So what really is the meaning of life?

Reku

nice1franko wrote:

meaning of life is to get to heaven and get as many blowobs as possible.

I don't know, suspect a lot of those angels might be pillowbiters, and with their divine powers and having tought women about makeup could you ever be certain that it was definitely a chick giving the hummer?

aodhu

zippy28 wrote:

My current meaning of life is getting more than 7K on Desktop tower defence. (Thanks Ruu) I've only done i twice so far.

Any chance of a link?

Kind of soppy but interesting interpretation of meaning of life:

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/music-and-life-p1.php

cjt156

There is no meaning of life; there is, however, a purpose.

That purpose is to discover who you are
and to strive to be that person.


I've discovered I'm the person who goes to sleep every night after a rare steak and a blow job - still trying...

Terry

farohar wrote:

The meaning of life...
The furtherment of the species either through it's continuity or it's betterment (preferably both).

Beat me to it.
It's just that simple.
There are no big mysteries about it.
You just have kids and help them better themselves and it all starts again.

Froot

For me life is about living my life with someone I like/love in relative comfort and safety. Thats it. It doesnt matter though really. We are all going to die anyway.

Froot

Mear wrote:

For all your answers, read:

Dan Millman: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Here is an extract, or at least here is my prediction...

DAY 1: First day in battle, my passive attitude has not won me any friends and I had both my legs hacked off. Perhaps being a peaceful warrior is a sh!t idea.

The Bollox

what do you get if you multiply 7 x 6 in base 13 (I think that was it)
how many roads must a man walk down?...

forty-two

Sofaspud

From google define:

Definitions of life on the Web:

* a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
* the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
* the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
* animation: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
* the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
* the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
* liveliness: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
* biography: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
* the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
* a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
* living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
* a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
* the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
* life sentence: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Reku

Terry wrote:

Beat me to it.
It's just that simple.
There are no big mysteries about it.
You just have kids and help them better themselves and it all starts again.

Heh, thought my insightful post would've been wasted here, nice to be proven wrong in this instance.

Sadly I think these days many parents fall down quit badly on the "help them better themselves" part of raising kids.

Naos

Froot wrote:

Here is an extract, or at least here is my prediction...

DAY 1: First day in battle, my passive attitude has not won me any friends and I had both my legs hacked off. Perhaps being a peaceful warrior is a sh!t idea.

/rummages around for a quote

"Never judge a book by its cover", or in your case, "Never judge a book if you have not heard of it/read it/googled it".

CharlieFinton

I'd say.....the meaning of life, of all our lives, is in everything we do, the people we meet and call friends/enemies, the children we may have, the places we see, all of the memories we take with us and bring back to help us through hard times, it's in all that we experience, bad or good, and in all that we learn and forget...and if someone could take all these things and put them into words, we'd find some meaning to it all, a collective meaning, not just in one single thing, such as a god we worship, or money we strive for, or even our families, it's in our entire lives...so only in our final hour will we realise what our lives have been about, through what we'll miss, and what will miss us...that's where i found it last time 'round anyway...

seo-ireland

The meaning of life is to reproduce. Everything else is just a bonus. End of story.

Irish Wolf

MooseJam wrote:

I thought it was 42

Indeed.. patiently awaits zaph to explain it all to us again...

Dave!

Life has no meaning. We're all gonna die eventually. So you might as well try and cram as much adventure, love, fun, happiness, etc., into the c. 80 years we have on the planet.

Or if you want to get sappy then you can go for the whole immortalisation through art shindig! I think Yeats was big into that...
Or perhaps from a biological point of view the meaning of life is to survive as long as possible and have as many kids as possible.

Get crackin on that!

So Glad

The meaning of live, from the point of view of being a conscious being that can observe the world around him and question it, is quite obvious. I believe in reincarnation, I just do. So many people recall different lives. I believe that this world is a training ground for souls. We are sent here with a specific purpose in mind. I believe we form our life before we come here to better ourselves when we leave. Take for example, the man who is born ugly, and has no chance of going by on good looks. He needs to better himself in other ways. Maybe in a past life he was extremely vain, and slagged ugly people?

I believe that just like the human body/DNA that our souls (consciousness) evolve that that evolution is reincarnation into the training ground of planet Earth. A lot of people don't realize they are here to better themselves of the deficiencies they have, and spend they're life cursing what they have and swallowing anti-depressants and living in the dark.

So yeah, I believe the meaning of live is to evolve your consciousness as a soul and to realize good and evil as neither one nor the other because one man's good is another man's evil and they both exist in the same universe and are the scales of life.

/rant

daveirl

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So Glad

daveirl wrote:

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Yes, yes they do. Doesn't make them wrong.

Pompey Magnus

So Glad wrote:

So many people recall different lives.

Problem with that is that quite alot of different people recall the same life, eg one psychologist had about 8 patients who recalled being Napolean Bonapart and 5 who recalled being Marie Antoinette.

SimpleSam06

So Glad wrote:

The meaning of live, from the point of view of being a conscious being that can observe the world around him and question it, is quite obvious. I believe in reincarnation, I just do. So many people recall different lives. I believe that this world is a training ground for souls. We are sent here with a specific purpose in mind. I believe we form our life before we come here to better ourselves when we leave. Take for example, the man who is born ugly, and has no chance of going by on good looks. He needs to better himself in other ways. Maybe in a past life he was extremely vain, and slagged ugly people?

I believe that just like the human body/DNA that our souls (consciousness) evolve that that evolution is reincarnation into the training ground of planet Earth. A lot of people don't realize they are here to better themselves of the deficiencies they have, and spend they're life cursing what they have and swallowing anti-depressants and living in the dark.

So yeah, I believe the meaning of live is to evolve your consciousness as a soul and to realize good and evil as neither one nor the other because one man's good is another man's evil and they both exist in the same universe and are the scales of life.

/rant

Right so... blowjobs then?

Crumble Froo

is that an offer?! ^

Dave!

So Glad wrote:

Yes, yes they do. Doesn't make them wrong.

Strange rationale...........

stepbar

Don't be giving yourself a hernia thinking about it lads.........

mwnger

To quote the Super Furry Animals:

"What's the meaning of life...?

...ANYTHING YOU LIKE!!!"*

Can't argue with that really.


*from Smokin' on their Ice Hockey Hair EP.

falterego

Why does life have to have a meaning?Just because we want there to be one obviously doesn't mean there is an inherent meaning in life, born to die etc. etc.

pclancy

Just enjoy yourself as much as possible, make as many other people around you happy as possible and see/do everything you can. We take way too much for granted and when times are good worry way too much about things we shouldnt.

Also tai food, thats a meaning of live.

djmarkus

To reproduce and maintain the existance of the human race

Mahatma coat

So Glad wrote:

The meaning of live, from the point of view of being a conscious being that can observe the world around him and question it, is quite obvious. I believe in reincarnation, I just do. So many people recall different lives. I believe that this world is a training ground for souls. We are sent here with a specific purpose in mind. I believe we form our life before we come here to better ourselves when we leave. Take for example, the man who is born ugly, and has no chance of going by on good looks. He needs to better himself in other ways. Maybe in a past life he was extremely vain, and slagged ugly people?

I believe that just like the human body/DNA that our souls (consciousness) evolve that that evolution is reincarnation into the training ground of planet Earth. A lot of people don't realize they are here to better themselves of the deficiencies they have, and spend they're life cursing what they have and swallowing anti-depressants and living in the dark.

So yeah, I believe the meaning of live is to evolve your consciousness as a soul and to realize good and evil as neither one nor the other because one man's good is another man's evil and they both exist in the same universe and are the scales of life.

/rant

dunno bout actual reincarnation, like where you were defo one person in a previous existence, but I believe the universe recycles so possibly there are shadows of previous existences in the background, apparently we use a shockin small amount of our brain capacity as a species.

many find solace and meaning in the things they do in life, the simple pleasure of standing back as the sun is setting an looking at something you've just built, knowing every intricate detail of it and being happy, just happy, sort of in the moment.

others find meaning and happiness through their children and the joy they bring to each other.

horsesforcourses, each to their own.

I always liked how the Hippocratic Oath starts.

Beelzebub

CharlieFinton wrote:

I'd say.....the meaning of life, of all our lives, is in everything we do, the people we meet and call friends/enemies, the children we may have, the places we see, all of the memories we take with us and bring back to help us through hard times, it's in all that we experience, bad or good, and in all that we learn and forget...and if someone could take all these things and put them into words, we'd find some meaning to it all, a collective meaning, not just in one single thing, such as a god we worship, or money we strive for, or even our families, it's in our entire lives...so only in our final hour will we realise what our lives have been about, through what we'll miss, and what will miss us...that's where i found it last time 'round anyway...

Worst answer.

Beelzebub

DaveMcG wrote:

Life has no meaning. We're all gonna die eventually. So you might as well try and cram as much adventure, love, fun, happiness, etc., into the c. 80 years we have on the planet.

Or if you want to get sappy then you can go for the whole immortalisation through art shindig! I think Yeats was big into that...
Or perhaps from a biological point of view the meaning of life is to survive as long as possible and have as many kids as possible.

Get crackin on that!

Best answer DaveMcG!

I am leaning more towards this more and more as I get older and older.
But maybe a near death experience will change that, have never had one, and not everyone does, but they say that there's no such thing as an aetheist in the foxholes.....maybe that's just desperation or fear though...

2 stroke

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