Life is what you make of it, nothing more and nothing less.

For me life is seeking challenges, exploring the nature of life, worshipping myself, seeking knowlegde (knowlegde is power), and basically doing what I enjoy to do or feel good about.

I do not do these things for anybody else than me, because this is my life and I am the person of the greatest importance in my life. However, it is bound to leave an impact on others.

I do not belive in an afterlife, because there is no proof of this, not that I do not want to belive but I am not counting on it. But we stay immortal due to our actions. Reproduction is just one example of this.

Always a question that occurs in most likely everybody's mind at some point or another.

I have a couple "ideas" or "theories" if you will, as to what the meaning of life is, so if you'll bear with me here, I'll try to make it clear to you all what my views on this subject are.

I believe that life, from birth to death in itself... doesn't really have a point. Not by itself. To find the meaning of life itself however, you have to look at the greater picture, and that basically boils down to whether or not you believe in the existance of the human soul etc. Now, I have a very hard time trying to think that upon death we just float around in nothingness for no real reason.

I think, that the meaning of life itself lies within the meaning of the life of a soul. I truly do beleive, that people do go through many many lives, or at least their soul does... and each "life" is basically another learning lesson in its growth. As human children, we go to school, sit in a classroom amongst peers, and learn lessons. As souls, we get lives, and our classroom is the world we live in, and our peers are the entire population around us. It's like the old school days, all of us mixed into one setting, helping or hindering others depending on what level we're on, or what our soul is like. Just like we either befriend or belittle people, when we're in school.

Each individual lifetime, has a lesson to be learnt. This, is why we can be going through our lives, and come across people that we just feel so small in comparison to even if we're not sure why... and why there's other people that you hear about doing things, and it's just kind of like, "How the hell can they actually do that? Don't they realize that's wrong???" Well... chances are that they don't actually realize, that it's wrong. And chances are good, that is probably the lesson that their soul is here to learn about.

Past lessons learned, would be those things that we were just "born knowing" so to speak. Basically the morals and values of what is wrong and what is deemed right, it's really all basically the same, when you get right down to the basics, and the ones that you just "know" are the ones that you have in past lives, learned about and carried through with you to help you in this lesson, and guide you on the proper path, through this life.

Who knows what happens when we all get beyond the "classroom" stage of the soul.... much like life here, once you've "graduated" or whatnot, something bigger and better has to be available, but I really haven't thought about what on earth that could possibly be.

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I belive we were all on this earth for a reason all the people you meet change your life in some way you sometime probubly wont even notice it.I could go on but i dont feel like it.

I guess it's an experiance, although my biology book insists that it's because be have to instinctively survive as a species, therefore have kids....

I enjoy life, well, most of it....

Ooh!!!!

That brings up some more good points that relate to my "theory" though I doubt it's a "new theory" LoL

You know those people that you meet throughout your life, and you just grow really attached to them really quickly or something? Or the ones that you meet and you just feel like you've known them forever? They're the ones that you knew well in a past lifetime... and the ones that you see, and their face just seems SO familiar even though you know there's no possible way that you could ever have known that person before because perhaps your in a different country or something... perhaps they are someone who was close to you in a past life, and this is this life's little way of showing you that their soul is doing well, or at least showing you that they're doing okay... even if you don't realize it.

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I don't know if there is one point with life, but i definitly think that life has some meaning.
And even thou there is no meaning to life we all expect meaning.
Like when we send an application for something and we recieve the answer we expect that it was not all some lottery but that some people spend time reading it.

It could also be a question about supply and demand.
Maybe there is enough meaning in life but maybe we just look for too much of it.

The point of planting a tree, writing a book and having a child I don't believe were meant to be taken as literal accomplishments that once those goals are fullfilled you have lived 'Life'. I believe that it is HOW you do these things and what you learn from them....that is the meaning of life. The 'plant a tree' analogy symbolizes your connection to the earth and natural beauty that we are part of. 'Write a book', the concepts of inner searching and discipline. And procreation, gives the gift of unconditional love.
It's not so much WHAT you accomplish that is the meaning of life but more so the path you travel to get there.

I'm definately not reading over all of the posts on this. So I'll just throw in my idea here. Maybe this has been said, I don't know.

This question is, obviously, something everyone has wondered from time to time. And there is no definate way to answer it. Everyone is going to have a slightly different perspective on it, and its going to mean something different to everyone. I don't know if life has a meaning or not, but either way I'm sure as hell going to make the most of my time here.

Life is a stage, and we're all ad-libbing the parts.

There is a lot of things which people have had different ways to answer.... Religion there have been a million funny answers to the question about god, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a truth to find........

And here goes the quote saying "The Truth is out there"

I think you should change it to The truth is prolly out there

Woohoo! doebathory understands! *Hugs*

Yes indeed. We are a cosmic happenstance. Perhaps not a mistake -- I would tend to think that such coincidences have happened more than a few times, given that we have 200 million opportunities (or more) within only our own galaxy.
In any case, we are the result of an improbable chemical occurrance. Things have come a long way since then.

At our core we are animals like any other - nature works because species have a driving force to do as well as they can. We are not ones to resist nature certainly. If there really is a point to life outside our own minds, it is to fuck and have kids. Continuation of the species is where it's at, baby. Nature did a pretty good job of ensuring that we continue to do that -- who DOESN'T like orgasms, after all

So.. here we are. We just happened. No purpose, no point. Am I sad? Hell no. I've been given existence, and I intend to do with it what I damn well please. Fun is what my life is all about. Laughter, friendship, knowledge and learning. I love being here with you all; I thought I should throw that out there. I'm having fun right now I don't need a higher purpose, this is just fine for me thanks. We are like any fish or frog - we exist to exist, but we've made our trip so much more interesting.

By the way Desh - whats this nonsense about not having anything to enjoy? You're here aren't you? If you didn't like coming to this discussion board, why are you here and active? If feeling sorry for yourself doesn't bring you happiness, go find something that does. It is incumbant on YOU to find your point in life. Noone can tell you what your role is -- stop "killing time" and find something you love to do. We are given life arbitrarily by nature. It's your choise what you do with it, and to do nothing is to waste your greatest gift. Cheer up, friend, and be happy.

I could care less why we are here. It would be pretty cool to know, but I'm having enough fun to stabalize the question.

The answer is whatever you think it is

hmm...i had a witty comment to add here but i forgot so now i'm just going to say orgies should be on fridays.


oh yes i remember. things are easier said then done. plus i am finding way to improve my life. i seem to realize i prefer the accompanyment of children and senior citizens rather than peers my age. i don't know why. i hope you know enough strangers and people tell me to be happy or smile more often.

Isn't it good that people care enough to comment? I was really just trying to be friendly and extend a hand, take it or leave it. I had assumed that this would be a better option than being cold, unfeeling, and ignoring what you had to say. Am I wrong?

Hey Desh, I know where you're coming from. When I get disconnected from happiness and start getting bogged in the mire of depression and self doubt. Help someone else. Preferably children or old people. If that doesn't work try meditation, physical labour, or walking in a forest/beside the sea, art, acting, anything. Sometimes I get so caught up in the deep, darkness of my soul (I believe I have one) that it's hard to climb out into a world less then perfect. You're obviously a wonderful idealist and just need to find a way to express it.

i don't know. i can't say much for mankind. stuff are full of contradictions like "what are we doing by killing people who kill wrongly when our main purpose it just to say that killing people is wrong?"

as i said before thanks for your concern. i mean that.


now back to topic.

I don't find it logical that we can come to a complete understanding of the meaning of life. We can barely probe outside our own atmosphere, and can only guess as to how far the "universe" extends. Theory after theory are debunked as more modern technological advancements occur. From a time that it was unquestionably so that the earth was flat and was the center of the universe, to the Big Bang theory. Being human, we tend to think we are capable of knowing just about anything, although we can only use about 1/10 of our brain. If I were to give it a guess, it might something like this:
Considering we all consume each other generation after generation, and not an ounce of organic matter is ever wasted in a manner that eliminates eventual decomposure. It might be possible that we are all part of a larger living organic mass, just as cells and microorganisms are apart of us, and we're just as incapable of realizing such a thing as they are. And perhaps the pattern extends in both directions, smaller and larger, forming an even larger mass, and so on... Just an improvisational example. The possibilities are endless.