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The Meaning of LIfe

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Post Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:19 pm

The Meaning of LIfe

this is a Quetion i will try to answer

Firstly not the movie i'll get to that later. second if you read the first dont ask me if i know i dont!. im just trying to figure out something i dont have many answers now that thats outa the way i shall proceed.

Well for quite a while people have asked this Question. some chose reilgion others chose nothing. but still almost everyone wonders this sometime. now soem might watch Montey Pyrhons the meaning of life but you will just have a good laugh. so i though one of the things people would say is try and give your life meaning. but that in itself is stupid. becuase how do we judge something as meaningful when mnay things can seem meaning ful at the time and be meaningless. so here i am trying to asnwer what noone ever has.

lets start with what i metioned earlier trying to give your life meaning. to do that we must ask ourselves what is meaningful to us. some might get confused and think about what we enjoy or cherish (not that i can t be something we enjoy or cherish.)

now i will say a few things i feel is meaningful. proctecting life and society. now then i must ask myself why do i find this meaningful? well what i would say is becuase one life can change and guide civaliztion and scoiety is tha basis for civaliztion. but then if we flip it out a few knoches lets see what we get.

One billion years. little to none of humanity is going to be left and even if there is in five billion years the sun will consume earth. so why does one race in a entire universe matter and why is it meaningful. well a buhdist point of view might be that everylife is valuble and that it should not be taken lightly. but that is hard for us when deaths are metioned in our news paper all to close to the comics.


so then if we agree with that we must ask why is one life meaningful. and why do we take it lightly. now why is life maningful? becuase... we dont know so we can't go that way. of course if i did i would be coming bak to were we started so... lets try why do we take death lightly alot. now of course you won't take our mothers death lightly but no one gets sad reading the deaths section in th newspaper.

So why is life taken so lightly? well we can say becuase often we dont know these people. also we can say it will happen ether we like it or not so we better get used to it. or we can say that it happens everyday and so is no biggie. we lets start with we dont know these people. even though we dont know these people still life is our most prized thing and we should feel sorry that possibly there only exitence is taken away.

it will happen so no biggie. we have thing that we know will/won't happen and to us they are biggie. we know we will never conquer the world. (i know some people disagree but look at the chances and logic impossible in one lifetime.) and yet many have died to do this.

three it hapens every day. alot of things happen everyday. we eat everyday and yet when we eat we like to savor and enjoy our food. so these are not good enough answers for the the question.

so i propose that we do not fuly understand life or death so we do not worry about something that seems beyond us. so far thats the best i got to answer wy we take death lightly. So then we think we must undertand life. now some might not notice but this is different then the meaning of life.

Now some might say life is exitense. this is not all wrong sure when we are alive we exist. but still a rock exists. but we do exist.

End part one. (becuase of a time delay i have to finish this later)

Post Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:39 pm

We only mourn the loss of the things we love. That is why we take the death of strangers so lightly, because we do not love them.

Post Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:08 pm

Put simply the only real meaning of life at all whether it be us animals or plants is survival to reproduce. It doesn't matter what we do, eventually we will die out like the Dinosaurs but until then our goal is to keep our race alive. Consider roses. They obvieously developed thorns to keep predators away who may have been allured by the flower's sweet scent. All our inventions and ingenuity have been pretty much to make life easier, therefore make survival easier. A defence force? Comparable to a rose thorn, to defend the plant a.k.a the state. Development of the firearm. To make war "easier" and gain advantage over your enemy. CD walkman? To make workers happy. Happy workers work faster and produce more. The more your produce, generally the more powerful you are and the larger defence force you have making you superior. It's not a pretty picture but you can break down life into simple blocks...well that's my opinion

"I don't see any god up here" --Yuri Gagarin when he first reached earth's orbit

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:41 am

but your frogetting redstar that one person cannot assure sunriol for the human race. and many senpd there life trying to get a answer fo example the buhdda aka sidartha threw away a life as a great king to becom elightened, regardless of wether or not any of that is true the point is cultures are not stisfied with just surviol

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:47 am

all your questions would be answered if you followed the precepts of Radical Tawakalnism.

zlo

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:54 am

Wow, this thread is serious! Is it so important to find the meaning of life (plus we have to define what we mean by life - one's personal life, life of the human race, or life in general, so we'd have to speak about at least three types of meaning)? I mean, suppose you have found it. Then apart from this meaning, all other things would be insignificant, which would interfere with the ability to enjoy small things, and I don't want to lose this ability.

Life is sexually transmitted

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:06 am

meaning of life? i'll try sum it up very shortly. no 'meaning' will be ever adequate.

meaning of life is the sum of everything that means something to you. for example, people close to you mean something to you, they add to the 'meaning', or value, of your life. your desk means something to you, sentimental value maybe. it adds too. did i make sense?

zlo

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:36 am

Yep, kimk, at leas I got it

Life is sexually transmitted

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:47 am

The meaning of life? 42!

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:22 am

What's the question then Wiz?!

-~-~-~-~
You have called down the Thunder. Now reap the Whirlwind.
Warning! In the intrest of safety it is advisable to keep Heltak away from Fire and Flames!
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:30 am

Probably due to the time of year but I would suggest that one consider.....

What is the opposite of a meaningless death?

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:47 am

meaningless life

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:56 am

Life is what we make it to be...............


Live life, enjoy the monent, have fun..................AZAR

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:20 pm

i am going to sort through this all... i will ost more in a bit

Post Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:19 pm

now someone said we cannot mourn those we donnot love , but you can mourn great tragedys. i lost none in 911 but i mourned for the loss. but i blieve this is sidetracking form were i want to go.

we value life becuase it may be our only existence. so let us follow a new path. someone said life is what you make it to be. but that is not the meaning of life i say. that is the meaning of sucsess. we can make our lie be almost anything and yet this oes not answer alot of questions many beleive the meaning of life would answer. for example people ask why are we here and the meaning of life would be why we are here.

so why are we here in a technical sense would be a long string of cause and effect, something i am not about to get into at this moment. but if we go back to the beging what started that? but we must understan that time is not nessacarly a line i could be a vast sircal or a spiral. and as one said history repeats itself. but furthermore why we are hear most would say has to do with the begining of this universe.

and the begining spiraled off another universe and for all we know there might be others universes. (i will explain that later.) so we cannot trace a that far back what modern scientest believe was 10-20 billion years ago. but is it just a begining or is it the answer. for all we know its just a explosion .

now i want to raise a time idea. lets say that we are the second universe and that the one that causesd the big bange was the first. now lets say a billion universe later wer at universe number billion and its about to cuse a big bang. now that big bang happens and poof the universe before us is created. that is a possible theory. and how would that tell us why we are here.

now lets start with god. god created the universe. but what created god. this might remind some of a Esher picture were Esher drew one hand that was draning another hand and that hand was drawing the hand that was drawing it. our unvierse could be like that and god could be like that. but we ask oursleves how is that possible. and why? why is there a god?

now prehap the meaning of life lies with god and when we die we go to god and learn it. i am not ready to test that. prehaps the meaning of life is to be part of gods divine plan. but then we ask why does god who can do anything need a divine plan. and what would it be?

Like i said at the begining i do not have the answer and i probably never will and as you ca see this question only leads to more questions. so i hope that this will make you think a bit.

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