SaintAugustine
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What is the actual meaning of life.......?
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Today's Trick Question....
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SaintAugustine
At the Monastery
SaintAugustine
At the Monastery
Agreed brother, agreed....
outhouse
Atheistically
Well, that's more of a goal than a meaning.
dyanaprajna2011
Dharmapala
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The meaning of life is to live so many years and then die.
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Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
SaintAugustine
At the Monastery
I am almost tempted to end the poll with that the above cartoon...that was brillaint..lol
Whether you mean life as in I am alive, or why life exists at all, the answer is there is no objective meaning. Make your own meaning.
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Shermana
Heretic
I'd like to challenge this common but mistaken notion that the meaning of life is "Happiness" or "To be happy".
What is 'happiness"?
The ORIGIN of the word means something like "lucky", it had nothing to do with a feeling of contentment which it now means, it means "Fortune-ness". The word "Happen", which also has the root 'hap', is a basis of how this word was formed, which means "an event that occurred" or "chanced to be". So to be Hap-py means to be in the state of good events, not the feeling itself, of which is a corrupted development of the word.
So without the word "Happiness", which is a relatively new corruption of an old word, what are we left with? Contentment? Seeking desires to be fulfilled? The feeling of accomplishment? Is there such thing as "Happiness" to achieve in the first place?
And from there, what of a twisted murderous psychopath whose "happiness" comes from the smell of the burning flesh of his victims? Is his meaning of life to thus go on a killing spree to be "happy"? What of a person who gets a happy thrill from robbing people? Or is his meaning of life somehow to conform to the "general" or "law abiding" population's norms? Do we define what makes us "happy"? Do we choose? Or is it chosen upon us? Is there thus an objective towards what we should pursue to be 'happy"? If so, then THAT is the meaning of life, rather than the end result of "happiness."
What is 'happiness"?
The ORIGIN of the word means something like "lucky", it had nothing to do with a feeling of contentment which it now means, it means "Fortune-ness". The word "Happen", which also has the root 'hap', is a basis of how this word was formed, which means "an event that occurred" or "chanced to be". So to be Hap-py means to be in the state of good events, not the feeling itself, of which is a corrupted development of the word.
So without the word "Happiness", which is a relatively new corruption of an old word, what are we left with? Contentment? Seeking desires to be fulfilled? The feeling of accomplishment? Is there such thing as "Happiness" to achieve in the first place?
And from there, what of a twisted murderous psychopath whose "happiness" comes from the smell of the burning flesh of his victims? Is his meaning of life to thus go on a killing spree to be "happy"? What of a person who gets a happy thrill from robbing people? Or is his meaning of life somehow to conform to the "general" or "law abiding" population's norms? Do we define what makes us "happy"? Do we choose? Or is it chosen upon us? Is there thus an objective towards what we should pursue to be 'happy"? If so, then THAT is the meaning of life, rather than the end result of "happiness."