The Meaning of Life

[Hoppyfred]

Well...I'm no good at RS...but I have been wondering...

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

I'm not suicidal or anything, I'd just like to know what everybody thinks their point in life, their reason for being on the Earth is.


As far as I'm concerned, I am here to enlighten people with my thread ^^

What do YOU think is the meaning of life?


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[Tyranitar2]

My purpose

I believe we have a choice where to lead our lives !WOOP WOOP FIRST POST! As we progress through life we face many choices some might say "Ah put u were destined to choose that" then i would say *puches him in face* "Yh u were also Destined to get that now shut up" we all have our own liffe choices and its is our choice what we do and how

 

[Hoppyfred]

So you don't believe in destiny?

 

[Tyranitar2]

NO i dont

So you don't believe in destiny?

no i dont. i can see this turning into one hell of a philosophical post everyone post your opinions. Being an Atheist you may think me Biast but i have been exposed to all ways of life and considering them all i prefer to lay bck and live a life without rules. Futhermore i have an A* in RS so there!. Jkin but i did get the A*

 

[Hoppyfred]

So what do you think is YOUR purpose in life?

 

[Aurafire]

Humans cannot possibly hope to fully understand life and it's "purpose". Honestly, I believe we are here purely by coincidence. Earth happened to have particular conditions that gave life a chance to develop and evolution to occur, and here we are! I don't believe in other forces guiding our lives here on earth. I believe that we are simply creatures like any other, but our higher intelligence gives us the ability to ponder our own existence. Honestly, we can wonder all we want, but there's no way for us to find out the answers (at least right now).

 

[Hoppyfred]

So you feel that as yourself, you have no inner purpose that you were placed on this life to fufil?

 

[Tyranitar2]

I agree

Humans cannot possibly hope to fully understand life and it's "purpose". Honestly, I believe we are here purely by coincidence. Earth happened to have particular conditions that gave life a chance to develop and evolution to occur, and here we are! I don't believe in other forces guiding our lives here on earth. I believe that we are simply creatures like any other, but our higher intelligence gives us the ability to ponder our own existence. Honestly, we can wonder all we want, but there's no way for us to find out the answers (at least right now).

I agree with Aurasphere we cannot know our own purpose or reason but neither can we hope to divsie that we have a set path or we choose our own however i stand by my ealier post and the look i have on life and my experiences i believe we make our own way towards death. As John Mayanard Keyens Said "In the long run, we're all dead"

 

[Legobricks]

Life has no meaning.

... Yep.


I voted yes though because individuals' objectives add meaning to their lives, humans have created causes for themselves; but really everything that does exist, living or not, serves to do nothing but exist. The religions predominantly around today, such as Christianity and Islam, function as what I'd call the application of meaning.

 

[KLS 500]

Everybody has a purpose in life, I have a purpose in life but I don't know what it means just yet because I am only seventeen years old.

 

[Volkner's Apprentice]

I believe that some things were perhaps fated to occur, depending on individuals but maybe that's just my freelance belief in karma XD. I think the concept itself exists and perhaps human stupidity and emotion get in the way of focus and attention and that might be what some people consider karma.

Destiny, not so much. I believe in soul mates, but not literally soul mates, just some people that you'll really like a lot exist XD. But you gotta make the effort to find 'um.

 

[/Circa]

I believe we are all apart of the imagination of god, who needs people to mess around with and piss off, help other people survive dramatic injuries and others die horrible deaths for his amusement, so he see's what our emotions will tend to when this happens. Thats why life can be a ***** sometimes, cause god can be a ***** sometimes.

 

[Hoppyfred]

Wow. The thread is thriving!!

@ Visual: So you think we're all just toys for 'God'? But God has no control over our emotions, only our actions? Do you think 'God' made you post on the thread?

@ Volkner's Apprentice: So you believe that sometimes there is Fate, but you don't believe ALL of out life is pre-destined? Who or what do you think decides our fate, if anything?

@ KLS 500: What is your view on fate? Are we destined to fufil our destiny or is it up to us? And are we being watched by a more powerful being?

@ Nanako Nanashima: So you think there is no such think as Fate? What makes human beings able to think of ideas? Do you believe in alternate dimensions or other forms of life on distant planets?

@ Tyranitar2: What do you think about the afterlife?


Any takers for joining the 'Meaning of Life' club?

 

[Jorah]

I don't think there is a purpose for life in general. I believe you can believe to have your own purpose and goal in life (eg saving abandoned animals or something) but I do not believe there is a purpose for life in general.

 

[txteclipse]

Yay! I get to be philosophical!

We forge our own purpose, our own destiny. We open certain doors, close others, walk through some, and leave the rest behind. What we do is ultimately our decision, but I think there are higher powers that work to guide our path (God and Satan, specifically), towards good and evil, respectively. We choose whether to listen to said powers or not, but the influence is always there.

Our purpose, then, comes down to one simple question: whom to listen to. Every action we take is our response to God and/or Satan's influence, and illuminates which one we are choosing to follow.

 

[Lusankya]

I don't believe there is some overarching great Meaning of Life set for all of existence by some bearded hoojin in the sky. Life has no meaning, so the meaning of your life is whateveryou define it to be.

People shouldn't blame the terrible things they do, their sins, their mistakes, on some invisible evil demon out to ruin the world. Everything that you do, is done by you, and you alone. If God or Satan controlled all our actions and planned out all our lives, then there would be no reason to live, because you wouldn't have any free will, and you don't get to actually do anything, it's all done for you.

 

[A Pixy]

My opinion is kinda religious but, it makes sense to me.

Spoiler:

In Islam, god has a book that has everything we think, do and say is written in that book so, I guess my fate is already set in stone but for now, I have control. But god will always know.

 

[Hoppyfred]

@ Mystery Treecko:

Spoiler:

Is EVERYBODY's fate set out in stone, or is it just those who have been enlightened via Islam?

@ Lusankya: What IS life? Is it just living? Or is it just meaningless?


@ txteclipse: HOW do God and Satan interact with use? Is it little voices in our head? Or is it just a purely subconcious thing?


@ Jorah: What do you believe about God and Satan? Do we all make our choices unaided?

 

[DeathlyHallows]

I believe that everyone has a role to play in life. An important role!
And I do believe in destiny.
Destiny is so well planned, that as we are fulfilling it, we feel that these are our decisions, our choices.
And whether u believe in destiny or not, everyone must know that they have an importance in life, a mission to do, and all they have to do is to figure that out!

 

[Nick]

I believe, and it's rather simple, that the meaning of life is to spend your life trying to find out what the meaning of life is to you. Aaaand that's pretty much it. Simple enough, eh? I don't think I have to type out paragraphs and paragraphs of my response if it's only a sentence, so...