What's the meaning of life?
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Some people think that reproduction has no positivecynicallyinsane wrote:Isn't reproduction a part of life? Even if it's not, then what's the point of reproduction?Stoan wrote:Personally: To make your mark (good, bad, etc.) in history.
Physiologically: To reproduce.
Mentally: To keep at it until you discover what it is. (Perhaps never)
effect on society. They think that we shouldn't bring children into this cruel world.
Weird but true.
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Meaning
I have often wondered about this, and I have come to the tentative conclusion that it is simply to remain living. You may say that this is extremely basic, and you would be right, but I think that we as humans are geared as much toward staying alive, and keeping our race alive, as the plant you see in your garden.
Life doesn't care if we are happy, or even comfortable, as long as it remains living. The individual does not matter, the species does.
Having come to this conclusion, my question has changed. I have realized that I have already fulfilled my basic function, since I have procreated and I am rearing my young, but that I would LIKE to be happy as well. I have realized that life doesn't care, but that I do. I do not believe there is a higher spiritual aim in life. I do not believe that we as a human race are moving towards some kind of spiritual destination.
Whatever you do outside your basic function of staying alive, is gravy. If an asteroid strikes today and wipes life off three quarters of the earth, you will not care what color your car was. You will care where your next morsel of food will come from.
We are basically animals with the potential to create our own little world in our minds and realise it in our lives. This changes nothing about our basic nature.
The meaning of life does not concern me anymore. The reality of the world I live in does.
Now I am wondering how one finds out what would make you happy. I am sure the 'what' would be different for everyone, it is the 'how' that may be the same though. Any ideas?
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This makes no sense. You are saying that the purpose of living is to live? A valid reason to do X can't be X, that's begging the question.Lao Tzu wrote:most simpily the meaning of life is to survive, as a individual and a species and you have to reproduce to stay alive as a species. So survival and reproduction are at least some of the main meaning in life
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