Unique Meanings of Life

[Impenitent]

Originally posted by LogicaLunatic,
The meaning of life...

Quick List...
1) Everybody takes pisses and shits.

this is all well and good but it raises two very important questions...

1) To where are we taking them?
2) How are they being carried?

[LogicaLunatic]

Good Point!

[Sodfather]

What about a sterile couple who do not have the credentials to adopt a child? Are their lives then rendered meaningless?

[LogicaLunatic]

Originally posted by Sodfather,
What about a sterile couple who do not have the credentials to adopt a child? Are their lives then rendered meaningless?

What about people that don't want kids? Are their lives meaningless?

Of course not.

[Sodfather]

Originally posted by LogicalLunatic,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (LogicalLunatic,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>What about people that don&#39;t want kids? Are their lives meaningless?

Of course not[/b]

I love your conviction, as if my question was inappropriate. Why don&#39;t you tell that to your own words?
<!--QuoteBegin-LogicalLunatic,
Since sex leads to the creation of NEW life, I think this new life is the meaning.

I exist to create a child and make sure that child is able to sustain his/her own life until he/she can produce new life.[/quote]
Your philosophy by default renders the lives of people who can&#39;t create new life without a meaning. Try not to totally negate your own philosophy next time. ;)

[Sodfather]

Back to my "philospohy"--I found something quite ironic the night after I had posted this article. I was studying for a Latin exam on the Aeneid and was doing some last-minute reviewing when I came across this:

[color=red]Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus
omnibus est vitae: sed famam extendere factis,
hoc virtutis opus.

Aeneid, Book X Lines 467-469
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It&#39;s translated: "And to each stands his own day, brief and irretrievable is the time of life for all: but to extend [one&#39;s] fame by deeds, this [is] the task of courage."

There you have it&#33; Vergil himself supported my philosophy&#33;

[moondusk]

Sodfather, you misunderstood me. I did not mean that everything Hitler did was bad. What I meant was &#39;the meaning of life&#39; comes by doing more good.

[Sodfather]

Well, pretty much everything Hitler did was bad; I wouldn&#39;t have a problem even if you did say that.

Back to your philosophy...As much as you&#39;d like to deny it, a life of producing kids is only a meaningful life if they go on to do something meaningful. Some poor sixth-grade-education trucker down in Alabama could have fourteen illegitimate children, all with IQ&#39;s barely above legal retardation, but his life and those of his children are virtually worthless and thus his has no meaning. If he and his children were wiped off the face of the Earth, no one would notice or even remember their existence in five years.

[samsara15]

We all give life our own meaning. Fame is useless and meaningless. We&#39;ll all be extinct in a few thousand years anyway.

[GreatWyrm of Babylon]

Life does not have to have a meaning, it is we as humans that demand it does. It is part of what makes us human instead of animals. An animal has no use for absolutes, it does not know that life began, or that life will end. It knows not good or evil, right or wrong, ethical, or moral. We invented all of these concepts and even we do not know what they mean.

Given this evidence, the purpose of life is to invent an imaginary meaning and get hung up on it. I have invented mine, go get your own. :D

[Samildanach]

Easy enough, life likes to propagate itself to fill niches. This is a fact independent of humans. Therefore our purpose is to try to fill unfilled environmental niches. Expand our numbers and try to live longer to gain the knowledge to fulfill our purpose better.
To put it bluntly to expand, conquer and live longer.

[Sodfather]

Originally posted by GreatWyrm of Babylon,
Given this evidence, the purpose of life is to invent an imaginary meaning and get hung up on it. I have invented mine, go get your own.

Excellent answer. I can respect that. Makes meanings of life sound like careers--choose the one that will make you happy.