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My Rambling Meaning of Life

Amerigo
19-11-2005, 02:22
You have the illusion of choice. The choice you're going to make is already determined, because you already made it. To explain this one has to erase the linear concept of time from their mind. Everyone’s life is a bizarre tree, with each branch a "choice." But if you look at that tree, you will realize that when there is a fork in the road, only one branch exists. The other is blank. The could-have-been we invent in our minds. It couldn't have been because it wasn't.

There really is no free will. The degree of our success in life depends solely on circumstance. It is all circumstance. And though chance seems something unpredictable, something chaotic, something random, it has all been written in stone from the beginning. We are unwilling puppets in this theatrical performance and each event, each action has already been woven into the fabric of space and time. Indeed, where is the time? Time is nothing more than the fourth dimension, and as much as the third dimension and the second dimension are motionless and constant so is time. Everything we do, is constant—our lives are but geometric figures in the fourth dimension. They stretch to certain places and we merely trace them to the end.

Other people are merely connectors. The webs of our relationships expand outward, in a way forming bizarre lines that connect us all together in the fourth dimensions. In essence, humanity is but one geometrical object in four-space, connected spindles. Yet the connectors are always alone—there is always some gap between the two connectors and there is no way to close that gap.

We are lonesome cogs in a machine. It is because we exist in four dimensions, we are limited. It is the sheer environment that has predestined every thought of creative we ever had.

So what is in the fifth dimension then?

The answer is dreadfully simple, a greater freedom. In the fifth dimension we cease to be part of the geometric figure of humanity and become something more. And if a lone 4D segment dares escape into the fifth dimension he’d have a freedom unparalleled in the fourth dimension. But to do that, he’d need to expand beyond humanity and grow a fifth dimension property. It is a lofty goal to transcend into the fifth dimension, to escape.

What if that is what we have been doing in past lives… What if we started with the first dimension, without length without girth—simple theoretical points. Then our next life, we may have drifted into the second dimension and then the third. In the third we were nonsentient objects, trapped as rocks in time. And now we are in the fourth dimension. Now we’re at the tricky part. The fourth dimension is defined by time, and we have only a limited time before our lives our extinguished and we meet an unknown fate.

The connections between the dimensions aren’t necessarily that arbitrary, to escape a dimension, one merely needs to rotate one’s perspective. As one would rotate a point to reveal it is in face a two dimensional line… as one can rotate a square to reveal it is a cube. And the connections we could never imagine will be revealed, much like the connection between the square and the circle. In two dimensions there is no comprehensible abstract connection between a square and a circle, but if we move to the third dimension, we merely need imagine a cylinder. Look at it from the side and it is a square, turn it vertically and we see the circle. In the fifth dimension we will draw forth connections between that which we cannot yet comprehend.

But here we must toil until we reach the freedom of the fifth dimension. Here we must look onto our fixed fates and examine our imperfections, and struggle at our shells, try and pull the strings that manipulate us. Perhaps we’ll be able to break the strings and become something completely different.

Sure, we’ll meet the challenge of the fifth dimension and the sixth… but String Theory has shown us that the universe exists in only 11 dimensions. That means our transcendence will eventually allow us ultimate freedom. We shall become the universe; we shall become perfection.

No longer will there be anything in a higher dimension manipulating us. For whenever we move a box, we shift a life. Anytime a being in the fifth dimension moves us, our lives change drastically. But can we observe the affect we have on our stapler when we use it? Does the Fate of the fifth dimension know the effects on all of our lives every time we are manipulated?

No matter. The better question is how we can transcend. Though it is impossible to know, without actually transcending, the answer lies within our minds—within thought. Because it is thought that can pierce through the fabric of time and space. In thought we may sometimes lose track of time and where we are. In dreams we leave the limits of the fourth dimension behind. But our thought reflects our environment--unique thought doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes from the culmination of the experiences of your life. We must experience the world to gain more insight—to gain ideas. As we interact with others, with objects, with our environment we gain insight to another perspective… another side of the geometric figure we are part. And once we gather enough of this insight we can finally see it as a whole and in essence become something more. Our actions are limited by circumstance, but our thoughts are our own.


Yep thats the meaning of life.
The South Islands
19-11-2005, 02:26
I (heart) Amerigo!
Terrorist Cakes
19-11-2005, 02:31
The meaning of life is to live.
Ankhmet
19-11-2005, 02:42
o_o
Economic Associates
19-11-2005, 02:44
42
Zouloukistan
19-11-2005, 02:47
Could someone write a summary? I don't want to read all that!

I'm too lazy...
The Question mark
19-11-2005, 02:50
there are choices in life. at school you can do your homework or choose not to. there are only four choices. those being yes, no, maby, or randomly choosing.
Zouloukistan
19-11-2005, 02:52
there are choices in life. at school you can do your homework or choose not to. there are only four choices. those being yes, no, maby, or randomly choosing.
Random, that way I won't be blamed :p .
Super-power
19-11-2005, 02:54
42
Ah, but what is the question?
Rapaxcia
19-11-2005, 03:04
the real and only choice is Cringe Schrapnel, not some flubadubblibblubbleeb someone paraplagerstolerized from some book of some other person's own original or semi original flubadubblibblubbleebs. ummmm sometimes the choice is sushi I forgot about that one.:gundge:
Boonytopia
19-11-2005, 03:04
The meaning of life is to live.

I agree, this is what I believe.
Boonytopia
19-11-2005, 03:06
Ah, but what is the question?

6x7=?
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 03:13
there are choices in life. at school you can do your homework or choose not to. there are only four choices. those being yes, no, maby, or randomly choosing.
The "choice" already occured. From a fifth dimensional perspective, time is but a geometrical figure in four space. The "road not taken" doesn't actually exist in that scope.
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 03:16
The meaning of life is to live.
That is equivelent to saying life is meaningless, since life is the process of living.
Boonytopia
19-11-2005, 03:45
That is equivelent to saying life is meaningless, since life is the process of living.

Not as I see it. I think the meaning of life is to enjoy living it. I don't think there is a higher meaning & I don't think there needs to be a higher meaning.
Super-power
19-11-2005, 03:55
6x7=?
Blasphemy! Everyone knows it's what do you get when you multiply 6x9 (in base 13 of course)?
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 03:55
Not as I see it. I think the meaning of life is to enjoy living it. I don't think there is a higher meaning & I don't think there needs to be a higher meaning.
So how does that disagree with "That life is meaningless", when you say there is no "higher meaning".

Besides I had like many people the same view on the meaning of life--that there was no meaning.

But the meaning of life I came up with is way cooler... You can be like everyone else and say that its either for Christianity or something or that there is no meaning... or you can be cool and rebellious and support my meaning of life! :D
Ankhmet
19-11-2005, 04:10
Be rebellious: support someone else!
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 04:17
Be rebellious: support someone else!
The ":D " was there to underline the intentional irony.
OntheRIGHTside
19-11-2005, 04:19
Ah, but what is the question?


What do you get when you multiply six by nine?





Don't you remember? That was what the primate-like-creature on ancient earth threw down in scrabble pieces when Arthur asked him.

The author of Hitchhiker's Guide intended that to mean that the universe is a very strange and bothersome place, and you shouldn't bother trying to ask big questions because none of it makes very much sense anyway, or else you'll get things like 6 x 9 = 42 when 6 x 9 actually = 54.

Once someone asked the author if he was just using the silly fact that 6 x 9 (in base 13, or, 13 digits, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C) = 42, but the author responded "I don't write jokes in base 13!"

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I don't like thinking that we don't have a choice in what we do. But then again, it doesn't matter, I can't do anything about it, unless I go back in time! Muahaha!
Baked Hippies
19-11-2005, 04:21
The meaning of life is very single and logical.

To reproduce to ensure the survival of our species. That's about it.
Ravenclaws
19-11-2005, 04:25
The meaning of life is very single and logical.

To reproduce to ensure the survival of our species. That's about it.

I was about to say the same thing.
Ankhmet
19-11-2005, 04:31
The ":D " was there to underline the intentional irony.

Well.... I was merely further underlining it for the terminally stupid!

That went surprisingly well...
Banduria
19-11-2005, 04:36
The Meaning of Life:

life, n. 1. the quality that makes living animals and plants different from dead organisms and inorganic matter. 2. what you don't have if you're reading this.

Simple, no? :D
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 04:38
I don't like thinking that we don't have a choice in what we do. But then again, it doesn't matter, I can't do anything about it, unless I go back in time! Muahaha!
Which is in essence possible, if my rant bears any truth. Since the only reason why time seems dynamic, is because we are "tracing" it in 4 space. What is making us trace it is a mystery, but if we could jump back or forward, we'd be able to time travel.

Unfortunately unlike in all those time travel movies, we wouldn't be able to change anything in the past. There wouldn't be a new version of you in the past, you'd just suddenly come back to a past moment of your life... and... actually you wouldn't have any memory of the future, since memory is dependant on time as well... Oh shit! We might be hopping all around our lifetime right now and not know it, because we don't remember the future!
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 04:46
The meaning of life is very single and logical.

To reproduce to ensure the survival of our species. That's about it.
Well I know what I won't be missing in the fifth dimension... CYNICISM!!

Have fun reproducing, while I'm in the fifth dimension um... ionistratifigrantching... SUCKERS!
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 04:48
The Meaning of Life:

life, n. 1. the quality that makes living animals and plants different from dead organisms and inorganic matter. 2. what you don't have if you're reading this.

Simple, no? :D
There is a socially accepted difference between meaning and definition. The above is a definition... it denotes explicitly.

Meaning connotes.
Misunderestimates
19-11-2005, 04:55
Sooo if everything in our life is already laid out and percieved from a fifth dimension....and i going to pass the f*cking calculus exam monday?!?!
Boonytopia
19-11-2005, 04:58
So how does that disagree with "That life is meaningless", when you say there is no "higher meaning".

Besides I had like many people the same view on the meaning of life--that there was no meaning.

But the meaning of life I came up with is way cooler... You can be like everyone else and say that its either for Christianity or something or that there is no meaning... or you can be cool and rebellious and support my meaning of life! :D

What I'm trying to say is this; the meaning of life is what you get out of it. Enjoy your life, spend it with your family & friends, challenge yourself, do interesting things, because there is no more to it than that. I don't believe there is an over-arching reason as to why we are here, there's no afterlife, no higher power watching over or guiding us. I don't even think there needs to be a reason as to why we're here. I don't mean that life is pointless, far from it. Just enjoy for what it is, because there's nothing more than the life we have now.
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 04:58
Sooo if everything in our life is already laid out and percieved from a fifth dimension....and i going to pass the f*cking calculus exam monday?!?!
Well if I was in the fifth dimension, I could tell, but it wouldn't be something on my priority list, cause that would be the equivelent of calculating the surface area of the intersection of a cone and a cylinder.
Misunderestimates
19-11-2005, 05:01
Well if I was in the fifth dimension, I could tell, but it wouldn't be something on my priority list, cause that would be the equivelent of calculating the surface area of the intersection of a cone and a cylinder.
.....damn.....i knew i was going to fail it.....:headbang:
Amerigo
19-11-2005, 05:04
What I'm trying to say is this; the meaning of life is what you get out of it. Enjoy your life, spend it with your family & friends, challenge yourself, do interesting things, because there is no more to it than that. I don't believe there is an over-arching reason as to why we are here, there's no afterlife, no higher power watching over or guiding us. I don't even think there needs to be a reason as to why we're here. I don't mean that life is pointless, far from it. Just enjoy for what it is, because there's nothing more than the life we have now.
Yes, it is a common enough belief. I was pretty much in that camp too, though I was agnostic...

But see with my newfound meaning of life you can do all that and finally shed the chains of time that limit us so. And transcendance is not necessarily guaranteed by death. It is guaranteed by thought. And since thought depends on experience, enjoy life and experience it in your own way. And through that you will be able to change from the limiting four dimensional perspective.

Now... CONVERT OR BE SLAIN IN THE NAME OF THE ELVENTH DIMENSION!

THE ELVENTH DIMENSION WILLS IT!!! :eek:

:D
Boonytopia
19-11-2005, 05:55
Yes, it is a common enough belief. I was pretty much in that camp too, though I was agnostic...

But see with my newfound meaning of life you can do all that and finally shed the chains of time that limit us so. And transcendance is not necessarily guaranteed by death. It is guaranteed by thought. And since thought depends on experience, enjoy life and experience it in your own way. And through that you will be able to change from the limiting four dimensional perspective.

Now... CONVERT OR BE SLAIN IN THE NAME OF THE ELVENTH DIMENSION!

THE ELVENTH DIMENSION WILLS IT!!! :eek:

:D

Meh, slay me. 11 is just too many dimensions to keep track of. ;)