Meaning of life - what is it?

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#1 escapeoftheape
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The meaning of life constitutes a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of human existence. The concept can be expressed through a variety of related questions, such as Why are we here?, What's life all about? and What is the meaning of it all?. It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history and there have been a large number of answers from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. This suggests the meaning of life is different for each person. Albert Camus observed, we humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.

thats taken directly from wikipedia, by the way.

anyway, i need to write about the meaning of life for school.. and heck, do i know.

if someone asked me id say "have fun, and spread love" or "make the world a better place", but then again.. itd all be for granted when the earth explodes or whatever.

someone please enlighten me on this subject? I need more opinions in order to form my own. thank you :)

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I say the meaning of life is doing what you want, when you want, and as long as you want as long as your happiness does not interfere with anyone else's. Without being able to do what you want, life has no meaning.

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#3 KG86
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I would quote the speech at the end of Monty Python's Meaning of Life but I would get moderated.

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#4 escapeoftheape
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I would quote the speech at the end of Monty Python's Meaning of Life but I would get moderated.

KG86
PM, please? Unless its really unserious and does not hold any real information at all.
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#5 KG86
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[QUOTE="KG86"]

I would quote the speech at the end of Monty Python's Meaning of Life but I would get moderated.

escapeoftheape

PM, please? Unless its really unserious and does not hold any real information at all.

It's pretty unserious.

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eat, drink,sleep, have sex and watch TV now that's an ideal ^^^ however I always wanted to know who made us and why are we here ? how does our body work and what will happen to what we think when we die...it's going to be over just like that ? all my thoughts and feelings will go down in a pile of mud ?
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to be happy and to have fun

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#8 escapeoftheape
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to be happy and to have fun

mrbojangles25
hey. i remember you from ages ago. told told me about CA. you live in the SF bay area, right? anyways, if i was to write an essay over 3 pages about the meaning of life, what would i have to squeeze in? argh, i hate it when we get impossible tasks like this.. i mean, who cares why we're here? meaning of my life = GIRLS.
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The meaning of life is to continue your blood line and to make it as prosperous as possible. What prosperity is however, is up for debate.
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The meaning of life is to continue your blood line and to make it as prosperous as possible. What prosperity is however, is up for debate.Infinite-Zr0
continue your blood line - I want to add to that "and be sure it continues" which means "have sex and make babies and then don't do abortion" (there is a topic about that here)
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#11 gobo212
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The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.
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#12 escapeoftheape
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The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.gobo212
very interesting.
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The meaning of life is to continue your blood line and to make it as prosperous as possible. What prosperity is however, is up for debate.Infinite-Zr0
It's not so much about your particular bloodline as much as it is the human race in general. You don't really procreate to keep your family name alive, which is pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but rather flourish so that our species won't die off.
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#14 123625
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The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.gobo212
Which in itself is the meaning of life! Paradox!
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#15 smiggy4000
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The meaning of life is gamespot...
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[QUOTE="Infinite-Zr0"]The meaning of life is to continue your blood line and to make it as prosperous as possible. What prosperity is however, is up for debate.jubino
It's not so much about your particular bloodline as much as it is the human race in general. You don't really procreate to keep your family name alive, which is pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but rather flourish so that our species won't die off.

hell that won't happen. In my country there are gipsy families that have over 10 kids. what I want in life is to just live a good life :D I don't want to be stinkin' rich.
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#17 dmc333
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It's this.

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[QUOTE="gobo212"]The meaning of life is to figure out the meaning of life.123625
Which in itself is the meaning of life! Paradox!

*head explodes*

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#19 Mad_Game_hi5
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It's this.

dmc333
who the hell eats that ? it looks disgusting. and it has a sh*t-load of fat.
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#20 jubino
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[QUOTE="dmc333"]

It's this.

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who the hell eats that ? it looks disgusting. and it has a sh*t-load of fat.

and there's too much pepper on it. Yuck!
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[QUOTE="Mad_Game_hi5"][QUOTE="dmc333"]

It's this.

jubino
who the hell eats that ? it looks disgusting. and it has a sh*t-load of fat.

and there's too much pepper on it. Yuck!

I'd eat that in a heartbeat, then... failed pun
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#22 Mad_Game_hi5
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[QUOTE="Mad_Game_hi5"][QUOTE="dmc333"]

It's this.

jubino
who the hell eats that ? it looks disgusting. and it has a sh*t-load of fat.

and there's too much pepper on it. Yuck!

yeah...
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Do what you want, when you want. Life is about opening up your world, which you can only attain by interacting with others and seeing into their worlds.

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Why its 42 as out lined in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Go Deep Thought! Not sure what 42 means tho but its one of the two greatest numbers ever
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#25 escapeoftheape
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but seriously, guys.. there is no POINT in doing ANYTHING if this whole thing is going to explode and kill us all anyway?
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#26 hyperkass
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Stupid Question.

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#27 KOTORkicker
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Well if you look outside the realm of human desire in the short term then the purpose of life is to reproduce and carry on living. But in the grand scheme of things then the purpose of life really is just to end. [spoiler] IMO of course. [/spoiler]
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the meaning of life is contained within the jpeg.

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42.

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#30 hokies1313
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There is no objective meaning to life, as there is never an end justification for all that we do. That being said, the subjective meaning is to enjoy your life as you live it and not get caught up in what is not important. Read Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions for more.
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#31 Serraph105
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The meaning of life is Pizza