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<p>What’s wrong with finding meaning in enjoying your life? If you love doing work and helping people out, then why should you feel guilty because it might all be for nothing?</p>
<p>Hoosana Hoosana!</p>
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<p>I thought John Locke was into the whole “tabula rasa” thing, except not how behaviorists used it. On the other hand, that belief seems to match those of Carl Rogers. I’m not really sure; I’m not into philosophy, which is why I’m not going to write anything substantial.</p>
<p>The meaning of life is whatever you want/think/will it to be. That’s the beauty of it.</p>
<p>Oh and also the purpose of life is to have sex. LOTS of unsafe, crude, animalistic sex.</p>
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<p>No, I’d feel bad because I’d be depriving somebody else of his happiness in life. But then again, if it happened, then it really doesn’t matter because he’d have still had to die and he should have been happy theoretically speaking. </p>
<p>Either way, I don’t think that situation would lend itself to me very easily. I do things because I feel like it. For me personally, I don’t think that the sun would make me want to kill someone. For Meursault, that was true (absurd as it is, but Camus was absurdist anyway). But it’s not a moral thing at all- in the end, it really doesn’t matter if I kill someone in the end. Only society would judge me and after I die, you would be in the same place I would be.</p>
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<p>Oh, that’s BS. It’s a cop-out from actually thinking things out. If there is a God, then we’re powerless and really don’t have a say as to what we do as God is all mighty and knows what we’ll do before we do it. If there isn’t a God, then we’re all powerful and responsible for our actions. So in the end, our job is to A) serve God or B) live out our meaningless lives.</p>
<p>“It’s a cop-out from actually thinking things out. If there is a God, then we’re powerless and really don’t have a say as to what we do as God is all mighty and knows what we’ll do before we do it. If there isn’t a God, then we’re all powerful and responsible for our actions. So in the end, our job is to A) serve God or B) live out our meaningless lives.”</p>
<p>But if we have free will, that means that God doesn’t control what we do, he only knows what we’ll do before we do it. That’s not the same thing as controlling what we do. With or without God we’re still responsible for our actions. If God exists, we wouldn’t be as powerful as him, but we’d still have the power to make our own decisions.</p>
<p>^ Only because he gave it to us. When God wants to, he can just take it away.</p>
<p>“When God wants to, he can just take it away.”</p>
<p>Without free will, there is no such thing as love, because to truly love someone there needs to be the freedom to love or not love any given person. God’s plan was for us to love each other and love him, which is only possible through free will. If he did not want us to love him, then there would be no need for free will, but there is a need, so our free will stays intact.</p>
<p>Look, it’s 42.</p>
<p>End of story. ;)</p>
<p>HA HA. Good Hitchhiker’s allusion, phony/Infinite_Truth. ;)</p>
<p>Nonetheless, most people in the world do not believe that all people die in the end, or that humanity will destroy itself, or that there is no meaning to life, or that life is what you make of it. Most people believe in; destiny, eternal immortality, and a purposeful life.</p>
<p>I don’t feel like arguing if that’s true or not, but those are the “common” world beliefs. If a politician came out and disagreed with any of those, esp. in the US, he would get his butt trounced against almost any other candidate.</p>
<p>I guess it all comes down to whether life is what we make of it, life has an objective meaning but we don’t know exactly what it is, or life has no meaning at all.</p>
<p>Since when did Infinite_Truth be the polling center of the world?</p>
<p>Most of the world believing in something does not give it any credit. Need I give any examples?</p>
<p>You could think that there is no free will because all of your decisions are just products of previous decisions but that would get you nowhere. That is like saying you can not prove anything to be real therefore not accepting reality.</p>
<p>Life is what you make it. There is nothing else to it. There is no reason for us to be here. We are not serving a greater purpose. We do not live on eternally, go to heaven/hell, or anyother of these ‘comforting’ myths. </p>
<p>This may sound a little depressing but to me and after you think about it becomes absolutely the opposite. We are not little pawns in God’s plan. We are the most powerful beings on our planet. We are living life the best there is. We have free will and we can do what we want. There is no arbitrary power we have to abide by, just the power of nature and of our peers. </p>
<p>Life IS what you make it. Nothing more, nothing less. We all die…who cares? It does not mean we can not enjoy a meaningful life right now, right here.</p>
<p>Well, I am religious but I believe in free will and my choices make the eventual meaning in my actions. </p>
<p>The meaning of life is too overrated, stemming from a bunch of people who refuse to accept their own insignificance in the vastness of the universe. Let’s just accept the fact that we live on a small planet, among billions of stars in our galaxy(the milky way), among billions of galaxies in the known universe, among an infinite number of possible parallel universes.</p>
<p>Conflict: from subatomic particles annihilating each other, to our wars for resources here on Earth, to a black hole leeching matter from a nearby star, it’s all about violent, brutal, primal conflict. </p>
<p>So do your part, and go take something forcibly.</p>
<p>"We are the most powerful beings on our planet. "</p>
<p>I have to disagree. If we were the most powerful beings on the planet, we wouldn’t be killed by weather (such as hurricanes, tornadoes, ect.) or animals or the earth itself (i.e. earthquakes, tsunamis, ect.).</p>
<p>Solipsism, nihilism, fallibilism, panagnosticism… these are the kinds of terms I would use to form an argument…</p>
<p>What does one mean by the “meaning” of life anyways? </p>
<p>About 14 billion years ago, a singularity of almost infinite density began to expand, marking the beginning of time AND space. Eventually stars and galaxies began to form. The sun formed about 5 billion years ago from contracting gas in a nebula, the accretion disk around it created the earth, along with the other planets. Earth had very good conditions for life to exist and evolve. When the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid hundreds of millions of years ago, it gave the mammals a chance to evolve freely. And here we are, having been evolved from the mammals. In about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen to burn in its core, and expand into a red giant, 10 times its current size; earth will be toast – if there are still people on earth at that time, they would probably want to start planet hopping there way to safety. Eventually the sun will shed its outer layers (it will look something like the Ring Nebula in the constllation Lyra) and leave behind a white dwarf (its core of very dense matter). Eventually, there will be no hydrogen left to form stars, so all life that ever existed in the Universe will eventually be gone. As for the end of the Universe, there are numerous theories which I won’t go into. </p>
<p>And that’s it; there’s no “meaning”, life just exists where conditions are good (there’s water, carbon, oxygen, magnetic field to protect from the sun’s solar wind, good distance from the sun, etc) – WE exist because an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. If it hadn’t, dinosaurs will probably still be around.</p>
<p>""We are the most powerful beings on our planet. "</p>
<p>I have to disagree. If we were the most powerful beings on the planet, we wouldn’t be killed by weather (such as hurricanes, tornadoes, ect.) or animals or the earth itself (i.e. earthquakes, tsunamis, ect.)."</p>
<p>We are the most intelligent - and I guess that makes us the most powerful. Weather is just the result of what goes on in the atmosphere.</p>