What's the point of life?

[max_freakout]

What is the point of whose / which life?

1) Life as in all forms of life on the planet ?

2) Life as in my personal life ?

3) Life as in the life of all of humanity ?

i would say, what is the point of existence?

 

[max_freakout]

Occasionally I think the orgasms are some kind of compensation.

try telling that to cats, it's agony for them (spikey feline penis )

 

[Jonti]

"We're born, we suffer, and then we die. But first we pay taxes."

 

[Jonti]

try telling that to cats, it's agony for them (spikey feline penis )

No thanks, I don't do it with cats

 

[max_freakout]

No thanks, I don't do it with cats

nothing wrong with a bit of beast-sex every now and then

 

[Aldebaran]

Yea I could get all excited by a thread like this but .. its in the wrong forum really ..

What is the point of life?

1) Christian - to live a good existance and get access to heaven!

2) Muslim suicide bomber - get my 72 virgins !

3) Politician - power - getting it and keeping it

4) Reincarnation / Karma addict - to get a better deal in the next life

5) nihilist - there is no point - there is no meaning

6) dog - hey I can lick my own balls!! bet you wish you could do that !!

You are completely wrong in point 2. Such a person believes that is the point of death.

salaam.

 

[weltweit]

You are completely wrong in point 2. Such a person believes that is the point of death.

Yes, you are quite right. I wonder how I could have got that so wrong?

 

[Aldebaran]

Don't ask me. (Your point 5 contains also a inherent contradiction.)

salaam

 

[Zeppo]

To change our living conditions?

A friend said to me the whole point of life is to procreate. I don't agree. Do not get to hung up on what is the point of life? Just live it - not harming others on the way.

 

[sojourner]

i reckon there is no point. life exists because it can, and not for any other reason. it's not working towards something, it just is.

I'd go along with that

 

[stavros]

I like to think of life in all its forms as just a load of freak chemical reactions intertwined. Bit like Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis I guess.

 

[Dr Jon]

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease which enables the universe to understand itself. Once the LHC, hubble, etc., have found the final bits of the puzzle, Earth will be redundant.

 

[bodach]

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease which enables the universe to understand itself. Once the LHC, hubble, etc., have found the final bits of the puzzle, Earth will be redundant.

Wow, your're a cheery chap jon.

 

[max_freakout]

there are 3 concepts which have an ambiguous relation to each other in regard to this question

they are point, meaning, and purpose

 

[Dr Jon]

Wow, your're a cheery chap jon.

Yup - that was the good news...

 

[Aldebaran]

there are 3 concepts which have an ambiguous relation to each other in regard to this question

they are point, meaning, and purpose

There is no ambiguity.
Without point no meaning.
Without purpose no meaning of having the point.
Without meaning no reason or request for either.

salaam.

 

[Wintermute]

The point of life is to question its own existence; there has to be something going, "What's it all about, then? I mean, really?", otherwise... well, what would be the point?

 

[mentalchik]

Why does there have to be a point ?


what arrogance to assume so !

 

[maya]

'life can only be understood backwards, but have to be lived forwards'
- Kierkegaard

 

[Sunspots]

'life can only be understood backwards, but have to be lived forwards'
- Kierkegaard

Why the '' ?

 

[maya]

Why the '' ?

probably because i haven't understood it yet.

 

[merlin wood]

This might be better in the philosphy forum but they scare me with all of their book learnin'

Given that the earth is ultimately doomed to a fiery death in a dying sun / falling in to a black hole / being hit by a fucking great lump of rock / being swallowed by a space goat what exactly is the point of life?

Why bother having a biological imperative to reproduce if it's all going to end in tears anyway?

Excllent question imho, longdog. And my own personal point in life since I'm not sure quite when - probably since the age of eight or nine, when I got kids' science books as Xmas presents and my Dad bought a set of children's encyclopedias - has been to find the genuine truth about how the universe is the way that it is.

And really, while keeping up with the latest scientific developments in theoretical physics especially, my quest has been by pretty indepedent study.

I can't say that this was was a constant quest, but my motivation did pick up a lot when, first of all, I learnt about light, radio, etc. waves and the about quantum theory and, especially, the interpretations of quantum physics.

And thus I came to develop definite - and I still think - reasonable ideas that there is a profound, universal and quite unresolved mystery here, and not just concerning matter and energy on the smallest scale but concerning the universe that includes life on Earth on the larger scale.

And by working for a number of years on the problem of causally relating the small scale evidence to that of the larger scal natural world I've come to the conclusion that there's a whole lot more to be said of how th universe is the way that is than the present "standard model" of physics recognises.

And to the extent that there are some, I think, quite strong reasons to consider that none of the presently predicted sorry ends to the universe need come about.

 

[Demosthenes]

i dont think humans will ever get the point. how can we understand something contained in the mind of god?

Why is that so difficult.?

 

[merlin wood]

Why is that so difficult.?

Good question too, I'd say, which I've concluded has a lot to do with the history of science and physics especially. But with a determinist view of history you have to think never mind really, and move on...

 

[pk]

This might be better in the philosphy forum but they scare me with all of their book learnin'

Given that the earth is ultimately doomed to a fiery death in a dying sun / falling in to a black hole / being hit by a fucking great lump of rock / being swallowed by a space goat what exactly is the point of life?

Why bother having a biological imperative to reproduce if it's all going to end in tears anyway?

We have 50 million years to recolonise a distant planet or two.

Think of it as a challenge!