Alright philosofags, let's settle this once and for all.
What is the meaning of life?
Undefined
To achieve satisfaction.
To glorify God and resist evil.
>>891278
Existentialism. The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
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There is no inherent meaning to life.
whatever you want it to be
>>891278
: the ability to grow, change, etc., that separates plants and animals from things like water or rocks
: the period of time when a person is alive
: the experience of being alive
meaning of life is not compatible to human understanding
not that you can't but there are somethings that doesn't necessarily needs explanation because the need for understanding is not relevant to living itself
the method of living cannot be strictly assigned to life itself and meaning of life cannot be equatable the meaning of being alive and so on
if there was a state of no-life and if from there you can observe life then maybe you can find some connection but otherwise the meaning will always be impure
God I hate this fucking question, it seems to have become this, I don't know, this stock ultimate philosophical quandary that people only ask to look "deep", that all of humanity is supposed to be striving to discover the answer to so they can have a fucking epiphany and break down in tears from how moving it all is or some shit.
It's a simple question with a simple fucking answer. There isn't a meaning to life. Do whatever the fuck you want. Why does there need to be a purpose, or a meaning? Just enjoy the act of living.
>>891278
There is no meaning we can know of, but the closest meaning we have is we are the U Universe experiencing itself. You can't deny you are alive and you can't deny you are in the universe therefore experiencing it.
Survival through trial and error
>>891278
Living in harmony with cosmos.
There's not a pre-programmed one, it's whatever you decide it is that makes you content. Life on the surface, pragmatically, is cheap. People (and other living things) die all the damn time for stupid reasons, the only real value is what you ascribe to it.
Gonna agree with >>891293, but I'll also say that I think stoicism has it more right than hedonism. If you always want more you'll never be satisfied, but if you teach yourself to be content having your needs fulfilled, worrying only about things you can influence yourself, and living according to your values, you've made it. Learning when enough is enough and being happy with that will probably make for a more satisfying life than always wanting more and never reaching your goal because the posts keep moving.
fuck all the meme answers. the meaning of life is to propagate your genes and ensure that your offspring can propagate those genes further. then you perish.
unless of course you are a genetic dead end unfit for reproduction, like you me and everyone else posting on this autistic hellhole.
To glorify God.
>>891278
Whatever meaning you give it...
>>891540
>implying we can't rebel against the desires of our genes
The propagation of memes is the future.
There is no universal meaning of life, but there are many lives with many meanings, but we can abstract from all of these to find what it means to have meaning in a life. A human life, in order to be voluntarily sustained, must have meaning. What it is, in the feed-back loop between man and world (or theoretically, what it is just in the man himself) that prevents said man from taking the path of suicide is the meaning of said man's life. What factor or factors have prevented the man from taking the path of suicide? The answer to this question would be the meaning of the man's life.
Meaning is not, as many religious people say, to be found bound up in all of the universe itself or in God or gods or whatever, nor is it as the existentialists say, that meaning must be created by man, for a man can continue living without having "created" any meaning. Rather, meaning is to be found in man and his environment or man himself. It is both objective and subjective, though in theory, it could be accounted for entirely objectively, though it is not universal for all humans. The meaning of a man's life is objective, but there is no singular objective thing to which all lives have meaning.
It's possible to be living with no meaning, such as a man on his way to hang himself. But most people, by virtue of themselves and their environment, continue to live voluntarily and thus have meaning.
>>891278
This is a a really stupid question. It ore-sums there is some telelogical nature to the universe. If you want to claim there is offer some reason. If you can't give details about the hypthetical teleology you don't really have a question do you?
If you don't have teleology asking what the universe's "meaning" is makes about as much fucking sense as asking "is the sun happy?"
>>891278
>What is the meaning of life?
IT ENDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpfp7CmC1w
>>891278
To procreate is pretty much the purpose, so the meaning must be something like: if it feels good, do it.
>>891278
>meaning
>>891278
The meaning of life will be whatever expression of the biological features and experiences an individual has.
It will always be limited by the ''hardware'', but the ''software'' and the meaning it believes to have will keep growing/changing as it experiences more/thinks more..etc.
The meaning of life is whatever humans make the meaning of life to be.
The meaning of life is completely relative.
Being diagnosed with autism and cruising through life with no self awareness and given mercy by a diety in the afterlife because you're an autistic shit that no one likes.
>>891278
There isn't one. But, as a human being who is sapient, you are part of a species that is uniquely capable of forming a meaning for yourself. You can use your existence to contribute to something that will persist after your death, effectively making you, or at least your contributions, immortal and giving a self-defined resolution to your unique and beautiful life.
honor the dead
become dead
be honored
>>891278
To learn to love yourself and others unconditionally
It's a dog eat dog world tbbh senpai
to break away from the bondage of life itself
>>891278
define meaning
>>891278
To live it.
>>892111
>Implying that is actually possible
>>891297
>2011
>being this retarded
To experience, to live, to evolve as spiritual beings.
>>891278
To become an ubermensch by any means
life itself is meaning
>>891278
Who says there has to be a meaning?
We were created as free, sentient beings. It is a beautiful act indeed but as free beings, we must learn; a spiritual evolution if you will. But there isn't a randomness to this "evolution", that is, there's intent: that we attain virtue. That is why there is an entire ecosystem of good and evil from which we must choose, ideally, good (as this is the only path to virtue). Life is fundamentally a trial where you are expected to voluntarily develop virtue, and as with any test, it is timed (ecosystem built in checks and balances), although I am personally unsure if there is a passing grade, there is a lesson to learn, traits to acquire and an instruction manual in written and unwritten (intuition, inclinations) form.
>>892392
Would you inject testosterone for the rest of your life to become Ubermensch?
>>891278
You are one out of seven billion on a piece of rock in a vacuum. There is no meaning to life except for whatever you want it to be.
>>892339
Why wouldnt it be?
>>891278
FEED, FUCK AND DIE, why? becouse fuck you thats why
>>892593
You meant breaking away from the shackles of life through meditation? Or mere death?
>>892631
Well if you die you just become reborn again, in a situation based on your actions from the previous life. Through meditation you can break this cycle and disappear forever.
Meaning of life is to play game the game you can't win.
>>892641
>Well if you die you just become reborn again, in a situation based on your actions from the previous life.
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>Through meditation you can break this cycle and disappear forever.
Nope, the only thing you will achieve is believe you have broken the cycles of life, just to keep on doing them.
Meditation has its uses like increasing attention span and avoiding entering harmful thought patters which can help with anxiety/depression, but you won't stop being human or ascend to anything through meditation, that is all bullshit. The worse that can happen is depersonalization or disassociation, but that should be temporal.
>>891278
The Overman is the meaning of the earth, and life itself is will to power.
t. the best philosopher to ever live.
>>891303
upvoted.
>>891278
Life is about death. "You" emerged out of the chaos that is the thermodynamic fluctuations of nature, for no apparent reason, and just as you emerged, you get unceremoniously thrown back into the void by nature.
Why does nature create sentient life? That is perhaps a better question to ask; or, the corollary to the original question.
>>893021
This statement is so loaded it's retarded.
Why are life and death seen as opposing opposites?
Why would you say such an ordered universe is chaotic?
Are you implying that you pre-existed before you were "thrown", if not than you could not have been thrown.
Why do you anthropomorphize the universe saying it can or cannot have "reasons?" Why is the universe not a natural process?
This just sounds like some loser saying he can't make sense of his life and transposing his feelings onto the universe.
>>893059
>life and death seen as opposite
Life, at its core, is an ordered, continuous physical, chemical, and biological process, that ultimately runs counter to the first law of thermodynamics (Which is why you need to eat and drink to sustain yourself)..
Death, therefore, is what life is not. Death is a release from the world of order back into the physical processes of the universe.
Then again, the universe appears grossly chaotic, but at its core are some insidiously precise physical constraints and "constants" that if they weren't so precise, the universe as we know it, would be a very different place to an observer.
Perhaps the quote about the first taste of science turning you into an atheist, but doing a deep dive turns you back religious is correct.
balling the fuck out
Isn't this more a /sci/ question?
>>891278
Attempt to treat others as you wish to be treated.
Do as you please, otherwise, then learn regret and pain and such.
Suck it up because pain and suffering is extremely important and build yourself.
Learn you are not the center of anything.
Learn empathy and sympathy. Have a sense of humor.
Get dick wet. Be happy
>>891472
You can deny both of those things, dipshit.
>>891806
What's up, Epicurus?
Personally, I like the idea that the meaning of life is to help others and live in harmony with nature. But that's my subjective view, not an objectively true statement. Everyone saying that life has the meaning you ascribe to it is as objectively right as you can be through purely rational thought.
>>891278
>Meaning of Life
Life is the term given to a period in which an organism is created or comes into being.
>Purpose of Life
The purpose of life, and/or the purpose of a life is subjective, relative to an organisms psychological processes and/or physiological development as a result of either their immediate environment or evolutionary process.
/thread
>crush your enemies
>see them driven before you
>hear the lamentations of the women
To accept Plato as your Lord and Savior.
>>891278
To live it as well as you can, figuring out your own way to give it meaning
Also to breed
>>891278
To exist
To achieve peace of mind.
>>891311
t. christfag who hasn't read Kierkegaard
to reproduce
To just b urself
>>891278
Get money, fuck bitches
LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN
>>891278
The question is ill posed. Consider reading Wittgenstein.
>>891540
I don't think you understand what the word 'meaning' means in this context. Evolution and instincts toward reproduction are descriptive truths about the physical properties of life, not prescriptive instructions on what a human is 'supposed to do'.
>>895485
To elaborate: The word "meaning" has no meaning in this context
Life doesn't "have meaning"
Words,symbols,sentences have meaning
meaning is essentially a property of a symbolic structure that points to something beyond that symbolic structure.
Life is not a symbolic structure, therefore to say it has a meaning or to say it has no meaning, is meaningless.
just to produce fucking plustic as Carlin says
I'm sure you will settle this once and for all this time
>>895503
I agree.
However, it seems like people want to understand life itself as some sort of secret message aimed at them.
>>895503
you misunderstand
"meaning" in this context means 'ultimate purpose', or 'grand significance'
wittgenstein would say you misinterpret him. there isn't just one way of using the word "meaning" (the dictionary sense). He would say if you want to know the meaning of a word, look at the context it's being used in.
And in the op's case, he means what I said above, it's meaning here is "why are we alive? why am I here what is my purpose what should I do? why do humans exist?"
>>892641
this is why buddhism is retarded
there is no rebirth cycle. anyone who believes that needs to do some serious thinknig. examine your sources lol
and because there is no rebirth cycle, we can just kill ourselves to dissapear forever
>>891278
the meaning of life cannot be known because life is subjective to everyone.
>>894058
nominalism=satanism
>>891278
The meaning of life is to bring life meaning.
Everything else is just a means to that end.
>>895503
>Life is not a symbolic structure
what does this mean
>>896081
The essence of life is something that you cannot measure. Yet it appears in all sentient beings. Therefore, that essence must be connected in some way.
to be and learn and do and see and go one with all and all with one
I want existentialists to leave
>>891278
It's different for everyone but I think in the grand scheme of things the most important is pushing the human species to new heights. Other wise it is just to live and try to improve the life of yourself and others around you.
>>891278
That is not a philosophical question.
That is a question that reveals the person asking it hasn't yet thought about what brings value to their life, or any life.
Go out and live, is the only way you get your answer. Not by asking others on a message board for theirs.
>>891278
To realize that there is no spoon, there is no separation.
>>891278
Whatever you make it to be for yourself.
>>891278
>What is the meaning of geology?
>What is the meaning of atomic fission?
>What is the meaning of life?
It's a retarded question. It's just a thing that happens.
>>891278
none
>>893681
sure you can deny them but it would be stupid
A brief reversal in entropy.
>>897767
great post
>>891278
Just brainstorming a bit:
Meaning of Life- Usually refers to some sort of knowledge (or possibly a feeling or physical object) that fulfills some deep rooted existential desire.
Meanings often consist of a definitive explanation of reality or a list of prescriptive actions for one to follow.
Questions: What is this existential desire? Why its importance? Does it even exist? If so, how do you know? Most people experience this desire as a feeling.
Life means whatever you want
>>892219
again, and again....
>>891278
Creating dank memes.
>>896022
You know, it might happen one day. Someone will be shitposting on a chinese cartoon forum when suddenly the one true meaning of life will emerge.
The post will probably include doubles.
>>896076
He also says that philosophical questions like this are bullshit because they are caused by bewitchment of language.
The usual, natural way of using the word "meaning" how it occurs in everyday life is meaning of symbols.
Using it in a more general sense than that causes philosophical confusion, which a question like "What's the meaning of life" expresses.
Your reformulations of the question just express the same bewitchment and are as meaningless as the original version.
The usage of the word meaning in "Whats the meaning of life" is not the common everyday usage Wittgenstein is talking about, but the confusing misuse of the word in a wrong context he also talks about.
We have to look at the common usage to see why the out of context usage is retarded.
>>896362
A symbolic structure is can be a word, a sentence, a pictogram or even a picture.
Something that has a meaning of some kind. Something that represents something else. Like when I say "dog" you don't just think about the word itself, but about what it represents.
Life doesn't represent anything, using the word meaning in this context is therefore wrong.
>>891278
For God to know you and you to know God and exist forever bestowed with boundless joy.
Philosophy is a ponderous and complicated structure of arbitrary and irreconcilable
notions - it's not capable of giving you the answer to the question you asked.
>>891278
Life: noun
1.
the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
Life is just a word, what exactly makes you think it has superior definition?
>>891278
Change
The meaning of life is to survive and reproduce. All life around us does this.
>>891278
to glorify God and enjoy him forever
>>891311
Satan was the good guy.
expansion and growing complexity
>>891278
more life
