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What is life about?
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For me personally, there is no purpose to life for everyone. I don't mean we are all living pointless lives at all. I am however, saying that the answer to the question is not finding the answer but more of the path to the answer. I think the answer is truly not defined to any of us at any time and that the path that we take to that answer is the true purpose of life. To find meaning in life is simple. Find your own meaning, make your own meaning, and define your life on what terms you wish to define it as. We each have endless amounts of potential to do great things and reach for the stars. We have been given a gift from the universe. that gift is conscious intelligent thought and we should each go fourth and use that consciousness and take full advantage of it.
NO you are not getting what i am saying. i am saying that the meaning of life is the path towards the meaning. There is no one set meaning or truth for anything. Truth is subjective, reality is subjective, perception is subjective. The meaning of life is to find your own meaning.
.. the way i see it, the meaning of life is to arrange, collect, remember and replicate information - in order for the universe to escape a fate of fading to nothing..new arrangements of information act against entropy (the slope into chaos)
self-organisation of this information (life) strengthens and extends this effect against entropy, perhaps potentially infinitely (e.g. very intelligent lifeforms could potentially work out how to jump to or inflate a new universe if their old one dies) ..this is pretty much the so-called Anthropic Principle..
..if there are two things all life possess it's the drive to survive and exchange/re-arrange information..
of course, the feeling known as love may be somehow involved in all of this..
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self-organisation of this information (life) strengthens and extends this effect against entropy, perhaps potentially infinitely (e.g. very intelligent lifeforms could potentially work out how to jump to or inflate a new universe if their old one dies) ..this is pretty much the so-called Anthropic Principle..
..if there are two things all life possess it's the drive to survive and exchange/re-arrange information..
of course, the feeling known as love may be somehow involved in all of this..
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I don't mean to seem oppositional, I just want to know if anyone can tell me the meaning of life, please.
No set meaning tells me you don't know
maybe somehow indicates you don't know
psychedelicbuddha said:
No set meaning tells me you don't know
nen888 said:
maybe somehow indicates you don't know
Enki Nemo said:
Well i hate to burst your bubble but no one on this planet or this universe can tell you the purpose of life. You are looking for a ancient question that has puzzled our species and prob all species throughout the cosmo's for eternity.
You still Do not understand me. THERE IS NO SET MEANING. meaning there is not one defined meaning for anything. nothing in this reality or perception has a set meaning. MEANING IS SUBJECTIVE. so if meaning and everything in life is subjective then the meaning of life is subjective.
..i'm confident in my answer..i'm just not pompous and inflated enough to make absolute statements..
my answer is has meaning in an objective sense..
my answer is has meaning in an objective sense..
..or is your question actually: "What is the meaning of MY INDIVIDUAL BODY_EGO_MIND's apparent path through time?"
..in that case, probably only the asker of the question can answer that..
but, other than the hazy world of Prions and self-organising gas clouds, there is a fairly clear, objective definition of life upon which to philosophize...
..in that case, probably only the asker of the question can answer that..
but, other than the hazy world of Prions and self-organising gas clouds, there is a fairly clear, objective definition of life upon which to philosophize...
^^This. Biologically, the 'meaning of life' really is very simple...to reproduce and pass on one's genes. That is it. Any other 'meaning' one wants to place in life is entirely of their own making. If there is a deeper meaning of some kind, I think it may simply be to learn.
Enki Nemo... You made a thread asking a question, and several people have been kindly answering your thread, and yet you answer them in a sarcastic disrespectful manner, refusing what people say. How about rethinking your attitude? When you start a thread, the thread is not for you, it is an open discussion thread that you happened to start.
It is the diversity that makes this community so rich, and you are getting diverse answers, so be happy for it, debate different points if you want, but accept that these respectful answers are just as valid as any other.
Lastly, I think it might be a good idea to reflect on the question itself, which different people pointed out.. So you ask a question, "what is the meaning of life?", but that brings many other questions like "does anybody really know?". Or.. "if someone tells you something with confidence, does that make it true, or truer than those who humbly do not give a set meaning but say it is unique for each person?".. etc...
It is the diversity that makes this community so rich, and you are getting diverse answers, so be happy for it, debate different points if you want, but accept that these respectful answers are just as valid as any other.
Lastly, I think it might be a good idea to reflect on the question itself, which different people pointed out.. So you ask a question, "what is the meaning of life?", but that brings many other questions like "does anybody really know?". Or.. "if someone tells you something with confidence, does that make it true, or truer than those who humbly do not give a set meaning but say it is unique for each person?".. etc...
Enki Nemo said:
I don't know if you're trying to be funny or what, but it seems to me you don't really want to know as you don't seem to be pondering the answers.
The fact of the matter is, every life is different. Lives are like books. They're all carried by a similar medium, however the content varies vastly.
The real question you should be asking is "What's the meaning of MY life?" Obviously you need to pose this question to yourself.
What matters to you?
Let me think of an example...ehm... Take an athlete for instance. They train long and hard to become the best they can be at whatever discipline they have chosen. Thinking of better ways to train more efficently and changing their diet for practice and performance in the pursuit of progress. The most meaningful moment in the life of an athlete could well be that one standout performance.
It was the anticipation of this that gave their life meaning up to that point, but the fact of the matter is, in this stage of an athlete's life they're quite young, but delivering this performance would be near spiritual for them. Maybe they can spend their later years training up younger athletes to be the best they can be in the hope that they too will share a similar moment. Maybe when they're less physically able they can become inspirational speakers?
The limit of what one can do with their own meaning can carry on indefinately depending on inspiration and creativity, but they will never forget what originally got them on that path.
I picked the athlete as they have a path picked out for them from an early age and more than most they will have a clear dream that they believe they can bring to reality, then make it so.
The bottom line is you have to give your own life meaning. The very word "meaning" was created by humans. To other life forms, it has no meaning. It's also extremely pointless to even those who understand the word when not used in context. Therefore, if you're refering to "life" in the broader sense "What's the point of it all?!?!", you're asking for one explanation for the infinite.
One explanation and reason for everything?
At this point and certainly perhaps more like forever, there isn't one.
You may as well say to hell with it all without one meaning nothing matters, become a pirate, rape, pillage and sail the seven seas and then try to find some meaning in all of that
Also, has anyone else noticed how many different meanings the word "Mean" can have?
So many mean's yet so few ends
Just throwing that out there.
soulfood said:
That's what the purpose of life is to me, a life of purpose.
You make or find one. And if it happens to be a nuisance for the rest, we'll let you know
