How do you propose to do that?
Will you eat for example to make sure that you stay alive, or not?
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The Meaning to Life
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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How do you propose to do that?
Will you eat for example to make sure that you stay alive, or not?
Me Myself
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How wouldn´t it be?
The "meaning of life" must have been giving by somebody, as all "meanings"
For example: arbol means tree in spanish. tree means:
And that PHOTO is merely the IMAGE of a tree meant to mean an actual tree, which I cannot pass through this post
All of this previous things have meaning because someone attributed a meaning to them. In this case YOU AND ME AND the people who invented the language for this words.
Even when you say "life has no meaning" this means SOMETHING (or SOMETHINGS
) to you (even if just subconsciously) because you wouldn´t be saying it otherwise. Comunication always contains an INTENTION it always expects a REACTION.Ultimately "life" inevitably means something to you, while it means something else to me and to my dog, he has no idea what the word "life" means. I doubt he even knows what the word "vida" (spanish equivalent) means.
I personally would deem "eating. survive. reproduce" to be around the most insgnificant things on my life. I have fasted and I have not yet reproduced, the most meaningful and important things in my life depend on eating for example because they depend on my material continuation, but this wouldn´t be the most defining moments of my existence.
Because "meaning" is fundamentaly linked with "defining", then I deem "eating, survive, reproduce" to be the "defining" characteristics of only very inferior ways of life.
everything that you have a meaning for comes from life.
In other words, all the meanings that you know consciously are merely PART of the meaning of life. (but yeah, they would at least INCLUDE eating, surviving, reproducing
)
Happy is not an emotion it is a state of being. You can be happy in any situation under any emotion you only need to choose it.
Me Myself
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Life is all that it is. happyness doesn´t interfere with it.
You can't be happy under the emotion of angry
Happiness isn't, reality is as it is, happiness is just an illusion based around non-evidential emotions.
You certainly can. Its a perspective, you can be happy that your angry. You can be happy that your alive but still angry that the car is wrecked.
What if they were dying IN the car wreck?
Me Myself
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have at it.
Me Myself
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Even more than eating surviving and reproducing, what all life always has looked for is pleasure in one way or another.
We humans generaly derive pleasure in much more things that eating surviving and reproducing. I mean, most male today derive more pleasure from non-commited sex or at least sex not committed to make a child
Social interactions are also a source of great pleasure.
I mean if this is the "meaning" you want for your life, what are you doing here? are you eating right now? While reproducing?
I would be amazed if posting in RF somehow helps you survive in a materialistic sense.
We humans generaly derive pleasure in much more things that eating surviving and reproducing. I mean, most male today derive more pleasure from non-commited sex or at least sex not committed to make a child
Social interactions are also a source of great pleasure.
I mean if this is the "meaning" you want for your life, what are you doing here? are you eating right now?
While reproducing? I would be amazed if posting in RF somehow helps you survive in a materialistic sense.
CarlinKnew
Well-Known Member
How do you figure? Some things do, really, make you happy. Emotional reactions are real, physical events.
No, just the opposite --we lost meaning, just now, when we robbed "eat, survive, reproduce" of its meaning by rendering "no meaning" to it.
BlackBear94
Hermit
i think there must be some meaning to life, Why else would that initial spark of life in the universe keep on living and reproducing instead of just dying out as soon as it was created?
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
...why would it die out without a meaning?
BlackBear94
Hermit
What i mean is i think of that initial spark of life (the current theory is a bunch of atoms got charged by a bolt of lightning or something similar to that) and both logic and intuition dictate, woopty frickin do a bunch of atoms got zapped. But no, those groups of atoms, from the second they were created had an inexplicable sense of self preservation and reproductive capabilities. I'm not particularly religious but even i know that no realm of existence is that lucky. Feel free to criticize
PaulTheMaul
Member
I think those groups of atoms (or molecules) felt so grateful for the spark of life, that their devoted their entire existence to self preservation, reproduction and evolution.
So therefore the meaning of life should be to "Live and Let Live" or in another words - be grateful that you are alive and try to give this wonderful gift to another beings.
So therefore the meaning of life should be to "Live and Let Live" or in another words - be grateful that you are alive and try to give this wonderful gift to another beings.
because you desire happiness. Your actions, should, reflect your desires and needs.