the question we've all asked

[pass the chicken]

why are we here? what's the meaning of life?

[Matt the Funk]

The meaning of life, is for you to make up your own meaning.

[timothylearyisdead]

To make yourself happy

[pass the chicken]

o shit so what do I do for the rest of my life? now that I make myself happy every couple hours :jointsmile:

[orangeman]

Honestly I don't even worry about it no more. We may never know, but I don't waste my precious minutes worrying about it, I just enjoy life while I have it. And what ever comes next just comes next.

[stever0527]

to do god's work.

[Weedhound]

Beats me.....

[station]

why are we here? what's the meaning of life?

to get FUCKED up

[MacWQ33]

Honestly, who gives a fuck.

[station]

Honestly, who gives a fuck.

Not u and Not i :smokin: :smokin:

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

After decades of research and experiences, I have come to the harsh conclusion that we are here to entertain birds. What the fuck do you think birds would do all day without watching us and laughing at the awkward things we do that we think nobody else saw. They would exterminate themselves like crickets in a corn field!!

On that note tell me about them fucking golf shoes!

[Skink]

The meaning of life is to ask people what the meaning of life is...

[Coelho]

well... during many experiences with weed + butane i had a realization... the most important thing of the life is just a deep breath... in that occasions it made all the sense of the world... without breath, without life... everything else is somewhat superfluous... i was happy just because i was breathing... it was SOOOOO good... i wish i could feel like this everytime... so i would not worry about petty things, as i do...

[higher4hockey]

all of lifes questions can be answered with Calvin and Hobbes. calvin once asks hobbes why people are on earth. hobbes replies: tiger food.


problem solved.

[PENCIL]

We are merely a fart in the wind.

[Inferius]

calvin knows his shit..have you seen the robot chicken paordy of calvin and hobbes? its fuckin funny.

Heh. I have it saved:
Truth About Calvin - Funny - Funny Videos - Crack Muffin (http://www.crackmuffin.com/html/Truth-About-Calvin.html)


As for the meaning of life... We are born and we die.
And in between, well... hopefully, that is up to you.

[Oneironaut]

There is no predefined, intrinsic "meaning" to all life. You are an accident of chemistry; self-replicating molecules, over billions of years, underwent the process of Darwinian natural selection and in the conditions of this unusual planet we inhabit, this happened to produce you, a human being. You are a very complex and intricately engineered reproduction machine that is statistically likely to be able to create another reproduction machine with its genes before it gets itself killed. To some, this is an extremely disheartening prospect to consider. Their fear of an existence without a predefined, intrinsic purpose is often greater even than their fear of death.

I can even kind of understand why; it's because they've invented a giant invisible father figure in the sky that they call "God", who, not unlike their parents were when they were children, is supposed to always be there looking out for them and guiding them to the best kind of life. And on top of that, they ascribe to the invisible sky wizard the property of having created the entire universe and controlling the fate of everything inside the universe with infinite wisdom and benevolence. The success of this particular meme probably has to do with the emotional boost caused by fooling oneself that bad things only happen in the present because they will ultimately cause a greater good which will cancel it out. I used to think like that, and it was indeed a very comforting thing to believe when life got me down, but I had to give it up because it simply isn't true.

Yes, it can be hard to accept that shit often happens because of random causes that don't ultimately work for the best. 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Indian Ocean tsunami were senseless tragedies that no just deity would allow into his design because whatever tiny bit of good came out of them has not outweighed the horrible losses they caused.

There is no God. We are all just lumps of matter and energy following the laws of physics as we move through spacetime. There is no meaning to an atom or a rock or a galaxy or a human being, besides the meanings we humans ascribe to them. Purpose is a human concept.

But I don't see that as a bad thing. It's a great thing. It means you don't have to live for somebody else's purpose. There is no universal dictator in the sky with hidden motives who has your life carefully mapped out to fit into some cosmic "plan" since the moment you were born. You are free to choose the meaning of your own life. Choose many meanings if you want. That's the beauty of being human; we're the only species whose brains are capable of grasping the concept of living for a purpose.

The meanings of my life are to achieve happiness, to study and understand the world around me to the best of my abilities, to spend time with and care for the people I love, to reduce the suffering of others, and in general to try to make the world a better place than it would be without me.

[Inferius]

^^^ you have that saved somewhere on your pc don't you? :)

[Oneironaut]

No, I just wrote that, actually. :p

[krazy chino]

that was a cool point there, but too simple. I believe there is a supernatural intellegent being/s that we dont understand....we do have a creator is either the whole world knows about it but doesn't want to belive or probbly our creator hasnt revealed its self in any way nor in books or idols we could all be wrong and our creator could just be sumthin that is too advanced for our imagination........,..... im blown

[Skink]

How to serve man...

[Oneironaut]

that was a cool point there, but too simple. I believe there is a supernatural intellegent being/s that we dont understand....we do have a creator is either the whole world knows about it but doesn't want to belive or probbly our creator hasnt revealed its self in any way nor in books or idols we could all be wrong and our creator could just be sumthin that is too advanced for our imagination........,..... im blown
What's your evidence for this supernatural intelligent being? Or for any supernatural being at all, for that matter? "It's too simple" is not a good enough reason to reject my hypothesis; in fact, it's actually a pretty good reason to adopt it. Remember Occam's Razor. The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

It seems, as far as I can tell, that intelligence doesn't just come out of nowhere. In order for something to be intelligent, it has to have a lot of complex working parts to process information and make good use of it. These complex arrangements don't just pop out of nowhere, spontaneously. Things don't just self-assemble themselves into intelligent, thinking entities unless they have evolved through Darwinian natural selection (like dolphins and humans) or unless they have been deliberately created by something that evolved through Darwinian natural selection (like robots). Darwinian natural selection is the only way we can explain the existence of intelligence, the most complex thing we know of. It makes no sense to say that the universe started out with an infinite intelligence, which is infinitely complex, and to claim that that requires no explanation.

Where did this complexity come from? How did it arise? How did so many interlocking parts spontaneously come together to create this amazingly complex intelligence? If there is some intelligence behind the creation of the universe, what makes you think it was only one intelligent being? What discounts the possibility of a collaborative effort? And what discounts the possibility that the universe consists of only matter and energy moving around in spacetime according to the laws of physics?

[Maui Wowie]

Perception is life, we are life, life is the purpose.

[Reefer Rogue]

The meaning of life is subjective. For me, my meaning of life consists of inner peace and outer harmony.

[jokeyjokejoke]

Death?

[NextLineIsMine]

Ive gone on extremely far out acid trips and picked at this thought till it felt like my brain was bleeding.

I decided not to trust timothy leary, the dali lama, or the pope any human who thinks they could have the answer to this is an arrogant shit

-feel free to make up theories though

[zalami128]

Can you remember being born? No. So, maybe you've lived thousands of other lives you can't remember either. And thousands of lives from now you wont remember this one either.

[Dr.Hashman]

To be fruitful, and multiply; fill the earth, and subdue it. Bible Verse Somthing: Number:number.