The Meaning of Life

There is no real 'meaning' to life.. I mean we're just a genetic accident, however there are personal meanings to life. Life can mean anything to you, life can have different meanings for everyone, but there is no same meaning for everybody.

Our you could go with George Carlins theory:
Plastic

 

I'm not saying a color is red because someone told me, there is actually a shade of a color that defines it red. Your arguement is invalid.>_<

 

Sorry for trying engage in intellectual discussion?

My question is this, and has anyone actually achieved this sense of understanding? (sorry for not seeing your point of view as you only used a few words in your statement)

And how could you understand the universe when there are so many that are vastly numerous in size and quantity?

And my last question is do you feel the answer to this question is tied in with religion? If so what makes Christianity right when there are so many other religions? (you said to be one with god so I assumed you meant Christianity).

 

That proves nothing, who defined the shade of red? What I'm saying is that it was nothing until man gave it a name. So why makes that man who named it right?

EDIT: sorry, so YOU defined red for what it is? NO ONE told you what it was an you just figured it out

 

Stop pushing this argument. Red is not red because you call it red. In my language I call it rød, does that mean one of us is wrong? No. Words are used to describe something, the word can never change what it is. If a child was told that red was grey, that wouldn't make him color-blind, or change the wavelength reflected by red things. He would simply have another word for it.

He would be wrong compared to language standards, but he would still see red the same way we do.

 

Simply put, we have come to the conclusion that there is no truth? But we strive to try and understand it by calling it the truth. All in all that is the point I've been trying to make

 

You are still incorrect. There is a truth. A truth, is a deffinite fact. Red, is a specific shade of a color. Any other shade, and you call it red, it would be incorrect, but people still get the jist of it.

Red is just a name we gave it. Without a name, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Acknowledgement does not mean existance. The shade of it existed the entire time, we just never knew it. It may not exist in your mind, but it exsits in the world.

 

The meaning of life is to live, living it for YOURSELF, not for anyone elses enjoyment. Your life is about YOU, because its yours, live how you want, this concerns nobody else but YOU.

 

I find that you are repeating yourself and ignoring what I have stated.

of course there is truth, but which truth is the right one? Truth is what we see something as to understand it, so what therefore, is a fact? is the fact the ultimate truth? And where did this fact originate from. I keep asking this but I never seem to get a reasonable response.

Who was the man who first made this assumption to try and understand what he was seeing? How can this mans observation be the truth. It is the truth because we were told it was the truth.

Could that statement not be redundant? According to the ancient Greeks, to see was to know. So when you acknowledge something, does that not mean you believe in something? And the basis of belief is by physically seeing/touching what you are to believe in.

And im afraid this makes no sense at all

 

*sigh*

A truth, is a truth. If everyone in society says it's a truth, it doesn't make it a truth. A true, truth, is true.

Yes, there is an ultimate truth, something that is completely true. Very easy concept.

"He" gave the shade a name. How is this hard to comprehend?

Seeing, does not constitute existence. It has always existed, but not to you. But just because it did not exist to you, doesn't make it non existent.


Like the thread Tyro made a few weeks ago. He offered anyone $5 if they could prove Africa existed. People showed him maps, documents, ect. You name it. But it would only exist to him, if he saw it first hand. Now, up until he saw Africa, does that mean Africa existed before, or after he acknowledged it?

 

>.< can you not see my point though? If truth is different for everyone how can there be one truth?

Please, give me an example of the perfect truth. Using my theories of what truth is and NOT what man names to try to understand

 

i believe that either

A. Our brains don't function well enough to understand this (In a more evolution way like our brains cant really comprehend infinity)
B. It is best to be ignored until you die, then you will either learn the answer or not, but its your best bet at learning it lol

 

I agree somewhat your your first point but I dont quite get the second point your made, what would leaving it off until you die solve?

 

Many people have achieved spiritual enlightenment.

Understanding the universe as in why it is here and why we are here and what the point of life is.

And I'm a Deist.

 

Please explain to me this "spiritual enlightenment" does this mean one has the knowledge of a god?

The notion of this is preposterous. Trying to research one with spiritual enlightenment would do nothing but confuse you as they would be in a higher state of knowing?. (hypothetically speaking)

So please, explain away

 

I believe each person has a life to make an good impact on something, it may be inventing a new thing that will benefit the world or saving someones life. I just think everyone should do something that ment they did someone with their life that made a difference. Just my opinion

 

So you suggest the meaning of life, is for other lives? Not your own self goals? If life were like this I would be happier more often haha

 

The meaning of life is what you want it most to be in the deepest remnants of instinct.

 

Im pretty sure that numerous people have said the same things along the line of what you said, but I feel statements like that are purely opinionated as there really is no evidence to back that theory up.

 

You are really more dumb than you present yourself to be.

You keep asking me to explain things for you, why don't you take a break from posting here and actually think, maybe you'll figure something out.