What is the meaning of life?

IBDaMann said:
BidenPresident can't read. BidenPresident derailed his own thread just to create a tangent about how scientifically illiterate his is and how he confuses religion with science. Weird. But then again, he's a moron that way. Let's track ...


(derailment to talk about cowardly leftist academics)
(direct response)
(direct return response)
(direct response)
(EVASION on BidenPresident's part and the dishing out of blame for his own perpetual confusion)
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shut the fuck up you troll
 
BidenPresident said:
Why do think climate change is related to the meaning of life?
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Why did you derail your thread from "meaning of life" to how leftists treat questions, such that any direct response to you wouldn't be directly about "the meaning of life"? Do you normally get a kick out of derailing your own threads?

So now that you have revealed that your life's meaning is to be as scientifically illiterate as possible, and to pretend to mock those who know so much more than you, do you now feel fulfilled?
 
Cypress said:
I think that's part of it. But why learn and ask questions? What the point of having knowledge, what's the end game of asking questions?

To me it comes back to liberation: liberation from ignorance, liberation from the world of appearance, liberation from moral, material, and psychological slavery.
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Maybe I should have said "never lose your curiosity" instead of never stop asking questions.

I like your idea of liberation and don't disagree with it. For me, it seems the more I learn the more there is to learn. I never had a learning experience and thought "now I'm satisfied and know all I want to know." It's hard to live with that when your brain isn't a computer.
 
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Geeko Sportivo said:
I can tell you this- The meaning of life is not about Donald Trump wanting to be the Dictator OF THE WORLD!

I think the idea of life is to individually and collectively try and make it a better place while we are here, and leave it in a better place when we are gone.

This does not require knowing how the universe was formed, or who formed it!

And it does not require a place in heaven, as some kind of reward for us when we die, or require believing in some GOD that may not even exist, in order to make your life better, or even make life better for others, as well, while we still have life.

SO, for me, the meaning of life, is to give my life some meaning, while I am still here, and to realize and appreciate that all lives have meaning, while realizing LIFE IS NOT JUST ABOUT ME AND WHAT I WANT OUT OF IT!
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"... to realize and appreciate that all lives have meaning..." BINGO! I like your opinion.
 
Viktor Frankel's insight is that we are asking the wrong question. It's not what we expect out of life, it's what life expects out of us.

Political prisoners in the Gulag or North Korean labor camps do not have the opportunity for self fulfillment; they can't take art clases, dote on the children, volunteer at the animal sanctuary. They don't have the opportunities for self development and self improvement.

The do not have liberty, but they do have the freedom to choose how to respond to life.


We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl
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BidenPresident said:
What if I had to give a positive answer? I sometimes wonder about this but nothing ever sticks. Every time I consider the question I have to start again from nothing. It’s just happened again. This time it strikes me that the answer ‘It has no meaning’ isn’t negative or disappointing. It’s celebratory. It’s the only answer that grasps the value of life and the nature of its value – apart from being true.

https://drb.ie/articles/just-live/

Academic philosophers love telling people to stop asking questions.
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Easy answer. There isn’t any.

Prior to self aware man walking the earth, the concept of a “meaning of life” never existed. It never has been a consideration of plant nor animal until we came along.

So, what’s changed about the universe? NOTHING.

Nothing except us and we’re not all that significant in the scheme of things.
 
domer76 said:
Easy answer. There isn’t any.

Prior to self aware man walking the earth, the concept of a “meaning of life” never existed. It never has been a consideration of plant nor animal until we came along.

So, what’s changed about the universe? NOTHING.

Nothing except us and we’re not all that significant in the scheme of things.
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So just people doing stuff.
 
domer76 said:
Easy answer. There isn’t any.

Prior to self aware man walking the earth, the concept of a “meaning of life” never existed. It never has been a consideration of plant nor animal until we came along.

So, what’s changed about the universe? NOTHING.

Nothing except us and we’re not all that significant in the scheme of things.
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It's possible we are the only advanced sentient life in the galaxy, and one could say that the entrance of a higher conciousness capable of contemplation and abstract transcendent thought was a change in the universe. Never before would a rational conciousness have contemplated the meaning of the stars, planets, and galaxies. Never before had the truth of rational mathmatical laws of the universe been discovered and explored. The very nature of truth was being contemplated for the first time.
 
Cypress said:
It's possible we are the only advanced sentient life in the galaxy, and one could say that the entrance of a higher conciousness capable of contemplation and abstract transcendent thought was a change in the universe. Never before would a rational conciousness have contemplated the meaning of the stars, planets, and galaxies. Never before had the truth of rational mathmatical laws of the universe been discovered and explored. The very nature of truth was being contemplated for the first time.
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If we are the only advanced sentient life in the universe, that’s a mind boggling thought.

If we are NOT the only advanced sentient life in the universe, that’s equally as mind boggling.

However, the universe didn’t notice before we came along. It won’t notice upon our demise.
 
domer76 said:
If we are the only advanced sentient life in the universe, that’s a mind boggling thought.

If we are NOT the only advanced sentient life in the universe, that’s equally as mind boggling.

However, the universe didn’t notice before we came along. It won’t notice upon our demise.
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Do you believe there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?
 
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