Teh meaning...of life - Page 2

June 24, 2008, 1:06 PM

I actually don't care if life has a meaning I just want to be the best >.> selfish, eh?
I want to experience it, however I think Love is not a meaning it's just one those experiences, even happiness.

June 24, 2008, 5:36 PM

Life is just life - you make your choices, live it, then you die. It's up to the individual to create their own 'meaning', as it were, and how to live out their lives.

My "meaning" to life is to gain a steady, suitable income for the coming few years, use those funds to get into an appropriate University [hopefully in Canada or America... undecided] and gain desired qualifications - thereafter gaining work which pertains to my qualifications.

Meanings apply to the person, and mine will keep changing until I set myself a new goal, a new meaning. Obviously the primary meaning would revolve around my choice of work, but there's nothing stopping me from having a second or even tertiary meaning.

I don't believe in a set meaning for every person on the planet. It's quite depressing to think about life in that way.

June 25, 2008, 7:19 PM

The majority of my opinion lies more towards Cassie's views - I don't believe that there is any higher purpose for our existence. We're here and we'll just continue to be here until we're not.

However, more positively, I think that each and every life has its own meaning. For less intelligent organisms, it might simply to be to provide safety for its young and ensure the continuity of its family line. For more intelligent organisms, like ourselves, I think it comes down to dreams. xD That sounds a bit cheesey but, at the end of the day, you give your own life meaning. If I do follow on into working in forensics, I could say that I've dedicated my life to bringing criminal's to justice - the meaning for my existence is to aid in that battle. Another's meaning might be to revolutionise music and provide entertainment for all.

Aye, I'm happy with that wee paragraph. The meaning of your life comes down to your talents, dreams and ambition.

June 25, 2008, 7:22 PM

Meaning of life? God's got some sort of plan for me, no idea what exactly it's going to be, but I'm quite worried about it. But it's not exactly a surprise, as I worry quite frequently.

June 26, 2008, 1:21 AM

Have fun and be happy. Get where I want, do what I want, and live the good life.

In the end that's what any person will strive for, and there's no more fulfilling goal. You can donate to the poor, but poverty and hunger has always existed. I'm not saying donating is a bad thing, but don't put yourself into poverty.

June 26, 2008, 10:46 AM

There is no such thing as the meaning of life

some believe that it is to spend every waking moment with that person, the one that makes you complete and whole, never to let go for a second believing that they would disappear for all eternity if you did

others believe that the only reason that we live, is to gain experiences for the ultimate liberation... death, after all the things that don't kill you will only delay the inevitable

some people believe that bioglically that we are just to reproduce, over populate and then destroy

there are those that also take the easy way out, and end this thing as a joke by saying look it up in a dictionary

but in truth, there is no such thing as the meaning of life, a question designed to lead you in circles, for all eternity only to disappear into darkness to realise how poinltess you life was searching for an answer to a question that doesn't really exist.

There are to many answers to that question, what is the meaning of life in your eyes could very well be destruction in anothers, human's indviduatlity prevents such an answer to be expressed. However, the question that you really should be asking is...

What is the meaning of life to me?

If you were to ask that question, you aren't looking for the answer, but rather you are looking for the individaul answer, which for me would be... to find peace, and forever hold it

Of course you can just use the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and say the answer is 7... don't really get it myself

but...

the biggest irony of life, is that none of live through it...

Kamui

June 26, 2008, 11:09 AM

It's 42 not 7. :wink:

Anyway, I'm not really one for believing there is a meaning of life...I like to live life day by day and just deal with everything as it comes, whatever happens, happens for a reason in my opinion, a lot of the time things happen that aren't planned which makes life unexpected and fun. I couldn't imagine having a 'meaning' of life to be all that fun since once you've hit that goal (depending what it is) what happens afterwards?

However, IF there was a meaning I'd probably lean towards Maslow's Hierarchy which can basically sum up the purpose of all animals....

- We all need the basics to survive; food, water and shelter.
- We all want security; which is why people and animals get together.
- We all want to feel as if we are loved either by friends or family.
- We all want to feel good about ourselves.
- We all want to fill the potential that we know we have.

Basically, in my opinion IF I thought there was a meaning in life I would put all animals/humans under those 5 categories...again, just an opinion.

June 26, 2008, 1:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva Longoria

It's 42 not 7. :wink:

Anyway, I'm not really one for believing there is a meaning of life...I like to live life day by day and just deal with everything as it comes, whatever happens, happens for a reason in my opinion, a lot of the time things happen that aren't planned which makes life unexpected and fun. I couldn't imagine having a 'meaning' of life to be all that fun since once you've hit that goal (depending what it is) what happens afterwards?

It is? my bad

to begin with i like your view towards life a great deal,

if you haven't realised you just through away the whole concept of hope in life, hope isn't necessary.

If something is going to happen, it will happen, if it doesn't, it doesn't there is no use for hope. Hope is just something that blinds you, clouds your senses, in order to look towards something to blind us from our own reality, something pointless is something we put our will in... how sad

humans are such sad creatures

you should walk on your own feet, realise what is there and what isn't, forget about hopes and dreams, and rather face the facts and make an effort to do something, rather then just sit by and hope for a better future

Kamui

June 26, 2008, 8:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva Longoria

However, IF there was a meaning I'd probably lean towards Maslow's Hierarchy which can basically sum up the purpose of all animals....

- We all need the basics to survive; food, water and shelter.
- We all want security; which is why people and animals get together.
- We all want to feel as if we are loved either by friends or family.
- We all want to feel good about ourselves.
- We all want to fill the potential that we know we have.

Basically, in my opinion IF I thought there was a meaning in life I would put all animals/humans under those 5 categories...again, just an opinion.

...I think three of those items don't exactly fall within the set of all the things that define "purpose" for me. If those things are genetic, then my genes are pretty screwed.

I'm fine pursuing mathematics alone, and I'm not doing it for other people either. I make no claims about my own potential; I am as I am.

EDIT: Hilarious. I just noticed that I'm sitting all alone inside an empty computer lab, and I'm not even the least bit bothered that there are no people around.