Life. What's it all about?

It's a playing field of all sorts of people, of all sorts of backgrounds and different strategies and paths, cultures and languages, playing itself over a limited and systematic lifepsan, until the cycle repeat itself until physics decides otherwise. Trying to fully understand that playing field and reduce it to something meaningful is ultimately impossible , and futile. Rather than what life is about, it should be easier to identify what life is not about.

What about sitting in a circle and singing HAPPY songs, come on guys let's do the show right here, I'll start you off

HAPPY TALK, KEEP TALKIN', HAPPY TALK
TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU'D LIKE TO DO
YOU GOT TO HAVE A DREAM
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DREAM
HOW YOU GONNA HAVE A DREAM COME TRUE

wendell borton wrote: »

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

......then you lose the money!

Alfie

Ultimately I think the idea is to find an attractive mate and reproduce. That's what we're born to do.

Of course the in-between part is important too. That means enjoying ourselves as much as we can afford to with the money we work hard to get.

We work hard for many reasons. To fulfil ourselves as individuals, to leave a better world for the next generation and make a more enjoyable one for ourselves.

There's a certain way we must enjoy ourselves though. This can be in many many forms but it should be sustainable, meaning it should not cause harm to our health and not drain our finances for our futures.

Sex plays a huge part in our role on earth though!

aaronjumper wrote: »

So what do you hold dear? Family, sport, watching soaps?
What have you decided to make life about if you don't believe it's about anything?

i hold my family dear, i care about them more than anything, other than that i have as good a time as i can doing whatever i want as long as i dont cause harm to other people. i dont care for the law, not trying to sound hard or whatever but i have one chance at life it was almost taken from me not so long ago and now i just do what i want.

One last song, then I'm out of here

WHEN I LOOK BACK, I CAN'T FORGET
THE FRIENDS I'VE MET
AND THE THINGS THEY'VE DONE
I THANK 'EM ALL, IT'S BEEN GREAT FUN
AS FOR ME, I HAVE NO DOUBT
THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT

Leaving the the world and society in a better place than when you entered

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Why should you spend your life making the world better for everybody after you die? What is the point?

That's a very nihilistic stance. What's the point in not wanting to further refine and enhance civilization for not only ourselves but for future generations?

SafeSurfer wrote: »

FU€k me no. If I am ever content please kill me. Content as in "ah sure it could be worse" or "be happy with what you have". Fu€k you serfs contentment is for losers.

That's not contentment. That's resignation or settling; that you don't really have the life you want but you feel it would be churlish to complain about what you have because-
"at least I have a job, my health", "others worse off than me" bla bla.

Contentment is not for "losers". Being content in life is the greatest happiness you can achieve I think. Fuck all that go-getting-money-driven **** that people think will make them happy. It never does. Deep down most people instinctively know what happiness is about in life-friends, family, community, interesting and fulfilling work, security, lack of money/health problems, an interesting inner life. All that good stuff.

Can't remember who said it but "nobody ever said on their deathbed I wish I'd spent more time in the office", about sums it up.