Another late night, pretty tired, but again feeling philosophical, so here goes.

When it all comes down to it, the right and wrong, good and bad, conspiracy for better or worse, all comes down your priorities - whats important to you.
Basically your purpose in life.

Here's a few options - I'd love to get general consensus of what makes people tick.

There's the survival purpose. Not specifically to pro-create, but avoid risks, and live as long as possible. Not really with a purpose.

Pro-creation - survival of the species. make as many babies as you can, hope enough survive to take care of you in your old age.

He who has the most toys wins. Sometimes mistaken for those with a small dick. Money is everything. Fancy cars, dinner parties, clothes, holidays and full body massages (god they feel good). Friends, family, health can all get f&cked as long as I have money and the biggest TV money can buy. Oh, did I mention the money?

Finally, life is beautiful. And #, all at the same time. Stop to smell the flowers, and the look at the stars at night. Fantastic! But damn the developers and the corporations for ruining the planet.

Basically, life just is. I think the 'meaning of life' is a meta-phrase. The meaning of life is the journey to find the meaning of life.

IMO the western world has lost the most of the wonder of life - the beauty, mystery, spirit of being alive. In favour of reality TV and (have I mentioned?) MONEY.

All we need to do is talk about it - think about it. Why? Is this a result of the NWO? Or is it just us being human?

Keen to your hear your thoughts.

Finally, minor spot quiz. 9/11 - muslim terrorists or inside job? And hell - has man ever walked on the moon?

Before answering this minor spot quiz, think about another point I make about the western world. That about being dumbed down, and brainwashed with mindless television. How much simple physics do you understand? Take a deep breath and listen to the arguments with an open mind.

Peace. And good night.

I have no idea as to the meaning of life

and I never have


Many older people I've spoken with through life have said the same thing


I'm not sure there is meaning, anymore than there's any real meaning to any life form, be it a dandelion or African lion

We produce more of ourselves because it's just what we do

Through it all we stuggle to provide and exist while our bodies fight death automatically

At times, I suspect all life on this planet is akin to an experiment which was abandoned

Just wanted to add:

The meaning of life is to live! I know that sounds extremely obvious and simple as an answer but seriously the purpose of life is to live.

Enjoy the simple things; the smell of freshly cut grass, the sun shining down on your neck and even the cold rain in a storm.

It's these simple things, in my opinion, that remind us we are alive, we're blessed just simply being here so I think we should try and make the most of it while we can.

I offer the same advice/guidance to people contemplating suicide, people who commonly say they have nothing (or no-one) left to live for.

Live simply for the act of living.

Originally posted by Dock9
At times, I suspect all life on this planet is akin to an experiment which was abandoned

Thats a very interesting theory/idea and one I have thought about myself many times before.

Someone or something created us and put us here on this planet, its interesting and entertaining to question who or what that something actually is but at the time same lets just enjoy being here

Whose meaning do you want?

The 'usual' meaning (meant for corporations, the rich, the elite, the govt, and most major religions):

YOU belong to US. You WORK for US. Your life is to be as much work, as much meaningless toil, and to buy as much as you can. The (deity of choice) will save you at the very last minute to take you to (paradise of choice)- so long as you follow (deity of choice's rules). Until then, YOU BELONG TO US. SO GET TO WORK, OR BUY SOMETHING.

What it SHOULD mean:

Use your abilities and talents to the best of your abilities. Invent! Create! Enjoy what life has to offer- But strive for more- and by more- quality, not quantity. Strive to help your friends, your neighbors. PLAY. LAUGH. Sing if ya want, even if you cant carry a tune in an oil tanker! Share a joke. Tell a joke. LIVE and ENJOY life.

i've stopped looking for the meaning of life, because i don't think there is one.
i think it's us, people, that try to attach some value to our existence.

what i DO know is, that you should live your dreams!
bit of a cliché but it's very very true.
it was my dad going to hospital what made me realize this...
i always saw him as a strong man, wich he is, invincible might be a better choice of words. like nothing could ever happen to him.

then last year at christmas time, he got sick, very very sick.
doctors thought he had an bacterial infection but couldn't determine wich one.
he dropped 9 kilos in about 13 days, wich scared me a lot.
after those first 13 days he was taken to the intensive care.
(i'm not able or willing to go into to much detail about this, as it's still a sensitive subject for me)
but to make a long story short, after two months of being hospitalized he was discharged.

at this very moment he's actually doing fine and made a full recovery, he even got a little fatter then before
but he's now living his dream.
vacations, taking motorcycle tours across europe, second honeymoon etc.

that made me realize that life can end at any second and that you should enjoy every second of it.

take care of others, but most of all take care of yourself and your dreams/ambitions.


LIVE YOUR DREAM!

[edit on 20-3-2010 by kn0wh0w]

You mean apart from 42?

For me the purpose of life (and this applies to all life, wherever in the universe) is simply the acquisition and dissipation of knowledge. In other words, to learn things and to pass on what you have learnt to others. And if we do that generation after generation for billions of years then one day we will know - of have access to the knowledge of - everything there is to know. And then we become God.

I think that day is some way off yet though!

With as much effort as it took that sperm swimmer to beat out all the others - millions of them - and get to be the one that became you, or me, or any one of us, you'd think that needing a reason to exist would be the last concern for any of us. Hell, we came about by way of savage and desperate competition for existence and physical emergence, and that was just in the procreation process. Bringing each of us into existence is billions of years of competition and alliance and symbiosis and hand-in-glove organized effort at all levels of physical manifestation.

And yet, we - as epitome expressions of circumstance-centric organizational existence - use our unique capacity for self-aware intellect to question the need for all of this relentless and dedicated effort on our behalf.

I'm just grateful for the effort expended on bringing me into conscious awareness.

Oh, and it was a conspiracy between the banking, energy, munitions/defense technologies, and international construction business sectors that planned and financed the attacks of Sept 11th. Cheney, Rumsfeld, a handful of Pentagon brass, and several others (lessers, like Wolfowitz and Armitage, Ted Olsen) were directly involved in managing the inside game and marketing effort afterward, while Blackwater Security provided the tech and field ops for the preparations.

Bush Jr. found himself inside of it all post-attack initiation, and saw no reason to put himself in harm's way over it. He may have had an incorrect assumption about the scale of it going in, but certainly no real intimate or operational knowledge.

The Anthrax Attacks occurred to shut down the media and federal government's investigation into the attacks, and that Anthrax threat continues to block any acknowledgement of the obvious issues surrounding the lack of investigation to this day.

[edit on 20-3-2010 by NorEaster]

Good morning,

thanks for the replies so far.

It seems those that have replied embrace 'Live life!' purpose. There was a common theme of learning and giving, which greatly agrees with my philosophy.

Sadly, what I see in the world is atypical of that however, with a lot of people sacrificing 'living' in favour of acuiring money and possessions.

I find it odd that many movies are made about that - people discovering, often too late, that they should have been living life for themselves rather than for someone else, even tho they were given lots of money. Odd of course in that today many people live out that movies, without applying those lessons to themselves.

Knowing a fair bit about the world, a common rule I see is that the smaller the disparity between rich & poor the 'happier' a country seems to be. So that awful divide between rich & poor is a real issue, with those at both ends of the spectrum typically unhappy (at some point of their life).

Finally, and this seems to gel with the responders so far, is that life is all about the journey - not the destination. Many people fail to grasp that, and are completely focussed on the destination, without enjoying the journey.

Thanks for the replies.

And me personally re 9/11... yes complete 100% inside job, 0% muslim terrorist. And 99% (sadly) we have never walked on the moon. Only good news re moon hoax is that it was victimless unlike 9/11.