The meaning of life

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Forum / Life
# Ben - 2009-02-23 19:33
Life is the meaining of life. Humans always try to place meanings on things, yet this can just not be done with life. Life self-justifies. It is the reason or purpose for its own existance. It is a waste of time even looking for a meaning in life. There is no correct answer to this question. What is the meaning of life? Life is. What someone should do with their life is a different question.
# smallBang - 2009-02-23 20:40
Please tell us how you can be so sure about this.
# Pathfinder - 2009-02-23 22:52
How contradicting... "life has no meaning" vs. "life is the meaning of life"...
Sometimes people mix up the paradox with the mindless.

How could be life self-justifying? You say, meaning is something what we give. Fine for me, but then how can life give meaning to itself?

"It is the reason or purpose" - well, the reason or the purpose? Big difference... causality gives a reason to almost everything's existence, but it doesn't give a purpose to anything.
# Fire and Ice - 2009-02-24 04:38
I agree with Ben. I think life doesn't have a meaning, at least not the specific kind that we are looking for. Life just is.

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