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The meaning of life.
Yes... A big question indeed.
It is really amazing how everything seems to fit in place in this wide universe, and everyday we come to discover new overwhelming relations of causality and order between different elements in the process of nature (at least look at the way the soalr system works!); we see all that around, and yet when we come to the key question, the fundamental question to all existence altogether, we fall in loss!
Let me ask you this question, before we come up with yet another speculation on what we think or wish the meaning of life to be .
Why do you suppose you learn as a human, to find this question to be so persistant and compelling to the human soul? I mean, why is it that we are made, or that we exist in such a way that we find it essential for our very existence itself to have a reasonable meaning, even if that meaning was one that we made up for ourselves (and we never settle there!)?
How come life, the universe, your very own heartbeat, are so well organized, justifiable and consistently reasonable in relation to each other, and you can see cause, meaning, destination, and value for everything that exists around you, and yet, you cannot even imagine what it is that all this is about, where it came from, what for, and where it is all going!
Now on to another more important question.
Why are you really here guys? I mean in this forum and the likes.
If I am here to search for the meaning of life, then I - by necessity - admit that it does indeed have a meaning, an absolute meaning that is inherent in the process itself, and that has to do with its purpose of being and the reason it exists. But is this really the case with most of those who are in search for that meaning? Nope. They keep coming up with their own versions and speculations of what they think, or what they suppose that meaning to be!
"Games, Sex, rock'n Roll"!!!! Oh, come on!
Are you really satsified with the proposition that man came to this world, the way it is and the way he is, to reproduce (for example)? Why then where we not just little bugs reproducing? Or even trees or rocks just lying there in silence? Reproduction is part of the system, not a justification for the reason it is the way it is. Your have a reproductive system because you need this reproductive system along with every other system for the fulfillment of the reason why you are here! You do not have a reproductive system because you were made to reproduce! One can easily say then that we are here in this world to write, because we have hands that can write! Another would say we are here to laugh, because we have what it takes to do that! Oh and maybe we are here to practice theft and deception upon other human souls because we can do that too! If it suits you, and you have fun doing it, then it is readily your own meaning of life; your own truth!
Does this make any sense?
How come you say with certainty that you came to this world to do so and so, only because you like doing it or because it satisfies you? Well, this doesn't work for you my friend, because quite simply, you are still searching, aren't you? You keep trying one thing after another and yet, it is all the same! what today is your meaning of life, tomorrow will be history, and something else will take its glamour! If you decide today upon X, then Y is tomorrow a better candidate! And yes we have so many Xs and Ys to keep trying...!!
It never fits! None of those Xs and Ys fits!
Why then?
Could it be, that the very concept of your choosing a meaning of your own for your own life and existence, and the existence of the universe, is a false concept in itself?
Consider this.
Are you the one who brought you to this world? Did you have any choice to come to it? Did anyone ask you before you were born if you liked to be born?
I urge you to imagine yourself in a state of nothingness! Imagine what it would be like if you were never born! You cannot!
You came to this world not by your choosing, in a state and form that was not after your choice, and in a condition of life that was not up to you to decide. You neve chose your mon or dad, did you? All those "truths" are facts that you came to the world only to find out about. So how come you claim that the meaning of all this is up to you to decide? You may indeed have a choice of what to do... but why?
Why do I know choice and obligation? Why do I, the human being, care so much to find out what those hands, those ears, those eyes, those splendid organs and wonderful givens of life are all about? Is it all up to me to decide? Can there be so many "truths" about the very same thing? Do we have the rational right to claim that the reason why life exists is a relative reason; one that is up to every one of us to decide by his own mind, after his own choosing?
This is the first fundamental basis here gentlemen if you really wish for this search to come to an answer that is The Answer, and for the truth to be what it is; quite simply; the TRUTH
I'm glad to be here to discuss this issue with you guys...
However I would like you all to be my guests to this essay of mine.
Please read it up first and tell me what you think ..