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The Meaning of Life:
The Meaning of Life, something that people have spent countless hours pondering and never figured out. Something that even the most accredited scientists, religious leaders and masterminds cannot prove. It is the biggest question that will probably remain forever unanswered yet is the thing that can drive people to insanity. Why are we on this earth? What is our purpose in life?
I am not going to attempt to answer these questions but I am going to present you with a few ideas that came to me during several years of pondering.
The most common, and oldest, theory is that we are all here because we were created by a God. If you were a God and created a planet and life you wouldn’t do it just for a laugh now would you? We were either created as companions for God or as entertainment. Since we aren’t often chatted to by the almighty I can only assume we are in place to entertain the lord with our everyday activities. In short, our lives are just an act to entertain our creator. Our menial lives provide some simple kind of amusement in a voyeuristic kind of way and our everyday affairs are observed from above. I don’t get any comfort from this theory whatsoever and pray it isn’t true.
A lesser-recognised theory is one that states, “We were placed here to advance our race through time and space.” This rhymes so I like it a lot but it does generally make sense. From the first indication of mankind we have made such ridiculously amazing discoveries. The wheel, fire, electricity, engines, languages, civil law, social hierarchies, currencies and space travel. The earth was a place with fields, mountains and trees and humans have turned it into a world full of cities, travel routes, technology and different cultures. We are, as far as we know, the prime species here and have come a long way in the 5,000+-recorded years of history we have. We have advanced from simplistic creatures that grunted and bashed rabbits against rocks for food to civilised people that are no longer hunter-gatherers and can pick up a meal from Tesco.
A theory favoured by scientists is that we are all simply here because micro-organisms generated by the ‘big bang’ adapted to the earth and over many years we generated into humans. This theory would mean that we have no reason for being here, we are just science and sooner or later we will cease to be. We simply do not have a purpose here and nobody is more important than anyone else. We are just the divine will of countless calculations and formulas that make up the fabric of the earth. I dislike this theory as I think there must be some reason or way for us to exist.
My own theory is that each and every person is born to fulfil a destiny. Our path in life is to follow a set route in life and certain events are inevitable but others can be determined by our own actions. I like to think I am in control of my own destiny but I also like the comfort of knowing certain things are meant to be. This theory places us all into a storyboard setting and we are basically improvising a pre-written script. This shows us that we have freedom but straying too far from our set plan will cause something bad to happen. Our reason for been here is that we are meant to be here as it is written in the grand plan, some events are simply meant to be (i.e. death and birth) and this can bring comfort to us knowing that there is nothing we could have done to change things. I assume you may think this theory is quite morbid in that we don’t have control over everything but it makes a lot of sense to me.
The final theory I am going to mention is a version of reality shown in the film, ‘The Matrix’. Everyone sees their world how they wish and nobody in your world actually exists. Events and conversations are simply concocted in our minds and reality is recognising this. If you have ever known what someone was going to say before they actually said it, that is because you already invented what they were going to say in your mind. In this theory nobody is real and people only look/feel/smell/etc as they do because you wish them to in your mind. If this is true then I am writing this but nobody else will read it. Comments I get from this will simply be created in my own mind and fed back to me, if this is your reality then you already wrote this in your mind and I don’t actually exist. This is strange but I am willing to believe it, bizarre as it is.
So there you have it, my versions of existence. I don’t expect any of you to believe them or even understand them but this is many hours of my thinking and don’t want any of you to rubbish it all either because this is quite meaningful stuff to me. If you have your own ideas or versions of the meaning of life then go ahead and share them with everyone.
-kyz²²-
The Meaning of Life, something that people have spent countless hours pondering and never figured out. Something that even the most accredited scientists, religious leaders and masterminds cannot prove. It is the biggest question that will probably remain forever unanswered yet is the thing that can drive people to insanity. Why are we on this earth? What is our purpose in life?
I am not going to attempt to answer these questions but I am going to present you with a few ideas that came to me during several years of pondering.
The most common, and oldest, theory is that we are all here because we were created by a God. If you were a God and created a planet and life you wouldn’t do it just for a laugh now would you? We were either created as companions for God or as entertainment. Since we aren’t often chatted to by the almighty I can only assume we are in place to entertain the lord with our everyday activities. In short, our lives are just an act to entertain our creator. Our menial lives provide some simple kind of amusement in a voyeuristic kind of way and our everyday affairs are observed from above. I don’t get any comfort from this theory whatsoever and pray it isn’t true.
A lesser-recognised theory is one that states, “We were placed here to advance our race through time and space.” This rhymes so I like it a lot but it does generally make sense. From the first indication of mankind we have made such ridiculously amazing discoveries. The wheel, fire, electricity, engines, languages, civil law, social hierarchies, currencies and space travel. The earth was a place with fields, mountains and trees and humans have turned it into a world full of cities, travel routes, technology and different cultures. We are, as far as we know, the prime species here and have come a long way in the 5,000+-recorded years of history we have. We have advanced from simplistic creatures that grunted and bashed rabbits against rocks for food to civilised people that are no longer hunter-gatherers and can pick up a meal from Tesco.
A theory favoured by scientists is that we are all simply here because micro-organisms generated by the ‘big bang’ adapted to the earth and over many years we generated into humans. This theory would mean that we have no reason for being here, we are just science and sooner or later we will cease to be. We simply do not have a purpose here and nobody is more important than anyone else. We are just the divine will of countless calculations and formulas that make up the fabric of the earth. I dislike this theory as I think there must be some reason or way for us to exist.
My own theory is that each and every person is born to fulfil a destiny. Our path in life is to follow a set route in life and certain events are inevitable but others can be determined by our own actions. I like to think I am in control of my own destiny but I also like the comfort of knowing certain things are meant to be. This theory places us all into a storyboard setting and we are basically improvising a pre-written script. This shows us that we have freedom but straying too far from our set plan will cause something bad to happen. Our reason for been here is that we are meant to be here as it is written in the grand plan, some events are simply meant to be (i.e. death and birth) and this can bring comfort to us knowing that there is nothing we could have done to change things. I assume you may think this theory is quite morbid in that we don’t have control over everything but it makes a lot of sense to me.
The final theory I am going to mention is a version of reality shown in the film, ‘The Matrix’. Everyone sees their world how they wish and nobody in your world actually exists. Events and conversations are simply concocted in our minds and reality is recognising this. If you have ever known what someone was going to say before they actually said it, that is because you already invented what they were going to say in your mind. In this theory nobody is real and people only look/feel/smell/etc as they do because you wish them to in your mind. If this is true then I am writing this but nobody else will read it. Comments I get from this will simply be created in my own mind and fed back to me, if this is your reality then you already wrote this in your mind and I don’t actually exist. This is strange but I am willing to believe it, bizarre as it is.
So there you have it, my versions of existence. I don’t expect any of you to believe them or even understand them but this is many hours of my thinking and don’t want any of you to rubbish it all either because this is quite meaningful stuff to me. If you have your own ideas or versions of the meaning of life then go ahead and share them with everyone.
-kyz²²-
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No. It's 6x9.
Well it is in base 13, numerical system of the Gods.
Well it is in base 13, numerical system of the Gods.
El Blokey wrote:
> BEARDS. wrote:
> No no no no no. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question, not the
> meaning of life.
>
> The meaning of life is to find out what the question is.
>
> This man speaks the truth. 42 is 'THE' answer, but the meaning of life
> is the partnering question. Which COULD be '84/2'. But I don't think
> it is.
It isn't that for sure, it's obviously:
7 x 6
> BEARDS. wrote:
> No no no no no. 42 is the answer to the ultimate question, not the
> meaning of life.
>
> The meaning of life is to find out what the question is.
>
> This man speaks the truth. 42 is 'THE' answer, but the meaning of life
> is the partnering question. Which COULD be '84/2'. But I don't think
> it is.
It isn't that for sure, it's obviously:
7 x 6
What, that I have an essay to write that's already 2 days overdue and I don't know the title of, that I haven't started my Physics coursework for Friday, that I've done no Maths homework for a few weeks and my Further Maths Teacher just annoys me?
It's so crazy it just might work.
It's so crazy it just might work.
Tell them the truth, then.
(After 36 years of varying between telling outright lies and the truth, I find telling the truth is a lot less painful overall, no matter how silly it sounds).
(After 36 years of varying between telling outright lies and the truth, I find telling the truth is a lot less painful overall, no matter how silly it sounds).
Nah, the school's not important, they've got a general idea from me and my parents that they should sod off and leave me alone.
It's the excuse I give the folks that matters, because I ALWAYS take Wednesdays off. And frequently Thursdays. And quite often Mondays. And sometimes Tuesdays and Fridays, but rarely those because it's easier to get to work if I turn up.
It's the excuse I give the folks that matters, because I ALWAYS take Wednesdays off. And frequently Thursdays. And quite often Mondays. And sometimes Tuesdays and Fridays, but rarely those because it's easier to get to work if I turn up.
BEARDS. wrote:
> I need to come up with an excuse that will get me the day
> off school tomorrow.
"God came to me and told me I had better things to do than go to school today, Miss..."
> I need to come up with an excuse that will get me the day
> off school tomorrow.
"God came to me and told me I had better things to do than go to school today, Miss..."
The reason for my life is to keep the universe that I inhabit in existance.
I just realised I have a philosophy essay to hand in tomorrow about the nature of God as creator in the Jewish Scriptures. So I need to come up with an excuse that will get me the day off school tomorrow.
I just realised I have a philosophy essay to hand in tomorrow about the nature of God as creator in the Jewish Scriptures. So I need to come up with an excuse that will get me the day off school tomorrow.
Blank wrote:
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> Life has no meaning. Asking 'What is the meaning of life?' is about
> as valid as asking 'What is the meaning of that rock?'
>
> There rock is just 'there'. So are we, it's just that the rock
> deals
> with it better than we do.
>
> Post of the day.
How comes?
> FantasyMeister wrote:
> Life has no meaning. Asking 'What is the meaning of life?' is about
> as valid as asking 'What is the meaning of that rock?'
>
> There rock is just 'there'. So are we, it's just that the rock
> deals
> with it better than we do.
>
> Post of the day.
How comes?
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