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hmm.

i don't have much of a clue...but it seems to me that because most material possessions will pass on without positively affecting people, they don't matter all too much, and a better plan is to set a positive example for all who see you so that through you they can help others in the same way.

well?

hmm.

i don't have much of a clue...but it seems to me that because most material possessions will pass on without positively affecting people, they don't matter all too much, and a better plan is to set a positive example for all who see you so that through you they can help others in the same way.

well? i dont know about any of that, but your name makes me laugh :D

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

damn, beat me to it.

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

we're going to lynched arent we?

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

we're going to lynched arent we?Yes.

No, lynched to the darkest bowels of Wal-Mart.

Or Hilary Duffs bedroom, if you've been really bad.

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

damn! how could i forget Vroomfondel?

The answer is none of the above. I'm surprised it's not on your polls, either.

The meaning of life is simply this: 42

damn! how could i forget Vroomfondel?*cue to MPatHG Bridge of Death music* Well, I don't know that-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

The meaning of life is cake.

The meaning of life is cake.

You choose:

Death or Cake?

/Eddie Izzard

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Yeah, and you probably have so many STDs, if you had sex with me, you could be charged with manslaughter :twisted:

The meaning of life is cake.WRONG!

The correct answer was: 42

YOU GOT IT WRONG! :x You will pay for this! *watches ACMM Turf get flung into the sea of death or whatever it was called*

Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy. And I suck at spelling. :lol: Anyway the meaning of life is a moot question, because no one's life is the same thus no one's meaning can possibily be the same. Why? Because meaning is created through the computation of the flawed information gained through the flucuations of our senses. And as the summary of this computation is almost certain to be different for everyone thus their meaning is almost certain to be different. :wink:

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Yeah, and you probably have so many STDs, if you had sex with me, you could be charged with manslaughter :twisted:
If you're a guy, no thank you. If you're a women, let's do it!

Unless I'm mistaken, 42 is the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything. To claim that it is the meaning of life would be to claim that you know the The Ultimate Question, which no-one does.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004W0U2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Cake is love. Hands-down.

Oh yeah, and the ultimate question is:
"What is six times nine?"

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004W0U2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpgbest... movie... ever!!!

Nooo! Now I have their theme song stuck in my head again!!!

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Yeah, and you probably have so many STDs, if you had sex with me, you could be charged with manslaughter :twisted:

hahahaha

chalk one up for the Katholik Kingdom.

Which choice did you pick, Allied Alliances?

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Yeah, and you probably have so many STDs, if you had sex with me, you could be charged with manslaughter :twisted:

hahahaha

chalk one up for the Katholik Kingdom.

Duly chalked and recorded.

I got that one off a now dead webcomic called Mallmonkeys, god rest their souls.

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

That question always irks me. I'm not sure people who ask it actually know what they're trying to ask.

Anyway, short, cynical answer: "Purpose" is a human invention. No reason to attach some divine meaning to everything.

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

what is it with the seemingly human need for self-contradictory posts?

well, I know one way to find out

Die?

/Just a sugestion...

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

what is it with the seemingly human need for self-contradictory posts?It is called having a sense of humor. You might want to try it sometime. It makes life a lot more enjoyable. I hope you get a sense of humor of your very own sometime soon.

I still think Cake is the meaning of life.

"Death pondered this for a while.
'CATS,' he spoke at last 'CATS ARE NICE.'"

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

what is it with the seemingly human need for self-contradictory posts?It is called having a sense of humor. You might want to try it sometime. It makes life a lot more enjoyable. I hope you get a sense of humor of your very own sometime soon.

The only thing funny was the claim that your post was humour. I recommend you try improving your humour before inflicting it on others.

To enjoy!

Life is for the slowly dying.

Hope you're all depressed now.

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

what is it with the seemingly human need for self-contradictory posts?It is called having a sense of humor. You might want to try it sometime. It makes life a lot more enjoyable. I hope you get a sense of humor of your very own sometime soon.

The only thing funny was the claim that your post was humour. I recommend you try improving your humour before inflicting it on others.I made the effort to come up with an amusing little acronym for the word "Life". To me the french are amusing people. I am so sorry that you have such a sour outlook on life that you can not recognise amusement when you see it. To me that is a very sad state of mind to go through life with. If you were to write a pun that involved aging, overweight, white, American, males with receeding hairlines, I would be more than able to see the humor behind the comment, even though that is a very accurate discription of myself. So lighten up already.

Little
Idiotic
Frenchmen
Everywhere.

what is it with the seemingly human need for self-contradictory posts?It is called having a sense of humor. You might want to try it sometime. It makes life a lot more enjoyable. I hope you get a sense of humor of your very own sometime soon.

The only thing funny was the claim that your post was humour. I recommend you try improving your humour before inflicting it on others.I made the effort to come up with an amusing little acronym for the word "Life". To me the french are amusing people. I am so sorry that you have such a sour outlook on life that you can not recognise amusement when you see it. To me that is a very sad state of mind to go through life with. If you were to write a pun that involved aging, overweight, white, American, males with receeding hairlines, I would be more than able to see the humor behind the comment, even though that is a very accurate discription of myself. So lighten up already.

Meh. I'm light.

I just thought it was racism poorly disguised as humour. I'm not going to rain on your posting parade, feel free to post all the acronyms you like.

Meh. I'm light.

I just thought it was racism poorly disguised as humour. I'm not going to rain on your posting parade, feel free to post all the acronyms you like.Wow I have been away from the site way too long if someone can get the impression of racism from me. I have debated against racism so many times on this site I can't count them. Sorry for going off the wall on you there. I guess we just hit each other wrong. Fair enough?

None of the above, though you can pick and choose if you'd like. It's whatever you decide it is, after all.

Currently, what I want out of life is to discover the full extent of my abilities (occasionally including the ability to get away with being extremely lazy :wink: ). Eudaimonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia) is pretty close, actually.

I think that the question propsed is irrelevant. We shouldn't be asking why are we here? WE should be asking questions like "How can I enjoy llife", "What time is it?" and "Is there a place around here a ghuy can get a drink?" And by the way, the previous guys are right. The meaning of life is 42 -"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, pg 42"

To get really freakin rich. :)

To get really freakin rich. :)
Why? :?

I am the meaning of life.

Other than the aforementioned response of 42, I suspect the meaning of life is to learn as much as you can, have a few laughs, make people smile and try to leave this planet a slightly better place than you found it.

Yes, I'm corny. I know it.

Life n. (pl. lives) 1. being alive, the functional activity and continual change that is peculiar to animals and plants (before their death) and is not found in rocks and sythetic substances; state of existance as a living individual.
2. A living person; living things and their activity.
3. The period during which life lasts; the period from birth to the present time or from the present time to death.
4. an individual's actions and fortunes; a manner of existence or a particular aspect etc. of this.
5. energy, livliness, animation
6. The active part of existence; the business, pleasures and social activities of the world.
7. a biography.
8. the time for which a thing exists or continues to function;
9. spiritual salvation, regenerate condition.
10. (colloq.) a sentence of imprisonment.

Can we have your liver now? :wink:

That question always irks me. I'm not sure people who ask it actually know what they're trying to ask.

Anyway, short, cynical answer: "Purpose" is a human invention. No reason to attach some divine meaning to everything.

Seconded

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Purpose and meaning are not the same. The purpose of life is to create more life, but the meaning of life is really a silly concept.

It really depends how we read the sentence.

The meaning of "life" is somewhat fuzzy, but is basically an orderly dynamic system capable of reproducing itself. The meaning of human existence is another tough one because meaning cannot easily be ascribed to aspects of nature. Meaning is as artificial as a car or computer. The idea of a meaning to life demands some higher power to create life to give it meaning, and in that situation humans really have very little way of knowing what that intended meaning is.

As for finding a purpose in life, that is the primary search of young people. Most adolescents go through a period of restlessness while they "find" themselves and create the identity that they will live with for the rest of their lives (barring significant trauma). The search for meaning is the fundamental Existential challenge. Transcending the absurdity of the human existence is the first hurdle in the race to "success." Many overcome absurdity by denying it through religion, or by simply ignoring it. Few are ever able to escape the hopelessness of the human condition without denying or ignoring it and even once they have they are no better off than if they had taken the easy way out.

So in the end there is no universal meaning to life, but each individual can find a meaning for his or her own life and can determine the purpose which he or she wishes to dedicate himself or herself to, and that's all that anyone really needs.

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Purpose and meaning are not the same. The purpose of life is to create more life, but the meaning of life is really a silly concept.

It really depends how we read the sentence.

The meaning of "life" is somewhat fuzzy, but is basically an orderly dynamic system capable of reproducing itself. The meaning of human existence is another tough one because meaning cannot easily be ascribed to aspects of nature. Meaning is as artificial as a car or computer. The idea of a meaning to life demands some higher power to create life to give it meaning, and in that situation humans really have very little way of knowing what that intended meaning is.

As for finding a purpose in life, that is the primary search of young people. Most adolescents go through a period of restlessness while they "find" themselves and create the identity that they will live with for the rest of their lives (barring significant trauma). The search for meaning is the fundamental Existential challenge. Transcending the absurdity of the human existence is the first hurdle in the race to "success." Many overcome absurdity by denying it through religion, or by simply ignoring it. Few are ever able to escape the hopelessness of the human condition without denying or ignoring it and even once they have they are no better off than if they had taken the easy way out.

So in the end there is no universal meaning to life, but each individual can find a meaning for his or her own life and can determine the purpose which he or she wishes to dedicate himself or herself to, and that's all that anyone really needs.

but why should one deny absurdity?

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Purpose and meaning are not the same. The purpose of life is to create more life, but the meaning of life is really a silly concept.

It really depends how we read the sentence.

The meaning of "life" is somewhat fuzzy, but is basically an orderly dynamic system capable of reproducing itself. The meaning of human existence is another tough one because meaning cannot easily be ascribed to aspects of nature. Meaning is as artificial as a car or computer. The idea of a meaning to life demands some higher power to create life to give it meaning, and in that situation humans really have very little way of knowing what that intended meaning is.

As for finding a purpose in life, that is the primary search of young people. Most adolescents go through a period of restlessness while they "find" themselves and create the identity that they will live with for the rest of their lives (barring significant trauma). The search for meaning is the fundamental Existential challenge. Transcending the absurdity of the human existence is the first hurdle in the race to "success." Many overcome absurdity by denying it through religion, or by simply ignoring it. Few are ever able to escape the hopelessness of the human condition without denying or ignoring it and even once they have they are no better off than if they had taken the easy way out.

So in the end there is no universal meaning to life, but each individual can find a meaning for his or her own life and can determine the purpose which he or she wishes to dedicate himself or herself to, and that's all that anyone really needs.

but why should one deny absurdity?

because it's absurd not to?

The meaning of life is cake.

You choose:

Death or Cake?

/Eddie Izzard

Ahh, Fundamentalist Anglicans...

I agree with the above that meaning and purpose are two different things. However, there is a connection that has to do with appreciation. In the appreciation of purpose, we find meaning. I believe that life can be more meaningful when we appreciate the creation of our Universe, life, death, and when we are able to create within the confines of our world. Making a baby isn't necessarily hard to do, but really being a good parent is. Going to work like the average person does isn't special, but giving your best effort for the time you're being paid for is. Helping, caring, and giving your time to others that need it is good work. Loving, sharing emotions of all kinds, and mostly... sharing laughter. That's meaningful.

"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishesth away." -James 4:14

The difference between meaning and purpose is the same as being and existing. The dissimilarity is very minute in wording, but profound in application. Having say thus I believe that life is a cycle. This cycle is the hoop of context rolled along the circular path of time. Therefore purpose becomes a moot point and a meaning must then be applied in order to give the entire exercise signifigance. So then in asking what the meaning of life is you imply that your life is without purpose. But then the flipside of that is that purpose makes meaning unnesscary because purpose satisfies the question of why. That is the questions of 'why do I do this", "why am I here" etc. So then...I lost my train of thought. Oh well I hadn't planned on writing this much. :lol:

be born,get drunk, pay your taxes and die :lol:

The meaning of life is to make more life. It's that simple. More bluntly, the meaning of life is to have hot and wild unprotected sex with as many women as possible.

Purpose and meaning are not the same. The purpose of life is to create more life, but the meaning of life is really a silly concept.

It really depends how we read the sentence.

The meaning of "life" is somewhat fuzzy, but is basically an orderly dynamic system capable of reproducing itself. The meaning of human existence is another tough one because meaning cannot easily be ascribed to aspects of nature. Meaning is as artificial as a car or computer. The idea of a meaning to life demands some higher power to create life to give it meaning, and in that situation humans really have very little way of knowing what that intended meaning is.

As for finding a purpose in life, that is the primary search of young people. Most adolescents go through a period of restlessness while they "find" themselves and create the identity that they will live with for the rest of their lives (barring significant trauma). The search for meaning is the fundamental Existential challenge. Transcending the absurdity of the human existence is the first hurdle in the race to "success." Many overcome absurdity by denying it through religion, or by simply ignoring it. Few are ever able to escape the hopelessness of the human condition without denying or ignoring it and even once they have they are no better off than if they had taken the easy way out.

So in the end there is no universal meaning to life, but each individual can find a meaning for his or her own life and can determine the purpose which he or she wishes to dedicate himself or herself to, and that's all that anyone really needs.

but why should one deny absurdity?

Some have argued that we should not, and they created Nihilism. Personally I find Nihilism depressing. Without somehow escaping ones absurdity life becomes pointless and death becomes as good an option. Hopelessness and inaction insue, and life just sucks.

To enjoy!

Aye!

Eat, drink, and wreak havoc!

The meaning of life is for those that live to decide.

The purpose of human life? One might say it is to fine tune the identity of those who accept their I AMness. One might say it is to give spiritual beings an environment that provides access to a vast range of positive and negative experiences not accessible at our spiritual home. One might say our presence here allows us to benefit from opportunities for growth presented within the human experience when we interact with each other or am aware of what one of us has said or done. One might say it is to allow our designers to gain knowledge from and for their experiments. One might say it is to figure out what toenails and armpit hairs are for. One might say it is to fully appreciate you, while thinking what you are thinking right now.

Life is what you make it. If you make it meaningless that's on you. You cannot rely on the meanderings of another's rambling conciousness to tell you how to go.