I say Love, Happiness, Helping Others, and Fulfilling Your Dreams.

is 42...sorry, couldn't resist :D

I say Love, Happiness, Helping Others, and Fulfilling Your Dreams.


I'd say I agree with that.

is 42...sorry, couldn't resist :D

Well, technically that's the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, not the "Meaning of Life"... I went with the Python movie only: I don't believe there *is* any underlying meaning to life.

Love
Helping Others
Monty Python flick

Love, Happiness, and Helping Others.

Tanya

All of those things are concepts that give meaning TO life. They aren't the meaning OF life. If they were, then dogs and cats and monkeys and elephants would all be speculating on the stockmarket and sending each other Valentines. Humans are the only creatures who contemplate the meaning of life, because we're the only ones to understand the concept of mortality. If we weren't aware of the fact that one day we're going to die, we'd never ask why we live in the first place.

I can't see a tangible meaning to life. I just can't, no matter where I look... so I have stopped looking.

Well I can't answer that but I am reading a book right now that explains the purpose of life very very well. I too am curious about that topic and have found that "A Purpose of a Driven Life" by Rick Warren does a great job of explaining. Please read it.....it has changed my entire outlook on life.  ::)

42!  ::)

Sorry.... couldn't help myself!  ;D

Once around the block and no more...so bloody well enjoy...!!

Oh, and a Python movie...!!

'Would zir care for a waffer-thin mint?'

Get real. 

Well I can't answer that but I am reading a book right now that explains the purpose of life very very well. I too am curious about that topic and have found that "A Purpose of a Driven Life" by Rick Warren does a great job of explaining. Please read it.....it has changed my entire outlook on life.  ::)


And Rick Warren should know!  ::)

And Rick Warren should know!  ::)
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;D Yeah my entry was kinda generic in explination, and I look back at it now and realize how bad it sounds, let me explain:

The book is written from what the Bible says the purpose of life is. It is hard to understand the Bible sometimes because of the parables, old English styles, etc. so he explains it in todays terms. It really helped me to understand God's purpose for my life, instead of me trying to figure it out. God gave us the answers in His word, most of us are just not aware of it and search all of our lives for the answers. We get to wrapped up on our views of God......but I think we should be more concerned about how God views us.

Hopefully I cleared that up,( I see more arguements coming about what I just said tough  ;))

I was wondering if you were talking about the magazine or the cereal.  :D



I chose, Love, Happiness, Fullfilling your Dreams, Helping others, and a Monty Python movie.




Cat

A Monty Python movie is very much about the meaning of life, but I voted for love, happieness, helping others, and fullfilling your dreams.  I have, or have done all of them, and hope to continue doing so.  Good luck to you all.

The first 5 items sum it up. 8)

Love, Happiness, and Helping others. :)

I'm at a loss for words on this question.
I just picked a monty python movie out of sheer confusion.

LOVE, dude.

Everything else emanates from that, so that is the only answer you need.

Ther is no "meaning of life" except to live.

^Ah, very true my friend. The meaning of life is indeed to live. But what is living to YOU? That is the important question. Its something different for everyone. Kind of like what Jack Palance was talking about in "City Slickers". Its weird to reference a comedy film for a philosophical point, but its true.

It's weird to reference a comedy film for a philosophical point, but its true.

Not weird at all, Alex: the best comedy (and City Slickers is definitely one of the better ones) often has a philosophical point to make.  Or possibly to make fun of, but hey, that's comedy, right?

Sometimes I wonder if we're simply the raw materials for the real universe God is making. This would also perhaps shed light on the problem of evil: those who suffer the hottest temperatures and the hardest, most prolonged blows are being sculpted into something of indescribable beauty...

Sometimes I wonder if we're simply the raw materials for the real universe God is making. This would also perhaps shed light on the problem of evil: those who suffer the hottest temperatures and the hardest, most prolonged blows are being sculpted into something of indescribable beauty...


I can't buy into that.  The God and the Goddess made what is, and gave us the terrible gifts of reason, free will, and self consciousness, setting us apart from the beasts of the fields.  Why?  As to evil, it is a thing of our invention.  I saw a cat yesterday eating what had been a Scarlet Taninger.  Was the cat evil?  No, it was "cat", neither good nor evil.  You see, without "good" there can be no "evil".  Its a dialectical relationship - opposits, neither of which could exist without the other.

I can't buy into that.  The God and the Goddess made what is, and gave us the terrible gifts of reason, free will, and self consciousness, setting us apart from the beasts of the fields.  Why?  As to evil, it is a thing of our invention.  I saw a cat yesterday eating what had been a Scarlet Taninger.  Was the cat evil?  No, it was "cat", neither good nor evil.  You see, without "good" there can be no "evil".  Its a dialectical relationship - opposits, neither of which could exist without the other.


If I understand you correctly, I agree with you--to a point, and in a highly nuanced way. If I may use the traditional Judeo-Christian symbols--God planted the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden. He did this for a reason. He knew that we would partake; it fact, it was necessary that we do so, and that's probably why He forbade it ;D. You are correct that these are terrible gifts, but He (I use the masculine pronoun as a matter of historical and linguistic convenience) knows that they are teleologically necessary. Satan--the Accuser, the Prosecuting attorney--has access to God in Heaven; in fact, is one of His most trusted assisstants (cf. The Book of Job). If you invoke dialectic, then you know that thesis and antithesis create--synthesis. The Creation is a painting, not a movie. The darkness accentuates the light. Christ plus Judas equals Resurrection--in no other way is it possible, at least for our current state of consciousness.  --What the hell was I talking about...? :-\\

"Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper."
    - Cohen the Barbarian

And he would know a lot about the meaning of life... having been alive for so long