man I just got finished reading the book fight club and my brain is on fucking fire with thought so what do you think is the point of life whats important that you get done before you die? sorry if this is the wrong place to post could'nt find a better one!

There is no point in life...Life is what you make of it.

I wanna have children before I die, which I will more then likely, and have my son/daughter train under me for their blackbelt.

quote:Originally posted by oitothepunxnskins:

man I just got finished reading the book fight club and my brain is on fucking fire with thought so what do you think is the point of life whats important that you get done before you die? sorry if this is the wrong place to post could'nt find a better one!

Your brain is on fire, ehh?

You're a loser.

quit wasteing life reading bullshit books and have fun.

Hmm. I've never sent a post to Printed Matter before. I wonder what it's like.

The disdain since 2000 is still here Spiffy, take back your trash.

I believe the answer to your question is....



.....42

Listen, you fucking wanker, if I move a post, I'm doing it because it doesn't belong where it started. This post is related to a book, so I'm sticking it in the book forum. If you don't think it should be there, put it somewhere else, don't shove it back where it came from.

'Brain on fire', shame you have never read a well-written book. Beat out the flames in your head with a shovel,... always works fof me.

I say the meaning of life stuff belongs in My God...

In your opinion...

The point of life is to ensure survival of one's self and of one's species.

quote:Originally posted by Lokil:

In your opinion...

Yes.

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if this is going to be a pissing contest between mods, then shouldn't this be in b&m of maybe spurious?

hee... the point of life in a nut-shell for men:

drugs, sex, rock n' roll, speed, weed, birth control. life's a bitch, soon we'll die, so fuck the world, let's get high!

for woman:

avoid drugs, sex, rock n' roll...

quote:Originally posted by Drow L0rd:

if this is going to be a pissing contest between mods, then shouldn't this be in b&m of maybe spurious?

I thought that you know!

quote:Originally posted by modega:

There is no point in life...Life is what you make of it.

indeed.

God a lot of smart-asses in here. Why are there always so many smart-asses on internet bulletin boards? Everyone's so intent on one-upping someone else.

*awaits the inevitable smart-ass response*

My answer to the topic?

I doubt anyone can answer this in general terms. The meaning of life differs from person to person, day to day, hour to hour. What matters is not the meaning of life in general but rather a specific meaning to a person's life at a given moment.

To put a question in such general freaking terms would be like approaching the best basketball player in the world and saying: "Tell me, what's the best move in the game?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the circumstances wherein (i.e. how many points you're behind/ahead, where on the court you are, whether or not you're on offence). The same holds for our very existence.

So yes, my answer is the quite impotent answer of "it depends."

We should not search for an abstract meaning for life. Everyone has their own special mission to embark on, some special task that deems fulfillment. Therein none of us can be replaced - every meaning for life is as unique as the individual's responsibility to fulfill it.



"Man should not ask what the meaning of life is - rather he should realize it is he who is asked."

-Victor E. Frankl



Each man is questioned by life. He can only answer to life by answering for his own life. His answer is thus followed through immediately with responsibility. You'd have a hard time convincing me otherwise.

rather than having someone give you a point to life why don't you find something you like and run with it, you wanna fuck professionally you can try to do that. However, what is the point of doing anything, the importance of events are relative, and on top of all that it only looks like your doing something. Meaning you don't do anything you can only create the illusion of action. It's like a videogame, your not actually killing people in a game like quake3 it only looks that way. It seems very real but it's still only an illusion. A beautiful sunset is fake, but the beauty is real, and that's it. Basically my point is you don't need someone to tell you what is important in this life it is up to you to decide, a lot of people don't want that responsibility, so they give it to someone else, a fake god perhaps. Idolaters I say, why don't you stop trying so hard and stop thinking so much and get some feeling done. It's like dancing you don't do it by thinking you do it by feeling an impulse and you just do it, the act isn't important, only the feeling, and by going by the feel of the music and it's rhythm do you actually dance good. Same with life you follow what you feel and the right thoughts and the right actions are automatically created as a byproduct. Take my advice you'll see how much simpler and happier life becomes.

This point of life is to wonder what the point of life is.

Disappointed?

Cheers,

Lost

I think that the point of life is to be happy.

You can't really say what makes someone successful, and i dont think it should matter if you're rich or anything like that, as like as you're happy with yourself..



Kinda corny.

What follows goes deeper than the distracting "point of life". All I ask is you read and try to comprehend. Thanks.

Assuming your judgement on religion/God is given level basis as any other; you will conclude, by applying the same process of valuing the reliability and meaning and consequent validity of the evidence for existence, that, though it cannot be shown that there is no God, it certainly cannot, by the same token, be shown that God/religion is the "ultimate truth" (i.e. a truth that exists beyond the realms of our perceptions and is, by definition, universal).

Indeed, the “proof” (as we perceive it) in favour of God’s existence is no more compelling than that for many other beliefs. Certainly, it is not sufficiently persuasive to result in the dedication of your life to the cause. At best, it is an unproven, interesting theory that deserves recognition, but no more.

That may sound like heresy to many, and one can only possibly understand if they free themselves completely from the all-pervasive dogma of their upbringing and that of society; indeed, an almost complete acceptance of the principles of free-thinking are required.

In the probable event you misunderstand the above, please re-read. If you still don't understand, feel free to ask for a clarifying reply.

Taking that into account, we can only conclude that there is no point of life as such. That is, we have no predetermined "fate" or "objective". It is also important to recognise that, accepting Darwin's theory of evolution, the human race

However, on a different level, we can strive to give our lives a "point"/goal/objective etc., such as "to be happy", "to be successful". My "point" in life is to search for the "ultimate truth", and so, I believe, should everyone’s. Of course, I don't know how to get there, no one does, but it is, as far as I can see, the only path to progression to higher forms of thought, even if the ultimate goal is ultimately impossible. Of course, we must sometimes take one step back to take two forward.

In the spirit of this post, I tend to view any disagreement with the above as a result of simple misunderstanding. This may explain the "arrogant" or "aloof" tone of this post. Miscomprehension is to be expected with as profound a discussion as this, so I will therefore endeavour to clarify/explain any faults you find, whether erroneous or not.

from illusions the adventures of a reluctant messiah

"Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all-young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.

Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.

But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."

The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!"

But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!"

And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."

But they cried all the more, "Savior!" all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Savior."

how many of you can grasp the meaning of life from that.

HINT: it is stated within the text.

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That delightful allegory tells us nothing as to the point of life, save that it is pointless trying to resist the infinite progression of time (the river's flow). In other words, give in to the flow's inevitability and cease trying to escape the realms of time as we perceive it; stop trying to understand that which we do not understand. Just live your life accepting the "fact" you'll never escape.

I would say that it is worthwhile continuing the struggle to escape the river's flow; you never know, we might one day transcend time as we know it. Throughout history, people have accepted things that were thought of as "truisms", e.g. the world being flat, and we only knew different when it hit them on the nose. Indeed, we should never give up the struggle for meaning, no matter how futile it may seem.

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i see you didn't.

"The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."

enjoy your life.

"save that it is pointless trying to resist the infinite progression of time (the river's flow)"

the river is not time, the river is life, quit trying to fight it and just live it.

"stop trying to understand that which we do not understand."

understanding is the key to anything.

"Just live your life accepting the "fact" you'll never escape."

can you explain why this...

"Just live your life"

needs anything at all to follow it.

"I would say that it is worthwhile continuing the struggle to escape the river's flow; you never know, we might one day transcend time as we know it."

that is exactly the point of the story,

"Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth."

as you can see they weren't going anywhere the way the were.

"Indeed, we should never give up the struggle for meaning, no matter how futile it may seem."

maybe you did get it after all, except not the meaning of life, but the meaning of your life.

quote:Originally posted by gombowlzombie:

The point of life is to ensure survival of one's self and of one's species.

That works at a purely physical level. Assuming you have more soul than say, pond scum, there is a tad more than that to it.