Meaning of life

Hey just curious I would like to know individuals idea on what you believe is the meaning of life.

[Vasska]

Originally Posted by leables

Hey just curious I would like to know individuals idea on what you believe is the meaning of life.

Depends on what you are expecting. Simply asking the question "What is het meaning of life" doesn't cut it anymore. It even was a problem back in the day of Plato and Socrates.

The meaning of life has been interpreted in many many ways. No one was right, but no one was wrong either. My answer is fairly simple and obvious and might not fit in the whole philosphy thing, but it seems like the only logic answer for me, for i don't believe in one definite truth;

"The meaning of life is what you think it should mean, you can fill it with whatever you want, for no answer is wrong and no answer is right."

Since you are new here i want to give you the advice to elaborate more on your question(s). If you only ask a question and further don't elaborate you'll end up with a dead topic in no time. So give some of your ideas on the meaning of live and well discuss that. If you are not sure on how to ask the questions you might wanna read this guide. It's mostly about computers but it still has much value on all other non-computer forums.

[Fido]

Life has no meaning. Life is meaning. Death means bye bye meaning.

[Aristoddler]

Get to the finish line in one piece.

[ogden]

Life-the opposite of lifeless. Life is a word that represents something. Dead or lfeless is a word that represens stasis, unchanging, inanimate. Even though all molicules are in process they are not considered alive. Alive would indicate some level of perception of the world and include some interaction with its environment. Even interaction and perception are not completely enough because the mars rovers do that, so it must also be organic and develop over time. The specific aspects of this thing that is alive over a period of time is its life. Being is understood to be a neccissary attribute. A computer could do all of these things except be organic.

Sentience is a quality of life that denotes consciousness. This quality is not necessary for life, but life (I think) is neccessary for sentience. So then If some one could make a computer that meet all of the requirements listed above and was sentient but lacked only being organic then I would say it was alive.

But the definition of life is not the meaning of life. So I say Vasska has it right in saying that lifes meaning is whatever you say it means. Meaning is a relational value that is determined by the value holder.

[GoshisDead]

The meaning of life is the process of negotiation. Your consciousness negotiates with your DNA. It negotiates with you culture. It negotiates with your environment. By negotiation I do not mean that your consciousness navigates through these things, but that these things in their ways barter with your conscious. Life is give and take; creating meaning ex nihilo is impossible, creating meaning through shrewed negotiations with the dynamic other is mandatory.

[Fido]

Come on! Meaning is value. What value do you put on your life. I know it is possible to value some one else's life more than your own, but it is rare, and often because you share their life.

[ogden]

Originally Posted by Fido

Come on! Meaning is value. What value do you put on your life. I know it is possible to value some one else's life more than your own, but it is rare, and often because you share their life.

Could you be more specific please?

[Fido]

Originally Posted by ogden

Could you be more specific please?

No and yes. Look at your life, and how much you put into dragging the necessities home to you dinner table. Everybody trades their time for their life, and time is life, so they trade time for time and life for life. There is only one value, and it is life. It is the demands of life which makes love and supper good. It is life that gives all thing meaning.

[ogden]

Originally Posted by Fido

No and yes. Look at your life, and how much you put into dragging the necessities home to you dinner table. Everybody trades their time for their life, and time is life, so they trade time for time and life for life. There is only one value, and it is life. It is the demands of life which makes love and supper good. It is life that gives all thing meaning.

Well said Fido. Thank you.

It was nieve of me to use the word value to somehow describe meaning. I guess I made some correlation between the meaning of everything else and the value of life.

Life the only value gives all things meaning. Life has no meaning! There is no underlying significance or universal purpose. Life just is. When everything else has lost its meaning and purpouse then life has no value in and of itself. So then it is the value of everything else that gives life meaning.

I started out OK and then my statement got circular. Help please.