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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Natorade]
    #14304181 - 04/17/11 12:38 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Not mine, but interesting nevertheless.
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Viktor Frankl said:

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run, success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it."




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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: ninja cat 09]
    #14304187 - 04/17/11 12:40 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

If there's any meaning at all, I think it's just to be happy.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: blewmeanie]
    #14304202 - 04/17/11 12:46 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

the only reason we are obsessed with 'meaning' is because we have a word for it (attatched to multifarious personal connotations), and seek to fulfill it


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: LoveYourLife]
    #14304209 - 04/17/11 12:48 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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LoveYourLife said:
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anunnakian said:
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Envix said:
it is through the nature of procreation that a meaning to existence is possible




So does getting a vasectomy and not reproducing cause me to mess up the meaning, or is that nature?




Are all things humans do not natural? How could anything not be?




Lots of people tag onto human actions as being a destructive force for our civilization and to nature, and that we are the virus of nature, forgetting the fact that we are a part of nature and that anything we do is natural even if our actions seems to go be going against the wind.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: LoveYourLife]
    #14304215 - 04/17/11 12:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

you can't write or I can't read.

I have seen some things that are not natural. Well okay they where but they where just not average or necessary.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14304233 - 04/17/11 12:56 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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I AM SWIM said:
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LoveYourLife said:
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anunnakian said:
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Envix said:
it is through the nature of procreation that a meaning to existence is possible




So does getting a vasectomy and not reproducing cause me to mess up the meaning, or is that nature?




Are all things humans do not natural? How could anything not be?




Lots of people tag onto human actions as being a destructive force for our civilization and to nature, and that we are the virus of nature, forgetting the fact that we are a part of nature and that anything we do is natural even if our actions seems to go be going against the wind.




Indeed.  People forget that humans are just as much a part of the circle of life as any other animal.  Our actions only seem irrational because we have the ability to analyze them.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14304234 - 04/17/11 12:56 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

The purpose of life is to realize your inherent connectedness to all other beings and matter. There exists no objective purpose, nor may any meaning be derived, other than what can be had by the direct experience of love; dissolution; the realization of the All.

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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Around In Circles]
    #14304260 - 04/17/11 01:03 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

humans are a part of the circle, sure
comparable to cancer cells, taking nature and permutating it wildly, destroying tissues.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: gabbaganchi]
    #14304302 - 04/17/11 01:14 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

we come from shit and we are going back to shit, i believe its from monty pythons the meaning of life, and another of my favorites is from slaughter house 5 by kurt vonnegard  the key to eternity is to concentrate on the good and forget about the bad (as best as i can remember)


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: gabbaganchi]
    #14304312 - 04/17/11 01:17 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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gabbaganchi said:
humans are a part of the circle, sure
comparable to cancer cells, taking nature and permutating it wildly, destroying tissues.




Metaphors are interesting although can't necessarily be used to compare two extremely different forms of life.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: LoveYourLife]
    #14308854 - 04/17/11 08:56 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)



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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: skatealex2]
    #14308930 - 04/17/11 09:04 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

There is no meaning to life.  It's just a process.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Newbie]
    #14308996 - 04/17/11 09:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

what do you mean by that


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Envix]
    #14309011 - 04/17/11 09:15 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I think we only attribute meaning to life because our brains allow us to.  We think too much into it.  I know it sounds bleak but that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy life, whether or not it has a meaning.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: skatealex2]
    #14309025 - 04/17/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

i think the meaning of life is to enjoy life and restart the cycle of life by having a family.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Newbie] * 1
    #14309032 - 04/17/11 09:20 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

information processing causes transformation @ an exponentially increasing rate

watch this



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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Envix]
    #14309167 - 04/17/11 09:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

:wow: envix that was a fucking amazing video


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14309185 - 04/17/11 09:44 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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I AM SWIM said:
the meaning of life is the meaning of life




I'll go with this one. It has a certain wholeness to it that I like.


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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: Mad_Larkin]
    #14309351 - 04/17/11 10:14 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: post your best 'meaning of life' thought [Re: skatealex2]
    #14309504 - 04/17/11 10:43 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

life's a bitch, and then you die
so fuck the world, let's all get high


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