Here we go deep into philosophical thought. Let me start:
What is the meaning of life?
The meaning of life is non existent.
It is simply an abstract concept invented by humans to satisfy our need of answers.
There is a reason to life, and this life has not been discovered yet.
This makes religion obsolete because, religion often provides a non existent answer.
A question which cannot be answered because the question is wrong.
>>676209131
bro...
>>676209131
fucking /thread.
no...
fucking /life
there is no such thing as "life" merely a more complex arrangement of ordinary material
>>676209515
There is, it is a social construct but nonetheless it exist. Or would you also argue that colours don't exist since they don't exist in quantum physics?
>>676210552
colors are symbols like letters in a language, they are self-referential and have no intrinsic meaning outside of its system
Preserve life and become God
>>676208981
The purpose of life is to sustain itself by reproduction and evolution
But this is not a meaning. I think either there is no meaning of life, or each one of us can find a one that applies to him/herself
What do you think ?
>>676208981
To be happy
I mean it's probably just to reproduce and satisfy our needs as long as possible, right?
I don't think there's any deep meaning. We're all here just by some crazy chance of a bunch of the right shit being together at the right time.
>>676214217
what defines happy?
Happy is only subjective
what kind of fucking question is this, why do you have to find a meaning to life at all, why do we humans have to find something to live for, the meaning of life is life itself.
>>676214566
Exactly, you make yourself happy
>>676214591
because you would end depressed like most people that discovered that life has no meaning cause theres nothing to live for - how heros are born
What Chemical Reactions in your body tell you to "think" about this?>>676208981
>>676214708
well how can you become happy when theres no meaning or goal for happiness or your life
There is no objective reason of life, reason is of human origin, therefore we make our own reason to live. Life is whatever you seek out to be, but besides your own subjective feelings, there is no objective reason.
meaning of life, more like fear of death
ppl who didn't acomplished anything meaningfull in their life fear to be forggoten after death
>What is the meaning of life?
Be happy, be good to others and hope that you fall in love
Got a harder one?
>>676208981
I think this explains it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjUQZptumg
>>676209131
Dude.
>>676209131
I cant even
>>676214880
Well thats it, you don't have to conform to a universal meaning of life, you can do whatever you like, set out any meaning for yourself.
>>676208981
The meaning of life is to produce offspring with a member of your species that's the opposite gender.
Also, source on that pic?
>>676208981
There is no real meaning. You're just a creature that gained councisness. Instead of just eating and sleeping because it's a part of your working, you do it for survival AND pleasure. Literally, life is what it make it using the self awear and intelligence that you have. the only people who believe there is a meaning are people who believe in a higher power.
>>676208981
Meaning of Life:
"Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind."
-Ecclesiastes 12:13
We am a meat robots that operate almost entirely on autopilot. Life has no meaning, nor does it need one.
>>676215547
0/10 useless answer
>>676214723
No, they kill themselves because they think there IS a meaning, and they are not finding it, thus depression. To find stability, and to not fall in depression, you have to realize that your only meaning is to be alive, and live, and be a human, having friends, love, hate, sadness and everything else. Those aren't constructs, the names and all the stories about them are, but they aren't, so just know that whenever you feel happy for some bullshit, cry yourself to sleep for some other bullshit, fall in love with someone, that's the real meaning of life.
>>676215692
You read Vonnegut?
>>676215747
Explain why?
>>676208981
There is no intrinsic meaning. That's the bad news.
The good news is, that we get to make our own meaning.
>>676208981
Some atoms got together at random under certain conditions and began to suck up convert and put out energy, and make copies of themselves.
Sometimes the copies were imperfect. Sometimes the imperfection made them.better. at taking in converting and putting out energy.
This process continued until humans.
No this collection of atoms is very good at sucking up energy and making copies of itself.
That's the meaning of life.
>why though
Because it happened.
>>676214880
Depends on which goals you set for yourself. Like I want to save up money this year and move to a new city with my partner. Whole life picture I'd say I want to be earning a bit, not hate my job, be with someone I love and then hopefully have a little version of me running around being happy too
>>676216025
And really, if you think about it, that's the way any reasonable person would want it.
Do you want the meaning of your life dictated by you by some outside force?
Well, I suppose some pathetic idiots would actually want that...
>>676215547
>>676215956
No useful applicable definition for this "god" exists. Every single religious person has their own subjective definition for it. You can't even get everybody in a single sect to agree completely on a definition unless its so vague as to be utterly useless. If god is only subjective then there can be no objective usefulness to his existence.
Come back once you've fully and accurately defined this god thing amongst yourselves and then maybe we might be able to talk.
>>676208981
Life without living is nothing, and nothing is something that is not fulfilled, to fulfill something you must have something, and if you fillup something you turn it into a life, and if you live a life... you will find out a true meaning of life
>>676215877
I've read a couple of his books.
>>676208981
Here is what I came up after long consideration of everything:
Meaning of life is simple, it is to live.
But, how does it all tie these questions:
"How did the plants knew that no stomach on earth can digest seeds?"
"Why did the plants develop in such a way, that its fruit becomes tasty for the other living organisms to spread its seed?"
"How out of several solar systems around us, only Earth randomly was in a perfect space-time position with a perfect atmosphere and materials to support life in the 1200 light years around?"
I went into further detail on some super "conveniences" of nature only to realize that it is too convenient to be really random.
So I came to conclusion. No Gods but a cosmic force that motivates all life.
Why does life exist then?
Well the answer is also simple. In order for existance(All material things) to exist, something (baceria, human, aliens) must perceive it. So
Life exists in order to provide a feedback and make everything in existence be real. It requires a witness and we are all seeing it.
>>676216426
>Well, I suppose some pathetic idiots would actually want that...
Why are they pathetic idiots?
>>676216595
Well since this quote came from the bible, it means the biblical God.
Then who was phone?
>>676208981
To live. To experience things. To feel.
The purpose of life is life itself.
Also, we're "it". The center of it all. Things around us have just been made in a way to look like we're just another speck of nothingness in the vastness of space, but we're not.
>>676217037
Still way way too vague. Which version of the Bible? No matter how you answer there exists a christian sect that will say that version is wrong.
>>676217456
14 year old spotted
>>676217037
Also, religions that exclusively draw from only the bible as the source of god's word have been killing each other and schisming over translations for millennia. You can't pretend that simply because it is written in the bible that all christians believe it.
Like I said, sort out which god and which holy book is the right one amongst the religious first before you expect anyone else to take you seriously.
>>676216720
Breakfast of Champions one of them? Meat Robots n such
>>676217565
Versions of the bible are just different translations of the original Hebrew and Greek.
Different Christian Sects are just people who have slightly different interpretations of the bible. Some are correct and some aren't
Even though there are these differences among Christians, they all believe in the same God.
>>676208981
what is the meaning of a mountain?
same question and a stupid one
Philosophy is just a dumb word to make "thinking" sound cooler.
>>676218265
>Also, religions that exclusively draw from only the bible as the source of god's word have been killing each other and schisming over translations for millennia. You can't pretend that simply because it is written in the bible that all christians believe it.
If they don't believe it then they aren't Christian. People who kill because of the bible aren't Christian.
>>676216842
No one agress with me?
This is most legit answer I can come up with and the most plausible one.
>>676218300
No, they don't. Baptists believe most other christians are going to hell for getting it wrong. Best not to even mention how they feel about the Catholics.
Source, I was raised Baptist. Trust me, unless you are one, they despise you.
You can pretend its just semantic differences if you want. But I know you are lying.
>>676218677
Hahahahahahahahah! Wow, you are just all kinds of dumb ain't ya. We're done here.
>>676208981
this is the meaning of life
http://animated-adult-gifs.blogspot.ca/2014/01/cute-girls-with-nice-asses-dancing.html
>>676218963
Doesn't matter what Baptists say. What matters is what the bible says.
Summarizing Romans 10:9
"Anyone who believes Jesus died for our sins and that God raised him from the dead shall be saved."
If you believe this, then you are Christian. It's that simple.
>>676218707
TL;DR
>>676220022
TRI TRI TRIPPLEDUBS!!!!!!
>>676219409
(Ephesians 2:8-9)--"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast."
or
(James 2:24)--"You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone."
These verses are contradictory. They cannot both be true. Some believe the first. Others believe the second. If you get it wrong, you don't get salvation. I know 2 denominations that believe exclusively in one way, and one denomination that believes the other. With research I could find many more.
They can't both be right. Which is it?
>>676220022
Why does life exist then?
Well the answer is also simple. In order for existance(All material things) to exist, something (baceria, human, aliens) must perceive it. So
Life exists in order to provide a feedback and make everything in existence be real. It requires a witness and we are all seeing it.
>>676209131
Bruh
>>676215811
Great post friend!
There is no special meaning, the world doesn't exist the way we see it, we are limited by our perspectives, which are shaped by our senses.
The true objective form of the world is inconceivable.
If there's no lifeforms with sense organs to experience the universe, what does the universe look like?
WHERE DO HUMANS COME FROM AND HOW DID WE CONQUER THE WORLD. HUMAN MASTER RACE
>>676220274
In context, James is talking about the works of faith. If you have faith in something, you will do things (works) to shows you have faith.
I can't say I have faith a chair to support me and not do the work to sit in the chair.
>>676208981
another deep question
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
>>676220734
But how can we trust our senses. Simple optical illusions prove that we cannot see things as they truly are.
>>676209131
I think the meaning of life is life itself.
your point of view can be applied to everything, what is the meaning of anything? Nothing have meaning because meaning is something abstract created by humans.
Damn son you're so edgy and retarded
>>676221264
Empty evasive non-answer. As expected. You really aren't very good as apologists go. You should study harder, you aren't convincing anyone of anything like this.
>>676208981
YLYL
>>676221573
So if we don't perceive it, does it exist? Yes.
Sound is just oscillations of air detected by our ears. If a tree falls in a forest, those oscillations still occur. Humans can't hear sound over 20,000 Hz but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
>>676221617
Well the point is not seeing what something is ie. illusons mess with our receptors. But when I say "see" I mean everything from seeing to experiencing.
Imagine a wast black space filled with lifeless planets that stretch to infinity.
If there is no life to witness it, it doesn't exist.
>"If a forest is empty and a tree falls... does it make a sound"
>Pics or it didnt happen
It is perfect; In order for anything to truly exists it needs to be witnessed and experienced;
Life exists to witness the wastness, beauty and ugly of space to make it real(exist)
>>676222190
Explain why it's a non-answer
>>676209131
straight fucktard.
To smoke weed everyday
>>676208981
He who gets dubs shall rule them all.
>>676209131
>Shitty pseudo-philosophy on the first post with everyone going "uh bruh dude woah" after
Sure is 13 in here.
We are all inside an alien computer game, 1000's of generations past VR. All of our actions are predestined by the user (mine is called Dave). Everything good or bad we do earns points for our Daves. They are testing societies and what not.
>>676222958
seconded, but the thread itself is retarded so...
>>676220734
>>676222407
It worked!
Who is right?
>>676223088
I think you mean Roy
Asking the meaning of life is like asking the meaning of blue. I can tell you why blue is a color, I can tell you why you see it as blue, but there's no "meaning". Same thing with life. I can tell you why it's here but there's still no meaning to it
>>676208981
Minimally, it is to be born, to live, and to die. Thus gaining empathy for all living things and the suffering and death they will endure. It is to rid us of our callous natures towards one another.
Though certainly many of us have other more personal lessons to learn and so each persons life lessons are unique just like everyone elses.
>>676222407
If there is no one to hear the sound, it does not exist;
Meaning of life is to do whatever the fuck you want to do
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>>676208981
What the fuck kind of question is that?
>what is the meaning of life?
>what is the meaning of lamp?
>what is the meaning of dog?
>what is the meaning of word?
>>676223630
AN interesting premise by Douglas Adam's and yet most misunderstood it. The entire questions was "what is nine times six" and the answer was 42. Which of course makes no sense and in his mind neither did life the universe and every thing.
>>676223681
There are about a trillion neutrinos passing through you right now. 1,000 years ago no one knew what a neutrino was let alone detect it. You're telling me that just because they couldn't perceive neutrinos a 1,000 years ago they didn't exist a 1,000 years ago??
Likewise, because a person isn't around to hear the tree fall the sound didn't exist? If no one is around then how to you know the tree fell. According to you the tree falling doesn't exist.
>>676222407
>Sound is just oscillations of air detected by our ears.
>Sound is just oscillations of air DETECTED BY OUR EARS.
>no one is around to hear it
We are all constructed of the same particles that were exploded into existence. We are a part of the universe. We just arranged in a different way than a star or a rock. We are merely just the universe observing itself.
do crabs think fish can fly
>>676222958
>i'll just add pseudo to insult him
a 13 yo is you
>>676208981
>deep into philosophical thought
>What is the meaning of life?
Could you not have asked more usual question without any thought?
We are nothing but bags of water which is constantly in conflict with itself.
>>676224384
Our ears detect the sound, not make the sound. The sound must be already there to detect.
>>676222450
nope,
I don't buy it. There is no reason for there to have to be a witness to the universe. It just so happens that we are witnessing it. It doesn't mean it can't "exist" on its own.
Evidence even hint at the true form of the universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
Our sense organs shape our perspective of this world. These sense organs are a product of evolution. When "we" were single cell organisms we didn't have sense organs, yet the universe existed.
Single cell organisms are akin to any other principal property in the universe.
>>676225304
I get it, but really why would anything exist if there is no life to experience it?
>>676223616
>>676225304
The real answers lie somewhere between these two comments.
Penis
>>676225796
Just because something wasn't observed happening, doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
Are you trying to say all of these distant galaxies that are over billions of years old, didn't exist because no one was experiencing them?
>>676225796
Honestly, I don't see why you would think there would have to be a reason.
It's just a blob of randomness in which everything will happen/ has happened/ is constantly happening all at the same time, or at the same absence of time.
>>676215316
kek'd
>>676208981
there is no meaning for the average human but there was once a meaning but that time for that has come and gone and he had successfully completed his task.im quite proud of him he did a fine job.
The meaning of life is to slave away in this huge machine powered by millions of others just like you, doing the same repetetive task over and over, day after day until you are old and grey and die. The only people who will miss you are the people close to you but other than that you are meaningless. Your neighbour is meaningless, your boss is meaningless and we all are meaningless because we will all be dust one day and we will not be remembered for much longer when our offspring becomes dust too. Only a few break away from the status quo but not even these people are anything special. All living things live for the same goal and that is to make sure the species survive so unless humanity gets on the brink of extinction you will never be special.
>>676209131
What a bunch of crap
You can't assure life has no meaning until you have absolute knowledge, and you can only have absolute knowledge, first assuming it exists and then pursuing it (what is funny is that all of us do that without realizing it), so we can say, that our present meaning is to pursue absolute knowledge.
So the meaning of life is to live and evolve (not as individual, but as something bigger that we all are part of) to discover the meaning of life, so our present meaning is to discover.
I don't know if I expressed it appropriately.
>>676208981
The meaning is whatever you want because there is no meaning. 0=infinity
I choose to make this music
https://soundcloud.com/couchtruthing/emperor-trump
>>676227758
No, living and evolving is just our programming, this programming is a result of the universe being infinite and thus all allowable (by the physical interactions of materials present in the universe) scenarios will happen.
We rarely realize this because we are biased, being at the end of this process. And the fact that it got to this point that we are now here able to talk about it is so random that it's easier to think it's by some design.
>>676209131
>babby's first attempt at trying to sound philosophical: The post
>>676228873
Stop spamming your dumb shit in threads you poop grubber
Nobody cares about your shit nigger
![Boxcar_Racer_-_Boxcar_Racer_[2002].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Ht8rjpj.jpg "Boxcar_Racer_-_Boxcar_Racer_[2002].jpg")
>>676209131
More deep than Box Car Racer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6sjWnc1rs
>>676229152
??
When people talk in absolute terms about things that are built upon assumptions that are arbitrary chooses to conform your biased opinion and intern beliefs, just make me cringe.
>>676230266
Boxcarracer and anything Blink182 related is shit
Choke on a foot long
>>676229230
This.
>>676230266
Nice anon
>>676230506
I don't mind blink 182, didn't like much but untitled but box car racer is pretty good
>>676209131
Nihilism
>>676230434
I'm not quite sure if this is what you meant but sorry for my post appearing that way. Please imagine a giant IMHO in front, or after it.
Do you care to offer your explanation, or reply?
>>676230919
Nah dude it's shit
>lern2muzik
Hell i used to listen to that when i was fucking 7-8
