What is the meaning of life? (in your opinion)

[wub]

What is the purpose of our being here, either as a species or an individual? Is there a meaning to life, and if so what is it?

(previous thread on this here)

[Pedro Sánchez]

Mo Money, Mo Power, Mo Bitches.

[m8son666]

If you are an atheist there isn't one overall meaning that is applicable to everyone, we have to make our own.

Alternatively the meaning of life is to suffer.

[wub]

Mo Money, Mo Power, Mo Bitches.

With mo money comes mo gentrification.

[wub]

If you are an atheist there isn't one overall meaning that is applicable to everyone, we have to make our own.

So what is yours?

(assuming you're an atheist)

[m8son666]

I haven't found/created one yet.

So i guess at the minute it's survive to the next day with as little inconvenience as possible.

[wub]

I haven't found/created one yet.

So your life at the moment has no meaning?

[m8son666]

I edited my post, but yeah no overall meaning. I suppose in the short term it's graduate from my degree but beyond that there is none.

[Pedro Sánchez]

To survive longer enough to see your genes passed on, beyond that, make the meaning what you will.

[m8son666]

What meaning do you give your life wub?

[wub]

To survive longer enough to see your genes passed on, beyond that, make the meaning what you will.

Does that mean people who don't/can't have children have no meaning of life?

What meaning do you give your life wub?

That isn't worded particularly well, but in answer the question in OP;

What is the purpose of our being here, either as a species or an individual? Is there a meaning to life, and if so what is it?

I'd say the meaning of my life is to explore it.

[m8son666]

To survive longer enough to see your genes passed on

the meaning of life is to suffer.

In order for evolution to progress the species has to go through various incarnations of suffering in order to eliminate the weak genes. So i guess suffering is the meaning of life for a Darwinist.

[wub]

To survive longer enough to see your genes passed on

the meaning of life is to suffer.

In order for evolution to progress the species has to go through various incarnations of suffering in order to eliminate the weak genes. So i guess suffering is the meaning of life for a Darwinist.

That is down to the species as a whole, not the suffering of an individual.

[m8son666]

Your question is aimed at the species as a whole is it not? Does the species as a whole not start at the individual?

[wub]

Your question is aimed at the species as a whole is it not?

As per OP;

What is the purpose of our being here, either as a species or an individual?

So both.

[magma]

There is no "meaning" of life; the two concepts aren't compatible. It's like trying to find the score on a pair of shoes or the temperature of a website.

Life happens; best thing is just to try and enjoy it wherever possible.

[wub]

Life happens; best thing is just to try and enjoy it wherever possible.

This would suggest a chaos theory approach, with things being unstructured?

It's like trying to find the score on a pair of shoes or the temperature of a website.

I'm not even going to get into what's wrong with this sentence.

[magma]

Life happens; best thing is just to try and enjoy it wherever possible.

This would suggest a chaos theory approach, with things being unstructured?

Not at all. Life has masses of structure; I'm currently sat working a contractual obligation in order to pay rent to a landlord so I can live in a building that took hundreds of people to design/build with hundreds of other humans... you can't get away from structure. None of that requires life to "mean" anything though.

[magma]

It's like trying to find the score on a pair of shoes or the temperature of a website.

I'm not even going to get into what's wrong with this sentence.

Why not? Do you really think it's possible to ascribe life a meaning? What meaning do you ascribe?

[Trichome]

The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life.