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Posted 09 November 2006 - 09:04 PM
QUOTE(san dani l @ Aug 13 2006, 09:02 AM) 
42 is the meaning of life!
or then the meaning of life is: to live your life
EDIT: we seem to be very good at screwing things up!
QUOTE(Red Sentinel @ Aug 30 2006, 02:53 PM)
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Posted 10 November 2006 - 12:33 PM
Yay for bumped up topics and yay for the meaning of our lives...42
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Posted 13 November 2006 - 04:55 PM
*Stupid post* The meaning of life is cheese! 
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Posted 13 February 2007 - 03:24 PM
Im going to be semi-serious here and actually throw up an idea rather than '42', which is not the meaning of life, its the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
Some of the comments here have been stuff about us being 'wired' to kill, to create, to destroy. I dont think we are, to be quite honest. I think that (apart from living, breathing, etc) we are only 'wired' to do one thing, and this one thing is the meaning of life.
To learn.
Think about it. If you could not learn, you would not be able to talk. You would not be able to read or write. You would not know what a computer is (gasp!), or what a book is, or who your family were. You would not know they were even human, or indeed what a human even was. You wouldnt even know that you didnt know these things.
I think learning is the meaning of life - it is something we all do all the time, something that is necessary.
Just my thoughts.
Some of the comments here have been stuff about us being 'wired' to kill, to create, to destroy. I dont think we are, to be quite honest. I think that (apart from living, breathing, etc) we are only 'wired' to do one thing, and this one thing is the meaning of life.
To learn.
Think about it. If you could not learn, you would not be able to talk. You would not be able to read or write. You would not know what a computer is (gasp!), or what a book is, or who your family were. You would not know they were even human, or indeed what a human even was. You wouldnt even know that you didnt know these things.
I think learning is the meaning of life - it is something we all do all the time, something that is necessary.
Just my thoughts.
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Posted 13 February 2007 - 03:50 PM
Gah.
To exist. The meaning of life is to still exist, even if things aren't going so well. Think about it, you existed before you learned, and you existed after you stopped to learn at the age of 95.
To exist. The meaning of life is to still exist, even if things aren't going so well. Think about it, you existed before you learned, and you existed after you stopped to learn at the age of 95.
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Posted 13 February 2007 - 07:20 PM
QUOTE(Nuu @ Aug 18 2006, 02:22 AM)
QUOTE(I changed this to be annoying @ Aug 18 2006, 02:56 PM)
Good to see nihilism is alive and well on Curvedspace.
Note that so many people are 'Christian' on this board, yet none have so far said 'to serve God' or to 'be friends withs Jesus' or whatever the meaning of life in the Bible is. 
Also note the flood of Christian values that I predict will come after this post.
No, because I'd rather not fight that fight. Whenever it does come up, it's generally a no win situation because people can be quite relentless in bashing religion. I'd much rather just sit back and keep quiet while the discussion carries on. If it's brought up, it's always a no win situation because people need answers other than faith.
I'd like a definitive answer, sure. I don't need them. That's where my faith comes in. Look at the line in my signature. Explains a lot.
(Btw, I'd like to point out that my post would appear to hold less than your predicted amount of Christian values that you said would flood the thread. We're not all zealots.)
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To write it down for all the world to see.
Such a heavy burden now to be "The One".
Born to bear and read to all the details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see.
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Posted 13 February 2007 - 10:28 PM
I can't believe I haven't responded to this yet. But anyway.
Nihilism comes to the conclusion that there is no objective meaning of life. Now, if the meaning of life was to die, that would give it an objective meaning now wouldn't it?
As for myself, I'm basically an optimistic existentialist, whereas Nihilism would be the pessimistic view of the spectrum.
Nihilism comes to the conclusion that there is no objective meaning of life. Now, if the meaning of life was to die, that would give it an objective meaning now wouldn't it?
As for myself, I'm basically an optimistic existentialist, whereas Nihilism would be the pessimistic view of the spectrum.
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Posted 14 February 2007 - 12:00 AM
Well we are simply going on and on about what we think the meaning of life is. The problem is we don't know what it is. The fact that we can lead happy lives without a reason means that finding out the reason is meaningless. The meaning of life is entirely irrelevant to living, so why bother? In the end, you just gotta be happy.
Well we are simply going on and on about what we think the meaning of life is. The problem is we don't know what it is. The fact that we can lead happy lives without a reason means that finding out the reason is meaningless. The meaning of life is entirely irrelevant to living, so why bother? In the end, you just gotta be happy.
Well we are simply going on and on about what we think the meaning of life is. The problem is we don't know what it is. The fact that we can lead happy lives without a reason means that finding out the reason is meaningless. The meaning of life is entirely irrelevant to living, so why bother? In the end, you just gotta be happy.
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Posted 14 February 2007 - 11:05 AM
QUOTE(Neraphym @ Feb 14 2007, 12:00 AM)
Well we are simply going on and on about what we think the meaning of life is. The problem is we don't know what it is. The fact that we can lead happy lives without a reason means that finding out the reason is meaningless. The meaning of life is entirely irrelevant to living, so why bother? In the end, you just gotta be happy.
Well we are simply going on and on about what we think the meaning of life is. The problem is we don't know what it is. The fact that we can lead happy lives without a reason means that finding out the reason is meaningless. The meaning of life is entirely irrelevant to living, so why bother? In the end, you just gotta be happy.
For some people taking drugs is being happy, for some smoking is being happy? Some climbing a mountain, some helping the needy, some getting new jewellry or cars. So its a very relative term. True happiness comes from truely living. That is why we need to know the meaning of life, and why we are on this planet, and why we have faculties that animals don't.
Actually, animals are most happy. Look at the cow, look at the dog in a trash bin, all so happy. xD Is that the happiness that we are looking for? Nope, for us, happiness is connected to who we really are and fulfilling that purpose.
To understand that life is not the changes and chances of this world and its true significance is found in the development of the soul, occurs in this world for a brief time and continues eternally in other worlds of God.
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Posted 14 February 2007 - 11:08 AM
QUOTE(I changed this to be annoying @ Aug 18 2006, 04:56 AM)
Good to see nihilism is alive and well on Curvedspace.
How can you believe in nihilism though.
Even something as basic as a pen or a table has purpose, how can we, such complex beings have no purpose whatsoever, and born to die?
Pfft.
