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23 Feb 2009, 12:51 am

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Meaning of Life


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23 Feb 2009, 12:57 am

According to Eric Berne: To answer the question "What will I do now?"


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23 Feb 2009, 12:58 am

"MEANING" human word, origin in human language, and the human species.
art and complex abstract thought traced some 175 000 years back, so ill give that age to the concept of "meaning", as a base.

_LIFE_ at least 3 billion years old.

i think that settles it.

stop searching, life was here before "meaning" was ;)



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23 Feb 2009, 10:11 pm

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We were meant to live life as a community and take responsibility for eachother. Life should be about helping everyone for the sake of helping everyone. That is the meaning of my life.


QFT

I'd like to make it the meaning of my life as well.
countzarroff you are very wise if you truly believe this.



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23 Feb 2009, 10:22 pm

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Lets power through this. If anyones anyone can come up with the meaning of life, it'll probably be an aspie or autie (or speckie for anyone on the spectrum). So post the first meaning that comes into your head. I'll start. (Try to be original. ie. no 42's)

To perfect something.


Meaning of which life?

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25 Feb 2009, 11:52 pm

ZEGH8578 wrote:
"MEANING" human word, origin in human language, and the human species.
art and complex abstract thought traced some 175 000 years back, so ill give that age to the concept of "meaning", as a base.

_LIFE_ at least 3 billion years old.

i think that settles it.

stop searching, life was here before "meaning" was ;)


Existence precedes essence, I guess that's how they called it.



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28 Feb 2009, 3:43 am

Meaning is a mere relation, and as such exists in plenty between subjects and objects.


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28 Feb 2009, 6:53 am

skafather84 wrote:
meaning is only significant to the individual. shared significance is meaningless and so is meaning.


people always ask for the meaning of life like as if there HAS to be one.


such arrogance.


It is a natural inclination. We tend to think of the world in our own local terms. That is why primitive folk believed that storms and earthquakes and eruptions were the anger of the gods. It has only been in the last 5 or 6 thousand years that people have started to think of the world in natural terms, and not in terms of our childish imaginations. That idea of natural laws did not come about until the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers started asking questions like: what is the world made of, how does the world operate, what are the rules of the game?

Once we got out of the habit of believing that the world was run by angry and capricious Demons we set out on the road to reason.

Even in an age of scientific sophistication, we start out training our intuition to see the world in human scale. We overcome that with study and mathematics, but we first fall into the groove that Man is the Measure of All Things. It just ain't so.

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