What is the meaning of life?

[NaMeaHou]

Are we simply doing the same things that smaller minded creatures do, but maybe with more angst? Why is it important to "make your mark" in this world when no one will remember a week later anyway?

I know, we are alive as long as someone remembers us. I don't think so. I would rather be around than remembered.

Any thoughts?

[HereSince1628]

1. The bottom line...You will die.

and maybe if you are sexy, clever, or coercive, you will get your genes into the next generation.

Enjoy your evening!

[NaMeaHou]

3. I need to practice all the above

but there's hope! Hey, I may already be there and not know it!

[amazona]

10. and maybe if you're intelligent...

you will keep your genes out of the next generation. :-)

It is much more difficult not to reproduce than to reproduce. Ugly, stupid, passive folks do it all the time.

Life is what you make it.

[populistmom]

21. Oh that's a darn shame...

that you won't be bringing your attractiveness, intelligence, and strength to another generation. The world will surely be missing something there. Not to mention your tact, humor, and kindness to other human beings who are different from you. :eyes:

[ixion]

2. 42

[NaMeaHou]

4. huh?

huh?

[dolo amber]

5. Actually,

That's the "answer". ;)

[NaMeaHou]

6. Should have known.

So simple. 42. Oh yeah. I see it.



HUH?

[ZenLefty]

27. A book you must read

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Should be required reading in all schools. :D

http://www.vogon.com/guide/

[Webster Green]

7. As Mr Natural once said.......

"Don't mean shit"

[Maple]

8. What do you want your life to mean?

It's your choice you know.

[Swede]

9. To crush your enemies ,see your enemies driven before you

hear the lamentations of their women

[HereSince1628]

11. Wow, lead me General...

.

[Fenris]

18. LMAO! That is priceless!

What a horrible fucking actor.

[ZenLefty]

28. No, that is "what is best in life"

But what does it mean?

[catzies]

29. I think ZenLefty's sig line IS the answer!

KEEP YER STICK ON THE ICE.

Works for me.

[ZenLefty]

31. Either that, or the Man's Prayer:

I'm a man,
but I can change,
if I have to,
I guess.

Or another perennial favorite of the Red Green Show:

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. :think:

[WWW]

12. The meaning of life

is to discover the meaning of your own life; only evident on your death bed. (so stop sweating it, you aint going to find out tonight). I started reading Camus at 16 and found that we are only here to discover why we are here...It is like asking someone how did this story or book or movie end...you can only make your summation when everything is said and done. Using this reasoning, you wind up taking every left in the road when maybe you should have taken a right..You live every day to the fullest...Saying to yourself, "This will make a difference, I am not sure why, but I am in control of how this will turn out and will accept the consequences."' I am now 45 and have lived a great, incredible life. I almost know why I am here, I can almost see the answer, but I can't quite grasp it. Hope this helps. This is my humble take.

[Twenty3]

13. Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown...

And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enough........

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the Sun that is the source of all our power.

The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide.

We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.

~ Eric Idle
Galaxy Song, from 'The Meaning Of Life'

[Interrobang]

14. "Life" doesn't have a meaning...

Human beings just have a hardwired drive for narrative, which is what causes us to assume and/or hypothesize that "life" must mean something. Causal events don't "mean" anything; human beings just interpret them that way. (For more information, read The Literary Mind by Mark Turner.

[Lindsey]

15. I love the quote:

An unexamined life is not worth living." (not sure who said it). Another quote that I don't know word for word is:
"When you die and go to Heaven, the great Master will not say, 'Why didn't you find the cure for such and such, why didn't you do this, why didn't you say that, no, at that moment, the question will be - why didn't you become you.' I believe that we're all here for a purpose. That purpose is to give to the world what our gift is and it's up to us to make that discovery. I've been on a quest to understand why I'm here and what can I give. It's been a wonderful journey even though it's a lot of work.

[gristy]

16. Question

Does it help to ask others what they think is the meaning of one's own life? Have/do you do that?

[jafap]

34. the follow up quote:

"and the examined life ain't no picnic either." How about the uncited source is not worth quoting? I think it was Socrates who made the claim about the unexamined life, but it was really Plato putting words in Socrates' mouth.
The great philosopher Mallory Keaton said: "Be happy, try not to hurt anyone, and hope you fall in love."
Myself, apparently I was put on this planet so the rest of the world can have a place to wipe their feet.

[sspiderjohn]

17. Say "yes" to whatever life demands of you

And in the end, you may find that answer. Badly paraphrased Dag Hammarsjold (sp?).

[Fenris]

19. Love

Just my two cents.

[ronzo]

20. Can't resist... python

M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. And, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their fucking arses and back in the sodding cinema! Family entertainment? Bollocks! What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats! Where's the fun in pictures?! Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight.

[Terwilliger]

22. We are here to exist as "batteries"

in the American neoliberal world-hegemony agenda

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. If you ignore my sig and avatar...you'll see it in my post

[Terwilliger]

26. "I see dead people!"

[Booberdawg]

24. Life explained

[OneBlueSky]

25. the meaning of life . . .

is a life of meaning . . .

[Fight_n_back]

30. The answer is 42

the question is the bitch

[TrogL]

32. It's all just a really bad opera

especially the singing.

[VOX]

33. Play. Everything's at play.

The wind, the trees, the waters, the creatures...Sometimes the game gets "serious" -- the wind blows fiercely, the trees fall over, the water floods the shore, the animals devour one another.

But the universe is all squishy and wiggly and messy and curvy and dancing, and it does what it does just to do it.

Our problem is that "we know that we know." And thus, worry, unhappiness and anxiety are born.

And with that, I'll put down the bong now. :hippie:

[moof]

35. You seek an answer for which there is no question.

Joe was correct

"life is just a mass of protoplasm with an urge to reproduce".

[Wonk]

36. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

- Macbeth, scene V

[Wonk]

37. Life's what you make it - celebrate it

anticipate it - yesterday's faded.

- Talk Talk

[GalleryGod]

38. ASK MONTY PYTHON !? Oh, he's in Guantanamo! Sorry.

:shrug: