As a staunch absurdist, I think there is no meaning in life and it is useless to try to find one. We're here for whatever reason, so let's just revel in the awesome for a few decades.
The meaning of life.
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to survive until adulthood, mate with a member of the opposite sex, raise the resulting offspring and then die.
repeat.
repeat.
First, sorry for the long answer: everyone wants a short answer ? but not a short life.
Here's what a recent survey found:
? a quarter (27%) of people think the meaning of life is to lovingly help others and make the world better
? 20% think it is to reproduce and continue your genes and the human race
? 20% say it is to seek truth and create meaning for ourself
? 10% believe it is to learn how to serve and worship God
? 10% say it is to find happiness, while
? 10% cite there is no meaning
Source: ongoing survey at www.meaningoflifebook.com
While it seems there are several possible meanings, science is beginning to reveal that there is one fundamental purpose to all life.
It shows that at its most fundamental level, everything - yes absolutely everything you see and experience - is made of energy. Everything, including life, is the result of this energy, its flow and interaction. Scientists such as Schneider and Sagan have shown how the flow of energy created life.
Still not sure ? consider how you are physically composed of 25 or so chemicals ? just like everyone else. So how are you different? While all our chemicals might be the same, the energy mixed with them is different in each of us. For example, while we all have bodies with similar brains with a similar number of nerves in each, the way those nerves are connected is different in each of us. The experiences, learnings and resulting nerve connections are unique and are what makes you whom you are, makes your character and personality. Science can?t specifically tell us precisely how your character and personality works, but you know you have one that stares at us from the mirror each day. Your character cannot be easily seen, even described or its location pinpointed in scientific terms, but it exists - through the interaction of energy. As such, a major part of you is energy, in particular how your energy flows and balances.
While the purpose of all life might be to help energy flow, the same laws of energy indicate that a meaning of your own life is to find and convey information and then use it to bring about change through some sort of work.
Is this science echoing those scriptures that suggest you have your own unique ?gift? that you should use? What does your energy enable you to do best? This can be as simple as determining what you are truly passionate about or what you do better than anyone else. Unfortunately, many of us are not. As such, the individual meaning of your life is for you to discover what makes your energy flow best within you.
How you use energy best varies for everyone. Therefore, everyone has a slightly different meaning to someone else.
In short, while the purpose of all life is about helping energy flow, spread and balance, your individual meaning is about determining how you do this best, what you do that helps your energies flow best.
Ignoring this means your energy will be all mixed up and life just chaotic. This is what most scriptures and spiritual writings are trying to tell us - but just didn't understand energy well enough.
Find more - and vote on what you think the meaning of life is - at www.meaningoflifebook.com
Here's what a recent survey found:
? a quarter (27%) of people think the meaning of life is to lovingly help others and make the world better
? 20% think it is to reproduce and continue your genes and the human race
? 20% say it is to seek truth and create meaning for ourself
? 10% believe it is to learn how to serve and worship God
? 10% say it is to find happiness, while
? 10% cite there is no meaning
Source: ongoing survey at www.meaningoflifebook.com
While it seems there are several possible meanings, science is beginning to reveal that there is one fundamental purpose to all life.
It shows that at its most fundamental level, everything - yes absolutely everything you see and experience - is made of energy. Everything, including life, is the result of this energy, its flow and interaction. Scientists such as Schneider and Sagan have shown how the flow of energy created life.
Still not sure ? consider how you are physically composed of 25 or so chemicals ? just like everyone else. So how are you different? While all our chemicals might be the same, the energy mixed with them is different in each of us. For example, while we all have bodies with similar brains with a similar number of nerves in each, the way those nerves are connected is different in each of us. The experiences, learnings and resulting nerve connections are unique and are what makes you whom you are, makes your character and personality. Science can?t specifically tell us precisely how your character and personality works, but you know you have one that stares at us from the mirror each day. Your character cannot be easily seen, even described or its location pinpointed in scientific terms, but it exists - through the interaction of energy. As such, a major part of you is energy, in particular how your energy flows and balances.
While the purpose of all life might be to help energy flow, the same laws of energy indicate that a meaning of your own life is to find and convey information and then use it to bring about change through some sort of work.
Is this science echoing those scriptures that suggest you have your own unique ?gift? that you should use? What does your energy enable you to do best? This can be as simple as determining what you are truly passionate about or what you do better than anyone else. Unfortunately, many of us are not. As such, the individual meaning of your life is for you to discover what makes your energy flow best within you.
How you use energy best varies for everyone. Therefore, everyone has a slightly different meaning to someone else.
In short, while the purpose of all life is about helping energy flow, spread and balance, your individual meaning is about determining how you do this best, what you do that helps your energies flow best.
Ignoring this means your energy will be all mixed up and life just chaotic. This is what most scriptures and spiritual writings are trying to tell us - but just didn't understand energy well enough.
Find more - and vote on what you think the meaning of life is - at www.meaningoflifebook.com
There is no meaning of life, that's the best bit. There's no overarching goal to be working towards, there's no great big plan. You do what makes you and the people you love happy, and then you die. Or, you don't, if that's what you want. Really the only no-no is going out of your way to make other people unhappy, which in the scheme of things, can be regarded as a bit of a dick move.
Personally, I believe that we exist to learn and grow, easing the sufferings of those around us. We are beings consisting of mind, body and soul, all three of which we must learn to identify ourselves with. We exist to tend our growth and, after that, the growth of those around us. And then, yeah, what this guy said:
A very wise ass you have then. I would very much enjoy one day discussing the finer points of philosophy with it. ^_^RowdyRodimus said:
I think there is no universal meaning of life, you rather have to create meaning yourself, your own meaning will be important to you.
[HEADING=2]42!!![/HEADING]
Just kidding. I think the meaning of life is to live, as cleverbot would say.
Just kidding. I think the meaning of life is to live, as cleverbot would say.
You know most people stop at 42, but if you go a little farther I believe you can get something out of that answer.brunothepig said:
In the second book they found that the supposed question might be "What do you get when you multiply six by nine" The answer being 42, one could deduce that the Universe just doesn't "add up." (He he, you see what I did there?) I kind of like this answer. To me it means that thinking about it isn't really that important. Even if you did find it it doesn't change anything.
Knowing this I find it is much more progressive for humanity to work on overcoming "real" obstacles. Like space travel or computer limitations.
Two die. A 6 sided dice when all faces are added together add up to 21. So therefore two die = 42. And yes dice is singular, too many people get it wrong.
