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I don't have a clue what life is about.
So if you can tell me.
(WARNING THIS MAY BE POINTLESS)
So if you can tell me.
(WARNING THIS MAY BE POINTLESS)
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'to eat, drink and be happy....for tomorrow you will die' Who said that??
Rosalind wrote:
> There is no point to life. It was all just a freekish natural
> accident.
She be right, I tell ya!
> There is no point to life. It was all just a freekish natural
> accident.
She be right, I tell ya!
And now I feel obliged to tell everyone to read Protoss's post (below).
It's interesting stuff, on topic, and shouldn't be submerged by my slightly nerdish ramblings.
It's interesting stuff, on topic, and shouldn't be submerged by my slightly nerdish ramblings.
Edgy wrote:
> However, as that computer, Earth, was destroyed 3 minutes before
> working out the question, no question was ever discovered. Arthur
> Dent, which the story is focused on, managed to randomly make a
> question out of scrabble pieces, which was "What do you get if
> you multiply 9 by 6", the answer being 54, but they don't ever
> figure out that the answer is therefore wrong. It never says in the
> whole 5-part book that that is the actual question though.
But they said that because humans had inhabited earth, it would have affected the computer program, so the answer would have been distorted.
Consequently Arthur's question, from the scrabble letters, could have been off as a result of the distortion. It could have been supposed to be 7 by 6, for example.
Ah, the memories come flooding back...
:^)
> However, as that computer, Earth, was destroyed 3 minutes before
> working out the question, no question was ever discovered. Arthur
> Dent, which the story is focused on, managed to randomly make a
> question out of scrabble pieces, which was "What do you get if
> you multiply 9 by 6", the answer being 54, but they don't ever
> figure out that the answer is therefore wrong. It never says in the
> whole 5-part book that that is the actual question though.
But they said that because humans had inhabited earth, it would have affected the computer program, so the answer would have been distorted.
Consequently Arthur's question, from the scrabble letters, could have been off as a result of the distortion. It could have been supposed to be 7 by 6, for example.
Ah, the memories come flooding back...
:^)
The idea of a meaning to something is purely a human perception and thus a theoretical concept. Since it has no basis in nature or natural laws in 'meaning' as far as we know then the question is both flawed and will never get a 'true' or objective answer. There are 'goals' perhaps? But these never go further than survival as far as lifeforms are concerned. Maybe humans find some meaning in life by going further than pure survival such as art, sciences and mathemeatics and thus civilization. But whether this is just a higher level of perception and behaviour that binds humans together into societies so we can survive better is debatable as well.
Consequently, trying to find meaning to life in a universal way is a fruitless and never ending task, like existance itself maybe? I suspect though that your questions are the result of the mounted depressions and failed dreams of the average human being in a competitive, material society, devoid of any real myths, stable structure of spiritual meaning (i.e. mass religion). And that my friends (and my many enemies out their, not to mention neutrals) is the end of my rather brief and somewhat inept analysis on the non-existant, in my opinion, meaning of life. That eternal human struggle that is an attept perhaps to seperate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Why it is an animal kingdom I don't know. Who is the monarch exactly? Why not an animal republic? Ah but I am rambling again.
Goodbye cruel world...
Consequently, trying to find meaning to life in a universal way is a fruitless and never ending task, like existance itself maybe? I suspect though that your questions are the result of the mounted depressions and failed dreams of the average human being in a competitive, material society, devoid of any real myths, stable structure of spiritual meaning (i.e. mass religion). And that my friends (and my many enemies out their, not to mention neutrals) is the end of my rather brief and somewhat inept analysis on the non-existant, in my opinion, meaning of life. That eternal human struggle that is an attept perhaps to seperate ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Why it is an animal kingdom I don't know. Who is the monarch exactly? Why not an animal republic? Ah but I am rambling again.
Goodbye cruel world...
Light wrote:
> One of the books (I forget which) said that the question of the
> meaning of life went thus:
>
> What do you get if you mulitplay 9 by 5.
>
> As the answer is 45, yet the Computer Deep Thought said the answer was
> 42, it was theorised that this indicated that there was something
> fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Actually, the book was The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy. There was no question, the computer inventors wanted to know the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything, which wasn't actually a question.
So, after 11 million years, Deep Thought decided the answer was 42, but that it would have to build an even more complex computer to work out the question.
However, as that computer, Earth, was destroyed 3 minutes before working out the question, no question was ever discovered. Arthur Dent, which the story is focused on, managed to randomly make a question out of scrabble pieces, which was "What do you get if you multiply 9 by 6", the answer being 54, but they don't ever figure out that the answer is therefore wrong. It never says in the whole 5-part book that that is the actual question though.
> One of the books (I forget which) said that the question of the
> meaning of life went thus:
>
> What do you get if you mulitplay 9 by 5.
>
> As the answer is 45, yet the Computer Deep Thought said the answer was
> 42, it was theorised that this indicated that there was something
> fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Actually, the book was The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy. There was no question, the computer inventors wanted to know the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything, which wasn't actually a question.
So, after 11 million years, Deep Thought decided the answer was 42, but that it would have to build an even more complex computer to work out the question.
However, as that computer, Earth, was destroyed 3 minutes before working out the question, no question was ever discovered. Arthur Dent, which the story is focused on, managed to randomly make a question out of scrabble pieces, which was "What do you get if you multiply 9 by 6", the answer being 54, but they don't ever figure out that the answer is therefore wrong. It never says in the whole 5-part book that that is the actual question though.
Spend a night in a forest alone, and you'll receive the answer.
Homer: God, whtas the meaning of life?
God: you'll find out when you die
Homer: O, but i cant wait that long!
God: You cant wait six months?!
God: you'll find out when you die
Homer: O, but i cant wait that long!
God: You cant wait six months?!
Life is Just life there is no explaination
There is no point to life. It was all just a freekish natural accident.
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