The meaning of life

[buztah]

yup

[rake922]

perhaps there was some other substance added to this coffee

[Matt Rain]

42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

But nice try.

[Deuce]

I am here for a reason. To promote my excellent gene pool to fellow Americans.

[Chi_archie]

love people love your higher power and nothing else really matters

[wtt0315]

the meaning of life is not to die

[dwaechte]

If those are your own words, excellently well put buzz.

[WileOut]

And then you morphed into an orange and thought the librarian was there to peel you and eat you.

I've seen the video's, even the ones you took off minutes after you put them on. Lay off the LSD son.

[Give It Away]

Anyone who thinks they are important that lives on this planet is an idiot. We're all going to die, no one will care or will even know about us to care and in the grand scheme of things we are not even included in the equation. We are not even a blink of an eye in the life of the universe. So unimportant.

[Matt Rain]

Martin Heidegger made a living out of writing on that very topic, buzzy. You should check him out if you haven't already. Being and Time.

[big joe 1212]

[WileOut]

Anyone who thinks they are important that lives on this planet is an idiot. We're all going to die, no one will care or will even know about us to care and in the grand scheme of things we are not even included in the equation. We are not even a blink of an eye in the life of the universe. So unimportant.

Unimportant in the eyes of man. With God it is different.

[D. Brackets]

I like booze

[fiveteamer]

buzzy you are a degenrate sack of shit.

[Matt Rain]

This thread needs . There, .

[buztah]

If those are your own words, excellently well put buzz.

dwaetche, they are mine and I think you get it.

[Dark Horse]

At the risk of being overly philosophical.

The meaning of life is to realize, within yourself, that what seems real is unreal, and what seems unreal is real.

All men seek lasting joy, but by not properly investigating if and where this may be found, man typically becomes engaged in an endless series of mini-quests for temporary pleasures. Ultimately, through much suffering and difficult lessons, he begins to look in earnest for the 'meaning of life'. Without earnestness the question is pointless. With earnestness he would, if that were the only way to find the answer, leap off a cliff to certain death.

[buztah]

All men seek lasting joy, but by not properly investigating if and where this may be found, man typically becomes engaged in an endless series of mini-quests for temporary pleasures.

yup

[dwaechte]

Anyone who thinks they are important that lives on this planet is an idiot. We're all going to die, no one will care or will even know about us to care and in the grand scheme of things we are not even included in the equation. We are not even a blink of an eye in the life of the universe. So unimportant.

I think calling everyone who thinks that life is an idiot is pretty.. well, insane.

I don't necessarily view my life with much importance either, but I'm certainly not going to berate others for viewing it differently.

[dwaechte]

At the risk of being overly philosophical.

The meaning of life is to realize, within yourself, that what seems real is unreal, and what seems unreal is real.

All men seek lasting joy, but by not properly investigating if and where this may be found, man typically becomes engaged in an endless series of mini-quests for temporary pleasures. Ultimately, through much suffering and difficult lessons, he begins to look in earnest for the 'meaning of life'. Without earnestness the question is pointless. With earnestness he would, if that were the only way to find the answer, leap off a cliff to certain death.

The scope in which you view life is everything, or more importantly, the scope in which you have the ability to view life. I think a proper term for someone who looks in earnest for the "meaning of life" past the point of most is "disillusioned".

Personally I find many of the views in this thread fairly cynical. The only way one can even have an idea of what the "meaning of life" is is if they place value on life in the first place. The best way to view life as valuable, fulfilling, and rewarding in itself is to focus on those "mini-quests". Rome wasn't built in a day, and any attempts to do so will ultimately end in failure.

[RogueJuror]

Excellent post buztah.

[CS-Cedrick]

Excellent post buztah.

Indeed Excellent writing skills, very eloquent

[slacker00]

I post on SBR, therefore I exist!

[CS-Cedrick]

I post on SBR, therefore I exist!

SBR, ergo sum

[reno cool]

Dark Horse, that is quite profound, observant and reflective of my own life to date. My existence has been composed of said "mini-quests" and although I have yet to accomplish the goals pertinent to all such ambitions, I have accomplished most. With the passage of time, the significance I had initially assigned to achieving those goals, and the expected sense of "pleasure" or satisfaction or fulfillment that was to accompany them, has dwindled to almost a state of inconsequential meaninglessness. Yet, despite my attempt today to address the overarching issue of the point of it all (the meaning), I am absolutely consumed with the aformentioned "mini-quests." The irony grips me.

Man, I see what you mean. I too feel that there's meaning but I can only catch glimpses of it, like you did in your example.

[reno cool]

Maybe, we've been taught to pursue all the wrong things. When I find out what the right things are I'll let you know.

[Give It Away]

[reno cool]

This thing ain't helping me visualize shit. What did they expect to see there? Gilligan and the Skipper playing badminton? It's a little biased to call it the most important image.
And are they claiming this is the very edge or end of the universe? Is it still debatable whether the universe is finite? Man, I remember getting turned off to astronomy after learning there's just so much empty space and gasses.

[tacomax]

Earlier today I was waiting in line for a coffee. I was suddenly aware of a tall, hard jawed man standing behind me. We exchanged a respectful glance and nod as I fixed my coffee the way I like it at the dairy bar. This was obviously not a Tim Horton’s pre-fixed coffee but a fine coffee from a specialty shoppe at a local market.

I made my way through the seemingly never ending sea of people walking along the market’s main floor and proceeded upstairs to the second level. I like to sip my coffee there during lunchtime as I look out from a very large window, down upon the folks hurrying about outside.

I saw the man who had been behind me in line. He was slowly walking across the courtyard area outside, toward a winter beaten garden. He stopped for a moment to light his cigarette and paused so very intently and severely as he took the first draw. He then took a long warm sip of his coffee, just as I was taking a deep sip of mine. I had a most unusual zen like moment right then. It was like that man and I were one and the same. I suddenly felt a connection to him and it gradually morphed into this awareness of a universal connectedness to all the many people around me and outside. The moment passed but I’ll never forget it. For that few second period, I no longer seemed to struggle with, or to be discontented by, the thought that life is meaningless. Suddenly, in that moment, life simply was at an “is” state – a state of being – no right, no wrong, nothing. It was just an “is” or a “to be.” It was as if the state of being was the meaning.

Yeah, yeah - but did you end up fucking him?

[wtf]

they had to justify the price for hubble didnt they

i am confused why we as humans spend billions on finding out if a flower was on mars a billion years ago when we cannot even clean up our own pollution

dont give me this lame argument about developing new products that would have been invented anyway

[dwaechte]

This thing ain't helping me visualize shit. What did they expect to see there? Gilligan and the Skipper playing badminton? It's a little biased to call it the most important image.

So true.