The Meaning of Life Page 5

Started by Hoppyfred September 26th, 2008 11:47 AM
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Do you think every individual has a different purpose in life?

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I think the meaning of life is, to live your life to the fullest and do everything you want or need to do before you die.
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I'm going out on a limb and breaking away - and I'm going to say that it's beyond a meaning, and thereby, any one worldly notion humans could divulge or would be impeded to. If we could fathom it, that would be pretty lame to me. It's asking something that's wholly beyond us and even wholly beyond a galactic or even universal scale. And I'm glad that it's as such - it makes it that much more mysterious the notion. It's like asking "how can I know if this is real or not"? when "real" is just a word humans have conceived (or, rather, something life on this level adheres to) and are bounded to (IMO), needing it with every action because if isn't as simple as being "real" or not, it can't be figured out. As younger folk any curiosity may have escaped us as we tried to ascend to our goals and culminations, but whether we live or die, such questions remain. Yet are the answers as simple as answers? Same goes with the meaning of life by my eyes - a conundrum - that we don't have words nor answers for something that's beyond the gray matter it's discussed upon in and yet we're still try to figure out. What we speak of is beyond words, and yet we feel it and yet don't have words for it. There's bitter irony in that.
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I'm going out on a limb and breaking away - and I'm going to say that it's beyond a meaning, and thereby, any one worldly notion humans could divulge or would be impeded to. If we could fathom it, that would be pretty lame to me. It's asking something that's wholly beyond us and even wholly beyond a galactic or even universal scale. And I'm glad that it's as such - it makes it that much more mysterious the notion. It's like asking "how can I know if this is real or not"? when "real" is just a word humans have conceived (or, rather, something life on this level adheres to) and are bounded to (IMO), needing it with every action because if isn't as simple as being "real" or not, it can't be figured out. As younger folk any curiosity may have escaped us as we tried to ascend to our goals and culminations, but whether we live or die, such questions remain. Yet are the answers as simple as answers? Same goes with the meaning of life by my eyes - a conundrum - that we don't have words nor answers for something that's beyond the gray matter it's discussed upon in and yet we're still try to figure out. What we speak of is beyond words, and yet we feel it and yet don't have words for it. There's bitter irony in that.
I am going to try and sum all that up in a single sentence: You believe that there is a meaning to life, but that it beyond human comprehension. Is this correct, or no?

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The meaning of life is simply to live. There is, and will never be, a true meaning to life, as we all have completely different views and lifestyles. So, it's just to live. We're here on this Earth. Boom. Make what you want of it.

It's been long but we can do it; let's make this our dream

Look to tomorrow because it's all we have. Turn up the music until the walls shake. What do we have?
Is it hope? Love? Is it nothing at all? We won't know at all until we make something of what we feel.
When that happens, we'll find the truth. We'll find what we want. And we will find ourselves, finally.

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The meaning of life is simply to live. There is, and will never be, a true meaning to life, as we all have completely different views and lifestyles. So, it's just to live. We're here on this Earth. Boom. Make what you want of it.
There is that aswell.
The topic isn't that clear, it could mean what is the meaning of your life, or what is the meaning of all life

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My view of life is very broad and changes constantly.

As a Christian, I do say that every individual has a purpose in life.
Like I believe God put me in this hell hole for one reason only...to drum.

But also I use lyrical phrases to decribe life.
Examples:

Birth is pain
Life is pain
Death is pain
It's all the same

Yesterday's dreams are tomorrows sighs

Life it seems to fade away...drifting further every day

Keep praying, just keep waiting
Waiting for the one / the day that never comes
Stand up and feel the warmth / but the sunshine never comes
No the sun shine never comes...

Like I said, it's always changing in me.
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I feel the actual topic question could have been better. I'm sure "Why do you want/choose live?" would have been a more interesting question. When Vendak responded to Eon, I instantly thought of that question. Mainly because my response to Vendak would have been:
There is no true reason to live. People live for many different reasons. Some fear death, some want to accomplish something, some may feel death is boring and life is exciting, or maybe some just live cause they can.

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If I were a computer, then that would send me into a logic loop. If the meaning of life is to find the meaning of life, then one would already have found the meaning of life. If there is no meaning of life, then you can't find the meaning of life because it doesn't exist. But since the meaning of life is to find the meaning of life, then it does exist. But since one has already found the meaning of life...

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I feel the actual topic question could have been better. I'm sure "Why do you want/choose live?" would have been a more interesting question. When Vendak responded to Eon, I instantly thought of that question. Mainly because my response to Vendak would have been:

There is no true reason to live. People live for many different reasons. Some fear death, some want to accomplish something, some may feel death is boring and life is exciting, or maybe some just live cause they can.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

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The meaning of life is forty-two!
...No, I'm just kidding. I doubt anyone will get the joke, anyways.

I don't think life has a meaning, because you're supposed to give it meaning.

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@ People in General: Please don't criticise the thread topic...it doesn't need to be perfect...

And @ Conman: Don't you mean 'Why do you want / choose life?' Why do you want live and Why do you choose live don't make sense...don't criticise my thread topic when I understand it isn't perfect and yours don't make sense anyway...

And also, your response would still (to my belief) fit in with the topic...
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Criticism isn't a bad thing unless it's put across harshly, just making a point.
Basically I mean, there is no real reason to live. So people live because they want to for whatever purpose.
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Basically I mean, there is no real reason to live. So people live because they want to for whatever purpose.
That's what you said before, wasn't it?

Or maybe I'm going mad...

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Has anyone ever said 42 yet?

If it takes 42 Oxygen molecules to make one area of DNA, and if your neighborhood has 42 people, and if your heart has a surface area of 42cm^2?

The meaning of life is 42. And I bet Stephen Hawking will prove it.
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I am going to try and sum all that up in a single sentence: You believe that there is a meaning to life, but that it beyond human comprehension. Is this correct, or no?
In a way. I would say that it's beyond any one worldly notion, and that may compound meaning. Thing is, from what I can garner, so many consider "meaning" essential to their lives without considering that a meaning may be a reason to live as much as it is to not live - it's our choice to assign meaning and to thereby determine our actions. Our emotions, or at least the places from which they stem, are inseperable in my eyes (at least, in one way to another - they can be seperated in more obvious accounts), and what we choose to do with our emotions in this sulking yet effusive world is just that - rather up to us. We can by volition allow ourselves to rely upon some intangible and unknown deity or just release and rely upon ourselves - not any one given nature, but being before meaning and essence. Or, rather, finding spiritual structure through inner reflection rather than the supernatural. In my opinion, how we find meaning in life is more or less up to us and not up to any one consensus or omnipotent overseer if that be so.

And since I see it as up to one, I myself simply choose to say that if humans haven't figured it out and have this amalgamation of wordly notions to use and only those things, that it may be beyond something we could link together or fathom. "Meaning" is indeed a term conceived by life on this level. It might not be as simple as something we could discern.
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The meaning of life... Does everyone have a purpose? Yes. To the simpletons, it's to choose what you believe is right or wrong, to fufill the obvious.


However, to me, life is a non-stop, fleeting dream. In life, we spontaneously inherit one another's genetics from our past incarnations. The born rule is to portray what you discover in life and if given it has a description, you would adapt to the unconscious world we live in by expirementing each other on the conscious level of vibration. But for some, known as complete ingeniuses, see life on a higher plain of actual conciousness that is merely suppressed by the average traits of humankind, as it is seen un-fit because of rejection of new ideas/fearing for naught, impostors, dictations... this is the reason that only 3.0% truly ascend to heaven. Inspiration, rhythm, beauty... these all define life for it is not a mystery, it is a familiar mystery that you shall not abuse. Life is a graceful sequence composed by your vitals, your temple, your feelings and it's a privelge to dream, you're ever invited. God gave you this right to flourish and pass your graceful seed to the next generation. Don't let society tell you to be ashamed nor dictate upon your rights as a free thinking expirement but yet do not be dumbfounded by impostors. We are all one consciousness and God is in us and will always be everything.
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