Do you ever wonder what the meaning of life is?

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Do you ever wonder why you are on Earth and what the meaning of life is? Is life just to work and have fun, or is there a deeper meaning why we are here?

Just wanting to get some insight into the human thinking on this.
 
Hard work and misery punctuated by occasional fleeting glimpses of tranquillity.
 
The Shooman said:
Do you ever wonder why you are on Earth and what the meaning of life is? Is life just to work and have fun, or is there a deeper meaning why we are here?
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I don't have any belief in a supreme being, or creator, so I don't think that we - humanity - have been placed on Earth to do anything in particular.

I do, however, think that we owe it to ourselves and to others around us to try to leave this planet a little better than it was when we came into it - we should do our best to be kind and considerate, and to do our best in what we do. Of course, we may not succeed, but we should try.
 
We're here to create the future, one decision at a time.

I was dead for a few minutes and in a coma for a few days. I won't get into NDE's, but the Bostrom Simulation Hypothesis makes perfect sense to me. It explains literally every question that I still have. It would also mean that the trick to a long life is to have a full life: keep having fun and doing interesting things so that the player doesn't want to shut you down and start over. I think of it like Pascal's Wager for the X-Games crowd.
 
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The Shooman said:
Do you ever wonder why you are on Earth and what the meaning of life is? Is life just to work and have fun, or is there a deeper meaning why we are here?

Just wanting to get some insight into the human thinking on this.
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Are these serious questions? What meaning you get out of *your* life is based on what actions *you* take *now*.

Are you waiting for someone else, an authority figure or some higher power to give meaning to *your* life? Validate it through a sacred text? A burning bush?

If you do nothing except ponder, you get nothing, and no one will remember you. Don't be a monk locked in a cave on a mountain musing.

Action makes legacy, and legacy echoes an eternity. Treat every day as if it's your last. It's *your* life - no one and nothing is going to give meaning to it except you. You're the best person to look out for yourself.

Not your spouse. Not your boss. Not God or Buddha. Not your rabbi. And certainly not a comet in the sky, or transcendent beings from another galaxy.
 
The questions l ask are very serious. I do find the replies here very interesting. I agree that we must never waste a single day on Earth. We are not here to sit around and contemplate, we are here to take action.
 
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Rain Man said:
We're here to create the future, one decision at a time.

I was dead for a few minutes and in a coma for a few days. I won't get into NDE's, but the Bostrom Simulation Hypothesis makes perfect sense to me. It explains literally every question that I still have. It would also mean that the trick to a long life is to have a full life: keep having fun and doing interesting things so that the player doesn't want to shut you down and start over. I think of it like Pascal's Wager for the X-Games crowd.
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I had a NDE once while playing Frogger in rush hour trying to catch a bus. Was hit by a car and while I thought I was sitting on the curb, I watched myself flying through the air only to reconnect with my body when I hit the pavement. Flew 30 feet. Landed without injury. Grabbed the bus and made the showing of A Bridge Too Far, so, 1977.

The modern version of the alien ant farm concept that sometimes makes sense to me.

When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb.

When i was a child I thought i was almost able to leave my body but never did because I would never allow it. The feeling would come at night. A sense of the soul rising. Vibration without movement but sensing wanting to break loose of the corporeal bonds. Eyes closed, willing body and soul to remain as one. Settling. Complete again. Where am I? In bed. What is that? Ah, Radio Shack Realistic Pocket Transistor Radio. Turn up the volume.

I don't wanna know your name
'Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before

Okay, you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked all right before

Fox on the run
You scream and everybody comes a running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Foxy on the run, f-foxy
Fox on the run and hide away
 
Unless one takes a religious perspective, e.g., "to know God and glorify Him," then ultimately, life is about shit. You eat food, it keeps you alive, and you leave a trail of shit through the world. When you stop shitting, you die (or vice versa).
 
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Unless one takes a religious perspective, e.g., "to know God and glorify Him," then ultimately, life is about shit. You eat food, it keeps you alive, and you leave a trail of shit through the world. When you stopping shitting, you die (or vice versa).
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I'm surprised, Jan - I thought that you'd say that life is about shooting, rather than sh!tting!
 
God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.
 
COG said:
Will The Shooman The Shooman ever tell us how spiritual enlightenment can be found via hand welted exotic skin shoes and eating out of lawn mower bags?
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Spiritual enlightenment can only be found by practicing a righteous cultivation method, but very few of these cultivation methods exist. Many think that veganism, breatharianism and many meditation practices bring enlightenment, but those things can often be dangerous because it involves pursuit around twisted ideas. In cultivation we call pursuit a very VERY dangerous thing because it can be an invitation that brings ourselves to the attention of menacing spirits, l see it all the time and have been there at one point...it is NOT nice. Many spiritual methods are indeed very dangerous, but it is not my place to name which ones because one must `find the way' themselves without assistance....ie, one must enlighten to `the way'. We see many people harming themselves and making poor choices, but `we' don't interfere....we must let them fall and ruin themselves and take it on the chin.

I find the athiest ideas very interesting here. It shows how different our souls are...some remember, and others have forgotten, and many don't seek their original homes because many have forgotten where they live.

So what is the meaning of life? It is to go back home, of course. We can only go back home by cultivating back to our original selves. Apparently most leave home never to return again...well, that is my understanding. I once forgot my home...stumbled and fell and took it on the chin....and finally l had enough of the rot and started to remember my old home, and now l am making my way back.

Alligator shoes are not the point, it is the attachment of them that needs to be given up IF l am to go back home. Btw, vegan ethics are all twisted...few understand these ethics.
 
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So what is the meaning of life? It is to go back home, of course. We can only go back home by cultivating back to our original selves. Apparently most leave home never to return again...well, that is my understanding. I once forgot my home...stumbled and fell and took it on the chin....and finally l had enough of the rot and started to remember my old home, and now l am making my way back.
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Yes - we're all carbon lifeforms that are destined to go six feet under at some point or another. Plan accordingly.
 
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