The good book is the bible. — Wosret

Good for what?

As for myself, I (my mind) am definitely peering out and increasing awareness all the time of that which surrounds me - as it's every other life form. That is how life evolves. — Rich

I am not against that at all, in fact I embrace the ideas. But how does that make the universe self aware?

How can you tell that you open a philosophy forum on the internet?

It is the only place that can go from bad jokes to personal insults in less than 20 posts.
And the insults are not even funny.

Have you had the pleasure of teaching any of Sapientia's children? — CasKev

May the gods and Murphy forbid such a thing. (please read with a thick Scottish accent)

I don't any of the little bleeders every got to school, him being so bloody busy chucking them of cliffs and so on.

This thread seems pretentious. — Thorongil

Wait till the real thread starts, it will be a little more mature. Pre tentious :-*

As per the conditions set in the OP I have. — TheMadFool

based on the reason that the universe is self-aware and able to comprehend itself through us — TheMadFool

Can you prove any of this beyond your belief in them.

Supposedly if a reason for something is removed then it becomes obsolete or non existent.

Humans don't have tails anymore because we no longer need them to live in the trees.
I don't have a drivers license right now because I don't have money to fix my car and don't need it.

So what is the reason you have for life? To make the universe self aware. So what did the universe do before humans came along, and what will it do after we are gone? What happens if the universe is not at all self aware, which I am sure it is not? We lose our reason to live so we won't exist anymore.
Why would something as vast as the universe pick some little fucked race like us in a very tiny little piece of itself to help it be self aware. It would be like the jolly green giant sending an atom of its toenail to to find out what is in its left ear.

If that is the only reason for human life then we are screwed.

And I don't want to be the eyeballs of the universe anyway.

That makes no distinction between an ant, a pig, a dog, and a human. However, we know that ants, pigs, dogs, and humans differ from each other. So, shouldn't meaning of life for a human be different from that of an ant, a pig or a dog or a plant, etc? These real differences between living things not only serve to identify each species but also bear on the way these lifeforms live which includes the meaning of life. — TheMadFool

You still have not proven that there is a purpose or meaning to any life.

Oh, that's not so bad! You made it sound pretty grim in your preceding post. — CasKev

Because the rest of the year is close to slave labor with 400 kids shouting at you.

Civic holidays - they're great! Gotta love Canada! — CasKev

Holidays. That's why I like my job.
6 weeks for Christmas
1 week for Easter
2 weeks mid-year
8 days Civic holidays

If they don't they'd be irrational. — TheMadFool

And most who disagree with you say you are irrational.

But the purpose of life being to live is a tautology. — TheMadFool

So prove it is untrue.

How else can we snap our fingers? — TheMadFool

I don't do it like that, I have both fingers together. Anyway nowadays I only use my middle finger for .............. I'll let you guess about that.

No it's not. I should've been clearer. Think of how we function in our everyday lives. We set goals. If we achieve them we set new goals. It's the same thing with the meaning of life. — TheMadFool

But that is as individuals, not as a race.

If each person can define the meaning of his/her own life then we'll see variety but also controversy. — TheMadFool

As a race we would first have to agree on the meaning of life for it to be changed, and that is not going to happen your way.
If we accept that the meaning to life is to live it, then everyone will always agree and there will never be any reason to change it no matter what happens.

It looks like she's snapping her fingers to get the dog's attention — TheMadFool

With her middle finger?

why does the ''treat'' look like a finger? And she's not looking at the dog — TheMadFool

Who knows, maybe it is!!!

Well, that was a great week! Back to the grind on Tuesday. Out with the old boss, in with the new! — CasKev

Shit did I miss something, like the memo about 3 day weekends! My weekends are only 2 days, if I am lucky. And I usually have work I brought home.

At that moment the meaning of life will change — TheMadFool

That is contradictory to your OP.

Can you look carefully at the maid's right hand. The finger(A) between the thumb and index finger is not right. If you zoom in you'll see that A doesn't align with the middle finger as it should. — TheMadFool

That is not her finger.
It is treat that she is trying to tempt the dog with.

16 fingers and 3 thumbs.
That will be $20 for the account of digits.

historically, the most common form of organization has been empires wherein the people who inhabitated a given territory were of diverse cultures, religions, and ethnicity. — rickyk95

Modern history maybe, ancient cultures tended to be less diverse in most of these areas.

This place is an atom bomb, and it blows the old place out of the water. — Sapientia

What place are you referring to?

No, that's OK I figured it out.

I think people will agree to the conditions I set because they're the very reasons why no one has yet found a meaning to life.

The meaning of life is not to live it. It's to discover how to live it. Imagine you're given a gift. The gift by itself has no meaning. It's how you perceive the gift's value that gives meaning. — TheMadFool

Is it possible that no one has found a meaning to life simple because there is none to find?

Many have come up with ideas about this topic, but there has never been a large enough agreement on any of them to be taken seriously by any but the fan(atic)s of the idea.

I, at least have a serious argument for my way of thinking, if I don't follow my own advise and just go on living, I will die.
If I don't follow the other ideas, I might not become a better person, become more knowledgeable, become the consciousness of the universe and so on but I will still go on living.

I serious doubt that if you walk along any crowded street and ask people the meaning of life that many will have even thought seriously about the topic.

1. It has to be ONE
2. It has to be objective
3. It has to be grand — TheMadFool

I doubt that you will ever get anyone to agree on all of these, so it can never be objective.
Unless of course you are willing to accept that the only meaning of life is to live it.

"You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips and there's no tenderness like before on your fingertips, I'm tryin hard not to show it, but baby, baby I know it..." — ArguingWAristotleTiff

No one ever looses the loving feeling, they just misplace it sometimes. Unless that is, the person is a complete and utter bloody idiot.

The rectangular key board is the Father Board, ejaculating text from the Mind of God into the Ever Virgin Mother Board. The mouse represents spermatozoa probably? OR, maybe the printer is the uterus -- churning out useless offspring like rabbits. — Bitter Crank

Yee gads, I don't even want to think about what a microphone would be in your universe.

There is something special about a Mother? — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Of course there is. Never tried it myself but I have heard all the wonderful things that they say about motherhood.

Why is the board called a "Mother Board"? — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Probably because Father Board sounds bloody stupid.

I know what the FAT is. If you delete a file, you delete only the first letter of the name in the FAT, and the file you thought was deleted wasn't. — Hanover

FAT File Allocation Table
It is something like an index that tells the computer where to find the files, the physical location of it on the disk. And you are right, the file does not get removed it only has its name changed to $.

You can hide the FAT, but there's always some clever bastard who will find it and everything else you meant to discard. — Hanover

I was not referring to your waist line, but a part of the hard disk on the computer. It's a technical term so don't worry about trying to understand it.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Sir! Don't give away my secrets! — ArguingWAristotleTiff

ME!!!!

I am a closed tomb, never a peep will people hear from me.

Due to technical problems no further posts are to be made on this thread.

Doing so might put your computer at risk of being infested by the super virus that disables the FAT on your hard drive and starts an infinity loop of high processing stresses on the CPU so that it burns out within seconds.

I built the ladder out of Legos. So many Legos. So so many. — Hanover

So the question becomes
Where the hell did you find that many Legos?

I have decided that I must be a really fantastic person.

When people see me they bow their heads and whisper "Oh my god"

But I do need to say, at this point, it really sucks. ;-( — Wayfarer

Apply Murphy's law to anything.
You really wanted the job.
He already has a good job.
Who gets it.
Him.

a 1000 foot ladder — Hanover

Where the hell did you find that? And how did you set it up?

Sir2u's avatar looks like a dude sitting on a toilet. — Mongrel

I will fix it when I get a chance so that the whole glory of it can be appreciated.

Yes, I think everyone has lost interest. I'll start a new thread to let them know the game is over, and I won. — CasKev

If you did not participate in the old thread you do not understand how this works. Some people wait months for everyone to forget about it, then they sneak in at midnight to post and hope that no one will notice.

That's where we do our best thinking! — CasKev

See, I knew that I could not be the only smart one around here. Well done.

Too bad you couldn't think of anything - then you might have had the Last Word. — CasKev

So you think that this might be it?

Then I could have a nice conversation with Sapientia's favourite kids, 68 and 69. — CasKev

Can't Quite think of anything worthy of being a reply to that. Maybe I'll try tomorrow.

Bloody weird people talking to dead kids, what the hell is the world coming to?

Is it really a cliff if it isn't high? — CasKev

Only if you are lying dead at the bottom of it would it matter.

If seemingly random replies are expected, and if our thoughts are predetermined, then shoebill. — Sapientia

It's about random thoughts, not random words.

I have been wondering about this for some time.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science-journalist-retires-98-warns-104600883.html