How many times have I heard that question? What is the meaning of life?. As if anyone could possibly know. The religious person like the gurus that use to hang out at the city parks in the late sixties and early seventies, wearing their white gowns and having that long hair and beard. Hell they'd have to know lookin like that wouldn't they? Or how about those TV preachers telling you about your " Purpose Driven Life". That was a fine book it tells you all about the meaning of life. If you have the bucks to be able to buy the book then you can know too. The atheist or agnostic may believe there is meaning but not necessarily "A " meaning. Or purpose. Everything came about at random and any meaning to life is what we give it. I wonder how many of the old beatnicks back in the day wrote poems and stood up in the coffee house layin out there profound ideas. I'm a geezer now. Seen and heard most of the shyt all the gurus and philosophizers had to say about it. Only thing that comes to my noggin that makes any sense at all, is that the meaning of this life, is to love, and be loved back in return. Anything short of that seems to be pretty meaningless to me.
The Meaning of Life.
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the meaning of life is simple, the luckiness and the priviledge to actually 'live', just like any other
organic substance alive on this earth, we're all lucky, so lets not F**k it up, do it right, respect
space you take up on this earth, and care for your earth, cause someday you'll be part of it again,
for as long as the earth shall live.
the actual meaning of life is an individual thought for one's own life, and nothing that anyone else
can dictate to you, especially the religious, who try to ram down our throats all the meanings 'they'
tell us 'it' is, but that only comes from their own story, so that is just for them.
there is a scientific explanation as to 'why' we are alive, and from there, we have the intelligence
to figure out how we want to live, what it means to us to be here, and live accordingly.
this earth formed itself a long time ago, and worked its way to a state that allowed life to form,
and from there we evolved, along with many many other lifeforms, animals, trees etc.
its interesting to be a human on this earth, with a brain that can decide many things for ourselves,
and those thoughts are the meaning of our life on earth, we are in control.
have a happy 2016
organic substance alive on this earth, we're all lucky, so lets not F**k it up, do it right, respect
space you take up on this earth, and care for your earth, cause someday you'll be part of it again,
for as long as the earth shall live.
the actual meaning of life is an individual thought for one's own life, and nothing that anyone else
can dictate to you, especially the religious, who try to ram down our throats all the meanings 'they'
tell us 'it' is, but that only comes from their own story, so that is just for them.
there is a scientific explanation as to 'why' we are alive, and from there, we have the intelligence
to figure out how we want to live, what it means to us to be here, and live accordingly.
this earth formed itself a long time ago, and worked its way to a state that allowed life to form,
and from there we evolved, along with many many other lifeforms, animals, trees etc.
its interesting to be a human on this earth, with a brain that can decide many things for ourselves,
and those thoughts are the meaning of our life on earth, we are in control.
have a happy 2016
The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is.
When rain water comes down on a desolate land, it will cause the land to live with much vegetation and plant, and the animals will come: birds and others.
So in the same way: the spirit is the reason for the inanimate objects to be animate and living, in the same way as the water is the reason for the reviving of the land with the vegetation and animal life.
So the life in this world is for the purpose of the Next Life. The Next Life: the perpetual life in spirit or soul is the purpose from the living in this World.
The life of the World is temporary, and the Next Life is perpetual and everlasting.
Man after Death
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The Next Life is better than the life of the World:
No diseases, no dirts, no toiling, no suffering.
More knowledge, more happiness.
No death anymore.
Praising and hymning the praises of God and living in prosperity.
friendliness, loving each others as brothers chatting and talking and drinking wines delicious.
Everything that they desire they will have in the neighborhood of God Most Merciful in the kingdom of heavens under the Throne of God.
Man after Death
So in the same way: the spirit is the reason for the inanimate objects to be animate and living, in the same way as the water is the reason for the reviving of the land with the vegetation and animal life.
So the life in this world is for the purpose of the Next Life. The Next Life: the perpetual life in spirit or soul is the purpose from the living in this World.
The life of the World is temporary, and the Next Life is perpetual and everlasting.
Man after Death
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The Next Life is better than the life of the World:
No diseases, no dirts, no toiling, no suffering.
More knowledge, more happiness.
No death anymore.
Praising and hymning the praises of God and living in prosperity.
friendliness, loving each others as brothers chatting and talking and drinking wines delicious.
Everything that they desire they will have in the neighborhood of God Most Merciful in the kingdom of heavens under the Throne of God.
Man after Death
I watched an episode of "The Simpsons" where Homer was laying in a hospital bed in a coma. In his mind he was talking to God. He asked God what the meaning of life was. God said "You find out when you die."
The meaning if life (sing to the tune of Auld Lang Syne):
"We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here.
We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here!"
"We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here.
We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here!"
Life is a journey not a destination. Every single person who embarks on this journey is on a different journey from everybody else. What you make of your personal journey is what it is all about. Don't let anybody tell you how to take it.
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen.
Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral | Hopping Hadrian's Wall
Isn't it beautiful? facts don't have to be scary, they can be just as beautiful and comforting as the lies we tell each other about death.
Whatever we believe about our deaths is probably what we should believe if it gives us comfort and solace. Whatever "reality" about death that you subscribe to, it is pointless and inappropriate to "enlighten" a dying person with them if the effect is anything less than providing comfort and promise. Perhaps that is the meaning of life, to do whatever it takes to help others.
perfect, I am proud to contribute to new beautiful vegitation growing on this earth, and yes, that
is eternity, the earth is our mother, we will be with her till she decides to 'not' live
any more, we might end our own possibility to exist, but she will decide her fate.