Meaning Of life

[grwales]

Is the meaning of life not to wait? every thing waights, from the moment is exists it waits to be born, to eat to sleep to bread to hunt to get somewhere to find someone to start a job to finish school to retire to go somewhere to be someone to get old to die!!!!! the first and last thing we do is wait, all our lives if we didn't have to wait for something nothing would ever change, nothing would matter any more. It's not actually being there that drives us it's the waiting to get there that keeps us going and when we do get there we wont something else.. When someone looses all hope and reason for living there still waiting for either death, a chance to change things etc.. all we live for is to wait for something, If we couldn't wait we wouldn't be able to live because we would have nothing to live for.. !!!!! So there you go, the meaning of Life explained.... when we stop waiting we stop living!!

[grwales]

We are also waiting to find out what 42 means and what the question was.......

[grwales]

You never know, maybe they figure out the meaning of life years ago and are just keeping it secret...

[Buffy]

That doesn't explain the meaning of life for tiny single-celled living organisms. They don't even know the concept of waiting, and the concept doesn't apply to them anyway.....

[bluedolphin]

Thru personal experience (which i will not go into here) I can say that there is no meaning to life other than to stay alive, eat, drink and reproduce.....and what ever else comes along is a plus or a minus...... it depends on how you look at it.

[grwales]

A single-celled organism evolves, but does it not have to wait to evolve?? Like everything else? Nothing comes for free is an old saying but I think It should be nothing comes without waiting.. While a single-celled is no longer a single-celled organism when it has evolved does that not mean the only job it had wat to wait for it's own evolution? My point is it's not what we get when we get there that matters, if it was we'd be satisfied when we arrive but were not, so it must be the waiting that keeps us going!

[Buffy]

But it doesn't even know that it's waiting!!!!! Isn't that a part of your argument? That being aware that you're waiting for something is what keeps you hanging on to something [life] that would otherwise feel pointless to you? It still seems like your argument applies only to creatures which have 'consciousness', in the philosophical-psychological meaning of that word. (For example, 'consciousness' is what separates humans from computers, and what artificial intelligence students concern themselves with.) Likewise, humans have 'consciousness' whereas single-celled organisms do not, they are more akin to a computer. We would never say that a computer is capable of "waiting," so neither is the microbe capable, if you ask me. Anyway, I think I disagree with your argument, but this discussion could go on and on for eternity...!