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What's the meaning of your life?
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Monocle
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Well, Dawkins has described himself as "deeply religious," in the sense that the majesty of nature is utterly awe-inspiring. He's been very clear that this view doesn't presuppose the existence of the supernatural. Anyway, in my last post I was referring to some passages in Unweaving the Rainbow and The God Delusion that I don't correctly remember anymore.Trent Strong said:
Many scientists speak of nature in transcendent and numinous terms. Religion doesn't hold a monopoly on this realm of feeling, contrary to popular assumption.
Government-man
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Arthrus said:
I can really relate to that. Suddenly you feel adrenaline rush through your body, a sinking feeling in your stomach and a momentarily 'feeling' or 'insight' of the scope of the universe (or similar question like what exist beyond dimensional/time borders etc) which disappears as quickly as it appeared. Quite hard to consciously summon but doable if you ponder long enough. Strange and awesome feeling.
JumpJeff84
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For me it's the funk.
Urban Scholar
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I'd say I'm out to learn, live, apply & enjoy it all within context
dinazimmerman
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Monocle said:
wow, guess that means i'm a deeply irreligious theist
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
Uhmm... why not just accept that no life has any meaning? That we are an eventuality of the universe. Happiness is one emotion out of many that are merely chemically derived states, that are only there to influence actions because evolutionarily they have been beneficial. It just happens to be the most pleasant, I suppose.
Essentially, if you had your brain hooked up so that your only sensory inputs were pleasure and the only outcome was happiness... would you do that? Would that fulfill an ultimate goal in whatever meaning you see in our existence?
Essentially, if you had your brain hooked up so that your only sensory inputs were pleasure and the only outcome was happiness... would you do that? Would that fulfill an ultimate goal in whatever meaning you see in our existence?
Jedeye Sniv
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Art and bitches, yo.
Jedeye Sniv
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Kentpaul said:
Dude, don't forget reminiscing about the times you got really wasted while you are wasted.
Space Cadet
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Government-man said:
Yes! Those are the most amazing feelings in the world. The expansion of "consciousness" towards the inifinite. I wish I experienced them more.
glaurung said:
This is basically my default mode.
To make my kids lives better than the one I had, and my grand kids. To be a stable adult figure in my students lives and help them as much as I possibly can. To do whatever I can to try and make my world just a little better. This to me is my meaning of life.
BTW, I'm a future teacher.
BTW, I'm a future teacher.
Mystic Theurge
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No meaning.
-COOLIO-
The Everyman
pleasure is momentary happiness. forgoing pleasures for long-term happiness is trading one kind of happiness for another, ultimately because doing that makes you happier in the now, knowing that youre in pursuit of something, which in itself is a pleasure actually.S1lent said:
so come to think of it, you can't really forgo pleasure since that gives you pleasure in itself in "knowing that youre doing the right thing". it may have a completely different flavor to it, but it's the same thing.
The Technomancer
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I'm an engineer. More than anything else, that defines who I am. I solve problems, I improve things, I try and make the world better through the application of thought and reason. Weather its through the actual disciplines of engineering, or just being a problem solver and optimizer in general.
The world has problems, problems that everyone should be working to fix. I'm an idealist at heart, and I have a very ideal vision of how the world should be, and I hope that by behaving in line with that vision and trying to show other people what I hope to achieve, I can move society just a fraction of an inch closer to that.
I'm a very selfless person, and I don't say that to brag. Its actually rather unhealthy, and its screwed me over before, but I really don't take my own wellbeing into consideration when I have the opportunity to help another person.
And I'm not a very emotional person; I appreciate art technically more then I "feel" it, I hardly ever laugh even if I find something funny on an intellectual level, a lot of people have called me robotic at times. And I get happiness, I mean true happiness, the broad contentment with my life, from knowing that I work to improve things.
Whats the meaning of my life? To make the world around me, in some small way, a better place. Thats the only real purpose my life could have.
The world has problems, problems that everyone should be working to fix. I'm an idealist at heart, and I have a very ideal vision of how the world should be, and I hope that by behaving in line with that vision and trying to show other people what I hope to achieve, I can move society just a fraction of an inch closer to that.
I'm a very selfless person, and I don't say that to brag. Its actually rather unhealthy, and its screwed me over before, but I really don't take my own wellbeing into consideration when I have the opportunity to help another person.
And I'm not a very emotional person; I appreciate art technically more then I "feel" it, I hardly ever laugh even if I find something funny on an intellectual level, a lot of people have called me robotic at times. And I get happiness, I mean true happiness, the broad contentment with my life, from knowing that I work to improve things.
Whats the meaning of my life? To make the world around me, in some small way, a better place. Thats the only real purpose my life could have.
Solideliquid
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My wife and I are separating and will probably divorce so now I don't know.
Mac the KNife
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Earthstrike said:
Congratulations, you figured out the meaning of life.
Shhh, it's a secret!
I stopped wondering after I made the realization that we all choose and force everything in this world to have a purpose, even our lives seemingly must "have" a purpose.
What if we're all wrong, and there doesn't *need* to be a purpose... and we're all blinded by looking for it and are totally missing something else that we could be seeing.
What if we're all wrong, and there doesn't *need* to be a purpose... and we're all blinded by looking for it and are totally missing something else that we could be seeing.
Monocle
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That's a true pity. You should read many more science books if you don't appreciate the magnificence of our universe separate from irrational assumptions.Goya said:
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Speak for yourself. The absence of inherent meaning in life doesn't stop us from creating it for ourselves. As far as we know, it's something only our species can do. Don't take it for granted.Calantus said:
Culture is worth preserving. The people we love are worth preserving, and so are ourselves. If anything at all matters to you in life, even if it's only the ability to think and feel, that can be your meaning.
Equus Bellator Apex
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To Destroy the Neogaf.
Become president of some underdeveloped country and make it grow into the perfect nation the world has ever known. Everyone has enough to eat, a school system that is way above the standard and doesn't take half your life, just enough buildings to create good jobs and housing but still maintain a larger piece of green. And of course, a country that doesn't have the word "war" in it's vocab
Boys can dream right?
Smaller more realistic answer: getting remembered after death by meaning something to a lot of people.
Boys can dream right?
Smaller more realistic answer: getting remembered after death by meaning something to a lot of people.
ColonelColon
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Equus Bellator Apex said:
...Denis?
-COOLIO- said:
By your theory, all wealthy people should be quite happy. If someone has practically unlimited access to money, he or she is free to seek just about any type of pleasure at any time, right? Yet just like within every other section of people, there are many rich people that are not happy at all. This is because there's a big difference between the fleeting, external stimuli of pleasure and the longer lasting, more intrinsic nature of happiness.
I can understand if perhaps you disagree but I didn't think this was a novel idea...
Vigilant Walrus
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To serve the things I believe in. Whether that be to do good, or help an infant off the floor, it all comes back to serving the things I believe in. It may be as trivial as holding aloft the ambition to make the most of my self or settling down with a loved one or even learning to master the arts. When I want something, I set my mind on it, and give my self the rest of my life to achieve it. That is the meaning of my life. To serve the things I believe in.
ps. Oh and maybe light a candle in the darkness. Yeah that would be cool.
ps. Oh and maybe light a candle in the darkness. Yeah that would be cool.
Yes. I'm part of writer gaf. I tend to talk a bit, so sue me. 
I just like to enjoy myself and do what I need to do to keep on enjoying myself. Life aint always grand, but I've gotta be appreciative of the chance I've been given. Of all the sperm and egg combos that were possible, being alive right now is pretty much like winning the lottery.
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