The meaning of life

[Virgin Mary]

What do you think it is?
DISCUSS HERE:

[Desjardens]

Live life the way you want to. Dont be influenced

[the wombats]

You're born, you have fun. You die.

[RedStratocas]

I dont think there is a meaning of life. People should live life rather than ponder the meaning of it.

[Drooped]

I believe in fait and i believe your life's path is 'carved' before your even created, everything happens for a reason, there's definately something AFTER this life [heaven/hell etc] and i believe that you MUST experience pain. without pain we'd resemble robots, with the feeling of pain you then know what love and happiness is.

[RedStratocas]

I dont, nor don't want to believe in fate. I like to think I have control over my life, even if it turns out good. If Im successfull, I wouldnt like thinking that I didnt deserve it.

[HUGECOOL]

I believe in fait and i believe your life's path is 'carved' before your even created, everything happens for a reason, there's definately something AFTER this life [heaven/hell etc] and i believe that you MUST experience pain. without pain we'd resemble robots, with the feeling of pain you then know what love and happiness is. Besides the faith and religion crap, there is some truth to that last sentence. There are many things people use to make them feel better- a vice that holds them together. Whether its drugs, sex, religion, TV, people use these things to bring one closer to a state of perfection. It liberates us but in reality, it's nothing more than making you numb, inabriate and more mechanical, where one must have a 'fuel' of some sort to keep living. Sex to heighten our emotions, injecting drugs into our veins, or thinking that theres a higher power to make yourself feel better about your actions. We use these methods and crutches to try to reach this perfect intangible state being but instead bring us further and further away from it because these things are a synthetic and induced happiness, as well as completely temporary, where the constant need for them makes us more like soulless machines.

[Drooped]

Besides the faith and religion crap, there is some truth to that last sentence. There are many things people use to make them feel better- a vice that holds them together. Whether its drugs, sex, religion, TV, people use these things to bring one closer to a state of perfection. It liberates us but in reality, it's nothing more than making you numb, inabriate and more mechanical, where one must have a 'fuel' of some sort to keep living. Sex to heighten our emotions, injecting drugs into our veins, or thinking that theres a higher power to make yourself feel better about your actions. We use these methods and crutches to try to reach this perfect intangible state being but instead bring us further and further away from it because these things are a synthetic and induced happiness, as well as completely temporary, where the constant need for them makes us more like soulless machines.

Why is it people always just concentrate on what I said... oh well i love arguements :D or debates :D

But your expressing what i said in a different way than what i meant. I'm talking about natural NOT artificial. Love, hatred, sad, joy, pain. If you didn't experience berievement, would you value someone close to you as much as you did after the berievement? If you didn't feel sadness through say... falling out with your parents, would you still know how good happiness is? If you didn't experience pain through assault/ genuine accidents would you value your good un-hurt times?


I'm saying without feeling pains in it's forms, or emotion in it's forms, you wouldn't be able to value happiness, as it'd just be NORMAL. with pain you gain two things, experience and the ability to know whats good and bad.

[Hurts]

To have fun. Im not wasting my life worshiping a god that might or might not be true, that the past the rock on the future =]

[HUGECOOL]

Why is it people always just concentrate on what I said... oh well i love arguements :D or debates :D

But your expressing what i said in a different way than what i meant.

If you read correctly, you will see that I said.. "there is some truth to your last sentence."

That means some of the content in your paragraph is of interest to me while everything else is tedious and unimportant to me.

And surely all your feelings won't be naturally induced in life. :/ I'm sure if you're not Amish your influences are artificial many times, ergo, producing synthetic emotions.

[Mentor]

Its just a side effect of the way people think, humans try to appy meaning to everything, even when its not there, the same way we see shapes and objects in clouds, dispite there lack of existance in reality "/.
I dont belive there is any real meaning behind it, it just is.

[asher_]

There is no meaning. It's just the circle of life I suppose.

[Robzor]

may i demonstrate the wheel of life :

Born -> Do What You Want -> Die :P
( Dosent Mean Everything )

[Virgin Mary]

If life is meaningless, does that not mean that we are meaningless, too?

[J1MI]

The process of all life is an ongoing, never-ending process of recreation of self

[Virgin Mary]

I don't think the meaning of life is reproduction/recreation.

[NekkLe]

I don't think the meaning of life is reproduction/recreation.
I think these things are what happens within life, sure humans and all other living species on earth are meant to reproduce, we live, we die thats a process. Why were humans set to walk earth? were we meant to acheive anything? is earth here for a reason? theres lots of questions that link to this topic and you could go through things a hundred times and still not know the full term to life.

[RedStratocas]

If life is meaningless, does that not mean that we are meaningless, too?

Yeah, exactly.

We're meaningless, there is no point of us being here. Earth doesnt need us. So we just make the best of it.

[-Illusions.]

Havent a clue what it is, thats the fun of it. :D
If you know the meaning of life, their isnt any surprises, so... best to just go with the flow of life.

[Craig]

Havent a clue what it is, thats the fun of it. :D
If you know the meaning of life, their isnt any surprises, so... best to just go with the flow of life.
No-one knows the meaning of life ;/ It's not a logic or a fact so there isn't one although people give reasons they aren't exactly true meaning.

[-Illusions.]

I didnt give a meaning fgs. i said i havent a clue. god :/

[asher_]

Yeah, exactly.

We're meaningless, there is no point of us being here. Earth doesnt need us. So we just make the best of it.

Of course we are needed.

[RedStratocas]

Of course we are needed.

...how?... It would still be here and run if we didnt exist...

[Craig]

I didnt give a meaning fgs. i said i havent a clue. god :/
Oh for goodness sake,your such an idiot. I was referring to;
If you know the meaning of life, their isnt any surprises, so... best to just go with the flow of life.

Which was what you posted which was in the quote "/ learn to read in future.

[Barwy]

To Reproduce

Thats all i believe it is, thats why we get unavoidable attractions to the opposite sex, anything else is just something humans have made up, like God..

[JonJon]

I believe in fait and i believe your life's path is 'carved' before your even created, everything happens for a reason, there's definately something AFTER this life [heaven/hell etc] and i believe that you MUST experience pain. without pain we'd resemble robots, with the feeling of pain you then know what love and happiness is.

If it was carved, then it'd have to be carved into everyone else you meet's life. If you bump into one etc. So someone can carve your life into millions of others? Plus why would they carve it for you to ask this question?

[-Illusions.]

Oh for goodness sake,your such an idiot. I was referring to;
If you know the meaning of life, their isnt any surprises, so... best to just go with the flow of life.

Which was what you posted which was in the quote "/ learn to read in future.

Look whos talking, always finding something wrong with MY posts, now thats idiotic.

And i said if you know it, as in, IF YOU DID KNOW IT, their wouldnt be any surprises in life because you'd know the meaning.
So just go with the flow of life and stop doodling over the meaning of it.

[Barwy]

Carving? lmao. Who would be there to carve and carve into what? You're thinking too philosphical - be more real.

Thats what I hate about this question, get too many people thinking up wild reasons as to why things happen. These things happen because of all the little chemical reactions in the brains of people, something which we have gotten from Evolution,

Be more literal and real in thinking, do you really believe there is a God even though no-one living today has seen it?!?

It angers me that the whole thick world is like that, frustrating as hell [mind my own sense of sarcasm there]. One person thinking real against a whole forum thinking differently and most probably wrong

Guy on abot carving, Are you relegious?

[BL!NKEY]

To Reproduce



Exactally what I was going to say.

The most important thing is to pass on your genes and keep your species [SP?] going. That is what all animals and plants are made to do. Everything evolves to become more adapt to its surrounds and more likely to reproduce and have offsprings that carry on the species' [SP? again] genes.

[Virgin Mary]

If reproduction is the meaning of life then homosexuals are just defects to life. I think the meaning of life is to prove yourself worthy to live a better next life (i.e. Heaven).

[FrozenWhisper]

Carving? lmao. Who would be there to carve and carve into what? You're thinking too philosphical - be more real.

Thats what I hate about this question, get too many people thinking up wild reasons as to why things happen. These things happen because of all the little chemical reactions in the brains of people, something which we have gotten from Evolution,

Be more literal and real in thinking, do you really believe there is a God even though no-one living today has seen it?!?

It angers me that the whole thick world is like that, frustrating as hell [mind my own sense of sarcasm there]. One person thinking real against a whole forum thinking differently and most probably wrong

Guy on abot carving, Are you relegious?
Thank you! Excatly what I think. Why has no one even seen prove of god? As for life afet death, I think we do you/be something/somewere, it's wierd to think we just, don't do anything.

[Virgin Mary]

We couldn't have come about by chance, it's inconceivable.

[RedStratocas]

The meaning of life can't be to reproduce because that would mean everyone's purpose is to make someone else to have the same purpose. Thats a cycle that makes no sense.

Not to mention an aweful meaning of life.

[RedStratocas]

We couldn't have come about by chance, it's inconceivable.

Why is that? If something has a chance of happening, why can't it?

[Virgin Mary]

Why is that? If something has a chance of happening, why can't it?
Certain proteins in our structures and brains have to have been there already, they can't have just appeared because we can't exist (as in be alive or be humans) without them.

[JonJon]

Carving? lmao. Who would be there to carve and carve into what? You're thinking too philosphical - be more real.

Thats what I hate about this question, get too many people thinking up wild reasons as to why things happen. These things happen because of all the little chemical reactions in the brains of people, something which we have gotten from Evolution,

Be more literal and real in thinking, do you really believe there is a God even though no-one living today has seen it?!?

It angers me that the whole thick world is like that, frustrating as hell [mind my own sense of sarcasm there]. One person thinking real against a whole forum thinking differently and most probably wrong

Guy on abot carving, Are you relegious?

Kind of whatn I was trying to say, but mine had a little more detail to the whole 'carving' thing.

[Barwy]

Well I'm glad a few of you share my POV on this as sometimes i wonder if i am the only one thinking straight.

Virgin_mary, in respnce to a post of yours earlier:

We are born, we live our life and we die. Nothing less and nothing more, I do not believe in coming back as something else because of this question

DO YOU HAVE PROOF?

You see half the things philosphers and religous people say can cannot be proved whereas things scientist say can be proved, now another question

Which is more reliable, Non-Proved statements or Proved Statements??

[Virgin Mary]

Well I'm glad a few of you share my POV on this as sometimes i wonder if i am the only one thinking straight.

Virgin_mary, in respnce to a post of yours earlier:

We are born, we live our life and we die. Nothing less and nothing more, I do not believe in coming back as something else because of this question

DO YOU HAVE PROOF?

You see half the things philosphers and religous people say can cannot be proved whereas things scientist say can be proved, now another question

Which is more reliable, Non-Proved statements or Proved Statements??
I do not believe in reincarnation either, I believe that we'll enter a place such as Heaven, and that life is just a test to prove whether you are worthy or not. Scientists rarely prove anything, they just come up with theories which get widespread as the truth. It is much more logical that we were created rather than appearing by chance, even Einstein said so.

[FrozenWhisper]

I do not believe in reincarnation either, I believe that we'll enter a place such as Heaven, and that life is just a test to prove whether you are worthy or not. Scientists rarely prove anything, they just come up with theories which get widespread as the truth. It is much more logical that we were created rather than appearing by chance, even Einstein said so.
I agree, we weren't here by chance, but I also don't think someone one day went poof I'll make the earth! And made us, I do think we go somewere, maybe as someone or something else. Also, I think we all have a different meaning, but we have COMPLETE power over it, like if someone was a police man, there meaning would be, catch wrong doers, but if they had choosen to be a doctor, it would have been to save peoples lives.

[asher_]

If there is a purpose to life I imagine it's to achieve something and be happy.

[-Illusions.]

If there is a purpose to life I imagine it's to achieve something and be happy.

Yet some lifes are the crappiest ever.
IE; Abused children, starving kids, abandoned kids, raped, murdered, blabla, the list goes on.
I dont think it'd be to be happy, because i dont know if anyones life is all 'lardelada'.
Every life has probably gone through some experiences which arnt pleasent.
But yeah, maybe it is to achieve something. :D
Still, dont think it'd to be happy, as im not sure people could get over some of those experiences.
>.> Just my opinion, soz to bump the thread if i did o.o

[asher_]

I guess it's different for everyone... I mean, Einstein obviously had a purpose in life and that was to become one of the worlds greatest geniuses. I suppose the purpose is never settle for anything average with your life, test yourself and push the envelope that much further each day.

[BL!NKEY]

maybe there is no meaning to life? All life is, is atoms and molecules randomly bouncing around?

[-Illusions.]

LOL AT THAT BLINKEY.
Yeah maybe though
*scoffs*
Sorry lol thats funny =[

[Virgin Mary]

I stick with my original thought. It gives reason to why there's suffering in the world, too.

[Anotherkid3]

I don't know why, but I usually picture life as a game. I think of it as we are all actually higher beings(somethings like angels or aliens, the mind can't really come up with anything better ..lol.. an not that I'm religious or anything either) and we pick our sex, skin color, like, dislikes, how fast we'll for, and all that good stuff. Then we're born and we grow, we find out how that life would be and turn out and discuss it or something after we die and go back to our higher thing. And all the bad things we don't like about are selves are just experiments, i mean after awhile of making yourself perfect going into the world you'd want to be different right?... I dunno if this was a dream or whatever.. but I daydream about it sometimes. It's a nice way to think about it because you wouldn't have to be afraid of death ya know and just enjoy things.

Umm ppl can comment on this if they like.. I've never really said anything about it before.. and it's not something I believe in, but it's a fun daydream I have sometimes.. that's fun to think about how different inputs of making your person when you first start off will affect them in the future. Obviously I'm not paying attention at all in school ..Lol.

Once again i'm not religious, I went to first holy communion, the thing after that where you can get another name and that's it. :p

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[Barwy]

Tad sad if im honest about thinking life is a game, after all, humands created games.

In fact Games are where people escape to to get away from real life. Could you really run around with flamethrowers, steal cars and shoot police in the real world? Not a chance

[HUGECOOL]

Tad sad if im honest about thinking life is a game, after all, humands created games.

In fact Games are where people escape to to get away from real life. Could you really run around with flamethrowers, steal cars and shoot police in the real world? Not a chance
Well, you can- and it's happened before- but you usually face consequences after you do. =P

[Anotherkid3]

I said it was a daydream I have sometime. And I totally agree with Electocute. Maybe the word ''game'' was wrong to use obviously seeing as your picturing flamethrower. Maybe saying I think of it more as Sims would make sense to those with strange imaginations.

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[DMB-Hosting]

The purpose of life is to serve G-d and Reproduce

[Barwy]

I said it was a daydream I have sometime. And I totally agree with Electocute. Maybe the word ''game'' was wrong to use obviously seeing as your picturing flamethrower. Maybe saying I think of it more as Sims would make sense to those with strange imaginations.

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Lol, i just pictured Grand Theft Auto - i half understand your POV though

[PaintYourTarget]

For there to be a meaning to your live, there must be something or someone to assign each individual person a purpose or meaning, and what do we do once we accomplish it? Die?

A girl once admitted to me that I was the reason she didn't commit suicide. Is the meaning of my life to be her 'Guardian Angel' and keep her safe? I doubt that'll happen as I might never see her again after school.

[Josh-H]

An insect that I have forgot the name of lives for 2 days and then dies, its entire meaning is to reproduce and prolong its species.

Maybe thats humans as well....

[RLY-CRAIG?]

Meaning of life=

You're born to die

[Josh-H]

I heard a saying

Why are we all dying to live when we are all living to die

[Anotherkid3]

Oh ok Bawry, Thanks for understanding it!
Grand Theft Auto ..Lol.. Niiiice ;)
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[NekkLe]

Meaning of life=

You're born to die
I wouldn't agree with that, your born obviously to serve a purpose, not to just die.. a human could live to an average of about 75 years old, what do you do in that time? you live life but in what way do you live it, Fable.

[WHANGFACE]

If there is a purpose to life I imagine it's to achieve something and be happy.
I couldn't agree more tbh, whats life if your miserable and don't achieve anything?