the true meaning of life

[Borachio]

What's the recipe for God? What does s/he taste like? Can I have second helpings?

 

[Farm Boy]

Bread and grape juice in my experience. Though that's only on formal occasions. Everything tastes like God.

 

[Zack]

Malachi 3:8-9
King James Version (KJV)

8 Will a man eat God? Yet ye have eaten me. But ye say, Wherein have we eaten thee? In bread and chicken.

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have eaten me, even this whole nation.

 

[Wrymouth3]

What's the recipe for God? What does s/he taste like? Can I have second helpings?

Knowing some good ingredients for making Challah, I'm sure God would be the best ingredient for the best tasting Challah.

P.S: I make some killer kugel

 

[Borachio]

Ah. The mythology of eating God!

Because we're all one, and like Ouroboros, we eat our own tail?

The living being had no need of eyes because there was nothing outside of him to be seen; nor of ears because there was nothing to be heard; and there was no surrounding atmosphere to be breathed; nor would there have been any use of organs by the help of which he might receive his food or get rid of what he had already digested, since there was nothing which went from him or came into him: for there was nothing beside him. Of design he created thus; his own waste providing his own food, and all that he did or suffered taking place in and by himself. For the Creator conceived that a being which was self-sufficient would be far more excellent than one which lacked anything; and, as he had no need to take anything or defend himself against any one, the Creator did not think it necessary to bestow upon him hands: nor had he any need of feet, nor of the whole apparatus of walking; but the movement suited to his spherical form which was designed by him, being of all the seven that which is most appropriate to mind and intelligence; and he was made to move in the same manner and on the same spot, within his own limits revolving in a circle. All the other six motions were taken away from him, and he was made not to partake of their deviations. And as this circular movement required no feet, the universe was created without legs and without feet.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I get it.
There is no god. No higher power. No higher point or purpose. There just is!
I get it.
Still - this seems utterly insufficient.
You may say - stretching your pair of suspenders, chewing on a stick of hay and spitting a spit of chewing tobacco - "Wall thajt's Ahll wee neeed ArOund heAHr.."
And that will seem fine.
Seem fine. But where does this feeling of seeming come from? Your hilly billy heart. And it is a nice heart. But your heart could be bigger. Your life could be bigger. Your existence could be bigger. Your meaning of life could be bigger.
So when you spit out your hay and tobacco through the gaps of your teeth and have a moment to talk properly and thoughtfully - what is the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of you to others?

 

[Zack]

Why doors there need to be one?

 

[Kyriakos]

Some think meaning lies in self-examination.
I am sure there is value in self-examination. The issue is just to realize what "self" means or in other words what "you" even are.
Because what you are is not a reflection of the meaning you have constructed. That is just the ghost of your delusional consciousness - the product of your brain emitting chemicals which make you feel and think in a way kinda adapted to your traditional environment. Those provide no truth - only instincts, only flashes of directions as your dog gets them.
What you are is a reaction of chemical compounds moving totally beyond your ideas.
If you try to catch what you are by ideas you are chasing ghosts.
All you got is experience and the experience of how your experience changes in accordance to inner or exterior stimuli - work with that - learn from that. This is your calling.
Anything else IMO fits the definition of insanity.

I do not agree

Some issues there:

1) It is not practical to focus on chemical sides, when you aim to reach a cognitive conclusion. The material/chemical make-up of our body and mind is (if anything) creating the same phenomenon we sense intellectually first-hand. So i always think we should focus on the conscious understanding of what we sense in our own world of thought.

2) Consciousness may be partial (it obviously is), but this does not mean it has a small position inside the entire realm of the mental world of the thinker having it. It seems more likely that consciousness is at a very important part of the entire mental world, cause ultimately this makes more sense from many angles, including biologically in ensuring we develop in a manner which helps us.

3) The entire mental world of a person is obviously vast in comparison to his/her consciousness. But it also seems very true to think that one can always develop a larger consciousness within it, and maybe consciousness can expand in dramatic ways. I am pretty sure one can have 10 times a more elaborate consciousness than now, so it beats the point of lamenting some supposed lack of understanding of one's own mental world.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I'm not sure what Terxpahseyton is going on about, but I'd argue the meaning of life is to be happy. Almost everything we do is to either increase our happiness or decrease our unhappiness, for either ourself or others.

 

[Borachio]

Is that the meaning of life, or just the (suggested) best way to go about living it?

The meaning of life is a philosophical question concerning the significance of life or existence in general. It can also be expressed in different forms, such as "Why are we here?", "What is life all about?", and "What is the purpose of existence?" It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history. There have been a large number of proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life

 

[BenitoChavez]

To me thats meaning. I'm not sure how happiness could be a means to an end.

 

[Borachio]

But I understood you to be saying that the pursuit of happiness (a means to the end of happiness) was the meaning of life.

I really don't know though. It's just that to say the meaning of life is to be happy isn't logically convincing to me. For some reason.

Not that I think it isn't a worthwhile pursuit. Far from it.

 

[Kyriakos]

But I understood you to be saying that the pursuit of happiness (a means to the end of happiness) was the meaning of life.

I really don't know though. It's just that to say the meaning of life is to be happy isn't logically convincing to me. For some reason.

Not that I think it isn't a worthwhile pursuit. Far from it.

In my view happiness is not the end, but it surely is (in healthy conditions, again in my opinion) the only logical means to the end. The end being a continuation of knowing oneself more and more, and in more productive ways.

In the end thought can only expand if one is relatively on the pleasant side of the emotional scales. Otherwise, downward spirals can end life pretty soon. You can dig more than the next person, but if you are digging above a volcanic hell, you will end up burned and destroyed.

 

[timtofly]

Or if your aim is high, but slightly off, you could end up in the sun?

 

[Kyriakos]

Or if your aim is high, but slightly off, you could end up in the sun?

In the land of metaphor and analogy, all is possible

And for all we know the human mind is tied to what we consciously name "metaphor" in many other ways too. The power of thoughts (regardless of their 'correctness') is well-known due to so many documented cases of people who had views unrealistic, but believed them with endless resolve. If one thinks he is surrounded by flying pyramids, chances are that (in his consciousness) in one way or another he is indeed.

 

[Rashiminos]

"The Earth wanted plastic..."

 

[Borachio]

Um. Yeah. That's... what's his name? Carlin? George.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, considering we probably are not in Alpha Centauri (or if we are, AC is not what was presented as being in the eponymous game) i still doubt the earth itself is 'conscious' cause i doubt it is a continuous entity in any way- outside of linguistic effects.

But i read that trees are far more 'conscious' that previously regarded. Which is good, cause apart from those insect/flesh eating flowers, the tree world is serene and positive

 

[Narz]

What is the meaning of you to others?

Splendid lover, adored friend, underachiever, depends on the person.

I treat the meaning of life as maximizing my well being. It's harder than it sounds. Not only does society not push us towards sustainable well being but our very biology rewards merely passing on genes, not necessarily living to the fullest.