What is the meaning of Life?

[PokeMog]

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[Frequen-Z]

On a purely primal basis, it'd be to keep the human species alive by having kids and whatnot.

Can't speak for any other context though.

I was about to say that,and on a non-related note,where did you find that avatar?

I saw someone had it as a spray in TF2 so I know the picture had to exist somewhere, put in Engineer Nope on google images and it's the third result.

 

[Lukyo]

. . . But God is awesome. No human person can compare to Him.

If you are that awesome you don't need a bunch of people to tell you so. You just know. Unless you is insecure or egoistical and thus not perfect.

He doesn't need people to exist. God doesn't need the universe to exist, He wanted it to exist.

No he didn't, but did he need to have us worship him? According to you he does. Besides, how do we know the Christian god is the right one? (If you say "He was written about in the bible" I am going to ask "How do we know the bible is right". If you respond to that with "God said so" then I am going to point out the circular logic and you are going to deny it).

God doesn't need people to worship him. God made people to worship Him because he wants to be worshiped and truth is He deserves to be worshiped.

Let's see why do I believe in the God of the Bible?
First of all I believe that good and evil are objective terms which automatically prevents me from being an atheist or a pantheist.

After that its a process of elimination.

Judaism should acknowledge Christ since He is their Messiah.

Islam denies the divinity of Christ

I shouldn't have to explain why I am not in a cult like Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Scientology. All basically insane.

Is there something more specific you wanted to know.

 

[Lukyo]

. . . But God is awesome. No human person can compare to Him.

If you are that awesome you don't need a bunch of people to tell you so. You just know. Unless you is insecure or egoistical and thus not perfect.

He doesn't need people to exist. God doesn't need the universe to exist, He wanted it to exist.

"want" is a human trait, and a mark of imperfection.


just sayin...

How is wanting to do something He can do a mark of imperfection?

Also we are made in the image of God so why wouldn't some trait of Him be in us?

 

[Kimarous]

According to "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. 42 is a consecutive 4 and 2. "Four Two" in Japanese is pronouced "Shini". "Shini" means "to die" in Japanese. Hence, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is TO DIE!

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called "overanalyzing".

 

[Kris015]

The meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.

 

[Lukyo]

God proved His position over and over again in all of history, Jesus being the focal point of that.

If your position of what life is about is so true then you can please prove it to mean. I'm not impervious to evidence. My faith in God is maintained by evidence.

Well my ideas on the meaning of life are pure speculation. I don't know for certain, no-one does and there is no one person on this Earth (and there never has been) that can state what the meaning of life is. Because it isn't a fact, it's a synopsis unique to each individual.

To claim to know what life is all about is just pretentious. Yes, even to have faith in God is merely an assumption. You were not here at the birth of this Earth so you cannot say for certain how it came about. To claim to know through faith is a fallacy, as faith does not explain everything (or anything for that matter). As I have stated before, anyone on this Earth can shroud something in mystics and call it a faith.

I'm not attempting to denounce your faith, I am (or rather was) trying to have a discussion with you, which has now become very religiously focused.

It's kind of hard to keep my faith out of the meaning of life when it is the whole of my philosophy.

It would be pretension if it is my faith was own invention but I didn't make this up and no other person made it up either. If there is a God and it is the God of the Bible that that is what the meaning of life is. No one was here at the foundation of the world except God but I trust Him enough to tell us what it is all about in the Bible.

If there is a meaning to life it can't be a speculation since it is going to affect how a person is suppose to conduct him/herself.

By the way, Faith is trust in things not seem based on what is seen. The Bible stands as the inerrant word of God so i have faith that what it says is true.

 

[Lukyo]

God proved His position over and over again in all of history, Jesus being the focal point of that.

If your position of what life is about is so true then you can please prove it to mean. I'm not impervious to evidence. My faith in God is maintained by evidence.

Excuse me, but what's this evidence you speak of?

1.) The historical reality of Jesus rising from the dead.

2.) Jesus' clear understanding of human nature and reality.

3.) The Bible continues to prove itself as the inerrant world of God by means of prophesy and history.

 

[Canadian Briton]

To Crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.

 

[Lukyo]

Faith is the opposite of knowing

You can't have faith in something if you don't know what it is.

 

[Bourne]

I think philosophically, the question makes no sense, particularly when applied to the human race. Others have stated the old "to perpetuate the species" card, but seeing as how, when speaking in terms of energy and agriculture, we have already technically passed our planet's carrying capacity, and the fact that we do not follow the typical models of growth rates applied to most organisms (i.e., we grow at rates equal to or greater than exponential) nulls that argument fairly quickly. So, if reproduction is going to be your reasoning, than I believe the only logical application of it is to say that we exist only to find a way to get our species to other planets so we can begin raping their ecosystems and depleting their natural resources.

I think life is all about balance, and human beings are all about gluttony, so the "purpose" of human life is (or should be) to try and kill as many other humans as possible... I think we're doing pretty well, don't you?

 

[Bourne]

Faith is the opposite of knowing

You can't have faith in something if you don't know what it is.

So wrong it hurts. Faith is believing, not knowing.

 

[Nihilism_Is_Bliss]

One could reasonable argue that each individual's reason for existing is to procreate.
However i argue there is no meaning to existence and life is utterly pointless.

 

[infamoose]

it is human nature to try and find meaning in things. there is no such thing as the meaning of life

 

[crudus]

God proved His position over and over again in all of history, Jesus being the focal point of that.

If your position of what life is about is so true then you can please prove it to mean. I'm not impervious to evidence. My faith in God is maintained by evidence.

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It's kind of hard to keep my faith out of the meaning of life when it is the whole of my philosophy.

It would be pretension if it is my faith was own invention but I didn't make this up and no other person made it up either. <b?If there is a God and it is the God of the Bible that that is what the meaning of life is[/B]. No one was here at the foundation of the world except God but I trust Him enough to tell us what it is all about in the Bible.

If there is a meaning to life it can't be a speculation since it is going to affect how a person is suppose to conduct him/herself.

By the way, Faith is trust in things not seem based on what is seen. The Bible stands as the inerrant word of God so i have faith that what it says is true.

Bolded parts contradict each other. You claim to "know" God exists and it is the Christian god. Then you assume it. Granted there is nothing wrong with going off of assumptions if you know how to do it.

He doesn't need people to exist. God doesn't need the universe to exist, He wanted it to exist.

No he didn't, but did he need to have us worship him? According to you he does. Besides, how do we know the Christian god is the right one? (If you say "He was written about in the bible" I am going to ask "How do we know the bible is right". If you respond to that with "God said so" then I am going to point out the circular logic and you are going to deny it).

God doesn't need people to worship him. God made people to worship Him because he wants to be worshiped and truth is He deserves to be worshiped.

Let's see why do I believe in the God of the Bible?
First of all I believe that good and evil are objective terms which automatically prevents me from being an atheist or a pantheist.

After that its a process of elimination.

Judaism should acknowledge Christ since He is their Messiah.

Islam denies the divinity of Christ

I shouldn't have to explain why I am not in a cult like Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Scientology. All basically insane.

Is there something more specific you wanted to know.

You can be monotheistic and still have a subjective view of good and evil. A lot of the philosophy professors at my university are Christian and disagree with the bible on good and evil.

Using this logic Christianity is wrong because it accepts Jesus as its messiah and denies the divinity of Allah. The fact that a religion disagrees with another doesn't make either one less valid.

Ironically, Mormons are the only ones I can respect as a religion(at least the sect in my town). They are very nice, non-pretentious people. They made a good first impression on me. I really hope the rest of Mormonism is like them.

 

[Lukyo]

Faith is the opposite of knowing

You can't have faith in something if you don't know what it is.

that's why it's called "Belief"

Belief based on what we know. And if it is not true we shouldn't believe in it.

 

[Tenkage]

43.

...touche