What Is The Meaning Of Life?

[naf1zehcnas]

What is it?

[MuresanForMVP]

SMP

[administrator]

Be happy. Make people you care about happy. Decide what "happy" means. Basically set and attain goals or help others attain theirs.

[ed8383]

the meaning of life is all the first 4 choices combined.

[Dementia]

Eat, [censored], [censored], sleep, reproduce, making money all the while, then you die. If you can figure out the second and third word, you have discovered the meaning of life in its entirety.

[Klompy]

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Worship God/Higher Power

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[valenzuela]

to suffer a lot.

[amplify]

What is the meaning of apple?
What is the meaning of sky?

[naf1zehcnas]

apples keep the doctor away. not sure about the sky though.

[MuresanForMVP]

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What is the meaning of apple?
What is the meaning of sky?

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http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/3794/deeznuts3fm.png

[Zurvan]

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apples keep the doctor away. not sure about the sky though.

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Keeps the clouds from falling on us, obviously

[Frinkenstein]

I can only pick one???

[mosdef]

I voted Other, meaning "Each life is different and each person has to pick their own Meaning of Life."

[funkymunky]

Maybe there is no meaning.

But we desperately seem to search for one.

[Sigurd]

42

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the meaning of life is all the first 4 choices combined.

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Why do you hold "other" so distant? I begin to wonder if you even know what "other" means.

[Blarg]

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to suffer a lot.

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Are you still mostly SNG's?

[Blarg]

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Eat, [censored], [censored], sleep, reproduce, making money all the while, then you die. If you can figure out the second and third word, you have discovered the meaning of life in its entirety.

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Reproduce and making are the key?

[Blarg]

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42

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Played out, playa.

[The_Bankroll]

3 Theories:

On a biological level, we are only programmed to do two things: survive and replicate, so I guess to some degree that's the meaning of life.

I heard this one guy talk about how he thinks the human race is a bacteria, and it's purpose is to feed off the earth until it kills it, killing ourselves in the process. Just thought it was interesting.

My own personal belief, is that its basically to be good. And even though there is so much debate about religion and morality in the world, I think we all have a general sense of right and wrong. So I believe whatever path a person takes to reach these means, wether it be through religion, self-discovery, whatever, it doesn't really matter.

[Blarg]

This seems to me a critical abandonment of meaningful judgment. Yet we all judge, all the time. It sounds to me like you're playing it safe. For someone who seems to esteem being good, this strikes me as a sort of repudiation of your own belief. How can you endorse standards but then decide that they don't matter and probably can't be judged.

This seems like taking the easiest way out multiple times over.

Doesn't God come with a terrible, swift sword?

Don't let my last sentence think you've freed your hold.

[Banks2334]

Make tons of money, because with tons of money you can bang hot girls, raise a family, etc.

[Blarg]

And if you don't, you won't care.

[valenzuela]

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to suffer a lot.

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Are you still mostly SNG's?

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Im playing MTTs now, not as profitable but def more fun
I just got second on a donkament !!! go me!!!!!!!! I won around $350 dollars. Life still sucks though.

[Blarg]

Sorry to hear it sucks. You were kind of the pet project of STT for a while and I think everyone was rooting for you. Grats on the second tho, hell yeah.

[d10]

Banging lots of hookers in Tijuana

[diebitter]

To scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your chest his wives and daughters.

During weekdays, anyway.

[Blarg]

Second barely forgives the first.

Time to retire this one.

[mulebennett]

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Be happy. Make people you care about happy. Decide what "happy" means. Basically set and attain goals or help others attain theirs.

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that was my initial thought. happiness = meaning of life. if you are poor and broke, but still happy, i think you win the game of life.

[Jeff W]

You just squandered all the good will you built up with the Tijuana post.

[diebitter]

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Be happy. Make people you care about happy. Decide what "happy" means. Basically set and attain goals or help others attain theirs.

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that was my initial thought. happiness = meaning of life. if you are poor and broke, but still happy, i think you win the game of life.

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true this. You can have all the money in the world, your health and success and still be a loser compared to the most penniless beggar who is happy.


If you haven't got peace of mind, you haven't got anything.

[Anacardo]

I refute your argument thusly.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/5005/portlinc9za.jpg

This is the secular saint of the United States, the finest man my nation has yet produced, and nobody but those three anarcho-capitalists argues against his greatness. But he lived his life in misery, with hardly a happy day from manhood on.

By your standards, his whole life is a failure.

By mine, there are few more worthy of emulation.

[diebitter]

Cardo.

If he lived his life in misery, I'm sure he thought he failed at life, even though others didn't.

I think this is a genuine paradox, and we're both right actually.

[West]

db,

especially if he believed in an afterlife, it's always possible that he didn't consider happiness to be the best barometer for "success" in life, though it would be depressing not to be able to have "success" and happiness in the same life

[Blarg]

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Be happy. Make people you care about happy. Decide what "happy" means. Basically set and attain goals or help others attain theirs.

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that was my initial thought. happiness = meaning of life. if you are poor and broke, but still happy, i think you win the game of life.

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true this. You can have all the money in the world, your health and success and still be a loser compared to the most penniless beggar who is happy.


If you haven't got peace of mind, you haven't got anything.

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I like this better than I like myself not liking this.

[Blarg]

Very nice. Particularly in these empty, balla days.

[Blarg]

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Cardo.

If he lived his life in misery, I'm sure he thought he failed at life, even though others didn't.

I think this is a genuine paradox, and we're both right actually.

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This proves the limits of visions, and why vision should be given so much more credence than it is, and, most importantly, be understood and finally forgiven.

If not for the hated, where would we be? How terrifying our fall?

[Subfallen]

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to suffer a lot.

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Sweet.

[hmkpoker]

If this was SMP, I'd insist that it is "other," and claim that all of the proposed purposes are not ends but means toward a common end that reflexively defines the meaning of life in terms of itself.

But this is OOT, and the answer is clearly bang tons of hot chicks.

[SkandarAkbar]

follow your bliss.....evolve.

[Blarg]

Any even ironic friend of Campbell's is a friend of somebody, possibly me.

[valenzuela]

I got tired of playing SNGs I guess, now MTTs are my thing. I lurk the MTT forum a lot now.

Anyway the meaning of life is obviously to survive and reproduce.
In other words dont die, bang a women you love and make sure ure kids do the same.

[steamraise]

The movie explains everything..

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k224/johnny_3301/BNE.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A0MFJ/montypythonscomp

[EliteNinja]

Oh my god.

When I looked at this thread, it had 42 replies!!

[captain2man]

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42

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Played out, playa.

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The cosmic truth is - that "42" is probably just as valid an answer to the question as any other.

It also happened to be my own gut response to the question upon reading the subject.

[Lonhro]

"The secret of life is gettin' up early
The secret of life is stayin' up late
The secret of life is try not to hurry
But don't wait...don't wait
The secret of life is a good cup of coffee
The secret of life is keep your eye on the ball
The secret of life is to find the right woman
The secret of life is nothin' at all"

[patrick_mcmurray]

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What is the meaning of apple?
What is the meaning of sky?

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Nice post.

So are you saying that we are part of nature and that there is no point in looking for Meaning with a capital "M"?

[NT!]

i am totally moving this abortion of a thread. i wonder if i have the ability to put it in sklansky's forum.

[driverseati]

I say other, because you should do what makes you happy, whatever it is, not to do something because someone said you "have to." It sucks to live life miserable.

[DonkBluffer]

The meaning of life is to find out that there is no meaning at all.

[patrick_mcmurray]

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I say other, because you should do what makes you happy, whatever it is, not to do something because someone said you "have to." It sucks to live life miserable.

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Yes.

Would be great to have a concrete example of this if you have one to offer.

[CaseS87]

after reading this thread the only thing ive thought about is: what exactly does the question "what is the meaning of life?" mean?

if it has no solid boundaries then the answer is clearly "it is completely relative to the person in question," and no more than that.

if that is what this question is asking, my answer is: increase the general knowledge of the human race. on a very small scale i have succeeded, but certainly not to the level of my expectation. i sort of have a fear of death because of this.

fwiw- happiness is not my main goal in life, however i consider it as a direct side effect if i succeed in my other plans.

[madnak]

I hate it when OOT threads come here. Oh well. Maybe someone will sort through the trash.

[vhawk01]

No. I read like ten posts and most of it is Monty Python and Douglas Adams. Fantastic works, but I ain't reading this whole monster.