Yay! You're a nerd, too!fearfaoin wrote:Tee-hee. That's dangerously close to 42.Congratulations wrote:For the record: I officially change my answer to INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
Question of all questions
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Re: Question of all questions
The question is the answer.breqwas wrote:What is the meaning and essence of human life?
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I like James Taylor's answer: "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
OK - I had to alter the question a little, but I think it still works.
OK - I had to alter the question a little, but I think it still works.
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When I was younger, I thought that I needed an answer to existential questions. I discovered that the only answer that I really need is "yes", which is an affirmation of Life. I try to help others whenever I can, and I try to remain at peace with myself. James Taylor's lyric of enjoying the passage of time works for me as well.
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Meaning continually eludes me, so I tend to suspect there is none, although Walden's answer hits a most fundamental chord; Buber comes to mind (but let's please not examine that fellow too far; he puts me to sleep. Buber, that is, not Walden. Buber could have learned from Walden how to cut to the chase ).
I think when it comes to life it's more doable, if not better, to pursue meaningfulness rather than meaning.
I think when it comes to life it's more doable, if not better, to pursue meaningfulness rather than meaning.
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You come to consciousness after not really remembering being born.
You have a childhood in which everything seems very powerful and strange.
You become an adult and face a few decades of constantly realizing you're foolish and not yet an adult.
You start to wise up just as your body shows sure signs of decay and impending death.
Somewhere along the way you develop concepts of things you can't sense and they become more powerful, somewhat superseding what you can sense.
You spend a few decades in decline then die. With any luck, you have some sort of resurrection or redemption that made it all worth it.
Along the way, you spend a lot of time in discourse, trying to understand everything I just stated. If you're lucky, you will have experienced the most profound emotions of love, companionship and parental achievement (i.e. seeing your spawn grow and thrive).
Happy Easter or other Spring celebration to all.
You have a childhood in which everything seems very powerful and strange.
You become an adult and face a few decades of constantly realizing you're foolish and not yet an adult.
You start to wise up just as your body shows sure signs of decay and impending death.
Somewhere along the way you develop concepts of things you can't sense and they become more powerful, somewhat superseding what you can sense.
You spend a few decades in decline then die. With any luck, you have some sort of resurrection or redemption that made it all worth it.
Along the way, you spend a lot of time in discourse, trying to understand everything I just stated. If you're lucky, you will have experienced the most profound emotions of love, companionship and parental achievement (i.e. seeing your spawn grow and thrive).
Happy Easter or other Spring celebration to all.
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The essence of life?
What one does with the people who have been entrusted to us for a mere moment or a lifetime, for each, a moment or a series of moments, is time in which we may in word or deed reflect that to which our hearts clings most dearly, and a time of the possibility for transformation.
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What one does with the people who have been entrusted to us for a mere moment or a lifetime, for each, a moment or a series of moments, is time in which we may in word or deed reflect that to which our hearts clings most dearly, and a time of the possibility for transformation.
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The sacrificing of virgins and the sending of their souls to baphomet....
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I think the meaning of life depends on from what or whose perspective you are answering from, but it all comes down to the simple premise that we create that which exists, so we give life its meaning and that's the essence of it.
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