The meaning of Life.

[Tsuyu]

This however, the fact that there is no real meaning to life, doesn't mean that we can not give our lives a meaning. I think that creates alot of confusion.

[Gikoku Harakami]

Originally Posted by Tsuyu

This however, the fact that there is no real meaning to life, doesn't mean that we can not give our lives a meaning. I think that creates alot of confusion.

Yeah I know, in the beginning your life has no real meaning to start off with, but in due time, you can always change that or give that life you have a meaning, that'll make your life (in a sense) worth living. Though of course, the ability to choose how you live, only ranges for so many organisms in the universe. I mean, after all, the planet Jupiter can't just float away, and become a doctor .

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Gikoku

Actually, energy can be created and destroyed, or else we ourselves wouldn't be here. Energy, matter, both are created in one form or another. Example, energy can be created once a star is born, and then all that energy can be taken away once that same star dies. Nothing really lives and or lasts forever.

Um..you must be mistaken.

In its simplest form, the First Law of Thermodynamics states that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed. The amount of energy in the universe is constant – energy can be changed, moved, controlled, stored, or dissipated. However, this energy cannot be created from nothing or reduced to nothing. Every natural process transforms energy and moves energy, but cannot create or eliminate it.This principle forms a foundation for many of the physical sciences.

[Gikoku Harakami]

Originally Posted by Sephiroxas

Um..you must be mistaken.

Chances are..this universe, and all it's energy will eventually die out, into nothing. But another Big Bang could happen again, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, creating a whole new other universe and energy. Course, chances are, our Universe could be one out of a billion of other different universes, each with their own life and form of energy. This universe, depending on it's actually shape (as a whole), will expand for eternity, while everything within it eventually dies out, till it reaches absolute zero, or..The entire universe could collapse within itself, who knows. But, one piece of energy doesn't last forever, or atleast..not it in it's original physical state..Take a star for example, it's just a big ball of gas and energy, when it reaches it's limit..it explodes into nothing (supernova)...course, there are Black Holes, which either "deletes" energy completely, or just transfers it to somewhere else. So in a way, i was alittle wrong..

[Arseface]

Life: n. 1 the condition which distinguished active animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, functional activity, and continual change preceeding death. 2 a living things and their activity. (insect life; is there life in mars?). b human presence or their activity.

There is 2 of about 20 other meanings from The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary.

The purpose of life is simple. To survive.

A lot of people seem to be getting purpose and meaning mixed up.

[Angel]

An interesting question - one that has indeed concerned various thinkers on our planet from time to time - as I am on insanely high doses of codeine, haven't been able to walk up the stairs for two weeks now and cannot feel my own feet, my answer may not be all that coherent...but anyways:

For some, the meaning of life is irrelevant; for others it is highly subjective. For me, I dunno - I'm in the Godsquad, so you could say the meaning of my life is to follow God and live life to the full a la New Testament suggestions. As a creature of intelligence, substance, imagination and (right at this minute) obscene amounts of prescription pills, I have the ability to choose my own path and therefore create my own meaning. I see the meaning of life (per person) as the culmination of individual choices and attitudes which shape and direct us and those around us in many varied and different ways - there are many influences that become part of these choices and attitudes and how we deal with these tilts our course towards and away from varying purposes and what we regard as our meaning.

Ultimately, the above has probably made no sense and the pills are kicking in on a major scale...but I tried

[Rhadiel]

wow....i hate questions like these...i have a question...who here is afraid of death?
i hate thinking about it....my friends told me that for all we know....the whole, Second Life is real....ya know, like when u die....u get reborn as a new person but forget about ur past lives....for all we know...one of us could be a reincarnation of George Washington....

[Angel]

Me, I have nothing to fear about death...HOW I die is quite another subject though

[Tsuyu]

Angel, I'd have to say that when you die is just as "heavy" as how you die, no?

[§ephiroxa§]

The fountain.
That movie is CRAZY.
Alot about life and death and stuff.

[Devalion]

I saw that movie with two friends of mine. When it was over, we all had different interpretations of it.

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Devalion

I saw that movie with two friends of mine. When it was over, we all had different interpretations of it.

Isn't it crazy? It has a bunch of messages and like you said people get different interpretation.

[Albion Knight]

Like many here I have for a long time believed that life has no universal meaning and that each person has there own interpretation of what is meaningful in life. Some blindly accept what has been presented to them while others struggle through the question on an evolutionary journey. I believe that as one passes through a life the meaning changes and is equally valid and contradictory to other times in life. One way of ascertaining what is the meaning of life for you is to ask for what would you be willing to die.

For me that would be my family.

I am not afraid of death I faced that fear during the cold war with the seeming threat of a nuclear attack. OK I was 13 and it seemed very real to me at the time.

I don't know what will happen when I die. I spent years living with a thought that life was meaningless and it was miserable. Gut wrenching soul searingly miserable. Interesting that Viktor Frankl, who wrote "Man's Search for meaning" said that meaninglessness is Hell and purposefulness is Heaven I'm paraphrasing but you get the idea. Becoming a father changed that tremendously for me, but I still have had times of deep emptiness. I saw those with strong spiritual or religious beliefs living purposeful lives and wished it for me as well but I couldn't help but feel they were living in a delusion. That they were either pretending that they knew the truth or that they ignorant. I struggled with the difference between faith and delusion. Just recently I figure that the difference between them was choice. Conscious eye wide open choice to believe in something knowing full well that you can't know for sure is faith. Delusion is, in my mind, when you don't realize the one thing that caused the oracle to call Socrates the wisest of them all. That we know absolutely nothing. Everything we say we know is based on assumptions. Knowing this and still making those assumptions and still believing in god, who or what that may be, is Faith.

[Darg]

Wow, some pretty good ideas coming out of here, but my idea is not as great... or as elaborate... but it's simply that everyone will always have their own ideas of what life means, what we are here for, because that's just in our human nature to disagree. All I believe is that it's what it means to you, not what your friend thinks, not what your family thinks, not what your neighbor thinks and not what anyone else thinks. Simple enough, but hey, I'm no Gandhi.

[Tsuyu]

I did some research and I found that the meaning of life is... TO GET PSYCHO