The Meaning of Life

Do you think every individual has a different purpose in life?

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 64.5%

  • No

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 11 17.7%
  • Total voters
    62
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.
 
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.
 
ShadowDeeps said:
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 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?
 
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.
 
Michii said:
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.
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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
 
To be honest, primarily, I intented the topic to be 'What do YOU think the Meaning of Life is?' But either topic is fine really.
 
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.
 
hmmm...the meaning of life is always different from one point of view to another,i believe that everyone has different purposes in life.​
 
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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Listening to: Plain White T's - Come Back To Me
via FoxyTunes​
 
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.
 
Are you kidding me? How can anyone not get that joke? :) 42 = The meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Google Calculator says so.
 
Everyone's purpose is the same. The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life, meaning there is no meaning of life!
 
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...
 
Conman said:
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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I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
 
Katnip said:
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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Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?

<Smirk Smug>

@ 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...
 
Vendak said:
Criticism isn't a bad thing unless it's put across harshly, just making a point.
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Basically I mean, there is no real reason to live. So people live because they want to for whatever purpose.​
 
Conman said:
Basically I mean, there is no real reason to live. So people live because they want to for whatever purpose.​
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That's what you said before, wasn't it?

Or maybe I'm going mad...

:P
 
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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