What is the meaning of life?, page 2


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reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:12 AM by Republican08
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Glad you commented on it, the thread is purely for speculation, and although some thing I go for stars flags, or hey Good jobs. I don't.

I thoroughly look over the posts, and ponder them (nerdily ) for my own speculation.

I honestly have nothing to rebuttal your post, nor go along with your post, Sorry wish I did, it was good in its entirety.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:15 AM by XXXN3O
Originally posted by Republican08
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post by XXXN3O



Glad you commented on it, the thread is purely for speculation, and although some thing I go for stars flags, or hey Good jobs. I don't.

I thoroughly look over the posts, and ponder them (nerdily ) for my own speculation.

I honestly have nothing to rebuttal your post, nor go along with your post, Sorry wish I did, it was good in its entirety.


I will say one thing.

I understand speculation and I still do not understand why speculating on the meaning of life can be a blasphemy to some christian denominations.

Sorry to hear of your loss.




reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:30 AM by Republican08
reply to post by XXXN3O



It can be a blasphemy, christians, islamists, and hindus, and many others, do not like having what they see as sheer fact go under scrutiny.

and I completely understand, as a once devout christian, I would supress and get angered by anything that was in opposition of christianity, i understand the mindset.

As for the loss of a parent, it was odd, but not bizarre, noone lives forever, and for me to be mentally, physically, or emotionally surpressed or obscured by it is silly, 100 billion people estimated have lived and died, for my life to be turned over by one of the deaths is ridiculous, I lost a friend, but I kept the memories.

Same with the next loss to come.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:40 AM by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Republican08



Meaning of Life? I always thought it was Forty-Two, or was that the answer to life?

Honestly I think the Meaning of Life is to find meaning in life, find it however you can and have a good time. Life is short, and trying to find some deeper meaning and taking it too seriously just ruins it, have a good time, be entirely 100% free.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:47 AM by XXXN3O
Originally posted by Republican08
reply to
post by XXXN3O



It can be a blasphemy, christians, islamists, and hindus, and many others, do not like having what they see as sheer fact go under scrutiny.

and I completely understand, as a once devout christian, I would supress and get angered by anything that was in opposition of christianity, i understand the mindset.

As for the loss of a parent, it was odd, but not bizarre, noone lives forever, and for me to be mentally, physically, or emotionally surpressed or obscured by it is silly, 100 billion people estimated have lived and died, for my life to be turned over by one of the deaths is ridiculous, I lost a friend, but I kept the memories.

Same with the next loss to come.


I cant speak for all christians, islamists or hindus but as a christian I do have to say that in the bible the end meaning of life or exactly what is to come after life is not entirely explained in any detail. Therefore in my eyes its a good thing to think about if you want too, if you do not then do just that. I cannot find anything in the bible I use that says you must never think about what comes after life or what mankinds ultimate purpose is. It does however say that even angels marvel at mans purpose. I was however given a brain as well as everyone else. Nothing wrong in using it if you want too.

I do not understand what denomination you were part of, sounds catholic to me to be honest but I have no idea. I go to church and have yet to be requested to donate, told I cannot think like that, I dont confess my own sins to anyone but god either, I also enjoy some good debates with the minister, if I miss church nothing is said or judged, the people that go are very open minded to questions etc, considerate and they completely acknowledge nobody including themselves are perfect which is also in the bible as well.

We will all find out when we are not here anyways. Then we can argue about it on ATS 2 if we have an internet that is.

[edit on 16-7-2009 by XXXN3O]


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 03:56 AM by TurkeyBurgers
Originally posted by Republican08
Originally posted by TurkeyBurgers
I understand the meaning of life to be to process data.

Life exists solely to process data. The Universe contains such a huge amount of data that requires processing and that is the purpose of life to process that data.

Eventually human lifeforms will reach a point where they are capable of processing every piece of data in the Entire Universe.

Once we reach that point, if there are other Universes or other dimensions we will also go on to process every piece of data in those realms.

If there are infinite Universe or Infinite Dimensions then our quest to process data will never end.

"Always chasing that white mouse" as they say.


Wow what an immensely hard thing to grasp?

How did you come to this conclusion, is what i'd really like to ask?

Not to debate or whatever... just to research and things, it's pretty nice way of thought, and would like to see why you think this way.


I actually came to this conclusion the other night while having a great conversation with another board member Badmedia.

I realized that EVERYTHING we do is a simple Zero/One choice like a computer.

Every decision is based off of a simple 1/0 Yes/No decision.

EVERY life form processes data. From the simplest creatures to us the life forms on Earth with the most processing power.

I do not consider emotion to be spiritual but instead to be a chemical that can affect the 1/0 Yes/No decision making process of the Human Mind Computer.

When we are happy it is just chemicals being released. When we are Angry it is another chemical. The same with sadness or fear.

That is not to say I do not make every attempt to laugh in life. Lets face it when you laugh it is a GREAT drug being released. I want that drug and not the sadness or anger drug.

I am really starting to see that humans cannot stand to not try and solve a puzzle. We are such puzzle solving creatures! Be it trying to figure out how to "beat the system" and get a good deal on a purchase, or to get a really good haircut that others in our society will find stimulating, or commit a crime and get away with it, or attempting to talk to that gorgeous human we see every day at the music store.

We process data. Data data data. We just do it on an enormous scale. Maybe millions of calculations every single day. Maybe billions or trillions!

When I get my mind fired up and start to think of all of the thoughts that combine to form even the SIMPLEST of thoughts it can get to be an ENORMOUS figure. GIGANTIC amounts of processing for even the simplest action of scratching an itch.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 04:00 AM by Republican08
reply to post by TurkeyBurgers



Oh god, you talked to badmedia!

I couldn't and avoid doing that, because I see their posts, and am in bewilderment at that, I couldn't imagine a one on one constant talk.

They are a good person, just so noone thinks i'm putting this user down, i'm not in any way, if anything i'm doing the upset, OK!

I understand it now. Added as friend too.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 04:08 AM by wyleecoyote
reply to post by Republican08



After many years of travel and much soul searching, on top of a mountain high in the Andes, I finally found the meaning of life.

I would share it with you, but a Christian mod would probably find it offensive, dock me 1000 points and remove my post so I'll not waste my time typing it.



reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 04:16 AM by TurkeyBurgers
reply to post by Republican08



I will say this for Badmedia. He has forced me to do some seriously hardcore research about my beliefs and changed some and pushed others so far beyond the brink in a very short time span.

He (I think Badmedia is a he) seems to be a VERY educated person especially in the field of computers and Intelligence way beyond any type of education I have ever had. I just could not understand how he was trying to explain what he did not want to call a "Soul" or a "Spirit" he kept calling consciousness an "Observer" and it hit me like a freaking mack truck that what we consider to be the observer who is observing the observer is an inaccurate description for consciousness.

It was so very SIMPLE that I could not believe it! It was just the MASSIVENESS of processing that gave us the ability to do so many computations so extremely fast all at the same time that was what we were.

I could not believe that I had never thought of it like that before. But it took someone else's stubbornness for me to actually come to that conclusion.

If Badmedia had phrased it any other way I do not think I would have made that quantum leap.

I told him if you can give me a definition for consciousness than wouldn't it be reasonable to say that definition will be a set of laws or rules that could be applied to programming?

That is where the light bulb came on for me and I said NO WAY this is not happening!

I might be completely wrong and would strongly encourage anyone to challenge my belief.

But the undeniable simplicity of it all was just so ...I do not know how to describe it....It just kind of made all of the pieces fit for me regarding "Why".

Like Carl Sagan said
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. "


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 04:22 AM by Republican08
Originally posted by wyleecoyote
reply to
post by Republican08



After many years of travel and much soul searching, on top of a mountain high in the Andes, I finally found the meaning of life.

I would share it with you, but a Christian mod would probably find it offensive, dock me 1000 points and remove my post so I'll not waste my time typing it.


thats why we have U2U, I don't care about flags or post counts or those funny little stars, I'd trully like to hear it (and find a way to spell Trully?) Please U2U me if you read this.


reply posted on 16-7-2009 @ 05:08 AM by Sendran
reply to post by Republican08



Many thanks for your comment. *tips hat*

An excellent question, possibly one of the most important questions we must consider. Thanks for starting the thread, I have found the answers given quite interesting.
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