What is the meaning of life?

[Moonbeam]

"There are a million paths in life and they all lead nowhere. Choose a path that has a heart."

 

[MichaelD]

...O-S-C-A-R; my baloney has a second name its....

 

[Ornery]

What is the meaning of life?

If I could rephrase the question to, "Why do we exist?" I might take a shot at that. I believe we're the physical manifestation of life. That goes for plants and animals too. Life manifested. In other words, life exists without a physical form too, but I'd be hard pressed to prove it! Perhaps quantum experiments will be able to prove it someday. Who knows?

 

[novon]

watch the movie "waking life"

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
...O-S-C-A-R; my baloney has a second name its....

H-O-M-E-R!!!! DOH!

The answer, however, is 42. [matrix]It's the question that drives us...[/matrix]

 

[udonoogen]

this thread comes up about twice a week. you might want to try reading some of those threads. people had a lot of good stuff to say. i think the meaning of life is a life spent in thanks to God for His grace. I'm a Christian and many people don't share my beliefs. you should consider what is important to you in life though. if it's just what makes you happy then life is cruel, brutish, and short (or something like that ... its from Hobbes). anyhow. yea. this is a recursive repost of a repost. =)

 

[Utterman]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
42
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But whats is the question that goes with the answer to life, the universe and everything?

 

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: BD2003
Theres 3 possibilities:

1. There is no meaning or purpose to life. Asking what the meaning/purpose of life is is like asking what a pebble's purpose in existence is. Ie. we're just here, we're nothing special, there is no purpose, deal with it!

2. There is a meaning to life, but we are absolutely incapable of understanding it. You dont try to teach a mouse quantum physics, do you?

3. There is a meaning to life, but we havent figured it out yet. Give it some time.


I'm stuck somewhere between 1 and 2, I dont accept 3 at all.

wow, very good points, but i think it's between 2 and 3. We've just been learning a lot about the world in the past 200 years, and Einstein's thoery of relativity just came through not too long ago. We should either discover something in the next 200 years, or we never will (i.e. 2)

 

[McPhreak]

all your answers can be found here.