<p>why can’t Prophet Mo come down (on a winged horse) and show his face already gattdammnn!!!</p>
<p>To disregard females and acquire currency?</p>
<p>^ Maybe not “disregard females”. You kind of need us to reproduce … or the world will DIE! </p>
<p>Eh, but the world is supposedly coming to an end in 2 years. I’m preparing myself for this event by digging a huge hole in my basement and hiding food, water, vitamins – important stuff. I predict a big tornado will sweep the Earth and then we don’t have to worry about the meaning of life.</p>
<p>You must have not heard, but it’s going to be an underground super-tornado. So much for surviving in a hole in your basement…</p>
<p>^ Really? Shiiiiiii … :(</p>
<p>^ Trust me it’s better to die during the catastrophe, rather than living through the hell afterward.</p>
<p>happiness :)</p>
<p>If there’s no meaning to life. . . that explains why there’s no hope. . . and why many people commit sucide. Why should I go through the crap I’ve already put up for living on this planet?? Give me a good reason why I shouldn’t just kill myself.</p>
<p>There’s no * intrinsic * meaning to life, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have ultimate goals and the like to make your existence worthwhile.</p>
<p>As for you living over dying, the choice is easy for me. I value being alive more than I value being dead (especially because there is so much uncertainty to death. It’s difficult for me to value things I don’t understand)</p>
<p>But if you do value death more than life, go ahead and kill yourself. You might cause grief to others, but it’s ultimately your decision.</p>
<p>Only on CC would I enter a thread with the intention of posting the ever-geeky 42… and be beat out by not one, but two other posters. </p>
<p>Other than that, philosophy/theology is way too complicated for me to even try to tackle. The point is that no one freaking knows. So I just hang out in my Catholic church and [sometimes] pay attention to my priest (even if I feel like most of it’s BS on some days). If none of it exists? Great. Fine. Whatever. No one’s gonna know the difference once they’re dead anyway. But on the chance that it does exist? I’m gonna follow through with the traditions and hold onto a belief in something so that I have some kind of moral foundation in my life.</p>
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<p>i don’t believe in anything. does that mean i have no moral foundation in my life? :/</p>
<p>^ On the contrary, I feel that those without religion (who are good people of course) have a stronger moral foundation bc they do not need the incentive of a blissful heaven filled with rewards or the tortuous punishment of hell to be good people…they just simply are. Being selfless, humble, benevolent, charitable, loyal etc. in order to achieve reward/avoid punishment is the antithesis of all of those atributes.</p>
<p>One could argue that only actions matter, not motives but motives do matter… However, if you need religion in order to have those characteristics, well then, have religion. Religion, I feel, was created for that very purpose. Not every person is naturally that way so leaders created this in order to keep their subjects in line.</p>
<p>But to answer your question about the “greater” meaning of life, I would say that there is none. No supreme being. No plan. No later lives. It is conceited to believe so. When a bug dies does it have an afterlife? When a groundhog runs in front of a car did a divine deity intend for that to happen? If your goldfish dies is it reincarnated if it was a “good fish”? Any logical person would argue “No”. So why are humans any different? We’re not.</p>
<p>However, as nonantianarachist put it, lifeis BETTER than death bc death has the possibility of being nothing. Life is (or so we think) SOMETHING. And as Voltaire I believe, said it is better to exist than not to exist. With life you have happiness, love, knowledge, pleasure, feelings and with death you may have nothing.</p>
<p>And in regards to the reproduction debate, that is related to evolution, nothing more. Animals that reproduce continue to spread their species, while animals that do not die out. It merely that, our nonancestors that did not have such a desire are not our ancestors, therefore we do not share their antireproduction genes.</p>
<p>Or, in death, you get the ultimate heaven with chocolate, rainbows, and bunnies that feed you grapes (purple, not green). We’re taking a chance by living too, but probably not a very big one.</p>
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<p>I was speaking for myself, not you or anyone else. I believe that if I didn’t have, at least a backbone of something to “look up to” in the back of my mind (ie: the wrath of God, the threat of Hell, consequences of committing mortal sin), staying on a total path of morality would be difficult. I guess it could be a lack of faith in myself, but it’s just the way I was raised.</p>