duszek wrote:Perhaps by the meaning of life they mean ...
What do I live for ?
Shall I just eat, drink, make merry, procreate and die ?
To most living species that is the end all be all. Is man more than that?
duszek wrote:Perhaps by the meaning of life they mean ...
What do I live for ?
Shall I just eat, drink, make merry, procreate and die ?
No.thedoc wrote:duszek wrote:Perhaps by the meaning of life they mean ...
What do I live for ?
Shall I just eat, drink, make merry, procreate and die ?
To most living species that is the end all be all. Is man more than that?
Gibran also said something like" "You ask me whether I love you more than I love myself, and you may walk away embittered when I answer 'no'.reasonvemotion wrote:Does this credit go to you or me.
indeed...thedoc wrote:NO, that is the answer to the 'ultimate question of life, the Universe, and everything' which may include 'meaning', but it was not stated in the rather vague question as presented. This was all hashed out on another thread.Impenitent wrote:42
-Imp
Because we want it to. Is that not reason enough? Everybody wants to live a meaningful life one way or another.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I've never been able to work out what the superstitious mean by 'meaning of life'. Why should it have any 'meaning'?
You did not want to be born, so would you want Life to have meaning?Notvacka wrote:Because we want it to. Is that not reason enough? Everybody wants to live a meaningful life one way or another.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I've never been able to work out what the superstitious mean by 'meaning of life'. Why should it have any 'meaning'?
I'm aware of that.chaz wyman wrote:There is a difference between "The Meaning of Life", and you making your life meaningful to youself.
You know you make it up because you thought of it.Notvacka wrote:I'm aware of that.chaz wyman wrote:There is a difference between "The Meaning of Life", and you making your life meaningful to youself.
But even if such an obective, absolute (The) Meaning of Life somehow exists, you have to find it yourself. And once you found it, how can you be sure that you didn't just make it up?
For many hedonism, consumerism, materialism can all provide enough meaning and are selected in preference to religion, or pursued along with it.reasonvemotion wrote:A wonderful book Man's search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, outlines his theory that there is a strong relationship between meaningless and depression. He argues that in the absence of meaning, people fill the void with hedonistic pleasures, power, materialism, hatred, boredom or neurotic obsessions. He concluded that the philospher Nietzsche had it right, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how", (Nietzsche, quoted in 1963, p. 121).
In Man's Search for Meaning, he says this: "...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." (1963, p. 104)
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