“The Meaning of Life and Human Existence” is a personal exploration of a number of fundamental philosophical issues including freedom of the will, right and wrong, the individual, society and the state, and religion.
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My sentiments exactly, I hate people who come to advertise their own sites but offer nothing in the sense of intellectual stimulation. It’s like walking into a dance club and giving out flyers for another club - it shouldn’t be done. It’s what’s called netiquette, I wonder if twinsle has heard of it. People going to other discussion forums and trying to get their participants to leave and join theirs. I personally find it rude. I mean if Ben or HVD were asked permission by twinsle, that would be another story. I think it would be a great idea to have a discussion board circle, you know a bunch of message boards that have many things in common, and collaborate and help each other in whatever way is needed. I hope to get something of that nature started when I finished my website. But I won’t go to message boards and make one post about my board and how people should come there.
many of you may say that life has no definite meaning and/or that we create our own meaning…
and I’d have agreed with that not too long ago… in fact, maybe even yesterday—
but today I’ve been through some stuff that has made me think that life HAS indeed a meaning… that each has to discover and act according to.
the sad thing is that most of the time we figure stuff out when we can’t really act anymore…
we ‘find the map’ and the ‘underlying scheeme’ when we have no more time left to travel.
That meaning is you have meaning if you make your own meanings .Be and do what you want to do rationally. Give credit to yourself for your doing well , not any to a god. We who help ourselves need no god and use no god, even those who think they do. Life needs no ultimate purpose!
Being is our right to be. Any good Eastern philosopher could knock this thread and all of its references out of the saddle. We are–a given. We become–a given. Being is becoming. What more does there need to be?
The meaning of life is to live life. But in such a way as to not hurt others or yourself. Imagine people get stuck in the obvious (sex drugs and rock n roll) and limit themselves to an obvious that is easily manipulated into being wrong.
Humans are, at the end of the day, animals. What do most animals do with their lives? Eat, sleep, propogate, and advance their species. The “advance” aspect of existence varies from species to species and from culture to culture. Since humans are animals, the point of our existence is to eat, sleep, propogate, and advance our species. By advance, for my view, I mean take us a step toward unity, peace, and technological heights as of yet unimaginable. It’s a rather empty idea, but it’s my view. It makes sense. It’s also quite simple, no beauty in it.
Steven Pinker in "Intelligent Thought’[ed. John Brockman] states "Not only is Darwinism compatible with having a moral sense,it can explain why we evolved to have one.“Peter Singer notes we have " the expanding circle,” the extenson of our moral sense to all humanity as Paul Kurtz urges us to do and to other animals, just the inverse of what theists would have us to think.
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=D> . Pinker is good reading and sound sense. For the question of how a nonreligious person could be moral, biology has more affimative answers than religion does.
The meaning of life is life. Because without life all you are is a spirit. No sex, drugs, and rock n roll; when your dead.
The God aspect of life. A being that exsisted from before the space and time side effects of matter where created. This aspect knows perfection.
We as humans have limited perception and perspective. God can only communicate to us in our understanding. Thus these scientists who build mental blockers toward God are perpetuating their own disease by not comunicating God scientifically.
The Holy Spirit is an emence feeling that heals the soul with a sort of residual effect. But many times this feeling has been errased after church as soon as I run down old thought patterens and get irritated. Such is heaven. If your mental blockers become spiritual fgeelings of hatred toward ideas that you think are holding you back,… well lets say heaven has no room for this bigotry. Thus the Holy Spirit is offered when you are judged. But good ridance, if you choose to do wrong in the face of knowing whats right. That kind of pompas attitude will be the same kind that stops the Holy Spirit from working in you.
The meaning of life is the fruits of the spirit. Love, Joy, Hope, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control. The geatest of these is love. These are the words of Jesus,… witch Christianity is baced upon. Yes, the meaning of life is to live life spiritually. It’s just when you love money more then your wife (donald trump) you’ll have relationships like someone who doesn’t care about the person as much as what they represent to (donald trump, hue hephner). Reality is just starring you in the eye, and all you can say,… there is no pie in the sky. Your main source of Joy becomes hating others to keep reminding yourself,… “at least I’m not them.” Your main source of Joy becomes what instant gratifications can do to elevate your mood from a reality based mood. A day dream for a buck. A girl who’s self esteam is enforced because she feels special for laying someone of the calaber imagage you represent. Relationships become temporary until you have a real problem. These are the problems of prioretizing sex to high. And then you people blame God for preaching against loveless sex.
Thus the unbeliever is their own God. Passing Judgement according to their feelings of the day.
You mean I can’t sing and play my guitar in heaven? If the meaning of life is to find that which is meaningful, how do we discover that utopian existence?