So what really is the meaning of life?

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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philstar

you want to know the meaning of life??

well here it is.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9xb-pMpkfQ