honestly answer this question get as in depth as you want and ill even give feedback if wanted. : ) :
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honestly answer this question get as in depth as you want and ill even give feedback if wanted. : ) :
It's what happens to you whilst you're making other plans.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
~Heinrich Heine
Personally I'm all for it.
Moved to Philosophy.
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
Oh what song is that? The Beatles? A Beatle? I know I've heard it but I can't place it. It sounds like Lennon... that's my official guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Auron
Yeah, it was Lennon, post-Beatles I imagine. He was full of wisdom about life and love... the irony being that he was a complete jerk.Quote:
Originally Posted by IndieAnthias
You knew him personally?
Lol You sound like my dad. We actually just discussed this quote while I was trying to explain to him the importance of dreams. It's true, but the attitude it condones (don't worry about the future, live solely for the moment) has it's place and time, but I think it should be one side of a balance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
Life seems to be quite popular - it's had a game, a magazine, a cereal and an Eddie Murphy movie made about it.
And Oprah narrated a National Geographic series about it... (although not as popular as Planet Earth. I guess Earth is more popular than living.)
I like it... I think I'd rather have lived than not.
To me, it's just the books on a bookshelf which are stopped on one side by birth, and the other side by death. And maybe this next statement will seem selfish, but since I won't "be here" after I'm dead, I don't really care if I don't make a big impact on the world or whatnot, because I won't be there to see it. I just don't want to leave people gasping for air or go before unfinished disputes are resolved.
Looking back, that sounded really cynical... But hey. :P
That's not really selfish so much as a perfectly reasonable conclusion.
I find that I don't gain much happiness from "wasting" my time with selfish pursuits. I get the most enjoyment knowing that I am making a difference. But it's just a conditioned behavior and I don't think I'm special for aligning with my nature.
An ant is happy doing its job for the colony, that doesn't mean it will gain any posthumous fulfillment from the long-term fruits of its labor. Working toward those fruits is enough.
I love life, simply because of the opportunity we all get to live it. Life is pretty benign, by itself. It's some of the variables of life that make or break our overall opinion of it, and it's often our frames of mind which dictate how we see those variables. I'm generally an optimist, so my glass is usually half full. Even when things bog me down in negativity, it usually doesn't take me very long to spring back up and realize that my life has had far more positives than negatives. For every negative I could list about life, I could probably find 2 that I find to be positive. If I tried, it would probably work the other way around, too, but I think it takes a pitiful soul to try to look to the negatives more than the positives.
And a TV series named after it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkmatters
Oh, I definitely see the glass as half-full, but of poison.Quote:
I'm generally an optimist, so my glass is usually half full. Even when things bog me down in negativity, it usually doesn't take me very long to spring back up and realize that my life has had far more positives than negatives. For every negative I could list about life, I could probably find 2 that I find to be positive. If I tried, it would probably work the other way around, too, but I think it takes a pitiful soul to try to look to the negatives more than the positives.
George is spinning in his grave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xei
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i believe life is whatever you see it as and its literaly whatever you wana make of it, in life you have opportunities to do the amazing, the unthinkable and the impossible, i believe in life you are either aware of life or your not, and what i mean by aware and unaware is basicly do you see and understand life for what it realy is and what it has to offer, and i dont mean like career or money wise i mean as in everything. theres living life and being aware of life you can do all stuff you wana do and just live to the fullest or you can go past that and see life for what it is, ironicly i highly do not believe that it is possible to become fully aware of life and know everything about it but it is possible to know a certain amount of info on it
Life is the pursuit of happiness.
But it only comes when you stop pursuing it O.o
Life has no pourpose other than that which you take value in. People since ages long passed have been asking this question, yet to realize that thiere answer lies within their own mind and not in some half naked guy on a mountain.
Life to me means doing as I please, as long as I hurt no one in the process. I live my life unbound by religiouse or cultural viewpoints, becuase religion is only theory and cultural viewpoints are limited and controling. Every culture and religion has useless moral rules that "must" be followed and people think your doing wrong by not following them. Despite the fact that you would hurt no one in the process.
If I where to live my life bound by what others expect of me, then what am I? Am I truely a person? I would not be an individual if i where to follow any culture or religion, at leaste not in my eyes. To be an individual, one needs to realize that their view point is as valid as any other and live according to how they want to live. After all we live short lives, why waste them?
Not sure, it gets me confused everyday.
I'm still thinking on this question. It'll be a while. In fact, by the time I'm done, it'll be too late..
The only philosophical question of value is whether or not to commit suicide.
Because it's not a question that can be answered in a direct manner as the topics that belong in that section.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned
Existentialism.
When i'm depressed (like right now) life blows.
When i'm meh, lifes meh.
When i got energy, life is GREAT!
I don't think life has a purpose and it's certainly not an ideal existence. However, I'm pretty grateful to be alive and experiencing all the great things around me. I think the fact that we all have to die makes our lives even more special.
No idea. I'm trying not to get screwed by it right now. But it's been much better already. :)
And surely not within the half-naked girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fredfredburger
Life is like movie!
and we are all characters and props
acting out a script
playing our roles
it has a beginning and an end
or at least thats how we see it from here
when the movie is over we go back to our other lives
the movie was a just a short adventure in our minds
just a passing dream
and our souls wakes up
and then we find more fun interesting ways to ease our boredom for eternity .-.
I try not to think about it.
All I can say is time flies when you're having fun and doing things that you love and are dear to your heart and when you're not, it almost appears as if time is standing still. That's life.
Some post and run OP asking a cliched question does not philosophy make. Also, protip: Philosophers prefer to find questions that do have answers. Philosophy is more about finding questions that should have answers than it is just sitting around with your thumb up your ass asking "wuts da meenin".Quote:
Originally Posted by Auron
Life's just matter moving around in fancy ways to replicate itself.
Consciousness, now that's intense. I can see how the animate can come from the inanimate, but I don't see how an experience can come from matter or the matter's pattern of signals. This is a topic that will confound us for decades to come.
That is because Oprah's narration ruined it. I am still baffled they picked her lolQuote:
Originally Posted by ThePreserver
Life...seems to me to be many things, but I guess its as simple as the combination of experiences that make you who you are, things out of your control that you experience, and then what you chose to do with it all as you move forward. I have only recently (post college graduation) seen how non-linear and full of choice life can be.
"....Life is a comedy from afar" - Charlie Chaplin.
To me, the whole experience is laughable. An absolute joke. In that regard, I cannot take it seriously. I cannot mature. So I just enjoy every moment of it...experience it as if it's one big game, or as if I'm on stage. This causes me to often stop, and just look at people running this way/that way, and laugh. Why so serious?
Admittedly, this makes me seem like a bit of a tosser, but I just don't 'get' most people.
I believe that we were created by the Father God to learn knowledge and the Mother God to experience emotion.
lol
I'm beginning to see life as a test. That sounds to simple. There are these never ending forces trying to destroy us in life! In many different way. And it all seems to be a one test after another in life. And you can fail or pass. And no matter which choice you make you eventually learn something. What you learn makes you stronger. Because you know what actions to take in order to cope with what the forces throw at you. How to be prepared. I almost feel like I just have to put myself out there to face forces. Like a tiny house on a plain of never ending storms. Or a boat on an ocean of big waves. Raw power. More power than anyone could control. Only to learn to direct what we have into something that can serve us.
Maybe I'm just rambling...... I just keep thinking of looking back at some later time, and thinking what I thought wasn't the same as I saw it later, and feeling stupid.....
Success and Failure battle in an endless war, each opponent improving through each action.
I control my actions, and with them my habits and my method. I do not control where they lead. That is the test, is everything I identify as myself capable of success? Facing this test is definitely the purpose of life, sometimes the answer of success comes through as much inaction as possible. I say in the circumstances where you stand too much to lose, inaction is advisable. Most of the choices we make in this modern world are not so life threatening if you choose not to act. If there's nothing you have to lose, perform the action you desire. This is not a call for hedonism, this is a call for faith. The result of your action is out of your reach, you are throwing dice. You only have your method at this game to manipulate, so create the most successful possible game style. In the battlefield choices are life threatening, and being assertive yourself will certainly end your life and naturally amount to some amount of failure for you, but the most assertive team will more oftenly win. Cowards cannot win a war. From day to day, your normal choices will not be life-threatening, and you often have no team to fight for but yourself and your friends and family, which is an interdependent network you work with because it gives you more success to build trust and cooperatively enhance each other. Success and Failure still exist, but we over dramatize what we stand to lose from failure. Courage often comes from being realistic what you stand to lose if you decide to act or not act, and way it more evenly upon what you stand to gain. If all you stand to lose is a little pride, showing off the human behind the legend you attempt to display yourself as, then you betray the only immortal thing about you. In critical situations, what you stand to lose may be your life and what you stand to gain may be the lives on 9 others which you won't even survive to reap the benefits from saving. But we're not just fighting for the success of ourselves. Our method for living is being tested through time, and the successful ones will spread and become the new paradigm. We are the shells of an immortal, this immortal is everything you believe in, everything you want and the way you choose to get it. This is ethos. You stand to gain everything meaningful and nothing that isn't by facing your fears. Your ethos will survive, whether you succeed or fail. Either will improve it.
some times life feels like a prison , you just wanna break free and go some where better , sometimes it feels like a big stage or a movie set in this case the extras are the unlucky ones and the main characters are the lucky ones , i had an instructor when i was at uni and he once said something amazingly true about life he said : the meaning of life is that there is no meaning to it once u realize that then u will be free and in peace with it.
for human beings, a never ending cycle of meeting survival needs. In meeting these needs to the best of our ability, we naturally progress and grow in our capacity to survive longer and more efficiently and then refocus again on further meeting these needs. One day, we hit critical mass, and in this epoch we fully understand the universe in all of its workings. At this time in the future we are probably hardly recognizable, if at all to homo sapiens, and to this new paradigm we are just a footnote in some archive long forgotten. Perhaps they will laugh at us for being so inept, short lived, and pathetic....or maybe they will sympathize.....or maybe.... they will have evolved beyond the limitations of "emotions" entirely and won't think anything other than what we objectively are.
Other than that, do your best to be happy, because that's the smartest thing you can do while involuntarily fulfilling your duty pushing the boat farther down the river. Because that is your purpose while you are alive and conscious, being as happy as you can, so you can ultimately satisfy the needs of other people.
I think that's life.
Everything is made of atoms. Their physical nature and progression seem predictable in retrospect. I find that life has more consequence than reward.