So what really is the meaning of life?

arseagon

Ok so I went for a few pints tonight and one guy in particular was constantly on about how much money he made and how much money and how many things other people had. Is that any way to go through life? I mean I make enough to survive, i'm happy, I have my little house and my car. OK I could pay myself better and get a bigger car and a bigger house but what does a single man like me need with these things. so what are your opinions? is life all about possessions and money or is there a better explanation?

Kinetic^

Blowjobs.........as long as I'm getting them I'm happy.

Sarky

What exactly would you like the meaning of life to be?

arseagon

Kenny 5's answer is good. Blowjobs and more of em all round.

sidneykidney

Is life as a reality,only an existince. Yet never to become the object of thought?

scruff321

Kenny 5 wrote:

Blowjobs.........as long as I'm getting them I'm happy.

no wonder ur happy,single life sucks!!

KTRIC

The meaning of life is ...............





48.

arseagon

KTRIC wrote:

The meaning of life is ...............





48.

It is but first you must realise what question you're actually asking.

KTRIC

zippy28 wrote:

It is but first you must realise what question you're actually asking.

Exactly

MooseJam

I thought it was 42

arseagon

MooseJam wrote:

I thought it was 42

Dammit i think you're right but it's been a while since I read it last.

Jigsaw

The meaning of life is a difficult question to get your head around. It is a combination between the immediate and remote. Most important is love and health etc.

On a more immediate basis, it is all about money and prosperity as far as I am concerned. When thinkig about the next 12 months I am concerned about making money, getting closer to buying a house and getting further in work (promotion etc). I also love earning hard cash.

But then again, what does any of that matter when counted against family or your health?

I think you just need to muddle through. In facyt I shouldn't even be answering on this thread as I have taken drink and my thoughts at 1.50am will be much different to those at 7.30am.

**smokes fag then goes to bed, thankful for flexitime**

Mahatma coat

zippy28 wrote:

Ok so I went for a few pints tonight and one guy in particular was constantly on about how much money he made and how much money and how many things other people had. Is that any way to go through life? I mean I make enough to survive, i'm happy, I have my little house and my car. OK I could pay myself better and get a bigger car and a bigger house but what does a single man like me need with these things. so what are your opinions? is life all about possessions and money or is there a better explanation?

Possessions are handy when they make yer life easier or more comfortable, I like my cars and laptop and gadgets and me big Italian leather sofa, however I cant understand people who tie themselves to or define themselves by their possessions.

dont know where I heard this but

'the secret to happiness is to just be happy'

oh and Blowjobs FTW

ctc_celtic

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it:mad:

KTRIC

zippy28 wrote:

Dammit i think you're right but it's been a while since I read it last.

Nope with the current inflation its officially been upgraded to 48. 42 is no longer the meaning of life anymore.

Jigsaw

Blowjobs are fantastic.................








(as far as I can remember).

arseagon

My current meaning of life is getting more than 7K on Desktop tower defence. (Thanks Ruu) I've only done i twice so far.

The Roach

I reckon the meaning of life is actually the search to answer that very question. By trying to understand this difficult question we are seeking to improve ourselves; our knowledge, our understanding of our purpose here. Everything else relates back to this basic need to improve; we seek to do well in our selected careers so that we can rise within the ranks and attempt to make ourselves more than we originally started as. We all strive to find someone to share our lives with, therefore allowing us to grow in ways we otherwise would not be able to. All our achievments and goals in life can be thought of as a longing to improve ourselves, an attempt to leave this life as more then we started. The search for the meaning of life is the epitome of this; this is the ultimate answer we all crave, but perhaps the search for it is what we're actually looking for in the first place.

Oh yeah, and definitely blowjobs.

Crumble Froo

to realise your dream of becoming the person you want to be.

in a non-superficial way.

basically, in becoming happy and comfortable in yourself... discovering yourself, and improving on yourself... and using yourself, your discoveries and personality to help somebody else... to pass on that learning and help make somebody else's life that little bit better/happier/more meaningful.

Crumble Froo

also, had to laugh, am on msn at the moment, and while reading this thread my mate comes out with "i make all this money, but i have no time to spend it"... which kinda seems like an important point too...

maybe the secret of life is getting your priorities right?

Ross_Mahon

Money,women,fast car,food,drink,music,power,good job, and to reproduce!

arseagon

narco wrote:

also, had to laugh, am on msn at the moment, and while reading this thread my mate comes out with "i make all this money, but i have no time to spend it"... which kinda seems like an important point too...

maybe the secret of life is getting your priorities right?

That's it, it's priorities. What's the point in having all that money if you're not happy. As me ma says "You can't bring it to your grave"

ctc_celtic

worth a read (funny last line a bonus)

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full?

They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was. The students laughed. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognise that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full". "The pebbles are the other things that mat! ter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal. Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand".

A student took the jar which the other students and the professor agreed was full, and proceeded to pour in a glass of beer. Of course the beer filled the remaining spaces within the jar making the jar truly full.

The moral of this tale is: that no matter how full your life is, there is always room for BEER.

Naos

For all your answers, read:

Dan Millman: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Pompey Magnus

There is only one reason why we are here, it is to reproduce, end of story. There is no master plan, we aren't here to make the world a better place or to learn the mysteries of the universe, we are here to pass our genes on to the next generation. Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, in that one book he explains the meaning of our existance better than any philosopher or theologian has through history.

zuutroy

A Monty Python movie.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

In my country first you get the sugar,
then you get the power.
Then... You get the women :cool:

Reku

The meaning of life...
The furtherment of the species either through it's continuity or it's betterment (preferably both).

Chunks

The meaning of life is to find out the meaning of life

Tar.Aldarion

Kenny 5 wrote:

Blowjobs.........as long as I'm getting them I'm happy.

Can't fault that.

nice1franko

meaning of life is to get to heaven and get as many blowobs as possible.

Reku

nice1franko wrote:

meaning of life is to get to heaven and get as many blowobs as possible.

I don't know, suspect a lot of those angels might be pillowbiters, and with their divine powers and having tought women about makeup could you ever be certain that it was definitely a chick giving the hummer?

aodhu

zippy28 wrote:

My current meaning of life is getting more than 7K on Desktop tower defence. (Thanks Ruu) I've only done i twice so far.

Any chance of a link?

Kind of soppy but interesting interpretation of meaning of life:

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/music-and-life-p1.php

cjt156

There is no meaning of life; there is, however, a purpose.

That purpose is to discover who you are
and to strive to be that person.


I've discovered I'm the person who goes to sleep every night after a rare steak and a blow job - still trying...

Terry

farohar wrote:

The meaning of life...
The furtherment of the species either through it's continuity or it's betterment (preferably both).

Beat me to it.
It's just that simple.
There are no big mysteries about it.
You just have kids and help them better themselves and it all starts again.

Froot

For me life is about living my life with someone I like/love in relative comfort and safety. Thats it. It doesnt matter though really. We are all going to die anyway.

Froot

Mear wrote:

For all your answers, read:

Dan Millman: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Here is an extract, or at least here is my prediction...

DAY 1: First day in battle, my passive attitude has not won me any friends and I had both my legs hacked off. Perhaps being a peaceful warrior is a sh!t idea.

The Bollox

what do you get if you multiply 7 x 6 in base 13 (I think that was it)
how many roads must a man walk down?...

forty-two

Sofaspud

From google define:

Definitions of life on the Web:

* a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
* the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
* the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
* animation: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
* the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
* the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
* liveliness: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
* biography: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
* the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
* a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
* living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
* a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
* the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
* life sentence: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Reku

Terry wrote:

Beat me to it.
It's just that simple.
There are no big mysteries about it.
You just have kids and help them better themselves and it all starts again.

Heh, thought my insightful post would've been wasted here, nice to be proven wrong in this instance.

Sadly I think these days many parents fall down quit badly on the "help them better themselves" part of raising kids.

Naos

Froot wrote:

Here is an extract, or at least here is my prediction...

DAY 1: First day in battle, my passive attitude has not won me any friends and I had both my legs hacked off. Perhaps being a peaceful warrior is a sh!t idea.

/rummages around for a quote

"Never judge a book by its cover", or in your case, "Never judge a book if you have not heard of it/read it/googled it".

CharlieFinton

I'd say.....the meaning of life, of all our lives, is in everything we do, the people we meet and call friends/enemies, the children we may have, the places we see, all of the memories we take with us and bring back to help us through hard times, it's in all that we experience, bad or good, and in all that we learn and forget...and if someone could take all these things and put them into words, we'd find some meaning to it all, a collective meaning, not just in one single thing, such as a god we worship, or money we strive for, or even our families, it's in our entire lives...so only in our final hour will we realise what our lives have been about, through what we'll miss, and what will miss us...that's where i found it last time 'round anyway...

seo-ireland

The meaning of life is to reproduce. Everything else is just a bonus. End of story.

Irish Wolf

MooseJam wrote:

I thought it was 42

Indeed.. patiently awaits zaph to explain it all to us again...

Dave!

Life has no meaning. We're all gonna die eventually. So you might as well try and cram as much adventure, love, fun, happiness, etc., into the c. 80 years we have on the planet.

Or if you want to get sappy then you can go for the whole immortalisation through art shindig! I think Yeats was big into that...
Or perhaps from a biological point of view the meaning of life is to survive as long as possible and have as many kids as possible.

Get crackin on that!

So Glad

The meaning of live, from the point of view of being a conscious being that can observe the world around him and question it, is quite obvious. I believe in reincarnation, I just do. So many people recall different lives. I believe that this world is a training ground for souls. We are sent here with a specific purpose in mind. I believe we form our life before we come here to better ourselves when we leave. Take for example, the man who is born ugly, and has no chance of going by on good looks. He needs to better himself in other ways. Maybe in a past life he was extremely vain, and slagged ugly people?

I believe that just like the human body/DNA that our souls (consciousness) evolve that that evolution is reincarnation into the training ground of planet Earth. A lot of people don't realize they are here to better themselves of the deficiencies they have, and spend they're life cursing what they have and swallowing anti-depressants and living in the dark.

So yeah, I believe the meaning of live is to evolve your consciousness as a soul and to realize good and evil as neither one nor the other because one man's good is another man's evil and they both exist in the same universe and are the scales of life.

/rant

daveirl

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So Glad

daveirl wrote:

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Yes, yes they do. Doesn't make them wrong.

Pompey Magnus

So Glad wrote:

So many people recall different lives.

Problem with that is that quite alot of different people recall the same life, eg one psychologist had about 8 patients who recalled being Napolean Bonapart and 5 who recalled being Marie Antoinette.

SimpleSam06

So Glad wrote:

The meaning of live, from the point of view of being a conscious being that can observe the world around him and question it, is quite obvious. I believe in reincarnation, I just do. So many people recall different lives. I believe that this world is a training ground for souls. We are sent here with a specific purpose in mind. I believe we form our life before we come here to better ourselves when we leave. Take for example, the man who is born ugly, and has no chance of going by on good looks. He needs to better himself in other ways. Maybe in a past life he was extremely vain, and slagged ugly people?

I believe that just like the human body/DNA that our souls (consciousness) evolve that that evolution is reincarnation into the training ground of planet Earth. A lot of people don't realize they are here to better themselves of the deficiencies they have, and spend they're life cursing what they have and swallowing anti-depressants and living in the dark.

So yeah, I believe the meaning of live is to evolve your consciousness as a soul and to realize good and evil as neither one nor the other because one man's good is another man's evil and they both exist in the same universe and are the scales of life.

/rant

Right so... blowjobs then?

Crumble Froo

is that an offer?! ^