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[angelos]

Being inspired by some WHT members having raised the topics about religion, I decided to ask you all about probably the most difficult question but that one who everybody is likely to have asked himself or herself one day. Is there a sense of life and what is it if so? I know, that's the question people can't find an answer to for ages, but I don't expect we suddenly get it today. I just want your some general comments on this topic. Later I'll say my word too.

Thank you for sparing time and reading this.

[freak]

Whatever it is, for me, it isn't glorifying God's name in whatever I do

[Uncle Bob]

The 'sense' of life is easy. Its for the universe to develop the ability to actually understand itself.

The 'meaning' of life on the other hand is a lot harder, since it's such a vague question .

[RajanUrs]

[QUOTE=angelos]What is the sense of life? QUOTE]




to live

[sasha]

Originally Posted by angelos

Being inspired by some WHT members having raised the topics about religion, I decided to ask you all about probably the most difficult question but that one who everybody is likely to have asked himself or herself one day. Is there a sense of life and what is it if so? I know, that's the question people can't find an answer to for ages, but I don't expect we suddenly get it today. I just want your some general comments on this topic. Later I'll say my word too.

Thank you for sparing time and reading this.

Since forever people try to answer that question and they did not come up with much. Religion is just one of the attempts to answer it. Personally I am fine with the idea that life generally has no reason or sense. If you put an ant on the basket-ball he will happily circle around and that ball will be his entire world. Why would we be so arrogant to assume that we can understand much more then that ant. We can judge and make conclusions based on human experience and that experience is limited with our physics but more then that, with our mind. The way I see it, life makes enough sense to itself and that is all it takes. It works the same way as cancer, it spreads around and it is driven by some built in force. No one is sure why and it makes no difference. All this is good thing. As life makes no much sense, you get to decide which sense it makes on your own (or if you lack that ability you can always grab one of the pre-canned answers).

[angelos]

Thank you all for your participation in this thread, but after I read your replies and correlated em' with my question I thought I'd probably failed to put it clearly. What I want to know is your opinion what people were born for? I mean people as a whole and everyone in particular. I just think that everyone better ask himself or herself such a question not when he or she gets, say, 99 years old, but earlier so that the time to pass on this planet wouldn't seem a mere waste.

[angelos]

Originally Posted by sasha

Since forever people try to answer that question and they did not come up with much. Religion is just one of the attempts to answer it. Personally I am fine with the idea that life generally has no reason or sense. If you put an ant on the basket-ball he will happily circle around and that ball will be his entire world. Why would we be so arrogant to assume that we can understand much more then that ant. We can judge and make conclusions based on human experience and that experience is limited with our physics but more then that, with our mind. The way I see it, life makes enough sense to itself and that is all it takes. It works the same way as cancer, it spreads around and it is driven by some built in force. No one is sure why and it makes no difference. All this is good thing. As life makes no much sense, you get to decide which sense it makes on your own (or if you lack that ability you can always grab one of the pre-canned answers).

You know, I had posted my reply before I read yours so I'd say that what your opinion is quite close to what I think myself if I got it right.

[angelos]

To my opinion, life has no sense as such. And as it was gifted to everyone of us without our priliminary consent, so to say, it's really up to us to decide how to spend the period of time here. There shouldn't be any pre-defined ways to follow indeed, however, as a mere mechanical existence is not what one would like to choose for himself or herself we've got to outline things that ought to be done before the dying day.

[etechsupport2]

IMO it is about fulfillment of needs and a constructive approach towards life and reality.

[GoTek-JP]

I think by asking the question you answer it.

[bigdavestar]

I think it's about learning and giving meaning for others to exist.

[Disgruntled]

It is to live long enough to produce or sire offspring, and to aid their survivability so that they can do more of the same.
And failing that, to indulge the instinct to survive that you inherited anyway, just in case it would have been useful to the above.

[angelos]

Originally Posted by Disgruntled

It is to live long enough to produce or sire offspring, and to aid their survivability so that they can do more of the same.
And failing that, to indulge the instinct to survive that you inherited anyway, just in case it would have been useful to the above.

What you said someone might call just a biological (reproductive) function of all living things. Animals do that by instinct, while human beings attach some philosophical meaning to this.

It's the easiest way to say that the sense of life is just to take as a fact that you were born and to continue to live giving birth to other human being. Everything may turn out much more difficult.

[Disgruntled]

Originally Posted by angelos

What you said someone might call just a biological (reproductive) function of all living things. Animals do that by instinct, while human beings attach some philosophical meaning to this.

It's the easiest way to say that the sense of life is just to take as a fact that you were born and to continue to live giving birth to other human being. Everything may turn out much more difficult.

Our temptation to attach deeper meaning may just be another survival technique. For example, it can help motivate one tribe to wipe out its neighbors ("Their deep meaning wasn't as good as ours"), and therefore be the reproducing survivor. It can often help preserve the tribe's gene pool at the expense of individuals.

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Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

Peggy Lee

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The ones who listen to the national anthem,
The ones who love their country,
The ones who keep going just to see how it will end,
Oh, yeah!

from opening sequence of Seven Beauties

[Influx]

To be! Of course.