Meaning of life?

Off topic: Some poeple have theories that Chi can be used as a deathly weapon.


On Topic: No one knows. Not until you die. Then you can ask the one you worship. If you happen to have no religion at all.Then.Believe in scientology

Going to have to ask you to add to that cyber, can't let you get away with dropping off an opinion and walking off... 7 days and counting.

Not all atheists are scientologists. I for one am atheist but not a scientologist. But yes, as Fwank said, please build on that.

Can anyone here honestly say that they know the meaning of life? Everyone has their own meaning for their own life. For one person it may be to enjoy their time on Earth, but for another it may be to destroy anything they see.

In complete honesty, I don't believe that there is a general meaning for all of the human race, because for someone to have a reason must mean that we have been given one. And if a reason has been given to us, that mean's that there is some higher being that can create life, which in my personal opinion, does not exist.

On 26-Jul-2007 The Aviator said:

There was a meaning to life? Well, that was unexpected.

You didn't read the rules? Well, this is to be deleted.

This Maybe a bit late.(This is da_mikester with my new account by the way),But in Buddhism,There is different types of it.Like Indian Buddhism is different to China's buddhism.They are different.Like you said,Buddhism has no god,But i think that only relates to Indian Buddhism.Chinese buddhism is different,There are many gods,like the laughin buddah(Hotei),Or like i mentioned before,Kuan Yin(Guan Yin) the goddess of mercy.

On 27-Jul-2007 Raikiri said:

"YOUR POST WILL BE DELETED IN 7 DAYS IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES"
(or sooner, if I've already warned you once)" lol,was that 7 days?

Nicer edit: I don't warn mods.

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On 27-Jul-2007 Raikiri said:

This Maybe a bit late.(This is da_mikester with my new account by the way),But in Buddhism,There is different types of it.Like Indian Buddhism is different to China's buddhism.They are different.Like you said,Buddhism has no god,But i think that only relates to Indian Buddhism.Chinese buddhism is different,There are many gods,like the laughin buddah(Hotei),Or like i mentioned before,Kuan Yin(Guan Yin) the goddess of mercy.

Sorry, but what does that have to do with the meaning of life?

It's continuing an earlier sub-topic. "A bit late", as he put it, is something of an understatement, since although it's only on the last page, this topic was happily dying until a few days ago.

Rakiri: Well, that's Chinese Buddhsim, then, isn't it, not Buddhism in general. Please be more specific. (I'd write something related to the main topic here, but it was so long ago we were discussing this that I've completely forgotten how this subject relates to it.)

I know I never post here but I have input for the debate. It depends what you mean by the meaning of life, really =\ This explanation is assuming the topic is pondering why humans live.

Human beings are, as science tells us, animals - primates to be exact. In a similar fashion to animals, all of the way through our life, we do things to help us survive - we eat and drink, we breathe and so on and so forth. A lot of the time, we don't even know that we're trying to survive for, but it's an instinct. Surely the thing we do most is the reason we live?

That's the main purpose of life sorted, but then what do you humans survive for? All animals do certain (As our science teacher was telling us), and he used the boys on the field at break time as an example of this. They try to attract a mate, as do animals in the wild. They are constantly fighting and showing off (Similar to monkeys fighting), to attract the girls. They might think that they're having fun, but they're trying to show the girls that their genes will give their offspring strength and power. The girls (As animals), want their offspring to survive and being strong will allow them to fight off predators and being strong allows you to survive(We must remember that humans would be preyed on in the wild before guns existed, as we would be vulnerable to lions etc. It is only with our developed brain and ability to perform certain actions that we have escaped this vulnerability to be the most powerful species on the planet). The girls on the field would be more attracted to the boys which win the fights, because their genes would produce strong offspring which are more likely to survive, so this "playful fighting" has potentially won them a mate.

This leads me to the conclusion that humans exist to survive, and pass on our genes through reproduction (Sex, to make all the twelve year olds giggle).

In case anyone couldn't be bothered to read Rhodri's post, here's a summary:

The meaning of life is to have sex, reproduce, and then die. Anything else is an optional bonus.

Anyone who later puts '*giggles*' in their post is 12 and should be banned.

Me think the meaning of our life is trivial... you could reproduce the race, but why would the race need to continue living? If the race is intended just to have sex and create more of us, why even have us there? Other than the obvious reasons that reproduction = happiness.

On 17-Aug-2007 Retroplayer said:

What is the meaning of life is what gives meaning to the ultimate question and as everyone knows the answer to the ultimate question is 42 we just need to figure out the question

This is D&D, for serious discussion.

That's not even funny.

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« Last edited by Rhodri on Aug 17th 2007 »

I don't really know but im going to find out.

Probably whats in my sig:

dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today...

^ I'm going to start deleting your posts soon if they're just taking up space; refer to posts made by Cross Stinger or Catharis for a standard of what we expect in these forums.

Is that really a fact? Back to the topic at hand....To sum it up there is a meaning of life.
For some it's hard to understand, but it's Oh so simple. The meaning of life is understanding mixed in with a lot of love. The understanding comes in when you understand the world and it's people. The love comes in when you love the world and everything in it. Now that my friend is the meaning of life. Much luv!!

KING LEO

« Last edited by kingleo on Aug 23rd 2007 »

Right... care to elaborate? I'm feeling nice today, so I won't delete your post on sight.

i just wanna know why we were created and y were we created the way we were, because god couldntve just said, ill have a science experiment, ill call it adam and eve, they will be humans

I just want too check before i'll say anything,Was their humans/apes when it was the dinosuar era?

I don't think so. They wouldn't have lasted long anyway.