hey...not sure has anyone posted similar thread before..i just go ahead and pop it in.
Recently, I have a friend who became very pessistmic and even thinking of suicide. He has been trying to understand what is life. All these years, he always wanted a beautiful wife + 2 lovely kids (he got divorced last year and unattached now). But he seemed like cannot find one he loves and share same interest. So, he started to doubt what is life.
Just now, he called me and told me his understanding of life. Human beings are just outer shells without any soul. We are trying to survive on the world. Life became meaningful after we instilled substances into it. He also raised the issue that he does not believe in re-carnation......when people dies, their forces just disappear into the air. However, I kind of believe in previous life and next life....though we cannot have any insight at all.
Because of my divorce problems, I started to understand to love myself even more. Treat myself better. Once think of anything, just do it....Anything which can make me happy, I will go ahead and do it. This is not my old self My present meaning of life is "Make myself Happy".
anyone care to share their opinions on "what is life?"
just trying to find out views of others.
Actually, life is really nothing....just make the best of it....live to the fullest.
We are on earth for a living.....dies and vanish into thin air...maybe re-carnated into other form of lives.
life is a brief existence - a starburst of energy on a planet - then it is over. There is no more "meaning" to it then that. There is no reason or motive. Cause and effect is all. Nothing before and nothing after. Sentient is a sentient does bay-bee!
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I personally have a problem with the cause and effect theory. It's the dominant line of human thinking nowadays, but there is one large inconsistency in the whole theory. You can't point out a primary cause without it being an effect of another. Ad infinitum.
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
life is about taken the gifts you've been given and putting them to use for the greater good of those around you.
for me, it's about taking the love I have received and sharing it (in different ways, as the situation warrants). it just don't get better than that ...
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If I have to decide between being just worm food or a spiritual higher being...
I'll choose spiritual higher being...
There are just more than a few coincidences in life to be just evolutionary. Just the eyeball alone is the most awesome creation ever. And that's just one tiny thing.
Originally posted by Kriz^
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I personally have a problem with the cause and effect theory. It's the dominant line of human thinking nowadays, but there is one large inconsistency in the whole theory. You can't point out a primary cause without it being an effect of another. Ad infinitum.
I agree. I think life is circular (not to be confused with the Lion King's 'Circle of Life') Everything is cause and effect. If you believe in it, the big bang caused the existence of the planet and all subsequent lifeforms. But what caused the big bang?
I don't subscribe to a point-of-origin theory without it also being an effect of something else.
I think that the meaning of life is that there is no meaning! Maybe the meaning is the search itself.
It always amuses Me when human beings contemplate the meaning of life. Life is like the Internet. If you don't do anything with it, it has no meaning. If you use it for good, you get a lot out of it. If you use it for bad, you are punished with bad or broken relationships or jail time.
Yes, I know you've heard that life is what you make it. What you were told was right. You not only have a free will to do as you please but you also have a free will to think as you please. There is no more meaning to life than exactly how you live it, the experiences you have. You can have good experiences or bad ones.
There is no particular purpose for anything. The universe was rather a cosmic accident that turned out rather well. There's an awful lot of clutter out there that needs to be cleaned up but it's going to take Me a while because so many of the objects are still too hot to handle. Meanwhile, you are afforded a nice ride around the sun every 365 days. Enjoy it. If you want to find meaning just contemplating the meaning, that's OK but if you do so you're likely to waste a lot of great time and miss episodes of some of My favorite TV programs.
If you were living life to the fullest and making every minute count, you wouldn't be thinking about the meaning of life because it would be full of meaning. There would be nothing to think about.
So the next time you start thinking about life, stop yourself in your tracks and just know you must not be living it right. Change your thoughts to making life worthwhile for yourself and others.
Now, think about the meaning of death. In that, you will understand a whole lot more about the meaning of life. Dead people have passed the deadline for making meaning for themselves.
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Everything is cause and effect. If you believe in it, the big bang caused the existence of the planet and all subsequent lifeforms. But what caused the big bang? 
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