows, provided you're physically capable of surviving.
The thing is, now, we just grasp at any thread offered to us; we're told to focus on materialism so we do and it becomes our purpose, though most never really chose it. It's the same with zealotry. We can't accept our lack of a given purpose so we allow ourselves to be dominated by those who will offer us one, who in turn are probably being subsumed by a meaning given to them (like a cult leader in it for the money).
(Edit-had another idea :|)
The sooner people stop expecting a meaning to be given to their lives by some deity or the universe itself, the better, in my opinion.
If you think about it, it's the most liberating thing possible; you aren't intrinsically bound to any imperative, whatever religions or governments or those awful newspaper-weekend-how-to-live-your-life-supplements may say. Your life can have whatever meaning you want it to.
I kind of see it as a species-wide transition to adulthood that mankind doesn't seem to have gotten its head around yet. As a child you're told what to do and what's 'important', you go through school, everything is laid out. Then you're an adult and you can do pretty much anything the universe allows, provided you're physically capable of surviving.
The thing is, now, we just grasp at any thread offered to us; we're told to focus on materialism so we do and it becomes our purpose, though most never really chose it. It's the same with zealotry. We can't accept our lack of a given purpose so we allow ourselves to be dominated by those who will offer us one, who in turn are probably being subsumed by a meaning given to them (like a cult leader in it for the money).
(Edit-had another idea :|)
Nah, I haven't been using that philosophy until recently. I would definitely call the last few years of my life my best.TornadoFive said:
Well, when I think about it, that is the meaning of life on an objective standpoint. But subjectively, it's different, as we make up our own. I honestly don't see a "meaning" to life. Sure, it's nice to live, but I see no goals that I must fulfill.Manji187 said:
I don't think the Meaning of life is to spend all your time thinking about the meaning of life.
I don't remember who it was, but someone on another thread put it quite nicely: "if you wonder what the meaning of life is, you haven't been living it". (or something like that, sorry to whoever said it..
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So I think the meaning of life is to live life. See if you can do all the things Jonathan Coulton mentions in this amazing song:
I don't remember who it was, but someone on another thread put it quite nicely: "if you wonder what the meaning of life is, you haven't been living it". (or something like that, sorry to whoever said it..
)So I think the meaning of life is to live life. See if you can do all the things Jonathan Coulton mentions in this amazing song:
THE meaning to life, the whole reason, one answer to rule them all, sadly the question is pretty much "Chicken or the Egg?", it's a fun unspecified question with absolutely no meaning without specifics.
Biologically the entire meaning to the life of every animal is to reproduce and survive.
Now in a philosophical sense the "Meaning of Life" discussion is really a giant debate, speculation without bringing in the biological reason for existence.
From personal experience though most people do not believe the biological reason to be the only reason for existence, something about such a simple answer can't possibly be all there is I don't pay attention. All I need to say about that is just enjoy life without harming the collective species.
Sure we all die but you know what, why put so much emphasis on the end when right now is the present, and the present is like a present filled with presents!
Biologically the entire meaning to the life of every animal is to reproduce and survive.
Now in a philosophical sense the "Meaning of Life" discussion is really a giant debate, speculation without bringing in the biological reason for existence.
From personal experience though most people do not believe the biological reason to be the only reason for existence, something about such a simple answer can't possibly be all there is I don't pay attention. All I need to say about that is just enjoy life without harming the collective species.
Sure we all die but you know what, why put so much emphasis on the end when right now is the present, and the present is like a present filled with presents!
Pretty much here for one reason and that is to continue the species. So go out there, get a girl pregnant, keep breeding. Been wondering why people give you such a hard time for being a virgin, its because as a species we can't fathom a life without sex. So go ahead and buy your useless material goods, get a good job, then have a couple of kids and die.
Oh man, aren't you lucky i saw this thread. i'll warn you, i am about to write paragraphs and paragraphs about this stuff so bare with me.
This nebula, over millions of years, clumped together to form a protostar (a small star with huge rings of sun dust orbiting around it).
The rings of dust orbiting the star eventually started to clump together and create planetoid's (smaller, not so smooth, planets). At this time there were over 1000 different planetoids orbiting our star.
Over the next 100 millions of years, the planets orbiting the sun crashed together and started to form bigger more round planets, which later formed the planets orbiting our sun today.
Our planet started off as a semi molten ball of iron, rock and water vapour. Somewhere along our history a mars sized planet crashed into our planet throwing off millions of tonnes of molten rock which, over millions of years, formed our moon.
As the planet cooled the watervapour in the air, and deep within the rock condensed to form shallow seas all across the globe.
That's how it started, why it started... I generally think of it as; everything is goverend by chaos as everything is born out of destruction, Therefore the reason why the universe was created is simply down to a chaotic series of events where the only possible outcome was what happened. This of the universe as a snooker table. When you hit the white ball with the cue it travels away from the cue, and depending on how you hit the ball there can only be one possible outcome.
Yes i agree that our death is an inevitable end, and we shouldn't try to change the course of life, however it is not our purpose to die. While as a single human life may not be long enough to discover all the secrets of the universe, it is our job as life to play our part in the collonisation of the universe.
Life is defined as something that can make descisions, even trees make the descision to grow towards the sun. I personally believe that the next stage in life is to question those descisions. Questions are what seperates life from intelligent life. The next stage in life is using our knowledge to answer those questions and the questions that those answers create.
It is our job as an advanced species to understand the world around us and to cultivate and protect the life around us. as we have more technology and understanding that other animals, it is the least we can do for them to share our know how with them.
Death to me is 'perfection'. Now while that may sound kinda crazy, hear me out.
Perfection is not the state where nothing can be added, it is where nothing can be taken away. The reason why we fear death so much is becasue we would be losing the most valuabe thing to us, life, but when we are dead, we can have nothing taken away from us so we are at a state of absolute peace.
Death is not something to be afraid of, it's not something we should aim for, but instead of being a symbol of fear, it should be something that keeps us strong and willing to make the most of our lives and to fight for them.
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In the beggining the 'Big Bang' caused all matter in existence to be scattered into nothingness, creating the universe. Some of the space dust created then formed a nebula (a cloud of space dust usually many light years in diameter).i don said:
This nebula, over millions of years, clumped together to form a protostar (a small star with huge rings of sun dust orbiting around it).
The rings of dust orbiting the star eventually started to clump together and create planetoid's (smaller, not so smooth, planets). At this time there were over 1000 different planetoids orbiting our star.
Over the next 100 millions of years, the planets orbiting the sun crashed together and started to form bigger more round planets, which later formed the planets orbiting our sun today.
Our planet started off as a semi molten ball of iron, rock and water vapour. Somewhere along our history a mars sized planet crashed into our planet throwing off millions of tonnes of molten rock which, over millions of years, formed our moon.
As the planet cooled the watervapour in the air, and deep within the rock condensed to form shallow seas all across the globe.
That's how it started, why it started... I generally think of it as; everything is goverend by chaos as everything is born out of destruction, Therefore the reason why the universe was created is simply down to a chaotic series of events where the only possible outcome was what happened. This of the universe as a snooker table. When you hit the white ball with the cue it travels away from the cue, and depending on how you hit the ball there can only be one possible outcome.
ah, a question i have pondered over many a day.i don said:
Yes i agree that our death is an inevitable end, and we shouldn't try to change the course of life, however it is not our purpose to die. While as a single human life may not be long enough to discover all the secrets of the universe, it is our job as life to play our part in the collonisation of the universe.
Life is defined as something that can make descisions, even trees make the descision to grow towards the sun. I personally believe that the next stage in life is to question those descisions. Questions are what seperates life from intelligent life. The next stage in life is using our knowledge to answer those questions and the questions that those answers create.
It is our job as an advanced species to understand the world around us and to cultivate and protect the life around us. as we have more technology and understanding that other animals, it is the least we can do for them to share our know how with them.
Xenophobia. We humans are generally xenophobic, it's a natural protection method that stops us venturing into dark tiger ridden forests at night, however it is not as useful in modern society. Everyone gets xenophobic, it's natural, and it's also usually what provokes our curiosity.i don said:
Death to me is 'perfection'. Now while that may sound kinda crazy, hear me out.
Perfection is not the state where nothing can be added, it is where nothing can be taken away. The reason why we fear death so much is becasue we would be losing the most valuabe thing to us, life, but when we are dead, we can have nothing taken away from us so we are at a state of absolute peace.
Death is not something to be afraid of, it's not something we should aim for, but instead of being a symbol of fear, it should be something that keeps us strong and willing to make the most of our lives and to fight for them.
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