rwill Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 20 hours ago, bignok said: What the hell is life all about? The purpose of life is to create more life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravip Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 37 minutes ago, bignok said: X is more powerful in order Trick But waiting to know how a number would describe the meaning of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 24, 2023 Author Share Posted October 24, 2023 6 minutes ago, ravip said: But waiting to know how a number would describe the meaning of life. 69 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1FinickyOne Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 you load 16 tons, whaddaya get - another day older and deeper in debt If you are doing better than Tennessee Ernie - you are ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArnieP Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 20 hours ago, Celsius said: Did you ask ChatGPT? He didn’t but Ralf001 clearly did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganoga Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Life is not a riddle to be solved, but a journey to be enjoyed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 42......not read the thread so I guess someone has already said this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylophone Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 36 minutes ago, Will B Good said: 42......not read the thread so I guess someone has already said this. But wasn't it changed to 43?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, xylophone said: But wasn't it changed to 43?? Bloody inflation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brahmz Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 You do not have any free will. You have been sent here to carry out a number of tasks. A good way of looking at it is that you are an actor on the stage of life, with a script to action. You must follow the script, you are not allowed to vary it, the only thing you can change is your delivery. It can be bad or good. So, the power that governs the universe is pulling your strings. Make your delivery a classic performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
save the frogs Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 to find your doppelgänger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtrnuno41 Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Ask Noah, he lived a thousand years on which he spent 200 years building the ark. Guess after flood, at 600 years old, a lot of humping again to create mankind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baht Simpson Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 "'What do you mean by life? What do you mean by mean? What do you mean by what?"' - Jordan Peterson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisKC Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 The question is meaningless! A bit like, what is the meaning of a knife and fork! An alternative is, what is the purpose of life? Then you need to ask: All of nature or just humans? Very broadly speaking: The answers are these: for all of nature other than humans, there is the default position (not purpose) of, self-preservation and self-perpetuation. For humans, there is personal purpose and societal purpose. No such thing as divine purpose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff the Chef Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 No idea, to busy living it 🤣 If all else fails I'm happy with 42 as well as numerous others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prubangboy Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) Mel Brooks was getting a prostrate exam. When the Dr was good and deep, he said to Mel, "You know, Mr Brooks, my daughter really wants to break into show biz". For Mel, the anal intrusion/sell job was an opportunity to be more Mel, a joy, even, not an imposition. Being like Mel; that is the purpose of life. Edited October 24, 2023 by Prubangboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeItHot Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Gin Kee Pii Nawn. Ask I Thai of you don't understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Tom Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 OP, there is no meaning in life, bar the fact that Nature works to a set of universal laws and rules, some we know of, very many we do not have a clue about and never will. The human race is no different in evolutionary terms to all other living things and being aware, as we are, of our existence, what we grandly term sentient, without knowing what that really means, is probably just a biological accident. Trying to look for meaning in this is pointless. As a particle physicist, my interest is in the very small, the quantum world, which is the basis of all that exists, or ever will exist. We speculate about its actions, structures and laws, its meaning, but we really know virtually nothing about its reality, if indeed it has any reality. All speculation about a so called 'meaning of life', of existence, is a profound waste of time and certainly no answers will ever be found by sitting cross legged under a Banyan tree, meditating. My advice, just live it, don't try to understand it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fondue zoo Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 It puts me in mind of this for some reason and that's all she wrote.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross163103 Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 To reproduce...........which too many humans have done waaayyy too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 In a nutshell: survival of species, everything else comes secondary to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foexie Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 About this life????? NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me just hope it will end so soon. Next life will be so much better!!!!!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 25, 2023 Author Share Posted October 25, 2023 12 hours ago, Baht Simpson said: "'What do you mean by life? What do you mean by mean? What do you mean by what?"' - Jordan Peterson. What is what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeptic7 Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Survival. Other than that... No intrinsic or integral meaning. We live, we die. Life gets meaning from what each individual gives it and makes of it. Many don't even have those luxuries. But for those fortunate enough, we assign the meaning...or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Tom Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 10 hours ago, pacovl46 said: In a nutshell: survival of species, everything else comes secondary to that. That is not the meaning of my life, either consciously or unconsciously. I am far too selfish, self centered and uncaring to worry about the continuation of humanity, and frankly, I feel that the Universe would be better of without such a savage uncontrolled species, spreading its evil and intolerance over the cosmos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 "What is the meaning of life" what a silly question! You might as well ask ,"What came first the chicken or the egg" The answer of course is the egg, the chicken is simply the eggs idea of how to make another egg. Same for humans and every other animal. Procreate and hopefully evolve. More proper to ask " How would you like life to be " and of that , as it is evident in this thread, you would get many different answers because the answer is always subjective, rather than objective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Doctor Tom said: That is not the meaning of my life, either consciously or unconsciously. I am far too selfish, self centered and uncaring to worry about the continuation of humanity, and frankly, I feel that the Universe would be better of without such a savage uncontrolled species, spreading its evil and intolerance over the cosmos. Mate, you can take any species on this planet and it's always find food, find shelter, find a suitable mate and reproduce so the species can be kept alive. What you described is the luxury you have because we're not hunters and gatherers anymore. BUT, generally speaking it's still about survival of species! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baht Simpson Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 8 hours ago, bignok said: What is what? I was alluding to one of Peterson's methods of deflecting questions which invite ridicule. Alex O'Connor discusses it here. There's a good example about 30 seconds in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Tom Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 1 hour ago, pacovl46 said: Mate, you can take any species on this planet and it's always find food, find shelter, find a suitable mate and reproduce so the species can be kept alive. What you described is the luxury you have because we're not hunters and gatherers anymore. BUT, generally speaking it's still about survival of species! A very simplistic set of assertions. Most species, in terms of numbers, act as a collective, with no individual actions, bar that for the collective. The collectives may be said to have a combined survival instinct, but not the individuals, even this is challengeable as trampling red ants does not get a combined reaction, merely a load of dead ants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignok Posted October 25, 2023 Author Share Posted October 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, Baht Simpson said: I was alluding to one of Peterson's methods of deflecting questions which invite ridicule. Alex O'Connor discusses it here. There's a good example about 30 seconds in. I gave up after 30 secs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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