What is the meaning of life?

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

What is the meaning of life? From a biological sense our purpose is to breed and pass DNA to the next generation.

A lot of us won’t do that so what is the point of our lives?
Seriously, what is the point of it all? Work a crappy job, get speeding tickets, die of heart disease?

What is the point of it all? What do you guys think? I’m trying to find a purpose for my life and I’d love to hear how you answer the question.

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[Anonymous 42]

What is the meaning of life?
To see how much s~~~ we can take!

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

What is the meaning of life? From a biological sense our purpose is to breed and pass DNA to the next generation.

I am so sick of overgeneralizations.

If the whole point to life was just to breed, we would have never left the trees.

The whole point to life is to learn, build, study, create. To enjoy life.

Some of the most revered individuals in history never had children. Yet, such people are remembered for how they contributed to civilization in other ways.

[The_YoungParticipant 1073]

My immediate answer to this question, and I ask myself it a lot, is just to say “To do whatever the f~~~ I want.” I always feel like its a crude simplification….but really its the only one that works for me.

Look at it like this….If the purpose of life is truly to f~~~ and pass on our DNA…does that really sound so appealing? My kid is going to be nothing like me, so much for the whole “pass on the legacy”. Why would anyone find comfort in that? Because its just a built in function that our brain tells us to do? Nah, son.

My fairy tale, my rules. Good vibes, stress free!

Brother, we need to stick together.

[Anonymous 24]

Ultimately, there is none other than what you choose it to mean. Really we are just all space dust temporarily cursed in our current form with the power to contemplate such things…

For me it is to try to bring forth peace, but men in higher positions than I care not for such things as mankind is stuck in an eternal paradigm that to the winner goes the spoils, and more often than not that means hot women who will f~~~ and suck whoever has the most s~~~. Once again, a species behavior is driven by the reward to mate with the female. And ultimately, it is they who have the power to dictate how a society behaves. If all hot women decided to reward true humanitarians with sex, the world with change in a very short time for the better of all mankind.

[RoyDalParticipant]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/beliefs/fournobletruths_1.shtml

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[hmskl’dParticipant 6406]

Great post. I have a couple of close relatives who are ministers .. so if you asked them this question they would answer it in an almost entirely religious way.
Having said that, and on a different note completely separate from religion .. personally, I sometimes think that more is going on scientifically than we realize .. sometimes, on rare occasions when I’m working, I get the strange feeling I’ve done all this before. I’m not talking about things I frequently do or projects I might have done in the past. I’m referring to new things such as cooking a totally new recipe for bbq ribs or building a newly designed deck out of wood .. something I know I’ve never done. There is a brief flashback or chilly deja-vu that lasts a second or two and feels like I’ve been there; done that. Maybe, just maybe there is more going on than we realize. Just the fact that that things sometimes seem deeper or more complex than they appear on the surface. I guess I might be getting into the realm of the existence of a possible parallel universe .. or something on the order of a fourth dimension.
Who knows? Is the world really going on outside my space of senses or does it only exist when I am present? Is the grocery store where I shopped this morning really there with cars in the parking lot now that I’m home, or does it exist only when I am within sensory range? .. be that in person or on camera. This may sound far fetched but I took a philosophy course years ago and we actually sat in a circle group discussion and talked about these unanswerable things along with the professor.
…and if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it or see it or video it .. does it still make a noise? There are actually some old philosophers who would argue this one both ways.
Another thing that has really changed my thinking over the years as to the meaning of being human is when I first learned of the presence of pharyngeal pouches and ridges also called branchial clefts found in some form in all chordates during embryonic development .. also commonly called pharyngeal gill slits in biology. Whether a person is a creationist and finds ways to argue that these structures don’t develop into actual gills in humans (which is true) .. or if one sees embryonic branchial clefts as evidence of evolution as the ridges and pouches eventually disappear and develop into things such as jaw, middle ear and larynx .. one must admit that the presence of these essential structures during the earliest stages of human development is something to at least consider .. and enter into the debate of human evolution vs creation and to the overall meaning of life.

[Anonymous 3]

I have a story about the meaning of life.

As a kid I had a conceptual image of spirit as a conscience free of physical limitations. A soul could go anywhere, see anything, and know everything.

So, I always wondered: why would a soul (if it existed at all) consider taking a body, have physical limitations, and go through life?

For some reason I started thinking about games, and how the player has all liberty and knowledge but is not in the game. How much fun could we have inside the game, instead of looking outside from a computer screen? And that fun would be greater if we where constrained to the rules of that game, like it was a real thing.

So that is my take of life. If it has a drama, if it has conflicts, if it is crazy, if it has ups and downs, it is all because of its entertainment value.

Life is a game for our entertainment.

Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.
Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

Life has no purpose, and humans aren’t any more special than tree fungus. We just are. We just exist. The only reason we don’t kill ourselves and just end it now is because we have a strong biological imperative to survive. Humans are just animals growing and adapting to our different environments. Religion is a way for humans to try to find some sort of meaning in life and to justify our existence, but in reality our existence needs no justification any more than the existence of tree fungus.

Just keep living because killing yourself goes against your natural instinct to survive. Try to accumulate as much physical resources as you can, then grow old and fight death as much as possible before you inevitably succumb to it. No one will remember that you ever even existed 100 years from now, and no one will care.

You can either take this truth and be depressed by it, or take it for what it is. Truth. A fact. The way things are. Unless you do something revolutionary like Einstein or Freud, no one will remember you. And even if you do something extraordinary and are remembered in history, all the kids learning about you in school won’t give a s~~~. When you die all your resources will be distributed to others and it will be like you never existed.

So f~~~ the world. Either commit suicide and get it over with now, or try to get as much enjoyment out of your life until you croak. Don’t waste it with females or children and don’t become someone else’s slave. Just do what you want, when you want and never feel guilty about it.

[chirParticipant]

What is the meaning of life?

Its to work at enjoying it. We are on this globe for a very short time. To enjoy this time as much as possible is the best we can do. This merry go round is a one ticket one ride show. To not enjoy it would be a waste.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[WallyParticipant]

The other day, I had the honor of meeting a WW 2 veteran whose unit has the record for days in combat. He talked about coming into a concentration camp and seeing the prisoners that were kept there, some did not even have the energy to smile, but they were so grateful to be rescued. He also told me that about 3/5 people they rescued died because they were in such bad shape and their organs were shutting down. He went to a local school and told the children about what he saw, all of them had no idea. The schools no longer talk about this, he talked to the principal and they are going to Change that. 30 years from now, what the greatest generation did during that time will probably be forgotten and we will repeat history in a similar manner.

I say this because it brings me to your question Jan. What is the meaning of life? I think it is simply to be the best man you can be, enjoy your life, help others when you are able, and try to leave your little spot better than when you arrived. Will anyone remember you when you leave? Perhaps, perhaps not. But at that time it won’t matter to you.

"what a waste of a life, to marry, give up your freedom, just for the hope of not dying alone. Don't get married Son."

[HitmanParticipant]

To thine own self be true.
It has the meaning you assign to it.
Assign it greatness!
Accomplish goals and enjoy the rewards. .
Challenge yourself and see that you are stronger than you can imagine!

[Anonymous 54]

Learning,mastery,treating yourself well,obtaing knowlage and wisdom that you can share with the next generation of Men.Helping other Men.Nature ,spirituality,science.Shareing love with critters.

[Anonymous 54]

@stealthy. Nice post !

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9540]

Ever saw that Billy Crystal movie “City Slickers” and it has that one scene with Curly (who by the way is a real MGTOW), and he discusses what the meaning or secret of life is? I believe what he says, that the meaning of life is what’s most important to you, and it’s different for everyone.

My secret to life is myself; my man cave, my happiness (however I find it), my tech, and everything I dream about. Some of you said that life is about passing DNA onto the next generation. Well, I’m not going to. Women aren’t the secret of life; they’re the secret of Dante’s Inferno.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[The Laughing ManParticipant 1020]

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I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes...or should I?

[Anonymous 0]

There is no point and nothing in the universe is wrong. Therefore not one thing nor no ones actions are ever wrong as they are part of the universe. We just place judgment values on everything and make big deals over things, which is essentially pointless as nothing can ever be wrong otherwise the universe would not have allowed the event to happen. Then your head explodes.
Best to just crack a beer and dream of a Universe where the nature of physics disallows the existence of feminists.

[ShinyParticipant 2307]

Well, the Catechism (1:1) says,

‘God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength.”

And yes, that’s the language of the Vatican. No inclusive language – it says ‘man’, like the Bible.

[BadgerParticipant 2277]

Jan.Sobieski:
With regard to the question of the meaning of life, I suggest that you check out pages 71-76 of UNDERSTANDING ZEN by Benjamin and Amy Radcliff. The text is too long to copy or too difficult to summarize in brief here. Also, pages 289-291 of PEOPLE IN QUANDARIES by Wendell Johnson has a discussion under the heading Non-Sense Questions.
Wendell Johnson indicates that the vague terms make the question unanswerable. Again, the text is too long to post here.

Basically, the Radcliffs indicate the problem is unsolvable. It has to do with the confusion of concepts, abstractions, and reality. They say it is like the ear trying to hear the ear, or the eye trying to see the eye. You may have to read the preceding pages in that book to understand the later pages. However, the whole discussion of Zen takes less than 80 pages. The text is not technical and the average person can read and understand their explanation. The rest of the book deals with Zen history and other issues.

Buddhism is confused by many in our culture and society to be a religion, but it is more a psychology or philosophy than a religion, because Buddha was not considered a god or deity.

[SubtilitasParticipant 101]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

What is the meaning of life? From a biological sense our purpose is to breed and pass DNA to the next generation.

A lot of us won’t do that so what is the point of our lives?
Seriously, what is the point of it all? Work a crappy job, get speeding tickets, die of heart disease?

What is the point of it all? What do you guys think? I’m trying to find a purpose for my life and I’d love to hear how you answer the question.

Something I’ve picked up somewhere: “Everything has a role, but nothing has meaning.”

So, I think that everything within that universe affects other things and is being affected. Everything plays its role here, but there is no meaning to it all. It all simply is. We are here now, so we should do what we like and enjoy it as long as we’re here. If it has meaning in the end or not doesn’t really matter here, I think.

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