The purpose of life is to find a purpose that suits one's dispositions, is reasonable and fulfilling to the soul. — TheMadFool
Too luke warm. — Noble Dust
The purpose of life is to pro-create. There would be no life without fulfilling that one purpose. — alice wilson
Perhaps before jumping into the deep end of the meaning-of-life pool, a decent respect for the requirements of being a good swimmer in that pool would have one first safely paddling about at the shallow end in the what-is-life pool. — tim wood
For example, not what is the meaning of life, but rather, what does it mean to be alive? How indeed do I know that I am alive - what are the signs of being alive? If I am alive, what things, what sorts of things, do I do that exemplify the fact of my being alive. — tim wood
None of this is the question of being non-dead. Life is presupposed, else you're not asking. In a sense, then, the questions are already answered or being answered in a vague sort of a way. On can argue that the task, then, is to make vague understandings explicit. — tim wood
The answer to that question hasn't been answered satisfactorily. Some have even gone as far as to call life absurd, lacking any meaning or purpose and that any search in that direction is eventually futile. — TheMadFool
Don't you think the search for purpose evolved in humans? There seems to be nothing about the world that speaks of purpose. It is only humans that look for meaning/purpose. If you agree then it is only right that we make our own purpose. — TheMadFool
I think it helps to distinguish general meaning from individual meaning. People find the latter - sports, science, philosophy, etc. Finding the former, a general universal meaning for human existence, is the difficult part. — TheMadFool
the meaning of life is to be found in the exercise, the enjoyment, the lived-through process, of self-perfection. — gurugeorge
Can't see how that works in general. — Rank Amateur
Perfection is life made free of evil. — EnPassant
but what is evil? — Aleksander Kvam
child-birth through rape is evil — Aleksander Kvam
were you refering to rape when yoy said "life made free of evil" ? — Aleksander Kvam
some believe that not believing in god is evil, and not caring about the vast majority of people is evil. so... — Aleksander Kvam
...life cannot be made free of evil? — Pattern-chaser
the meaning of life is to be found in the exercise, the enjoyment, the lived-through process, of self-perfection. — gurugeorge
What was absurd was some inherent desire to search for meaning, where there is none. Is there a reason we a pushing the mythical rock back up the hill, just to have it roll back down. — Rank Amateur
But i think very close to what Camus would have identified as the Absurd Hero — Rank Amateur
meaning of life should be all up to the individual but key-goals should be freedom, happiness and self-fullfillment. as long as your own pursuit of achieving that dosent get in the way of others way of life(within reason offcourse) — Aleksander Kvam
Perfection is life made free of evil. Maybe that is the purpose. — EnPassant
but what is evil? — Aleksander Kvam
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