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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grinder @ Aug 13 2006, 07:47 PM) [snapback]248438[/snapback]</div>

You know how people always go on and on about the sense of life...but really, they have no idea what the heck they're talking about. They all have some goals in their lives, have already achieved some of them and so on, but can you really define the point of anybody's life?
What is the point of your life?

Another thing: The popular "get a life" phrase. Define "life". For me, having a "life", in that particular sense, means the following things:
- Goals
- Good friends
- a proper hobby (proper as in what really makes you happy and isn't pornography)
- a sort of sportive or social activity (may be the same as the hobby
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thats a very hipocritical view point

[TheChosen]

Here's things that make life worth of living:

Eating
Drinking
Sleeping
Enjoying everything
Sex

[#BlakhOle#]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheChosen @ Aug 18 2006, 06:41 PM) [snapback]249404[/snapback]</div>

Here's things that make life worth of living:

Eating
Drinking
Sleeping
Enjoying everything
Sex
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Straightforward and to-the-point. You could form your own religion with that kind of view. Whoops, Off-topic again... :tai: I keep heading off in the direction of religion for some reason...

[Tulac]

The point of life is to keep yourself from thinking about the point of life...

[_r.u.s.s.]

the point of life is just to live, belive it or not, anything else. and people make "point of life thingie" just to comfort their mind. noone "made us" for something, we are just organisms spreading our race

[Icewolf]

Let's just say that we are great unique beings that are experiencing the world several times more exiting than any mole for example....
And we invented marvellous things like the "asian-back-scatcher" and the "usb-coffee-heater".

Humans just rule.

EDIT: There's nothing wrong with my state of mind and I'm in great health. You may judge me for taking this on the irony-side.

[DonCorleone]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 18 2006, 11:40 AM) [snapback]249436[/snapback]</div>

the point of life is just to live, belive it or not, anything else. and people make "point of life thingie" just to comfort their mind. noone "made us" for something, we are just organisms spreading our race
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I would add to this that everyone tries to get happy. In which way and what's the right way to achieve this aim depends on every single person...
Sure, you can philosophise and state this and constitute that. But I don't think that arguing on that makes any sense. It's quite the same when asking which religion is the RIGHT one. And the latter are struggling about the sense of life for centuries... without any appreciable result...

[Quintopotere]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bizarrejpeg @ Aug 18 2006, 05:29 AM) [snapback]249382[/snapback]</div>

thats a very hipocritical view point
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I only please you to be gentler. It's not so funny being called hypocrite!

Originally posted by DonCorleone
Sure, you can philosophise and state this and constitute that. But I don't think that arguing on that makes any sense. It's quite the same when asking which religion is the RIGHT one.

But you should agree that there is only one truth and searching for that truth could be even useful...

[GrimFang4]

Well, I think I have a few interesting points.

Most of what has been said here and corraborated about the meaning of life has been the example of a humanist lifestyle. Humanists just want to further the race and help those around them without any more motivation than that. Before I became a christian, I thought of a scenario that solves the humanist problem but in a non-humanist way. This is in no way a reason to believe, but is interesting to ponder. If everyone in the world was a real christian, then we would have a perfect humanist world. If everyone lived following Jesus's example and loved God, then we'd all be doing our best to help one another.

The hardest part of proving any theory of life is to look at creation. It's up to each of us to figure out what we think of it, but how far can science go to help us understand where we came from? If life is a random chance, then why do we or even any matter exist at all? If you remember back to high school, you'd probably heard about all those debates between biogenesis and abiogenesis (I think those were the terms). When we look all the way back, we must have come from nothing at one point. Where did something come from nothing? That's where we all place our bets.

When we all look at our lives, we can see that we've all made our mistakes. Even the best of us can't count the times they've hurt others on both hands. If life is about helping each other, then we'll have one tough time convincing others. If you're looking into pleasure as the meaning of life, then why can all these 'pleasurable' things (eating, drinking, sleeping, sex) end our lives so easily? That's a paradox that I think denounces that way of thinking.

And lastly, I always want to differentiate between christians and catholics. Don't blame all christians for what some catholics believed in. If there were more leaders than followers, we wouldn't have so many types of christianity and past atrocities. What Christians live for is the love of God and their trust of Jesus. They don't justify themselves with their deeds. In truth, all men should be leaders.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(GrimFang4 @ Aug 18 2006, 07:05 PM) [snapback]249510[/snapback]</div>

Well, I think I have a few interesting points.

Most of what has been said here and corraborated about the meaning of life has been the example of a humanist lifestyle. Humanists just want to further the race and help those around them without any more motivation than that. Before I became a christian, I thought of a scenario that solves the humanist problem but in a non-humanist way. This is in no way a reason to believe, but is interesting to ponder. If everyone in the world was a real christian, then we would have a perfect humanist world. If everyone lived following Jesus's example and loved God, then we'd all be doing our best to help one another.

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And lastly, I always want to differentiate between christians and catholics. Don't blame all christians for what some catholics believed in. If there were more leaders than followers, we wouldn't have so many types of christianity and past atrocities. What Christians live for is the love of God and their trust of Jesus. They don't justify themselves with their deeds. In truth, all men should be leaders.
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If you are going to get religious on this topic (not that I believe that it is a bad thing), the point of each individual human life is to choose to be either good, or evil. Those that deliberately choose the good will eventually spend eternity in communion with the Trinity and those that choose to turn themselves away will spend eternity barred from that communion. It may seem harsh for people to be condemned to eternal damnation, but they are condemned by their own words and deeds. No one is forced to become an unrepentant sinner and no one who truly repents is denied absolution (look up Saint Olga of Pskov).

Anyone who says "The Devil made me do it" is someone who feels guilty for getting caught and wishes to escape justice. Everything you do is the result of your conscious choices and you must shoulder the blame for anything that you do. Excuses are just that-- excuses, you either choose to be good, or seek forgiveness for what you have done. However, before you can seek forgiveness, you must accept that what you have done is wrong, that there will be consequences of your actions, and that you must accept those consequences.

One of the biggest problems secularised society has with the Catholic Church is that it refuses to grant absolution for anyone who continues to sin. The other is that it refuses to change its standards to allow the moral relativists to attend without feeling guilty.

The irony of your desire to differentiate catholics from christians is that if we all followed Christ's teachings, we would all be catholics.

To pick an example: Jesus specifically defined the only proper sexual activity to be between a man and woman, living as husband and wife.