life, the univers, and everything

Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:06 pm by Wilde

The answer, of course, is 42 (for those of you who have read Douglas Adams)

I know MY answer, I know the answer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I know Monty Python's answer*, and of course I know Boscoe's answer to the question.

MY question is what is the general answer of TLR to this:

Why are we here? What's life all about?
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Earth.

(Mostly Harmless)

Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:09 pm by Esquilax

I think that the answer is obvious; to support the fledgling ginger beer industry.

Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:24 pm by DemonSlayer

To kill the stupid nomads, if we do nothing they will rise and then the coalition will happen, then we'll fight nomads!

Is Freelancer a prophocy?

Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:32 pm by J Dawg

Obviously to lobby for a Freelancer 2.

Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:50 pm by Wizard

According to numerous biologists on this planet, we're here to reproduce ourselves. I know that I'm on this world to have fun!

Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:29 pm by Lt Cmdr. Ajim

Life is about how fast you can piss off someone you work for and what would happen later. Also how fast you can prove to the world that you existed via materialism or even kids

Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:33 pm by Wolf_Demon

to laugh at esq and his ginger beer

Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:56 pm by Arrozal

To reproduce of course. If we don't there's nothing and we die out therefore ending life. That's the technical one. Simple. And like Wiz says, if we can have fun along the way lol, why not. But fun isn't neccesary for life. Some may say yes but technically it isn't. That is humanity's real goal. All the inventions that make life easier, are subconciously designed to help us reproduce easier and with less stress. When you think about it, that's really all there is to biological life. So don't think to much about it lol or otherwise you will get some strange ideas lol

Free Dublin from the Imperialists!
Join the fight today instead of slaving over the Monarchy.

Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:45 am by Recusant

Although all our improvements never fail to also induce stress. As we advance we increase the complexity of our society and actually end up making our environment even more stressful. It reminds me of a quote from "The Gods must be crazy" where the narrator compares the lifestyle of the bushmen to civilized man:

...Only 600 miles to the south there's a vast city, and here you find Civilised Man. Civilised Man refused to adapt himself to his environment, instead he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities , roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices, but somehow he didn't know when to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make his life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10 to 15 years at school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into, and Civilised Man, who refused to adapt himself to his natural surroundings, now finds that he has to adapt and re-adapt himself every day, and every hour of the day, to his self-created environment. For instance, if the day is called "Monday" and the number "7:30" comes up, you have to dis-adapt yourself from your domestic surroundings, and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. "8:00" means everybody has to look busy. "10:30" says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes....and then you have to look busy again, and so your day is chopped up into little pieces, and in each segment of time you have to adapt to a new set of circumstances. No wonder some people go off the rails a bit.

Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:03 pm by Wilde

It's amazing the answers a capitalist/materialist culture invokes in you people

My take on it? There is no reason. We aren't HERE to reproduce, we just reproduce. And fun? Fun is only an escapist trick to avoid impending death. Everything happens, not necessarily for a purpose.

So we have to make the best use of our lives that we can.

Ergo, each of us must examine life. How to best make use of the 50 or 60 years you have to live? What can be, and what can be done? My answer would be to find the epitomy of the spirit of humanity--finding compassion, wisdom, morality (blah blah blah).

Edited by - Wilde on 2/2/2005 6:19:13 PM

Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:55 pm by Eh_Steve

There is no answer, its like half the questions on my Biology final, there is a question, there are answers, but none of them are correct. In fact, no answer is correct. It's just a guise to get money to philosophers, thinkers, and physicists.

Douglas Adams is closest to the answer, at least he made fun of our hunt.

Wed Feb 02, 2005 6:15 pm by Wilde

Screw Douglas Adams. And screw 42! (The books were funny, tho)

There is the random bullcrapping of someone like...Descartes, for example. He is a idiot, a real bulls**t artist. Smart, but an idiot nonethless. There are people who completely miss the point--thinking of life as a job that lasts until retirement, and they are fools. Then there are the madmen...who actually begin a search for truth.

Whether driven by insanity, or a desire to find themselves and to find reality, to end suffering, to find true happiness.

To despair only means there is a decadence in your life that you have not rooted out and put to rest.

Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:31 pm by Alpha-Leader

Are you by chance a gamefaqs forum user?

Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:37 pm by Codename

Why? Is that a popular place for pretentious 14-year-old know-it-alls?

Purpose is subjective. Create your own.

Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:54 pm by Alpha-Leader

nuff said

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