The meaning of life?

veno11 | 19:31 Tue 23rd Jan 2007 | Science

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Does anybody actually know the real meaning of life? I'm driving myself crazy. I really want to know what it is :/ Can anybody enlighten me? thank you xx

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oglecorp

if you want to know the meaning of life, all you have to do is take any psychoactive substance. then you will quickly discover that there is no meaning. all it is, is people being alive, and reproducing according to the laws of 'survival of the fittest.' im pretty stoned right now.

wildwood

There is no meaning to life. Nature evolved because it could under specific climatic and atmospheric conditions on Earth at that time, conditions which can never be repeated here.

If you really want to drive yourself nuts, try to figure out where the end of Space is. There has to be an end to it somewhere, right?

No need to thank me.

Loosehead

I know the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything, if that's any good, although I don't think you are going to like it....

Llamatron

I know the meaning of life.
I read it in a book once so it must be true.

makemesmile

What? No smug gir saying the answer is '42'?

Good, that gets right on my whatsits.

makemesmile

oops - gir = git

heathfield

As Makemesmile says, some would say it's '42', but I have a theory that it's actually '37'. I'm still working on it.

And Wildwood, space ends right where you're standing.

mibn2cweus

Crazy; you seem to consider that a problem when it need be nothing more than a tribute to the vastness of your potential?
Life is a process of self-sustaining, self-generated action. For most life forms this is an automatic process which began with an intial basic surviving self-replicating organism and has evolved into a entity that has forfitted automatic function in exchange for the choices which proceed from reason. Our potential to understand what life is and arrive at its definition is what gives life and the universe from which it arose meaning. Learning to appreciate this ability and by virtue of practicing and improving it your life becomes meaningful and thereby presents to you the value you have thereby given to it through your efforts.

The potential to reason, humankinds defining attribute, presents us with one fundamental choice which is key to all other choices. To accept that it is an integral part of your nature, evaluate it as a blessing and take advantage of what it has to offer or attempt to run away from and hide from it as if it were a curse, in which case that is what it will become and what you will be to the self you have denied. The choice is yours!

chakka35

The basic absurdity about the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that nobody can explain what "the meaning of life" means!
It is only man's conceit, his self-regard, that makes him think that his life has some "meaning" (other than the joy of life itself). In his self-importance he finds it difficult to accept that he will die just like any other animal and disappear into nothingness.

whowhatwhy

err, yep...mibn2cweus, that's exactly what I was about to say...carry on. ;o)

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