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Is this the meaning of life?
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sfslol
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Is this the meaning of life?
I was going to write a long and very detailed thread on this, but I can't be bothered because I'm way too tired. I don't know if anyone has thought about this, but I just came to think about it the other night.
The meaning of life is emotions. Emotions is linked with absolutely everything, and it's very confusing yet very obvious. Feelings is what drives us, what gives birth, what kills us, why we try to achieve the impossible and even why we try to find the meaning to life. Without emotions life wouldn't have meaning. Why would you even do anything if you couldn't feel success, pain, love and so on? It's the very ingredient to what people think is the meaning of life.
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Cianna200
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RE: Is this the meaning of life?
Can't bees get angry?
The meaning of life is still a mystery, I don't know if it's emotions.
I especially find it laughable that some people think the meaning of life is to have babies. I think the meaning of life, is to well give it meaning, or it could be self creation.
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2016 02:27 AM by Cianna200.)
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Is this the meaning of life?
I don't think that life has a meaning, but emotions are what causes me to want to continue living.
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Is this the meaning of life?
Quote: The meaning of life is emotions. Emotions is linked with absolutely everything, and it's very confusing yet very obvious. Feelings is what drives us, what gives birth, what kills us, why we try to achieve the impossible and even why we try to find the meaning to life. Without emotions life wouldn't have meaning. Why would you even do anything if you couldn't feel success, pain, love and so on? It's the very ingredient to what people think is the meaning of life.
I think that's part of the meaning, not all of it. Of course, I don't believe that there is anything like "THE" meaning; different people create different meanings according to their own realities. There are certainly things we're programmed to do; natural instincts, if you will. From that POV, one could say that the meaning of life is to survive.
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RE: Is this the meaning of life?
(01-01-2016 05:00 PM)sfslol Wrote: I was going to write a long and very detailed thread on this, but I can't be bothered because I'm way too tired. I don't know if anyone has thought about this, but I just came to think about it the other night.
The meaning of life is emotions. Emotions is linked with absolutely everything, and it's very confusing yet very obvious. Feelings is what drives us, what gives birth, what kills us, why we try to achieve the impossible and even why we try to find the meaning to life. Without emotions life wouldn't have meaning. Why would you even do anything if you couldn't feel success, pain, love and so on? It's the very ingredient to what people think is the meaning of life.
Any thoughts?
my view on the point of life is to do what you want. life is a gift, don't let it go to waste, no one knows if you can retry or never get it back.
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Is this the meaning of life?
The meaning of life is to give your life a meaning. Your own meaning - unique to you... not anyone else's idea of what your life should mean.
Emotions are very useful. If we know how to listen to them, they'll tell us almost everything we need to know. If you're happy - do more of what makes you happy. If you're sad, try to do less of that. If you've been horribly frustrated for years, it means you haven't been responding to your emotions properly, or maybe other people have been completely disregarding them. And the healthy response (also the one that most sane people recommend) would be to get those people the hell out of your life... but this is where being a kid becomes a big problem... you can't easily just get parents, teachers, and people in school out of your life.
And then people just get used to having their feelings disregarded, and see it as normal, so they disregard their own feelings for years and decades, and then they have a mid-life crisis, which is apparently a normal thing now, get some psychiatric drugs, carry on like normal, retire and die.
Moral of the story? Feelings are important. Don't ever disregard them. 
Quote:A bee does not experience emotion.
How do you know? Have you been a bee before? Ever communicated with one?
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Is this the meaning of life?
>implying life has a meaning
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RE: Is this the meaning of life?
(01-06-2016 08:24 AM)Alistoriv Wrote: >implying life has a meaning
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Is this the meaning of life?
I'd say the meaning of (human) life is experience...Which includes emotions, learning in the deepest sense of the word, and more "do" experiences like dancing or working or eating or something with the people you care about.
For some people changing the world in some way, like fighting the school system, finding a new medicine for a disease, saving the bees etc is also really important.
And that for sure gives purpose to life, if nothing else.
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