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The Two Big Questions....Meaning of Life and....

Started by Koltar, September 16, 2008, 03:05:21 PM

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HinterWelt

#15
September 17, 2008, 12:26:12 AM
1. Yes but not even remotely like what people would consider.

2. Meaning is what you bring to life not what you take from it. No one or thing will give you the meaning of your life and their is no "grand plan".

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Imperator

#16
September 17, 2008, 06:51:55 AM
Quote from: Koltar;248409Here are the two really big questions, and I hope everyone stays friendly about this and the anwers ....

1) Do People have Souls or Spirits?
To say yes - you don't even have to believe in religion. Just your opinion or what you believe (no cuss words please)

No, I don't believe in any soul of spirit, but as a figure of language. I believe in human consciousness as a result of the merging activity of the areas of the brain.

Quote2) Is there a Meaning of Life -or- A Meaning To Life? Again whatever you believe or opinion.

The only meaning of life set by default is to reproduce and make sure our genes pass to next generation. There's no other universal meaning of life for me. Said that, I think that we should give life our own sense and goal, to each its own.
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Ned the Lonely Donkey

#17
September 17, 2008, 07:07:35 AM
1. Yes, but not separate from their body.

2. No.

Ned
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droog

#18
September 17, 2008, 07:47:19 AM
Quote from: Ned the Lonely Donkey;2485821. Yes, but not separate from their body.

The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

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Werekoala

#19
September 17, 2008, 11:39:06 AM
1. I hope so, because I don't like the idea of "me" ending when I die, and I want to know how all this ends and will be pissed if I don't get to find out.

2. Not that I'm aware of.
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Koltar

#20
September 17, 2008, 11:48:25 AM
Droog gets kudos just for posting the James Brown picture.

 That was cool.


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Drew

#21
September 17, 2008, 12:04:36 PM
Quote from: Koltar;2484091) Do People have Souls or Spirits?
To say yes - you don't even have to believe in religion. Just your opinion or what you believe (no cuss words please)

Yes, although I believe the spiritual dimension of a person (which is about as fuzzily close as I can come to a definition of "soul") is self-constructed, built over a period of time from a series of personally significant symbols and markers that define the potency and scope of their experience. An attitudinal atheist - ie. one who rejects or refuses to define their internal symbology - cannot experience it. Contrarily a religious person inherits the symbolic markers of their spiritual interior from traditions laid down by others.
 

Quote2) Is there a Meaning of Life -or- A Meaning To Life? Again whatever you believe or opinion.

As above. Meaning, such that it is, is constructed from a set of private and symbolic tools that may or may not be shared with others human beings.
 

David R

#22
September 17, 2008, 12:26:22 PM
1)Milhouse, there is no such thing as a soul. It's just something parents made up to scare children, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson. - Bart Simpson

2) "The meaning of life is that it's the only game in town. As onerous as it becomes, it is, as Maurice Chevalier said, 'Better than the alternative,'" - Harlan Ellison.

Regards,
David R

Spike

#23
September 17, 2008, 07:39:39 PM
David R wins the thread.
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Koltar

#24
September 17, 2008, 08:18:03 PM
Quote from: Spike;248759David R wins the thread.

Yeah, it was a good post ...but the thread's not over yet.


- Ed C.
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James J Skach

#25
September 18, 2008, 10:03:12 AM
Quote from: Spike;248759David R wins the thread.
Was 42 too obvious?

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Spike

#26
September 18, 2008, 05:14:09 PM
Quote from: James J Skach;248950Was 42 too obvious?

Our love grows distant, spike...

No, it was too easy, and yet to esoteric. I mean, yeah, everyone KNOWS 42 is the answer, but what, really, was the question?

Besides, its best not to grow too fond of the food.... it only leads to heartache later.
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Koltar

#27
September 18, 2008, 05:20:28 PM Last Edit: July 23, 2011, 01:42:06 AM by Koltar
...and actually its '47' if you spend too much time around STAR TREK fans. Thank goodness I don't do that as I used to.


oops, in danger of de-railing my own thread.

To answer one of the two questions: Yes I, Ed C____, believe people have souls or spirits....even atheists and agnostics.

However, these souls can be damaged, lessened, weakened, or stengthjened and nourished - all depending on the cirecumstances of a person's life and what choices they make over time.



- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Jackalope

#28
September 18, 2008, 10:09:40 PM
Every single person who answers "Yes" to the soul question is an irrational person prone to sloppy thinking.  Not a single one of you can provide even the merest shred of empirical evidence.  Your answer is based on pure supposition and wishful thinking, or on a sophist argument that essentially reduces to "By soul I don't mean anything resembling the common meaning of soul."

You believe in concrete things that you have no evidence for, and that is irrational.  I just wanted to point that out.
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RockViper

#29
September 18, 2008, 10:16:12 PM
1. No
2. The only meaning to life is the meaning that you give it.
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."

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