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| Thread ID: 72662 | 2006-09-21 10:05:00 | What's the meaning of life? | Renmoo (66) | PC World Chat |
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| 486267 | 2006-09-27 04:57:00 | Including stuffing their faces with beans and lentils thingy? :p beetle:D |
beetle (243) | ||
| 486268 | 2006-09-27 05:07:00 | Including stuffing their faces with beans and lentils thingy? :p beetle:DTheoreticly, yes! :D My personal meaning of life seems to come down to big noise.......... :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 486269 | 2006-09-27 06:18:00 | Theoreticly, yes! :D My personal meaning of life seems to come down to big noise.......... :D Do you mean chomping of chops? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 486270 | 2006-09-27 06:30:00 | Do you mean chomping of chops?Um.....I'm a sound engineer and roady, it doesn't seem to matter what choices i make for self preservation distraction and the like, i always gravitate back to working with live bands, or thereabouts.. it's my calling, my meaning in life........ :) | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 486271 | 2006-09-27 08:15:00 | That is the meaning of your life,not the meaning of life. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 486272 | 2006-09-27 12:40:00 | That is the meaning of your life,not the meaning of life.And the meaning of my life, is for me at least, the meaning of life...... The meaning of your life is?????? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 486273 | 2006-09-27 20:18:00 | Every successful life form by definition can procreate so how is that OUR meaning, it is a prerequisite to us being here in the form we are now. Meaning is surely beyond basic bodily functions. That answer is a cop out. The answer is not a cop out, The question is simply flawed, Its like a crankshaft asking what its meaning for exsistence is, Obviously it has a purpose but how would you define meaning? Same goes for us, The question to make any sense would have to be what is the purpose of life?, And the answer is to continue our species, Its hardwaired into every single one of us. Thats our purpose, spit out babies andd give them enough life skills before we die so they can to do the same. All the rest of the crap, money, spirtuality, Religion, is just a total load of crap put together by a species whose brains went over and above the simple concept of breed and feed, Has it done us any good?, Probally not, Sure we can breed in huge numbers but we rape the planet and kill each other on a large scale. No matter how you slice it, we are animals through and through, Sure we have this dribbble about being made in Gods image (correct if God himself is an Ape) wear clothes and walk around on our back feet, But we are simply less hairy apes with evovled brains and far too much time on our hands....hence people start asking questions about the meaning of life. If someone wants personal meaning in their life then go ahead and do something that makes your life feel meaningfull, As long as the majority of people are spitting out the next generation then the peoples purpose has been taken care of. In the event that people stop having kids then we will die out and not only will their be no meaning but no life either, and our species will be considered by the next dominint race to be a failed evolutionary step. I wonder if the Dinosaurs drove themselves into misery by questioning their exsistence in the 150 million years that they roamed the earth. Anyhow, look at any drought striken country to see what happens when a species is threatened, Breed and feed, No crap, Justr spit out babies and try and secure resources. To the thread starter, Do whatever makes you happy, Life should be an enjoyable situation to be in, If what your doing doesn't work for you then do something else. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 486274 | 2006-09-27 21:10:00 | If the above is the case,then one must ask,why bother. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 486275 | 2006-09-27 21:15:00 | The answer, from one of the world's spiritual masters, Sri Sri Ravishankar, aka "The Guru of Happiness", head of The Art of Living Foundation: "Ah . . . this you better find out for yourself . Don't ask the meaning of life from me . Its like asking me to chew your candy for you . It is not possible . I can put candy in your mouth, but I can't chew it for you . You have to chew your own candy . " Sri Sri Ravishankar also says: "By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine . " In other words, the question itself is intellectual but the answer transcends the intellect . It is similar to asking a person blind from birth to describe the colour green, or using words to describe a Beethoven symphony - you have to hear it in order to feel, experience, understand . From Wikipedia: The question "what is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people . The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: . . . . wikipedia . org/wiki/Meaning_of_life" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org Includes 6 broad categories to answer The Meaning of Life - well worth a look . On the animalistic plane, Metla's answer sure makes sense . :rolleyes: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 486276 | 2006-09-27 21:27:00 | I am reading the Wikipedia page. Quite good. For example: Language can provide a meaningful answer only when it refers to a realm within the realm of life. But this is not possible when the question reaches beyond the realm in which language exists, violating the contextual limitations of language. Such a question is broken. And the answer to a broken question is an erroneous or irrelevant answer. Pragmatic philosophers suggest that rather than a truth about life, we should seek a useful understanding of life. William James argued that truth could be made but not sought. Thus, the meaning of life is a belief about the purpose of life that does not contradict one's experience of a purposeful life. Roughly, this could be applied as: "The meaning of life is those purposes which cause you to value it." To a pragmatist, the meaning of life, your life, can be discovered only through experience There are... strictly speaking, no scientific views on the meaning of biological life other than its observable biological function: to continue. In this regard, science simply addresses quantitative questions such as: "What does it do?", "By what means?", and "To what extent?", rather than the "For what purpose?". |
Strommer (42) | ||
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