The Meaning of Life

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I think the question is too broad to answer.
How about: What is the meaning of the human race?

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just sprinkle and wait

school
work
death

There is no Cosmic purpose or meaning to life.

Each living things has its own mini-meaning or purpose.

ruveyn

Life has the meaning we atribute to it.

The incomparable genius Paul Erdos answered this question in a way I personaly find it makes sense: "Proof and conjecture and keeping the SF score low."

Proof and conjecture means to proove mathematical theorems and to conjecture new theorems. Keeping the SF score low: first, SF means supreme fascist, i.e., god. And the game with the SF is as follows: if we do something bad, the SF gets at least 2 points. If we don't do something good we could have done, the SF gets at least 1 point. In the remaining cases, nobody gets any points. this is humorous in the sense that the fascist won't let us have any points.

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i spent many nights on long walks trying to justify [my] existence and believing that i really had to. then one night i applied the question 'why' to itself, recognized the evolutionary/historical contingency of the question and the apparent necessity of it dissolved. the concepts of meaning, justification, and purpose are tools construed by man for human purposes. there is not, that i can find, any reason to suppose that purposes exist outside of being construed by humans for human purposes. so there is no reason, that i can find (and why should i want to?), to pine over some supposed lack of ultimate meaning or purpose.

Sounds appealing, and I found myself in that much existential angst where I was a reductive materialist for a while but.... it didn't stay that way. Once you delve deeper into your own consciousness you realize that you've never swam below the surface and, there's really no ocean floor either. Moses seeing a burning bush, Mary seeing an angel, the program can do anything it wants and our five senses come from our own minds not some substantial outside world as we think of it. Its a bit like The Matrix except that the outside world is much more vast, liquid, and hypnogogic in nature to where we have an incredibly difficult time making heads or tales of it from our cut-and-dry 'physical' perspective.

I gave up looking for meaning, and started looking for "rewarding".

Life is what you make of it. If navel-gazing is your thing, then have a go of it.

If you're more into wine, wealth, and women, then maybe you have a future in politics.

According to Cleverbot, the meaning of life is indeed 42, it is also love (according to the same).

Therefore love must logically equal 42.

Love = 42.

So either 42 or love would be the correct answer since they are logically equivalent.

Depends.

Our 'meaning' or 'purpose' is to reproduce, and allow our genes to replicate and surive. we are just the 'surival machines' and are discarded after the reproduction stage.
Our conscious is the genes giving more freedom to the machine to think and surive more better than a less sentient conscious. A animal has intention to surive, unlike microbes. humans have reached the next stage. Eventually the coding will just say, in english terms, do whats best for the both of us.
There is no special purpose.

some humans already have that embedded code
they have incarnated forever
served people as shamans and medicine people

many become sad and die too nowadays

Cheshire cats.

Strong English cheddar cheese.

Monty Python has already answered that question.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Let's be clear:

42 is not the meaning of life.

42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. (And knowledge of the question is specifically precluded where the answer is known).

As Bill most correctly points out, the meaning of life is,



I will forego the gratuitous pictures of penises, however.