The meaning of life.
I used to think the meaning of life was a good steak dinner with a baked potato.
But you know how we skeptics are, we doubt and double check premises, we test our assertions and adapt to reality. So I questioned my understanding of the meaning of life and asked my brothers.
Brother #1 has a higher than above average IQ and he said: "Darrell, why does there have to be meaning in life?"
Brother #2, yeah ok, he's half bright, said "Darrell, the meaning of life is to live a life of meaning."
I'm just trying to add meaning to an existance I don't recall asking for. To be more than the mere result of my parents' happenstance aroused hot romp in the haysack.
Is this life just for the moment we live? I think I shall be after death precisely what I was before my parents hot romping, namely, nothing and unaware. Hence, all those who claim to be saved will never know that they weren't.
Anyway, what am I missing? My question to you good folk is:
Is the meaning of life a good steak dinner or something more profound?
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"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way."
Monty Python....
Sofabeast
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Nov 27, 2018
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You get to decide. We are lucky to have the choice to direct our own lives, within limits. For most of mankind's existence, an individual's purpose was usually dictated by the society they lived in. For most of history, a person's life didn't belong to him -- now it does -- at least in societies that have embraced Western culture. Thanks to the enlightenment ideas that led to capitalism, we are now prosperous enough to have many choices. It is unfortunate that many have chosen to undercut the ideas and system that gave us such prosperity and choices.
sfvpool
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Nov 27, 2018
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I was thinking about this question one day when I found the answer staring it in my face. Sex is the purpose of life. That’s right. It’s essentially to fuck.
MrControversy
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Nov 27, 2018
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