zraskolnikov said:
This is an easy question. Just ask yourself, "why am I here?" (And before you people go off on an existentialist rant, by "here" I mean "a lonely life". )
The reason people don't know the meaning of life is because they're too busy searching for it within themselves. It will never be there, because the meaning of life for everyone is in the people they love.
That's why most of us are here, isn't it? Because we're missing those special someones. We're missing people we can count on. We're missing companionship, we're missing relationships, and above all, we're missing love.
The meaning of life is simple: Find the people for whom you care, love them to the best of your ability and with the purest and passionate of emotions, and you will have understood what it means to have lived.
That was an awesome answer gives you a lot to think about, thank you very much for that
*claps enthusiastically*
Your defining life by what we feel we are lacking in it, what we feel we should achieve, namely love, very interesting, never thought of it that way
I would say that there is no meaning to life. Life is simply a byproduct of events that happened in the universe, not to say they are random events because they could not have unfolded any other way(think about that...).And to me there is nothing wrong with having no meaning, just be happy you got here and enjoy all the things you can do like intelligent thought and...idk bench pressing stuff...?
There's something comforting about knowing you have no meaning, there is nothing expected of you and you are free to write your own destiny, and while you have no innate purpose, you are here along with others you might as well live life to it's fullest while living as moral a life as possible
Now...That's what the hyper rational side of me that I kinda hate would say, but the rest of me would say something like this:
Life is strange cookie when you think about it, the only things that separate us from inanimate objects are things like metabolism, reproduction, growth and reaction to stimuli, but really we are matter, matter arranged in such a way that collectively it has the ability to do all those things. Just like rocks we exist, who is to say we are superior to rocks, sure we can do more actions than rocks, but they exist just as much as we do as matter arranged in such a way that it is a rock. What we call life is just our higher sense of awareness that we exist
When the first organisms of life were forming, what caused the first DNA strand to divide? I mean think about it that is a damn complicated process that requires enzymes to be present, even if the enzymes weren't present and physical forces caused the DNA strands apart, what caused them to rebuild themselves a second strand to coil around? I'm thinking it was probably chemically, there were active sites for things to bond to so organic compounds in the water ran into their spots and presto another DNA strand was made. That's how it was in the beginning, but then organisms started to purposely divide, they wanted to continue on their genetic legacy. Then complicated organisms like dolphins started doing things that weren't directly related to preserving their life and offspring, things like rubbing on pebbly shore beds, just because it felt good to them so they got another meaning to live, to find happiness and pleasure.
Then we came along, we who do things that aren't related to reproduction or preservation of life on a very regular basis. We can have any number of meanings to our lives whatever we want it to be, we can dedicate our lives to helping others or building Rubik's cubes,music, anything at all. We are such varied creatures that no one meaning applies to everyone, sure we all have the purpose to reproduce, but one can shirk that duty and still feel satisfied with life, I mean come on we can all take solace in the fact that the human species will continue into the future (breeding wise) with or without us... So for me the meaning of life is to find your own personal meaning in it and the beauty of our lives is that it can be infinitely anything
Sorry that was pretty long.....
