Is it normal to think the meaning of life is a pratical joke?

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Really what is the purpose of life? We are born, we live, then at some point be it old or young, we die. What is the purpose of it? Is the purpose of it to work a job, make lots of money, then ultimately die? Is the purpose of it to be a lazy shiftless bum with no money that lives in the street and then ultimately dies?

Is the purpose to have a family, that you raise and take care of and then you and eventually them, all, ultimately die?

Why do we treat animals more humanely then we do humans? An animal has no more enjoyment out of life we put it to sleep, but humans have to hold out against all hope even if they waste away to a skeleton from cancer.

Is the best kept secret that mentally handicapped individuals have the best lives imaginable as they remain as a child, mentally, their entire lives? Without responsbilities or a care in the world.

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NotFloydzie

11 years ago

"Why do we treat animals more humanely then we do humans?" Are you serious? Animals aren't the ones killing, raping, destroying our earth, and environment. We are.

Everyone has their own reason to live. Some just don't know it yet. At the end, life is really what you make it. If you sit at home all day in the computer, doing nothing, wasting your time, you'll get nothing accomplished.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  I concede that humans are the only animal on the planet yet to find an equilibrium with their environment.
  
  But you gave a politician's answer to my question. What is the reason for life? Don't waste your time or mine with silly drivel about family or children either.
  
  Accomplishments mean little as well. To the individual it does sure but its other's opinions that form a sense of achievement. Any street bum can feel accomplished in their mind with little actually achieved. Besides whether accomplishments are grand or not that person still dies one day.
  
  So what or where is the point?
  
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  - shade_ilmaendu
    
    11 years ago
    
    There is no meaning to life, at least not in the way you are speaking.
    
    Biologically speaking, life exists to perpetuate itself. If we were living in our proper niche within the environment, it would be much more important to breed as much as possible. As it is, we're slowly choking the planet.
    
    Speaking in a more conceptual sense, the universe is pretty much devoid of meaning aside from the perpetuation of the life cycle. That's where we come in. We create things... create fictions, machines, tools, music. In a similar sense, we create the meaning. It's personal to you.. whatever you want to accomplish with your time on this earth.
    
    Presumably, the best way to do this is to create some kind of improvement for future generations. At least, that's how I see it. The greater portion of mankind seems to have forsaken their role as caretakers.
    
    And as for mentally handicapped people, you are absolutely right. Recently I've been meditating more, going outside more, easing my mind into finding happiness in the small things again. It's certainly not the same as happiness through innocence... but we can still find a good measure of peace.
    
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    - flutterhigh
      
      11 years ago
      
      Yeah, I've never understood people who talk about "meaning" and "purpose" as if they're objective, tangible entities. There's no meaning gland in our bodies, and no purpose plants to be harvested.
      
      Purpose is not function. The purpose of a tree is not to intake CO2 and release oxygen. The tree gains purpose when we plant it intentionally for its fruit. Which is of course a totally arbitrary imposition. So unless you believe that we were planted by a creator, meaning and purpose become wholly arbitrary internal constructs. You don't mean anything to the rest of the universe.
      
      That seems to strike a lot of people as a gloomy and frightening idea, but I think it's rather liberating. It's the tenet of the existentialists - the universe is like a pitch dark room, which leaves us free to light our own match. We create meaning for ourselves. We are our own gods.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        11 years ago
        
        Given the idea (most likely even fact) that the universe as we see it is so vast and so beyond our comprehension, what makes us think anything we do at all, EVER, has any meaning or purpose in it?
        
        Humans beings are also most certainly not Gods in any way either. Even this planet we occupy doesnt interpret reality at all in a way we can even measure, (if at all) so it certainly doesnt care what happens to us, same for the universe except on a much much MUCH larger scale.
        
        To the tree's own end its purpose is to intake carbon dioxide because if it didnt it wouldnt survive, but it's external purpose is the same as ours.
        
        To one day die.
        
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        shade_ilmaendu
        
        11 years ago
        
        To die is inevitable, therefore we must not worry about that which we cannot change. Our time is the time we are alive, our meaning exists in that same frame.
        
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- Thewomanizer
  
  11 years ago
  
  agree!!
  
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Dad

11 years ago

Since the entire world is set to die in about 6 billion years, quite obviously its nothing about having children or even building better things.

I can only think its all about being happy and good to others (since they should be happy too)
Its enjoying what we have, and seeing beauty in everything.

My Dad (somewhat hard on me when growing up) died of bowel cancer. I was holding his hand when he died (actually it was seriously sad) Anyway, before they (the hospital) doped him up really good, the last thing he said whilst looking out the hospital window was, "Look at the rain, isn't it beautiful".

Since hearing that (many years ago now) I have never again said what a shit day it is, if it rains. There is beauty in everything.

From stardust to stardust we go.

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Damn it, I shouldn't have written that. I'm signing off now, I have nothing else to say to anyone today.

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- shade_ilmaendu
  
  11 years ago
  
  God is in the rain...
  
  I'm sorry for your loss.
  
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howaminotmyself

11 years ago

My purpose in life is to discover my purpose. To experience this thing called life to the best of my ability. It is to do the things I do well, and then do them better. To share my light with those around me. To find balance. To make peace with the inner demons. To discover my own limits, and then challenge them. I am a work in progress. I am here to be myself. I cannot tell anyone else why they are here but please don't get in my way. I am here to heal, if even it is only myself.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  Heal yourself from what?
  
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  - howaminotmyself
    
    11 years ago
    
    I don't know if you want a real answer to this?
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      I always ask for real answers....
      
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      - howaminotmyself
        
        11 years ago
        
        Sorry, I'm not comfortable disclosing my all my broken parts. I'll do my best to fix them myself.
        
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Francophile22

11 years ago

IMHO the purpose is either karma payback from a previous life (whether reward or punishment) or it's to have us so pissed off by witnessing evil in this life we will loathe it so much as to (in the next reality) know that it is wrong and want to banish any who would follow it. That's what Biblical Hell and Heaven means, a choice to follow one or the other and suffer the consequences.

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GoraIntoDesiGals

11 years ago

But having fun costs money and when you're broke life sucks.

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DolphinAngel

11 years ago

Life is USELESS!!!

Yes believe it or not it is –> No matter what you do in your life; In the end it all doesn’t matter because you will die and if you are dead nothing matters you can’t even think about what you did in your life.

Don’t get me wrong I am no suicidal person and I don’t say you shouldn’t enjoy your life… No the opposite is the case:

You should do what you really love to do and have as much fun as you can get which is also expressed in my favorite quote and my motto (unfortunately I don’t know who actually created it): “Don’t care what others say; Do your own fucking thing”

If you do what you really want, you can give your life a very own meaning!

-Wait didn’t he say before that life is meaningless?-

Yes I did and I admit it is a contradiction but really: “Who cares?”

Just enjoy your life!!!

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jermath35

11 years ago

Well I love life...if u live b a 100 years old that's along time to live!

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Captain_Kegstand

11 years ago

Your purpose is to enjoy the time that you have here, what else would it be?

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izakthegoomba

11 years ago

Ha. The "purpose" of life is to reproduce and pass your genes on to the next generation.

Not saying everyone does or even should do that (I certainly won't), but from an evolutionary standpoint, it's the only answer that makes sense.

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GuessWho

11 years ago

No wait, actually this:
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dom180

11 years ago

The only certain outcome of Life is Death. Therefore, the Meaning of Life is Death.

Sorry, I appear to have turned into a serpent.

No seriously, I think the meaning of life isn't a thing. The meaning of life should be to find enjoyment in it. There can be a lot of ways to enjoy life: the pursuit of happiness, fulfilment, knowledge, physique, love, victory, improving society... all of those and more are things that people dedicate their lives too. The meaning of their lives. The meaning of YOUR life should be YOUR own construct, and there exists no answer that everyone can subscribe to. People are too various.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  11 years ago
  
  It still doesnt change the fact, FACT, that we are all going to be dead one day. So hence, the ultimate purpose of life is to end. Accomplishments or no accomplishments.
  
  Correct?
  
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  - Squambly+
    
    11 years ago
    
    Well there is always the question "Does life really end?" I mean who knows what's on the otherside. Depending on what you believe in. Maybe you'll find your true answer when you die til' then just enjoy your life.
    
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  - dom180
    
    11 years ago
    
    No, just because it will inevitably happen does not mean it is the "purpose".
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      11 years ago
      
      Sure it is, it is the final "purpose" to life.
      
      Life is created so that one day it will end. The giant circle jerk of life.
      
      Your opinion is that life's purpose isnt to end. My factual stance is that life inevitably ends, hence its ultimate purpose is death.
      
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      - dom180
        
        11 years ago
        
        That's akin to saying the purpose of eating is to take a shit because a shit is the ultimate and inevitable outcome of eating.
        
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    - flutterhigh
      
      11 years ago
      
      I agree. Purpose is not function or outcome. Unless you're a fatalist, in which case you're an idiot.
      
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      - Anonymous Post Author
        
        11 years ago
        
        Any given outcome is not always a function related to what purpose is....
        
        BUT in this case it is, as death is ALWAYS the final outcome, hence the purpose of life is to end.
        
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zchristian

11 years ago

"Why do we treat animals more humanely then we do humans?" No U.

"mentally handicapped individuals have the best lives"
I have a mental dissability and my life isnt all that great and im also not like a child...

And the meaning of life does there even have to be one does it really matter we are alive now we die later.

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KeddersPrincess

11 years ago

The meaning of life? There is no meaning. God just wanted to play Sims.

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Rin✿

11 years ago

Growth and learning. For what? Not sure.

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Justsomejerk

11 years ago

It's 42.

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[Old Memory]

11 years ago

The purpose is sex.

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GuessWho

11 years ago

The purpose is to have fun. We work for money to fund this.

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