The Meaning of Life

I give up. I was simply trying to show you guys a different side of the story, but your still stuck in yours. Ignorance through arrogance, all humans seem to work that way up until a certain point, so no shame is necessary. I will no longer assault your linear realities by posting new ideas, enjoy them while you can.

That probably came off sounding the wrong way, I'm not trying to insinuate that I'm entirely right and you are entirely wrong. We are all equals. I'm just trying to express that you can never learn anything new if you can't accept new ideas.

 

I have been on the other side of the fence. I have thought those thoughts, and lived in that manner.

However, ultimately, their concept are irrational. They do not cohere to logic, and are therefore useless in this universe.

 

Try living in the middle. That's all. Later.

 

You make interesting points, but you seem to be forgetting the vast variety of dimensions in our universe. We have no idea what exists in other dimensions - logic is the way we perceive reality, and who is to say that another dimension could not contain a logic different to ours? In another dimension, a cubic sphere could in theory exist, it's just incomprehensible to our limited minds. The same concept applies with the idea of a God, however improbable the existence might be.

 

We only live once. It doesn't matter of what actions you do --live life, to it's fullest. A lot of it has to do with attitude, and how willing you are to be positive. The meaning of life is self preservation, to die but try to delay it as long as possible.


But if your speaking from a 'biological' standpoint I think it's simply to reproduce. Ensuring the survival of the species.

For ShredderBeam:

For there to be a meaning or purpose to life doesn't there have to be a creator? Someone or something had to have said "I'm creating these beings to do this/for this purpose". So for an atheist the question is fundamentally flawed in my opinion.

 

what's wrong will all of you just google it the meaning of life and everything in it the google calculator says it's 42 so 42 is the meaning of the universe

but rly don't have much to say but live every day like it's your last and do at least 1 thing that scares you every day

 

Something had to create you parents; your grandparents. Someone had to create them, and so on. Until we reach to Prophet Adam - the first human being on Earth. We're all decedents from him; we had to start somewhere right?

 

I know, it's the Muslim's view of the first life ever.

 

You attempt to display logic. Yet you have no proof to back up the logical preferences.

Where, was the part when you addressed that 'Prophet Adam' existed and was the first human on earth.

 

Did you even look over my post? Re-read it.

 

Did you already asked why we're there? Today? and why we all die one day?

I think i won't leave any passage of my life on earth

but life is so nice so all just live your life and don't be scared of anything

Life is good

 

Anyway this topic will never end because It is wrote in the bible that our thinks about infinity will be blocked ( The meaning of life is an Infinity[in many ways], just like the universe ). I think it's wrote somewhere in Genesis.

Btw, I'm not a native english speaker, sorry If I wrote unclearly.

EDIT: someone earlier said: "So it's essentially like saying God cannot create a ball of mass so big that He cannot carry it. Because to do the action, he'd have to limit his power and/or knowledge."
This line just shows that we cannot understand the powerfullness of god, because this line cannot be answered and it just shows that God's power is over our mind capability.

 

I reckon we are just like an experiment, like how we look at a goldfish bowl or whatever (except we're on the outside of the bowl not inside). I believe it goes on and on when people pass away, you go up a step. Sounds silly I know but...
Meaning of life for me is to live it to the full, don't have any "Wish I did this.." or anything.

 

why we're here is irrelevant....unliving things do not need living things to survive. we don't technically need unliving things either. but we co-exist, only difference is unliving things just exist without question. but humans we exist to find answers to qeustions we make up. because we have the ability to imagine things we will continue to contradict ourselves. and if you think about it, unliving things exist forever... you can break a rock but you just make rubble.. and if you grind that you just get dust... is it still a rock, no its a grain but that grain is still existant...animals and plants, when we die, we just decompose to become part of the earth.....the number one reason we don't know why we're here or how...we don't deserve to know.. we aren't yet evolved to understand...i wrote all of this and have more to say but my thoughts are conflicting with eachother and making me frustrated, so ill stop lol.

 

sorry to go off topic but i wish more people thought like you do sythe.

 

Yeah, it's quite an argument...

 

But I think you're taking a very indirect route to answer this question. What you're doing is overexamining the question in order to make some sort of statement rather than coming up with an actual answer to the basic question, "What is the meaning of life?" The purpose of this question is not to make some complicated array of reasoning and then reword it, "The meaning of life is living".
Contrarily, I don't think it is. We're not animals, Sythe. We have the ability to find pleasure in things that go beyond the nececities of sustaining and continuing life (comsuming food, reproducing, et cetera). And because we have that ability, to learn to enjoy things that are unnecessary, we can pose questions like, "what is the meaning of life?"
Now, for my idea. I'm going to do something similar to you (rephrasing the question in my answer) but in a completely different way. And it's simply this:

The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life.

It's hard to argue with that. It's a pretty broad statement but it can get very specific because everyone's interperatation will be different.


Hope you take the time to read, and respond (anyone else can)