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At 1/12/08 03:00 AM, Imperator wrote:

At 1/12/08 02:15 AM, Elfer wrote: Fuck it. The purpose of life is to increase entropy.

lol.

That was either a good post, or a great post. I leave NG poli regs to make the final decision.

And the meaning of life is 4 pints of Guinness.

You poor misguided fool, how could you have forgotten the pretzels.....

At 1/12/08 03:12 AM, CommanderX1125 wrote: You poor misguided fool, how could you have forgotten the pretzels.....

I try and I try.....but nothing's every good enough for you......is it?

At 1/12/08 03:21 AM, Imperator wrote:

At 1/12/08 03:12 AM, CommanderX1125 wrote: You poor misguided fool, how could you have forgotten the pretzels.....

I try and I try.....but nothing's every good enough for you......is it?

Eh, I don't even drink, that is why I want the pretzels... Anyway, we could always go with Richards idea that the meaning of life is "bucket."

Anyway, on a more serious note, if I were to truly guess as to what purpose humanity exists, I would have to say that it would be to continue to exist. What greater motivation is there than to perpetuate ones own life?

At 1/12/08 05:01 AM, CommanderX1125 wrote: Eh, I don't even drink, that is why I want the pretzels...

HEATHEN! Burn in firey hell you bastard!!!

Anyway, we could always go with Richards idea that the meaning of life is "bucket."

A bucket can hold 4 pints of Guinness. See? It all works out in the end.....

Anyway, on a more serious note, if I were to truly guess as to what purpose humanity exists, I would have to say that it would be to continue to exist. What greater motivation is there than to perpetuate ones own life?

Perpetuate one's fame.

Future existence/"life" after death FTW!

I perfer bacon pizza with beer, than pretzels....

Yap, there is none, you just have to find one for yourself (love,art, ANYTHING)...
Just don't choose religion because thats for stupid people.

The meaning of life is to rape and reproduce.

I like to think its more about the experience. I imagine we'll figure that out when we are all like 90 and dying though.

At 1/10/08 05:23 PM, alanoink wrote: As a Christian, I see the meaning of life as taking as many people to Heaven with me as I can before I die.

That's such a typical Chrisitan train of thought. Whether it's for the best or not, you people have been conditioned to think that way; you're just reflecting the ideals that you've been exposed to... And from a non-religious person's perspective, it looks like you've been brain washed because you people keep reiterating over the same delusional concepts over and over again.

there is no meaning, you must learn that you can not apply logic to everything, somethings just 'are' yes there is no meaning, but there is still purpose to life and that is to be what you are without trying to change. to do what you feel you should do, but not in terms of right and wrong, but what you feel you would do if unrestrained by veiw or preference, and not to influnce others but to simply show them how to be themselves, not what they are told to be

The meaning of life is 42, silly. Everybody knows that...

the reason to keep living is that you'll die anyway, why rush it?

No one has any idea what the meaning of life is. You'll never get the real answer asking humans. Unless you talk to god himself you'll never know so you better hope there is a God. But snice you're asking me I might as well give you my answer. The meaning of my life is whatever i want it to be. I'm not required to do or don't do anything for anyone.

At 1/13/08 12:56 PM, qStik wrote: The meaning of life is 42, silly. Everybody knows that...

Clearly you don't know that. You don't even know what you're quoting.
It was a group of pan-dimensional beings that built a computer they called, 'Deep Thought'. It took many years, I forget how many, for that computer to come up with the answer, "42", to "the question of life, the universe and everything". Therefore, 42 is not the meaning of life but the answer to an unknown question of "life, the universe and everything".
One cannot simply answer the question, "What is the meaning of life?" with "42". To do that is absurd. Those pan-dimensional beings do not yet know the question, but 'Deep Thought' helped them design the computer that would come up with it. That computer was called, "Earth". Unfortunately, Earth was demolished by the Vogons very near to finding that answer.
It may also be important to note that another factor may have prevented Earth from gaining an answer. You see, there was a space-craft which crash landed on Earth many years ago called the "B Arc". It was the rejects from another planet who had been sent away because they were a bane on society. They arrived, wiped out the ape-like creatures who were priorly living on Earth and started throwing around leaves as currency; the bloody idiots. Arthur Dent did attempt to encourage one of the ape-like creatures to come up with an answer, using a system akin to Scrabble tiles being randomly removed from a bag. The question that was spelled out, though, was; "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" This doesn't seem quite majestic enough to be the true question and actually produces an answer of 54 instead of 42.

So you see, the question to which the answer is 42 is not known and it appears it never will be, thus rendering the answer redundant.

At 1/12/08 01:22 PM, commradegruz wrote: but there is still purpose to life and that is to be what you are without trying to change.

Change is a very important part of all life. For example if we evolved, then it would be ok to say that with out that change you wouldnt be the self-aware, logical, thinking creature that you are today. Also from a creation point of view, our world has changed around use and we have had to adapt to it, otherwise we would all be dead.

Now on a personal level. All that we experience in life change us. We learn from others and the things that we have done. Human interaction on the most basic of levels leads everyone involved to change. Your experiences affect every choice you make whether you think so or not. For example lets say that you were born into a really strict military family. You were raised by a military hardliner and taught to be the most wonderful thoughtless military slave. Your life would obviously be much more different than it is today,

BUT we, as humans, can and do change. you could decide after experiencing more of the world that you no longer agree with how you were raised, so.... YOU CHANGE.

Change is a very important part of life. And I believe that as humans we should take advantage of our unique and one of a kind(seeing as how humans are the only living things that i know of that possess this ability) to change intentionally; to change, not just to adapt, but just because we want to, because we believe that something is right or wrong.

The meaning of life is obviously eating Ramen.

The meaning of life, is to build a black marble pyramid on Pluto. Satisfied?

I mean, what's up with all this "meaning and meaning" why do people demand a meaning? You liked the above meaning? Would that satisfy you? Because even if it was true, I say, screw that meaning. Whatever happened to those demanding Free Will or something? The Free Men the enlightenment philosophers and all that? Lucifer save us!

The meaning of life, is to live, it's that simple, and if you don't like that, you are clearly a lost hive drone. It's you life, and everyone telling you otherwise is lying because it wants to steal your property. It does not have an objective, and it shouldn't have.

That said, wannabe suiciders, before opting out, please do a huge Paypal transaction to kupeplex@hotmail.com , thank you in advance.

I'm agnostic, I see life more as people get what they take of it. I don't know what happens, if anything does happen when humans die, but I would rather just take advantage of the fact I can do a lot before I even have to care about death.
ps. For the person saying their purpose is to take as many people to heaven with you, trying to turn your religon on people is assholeish. Christians don't give people the bible and say, if you think it's right, be christian, if not, ok. It's, you better be christian or you are burning in hell.

Just my opinions here, I'm not trying to be preachy (I'm Jewish, by the way).

At 1/10/08 05:09 PM, reviewer-general wrote: In short: is there one?

Specifically, only you decide what your life's purpose is. Generally, I'd say it's to lead a "good" life, whatever that means to you.

Even for Christians, what purpose is there besides biding your time until you can join God in Heaven, or, alternatively, Hell.

I feel like, especially considering the roots of Christianity, the religion originally focused more on life than on death. Perhaps Heaven was some sort of extra incentive to lead a moral life, which normally was a reward in and of itself. However, the medieval Church played the Heaven and Hell think up, essentially to scare people into conforming to their beliefs for the sake of world domination yada yada yada. Luckily, the Church hasn't been at all supervillain-esque since the Council of Trent, opting instead to, y'know, act as moral and religious leaders.

And if that's not it, who knows? Crazy goim!

Why did God create Man? Do we have a goal we're trying to accomplish? What?

Maybe, and if the ancient Mayans were correct (and that's a big if), maybe we'll find out what that is.

In my opinion, though, I think that there are some huge things that separate us from the other species on Earth, things that are counter-productive to evolution even (like our increased empathy for the weak) that seem deliberate for some reason. Don't know what, and honestly don't care.

Was God lonely, or what the hell happened?

Well, I don't consider God to be an entity with thoughts or feelings or anything like that, more like a questionably real force. I'm pretty sure God is not real, but I'm 100% positive God exists (think about it).

What is the point to my being alive? I am not going to influence the world in any major way,

Not with that attitude, you're not.

and even if I were to, in the grand scheme of things it means nothing; all accomplishments eventually wither away.

Well, that's just not true. Are we not having an existential discussion right now centered on the words of people who lived 2000 years ago?

Give me a reason to keep on living. I see none.

That's because you're overthinking it. Just live. Fuck larger purpose, let Bono save the world.

I personally like Nietzsche's point of view on the meaning of life.
As the philosophy of existentialism teaches, there is no "point" or natural "meaning". Rather, it is the job of each individual to find their own meaning. Whether it be great or small, meaning is what speaks to you and what you wish to work for. Keep in mind that this may be selfish or selfless depending on what your beliefs, conscious, and morals dictate.
And so, I find your question flawed due to the belief that their needs to be an underlying and preexisting goal to your existence. I know that during bouts of depression people (including myself) look for the point of their existence outside themselves, but don't bother, because there is none.

Whatever you want it to be.
Seriously, I think each person should find their own meaning.
My personal meaning is to be nice, so that I become loved by the people that count, the true people.

At 1/13/08 06:10 PM, Grammer wrote:

At 1/10/08 05:18 PM, Tomsan wrote: there is none.

This answer only applies to atheists.

Show's over everyone, go home

Doesn't make god any more likely to exist, just for the record.

At 1/10/08 05:26 PM, healixe wrote: there is no need to be so depressing,
the meaning of life is to make realitionships and leave your mark upon the world, give life to children and set them up for a good life.

and make flash, that is a way to be remberd ur young youve got
alot to live for :P

I'll go with that one. Short, to the point, and really has nothing to do with said afterlife.