Is there a point to life?

[TickTockMan]

How do you feel about the question, where did the Universe come from? What created it?

I don’t feel any way about it. I don’t think about what created the Universe.

Off the top of my head though if everything is equal then in time an “accident” could and probably will happen. I don’t pretend to be the smartest person, but if time is measured by the thoughts of man, with man being so small in the scheme of things, how are we suppose to understand it all. What is to say nothing but time and a series of “accidents” is what created what we know. After all a lifetime to us is a fairly short time to most, to others, its all they can grasp. Can any of us really understand a billion years? How about a few trillion? Maybe we are accidents, as is the Earth and all of the rest. I see that as more probable than a deity that cares about all.

With that all said give me a lifetime and I will get back to you with my thoughts. Until then what are yours?

 

[TickTockMan]

Perhaps understanding the point of life, like understanding the ultimate origins and purpose of the Universe, is also a problem that is too big for us mere mortals.

"Within death lies immortality”

Or, perhaps "What is the point of life?" is one of those questions that one might reasonably consign oneself to leaving in the category of questions such as "What was there before the Universe?" "What created the Universe?" "What is the point of the Universe?"

Perhaps the answer to all these questions is that the questions do not apply. (Kind of like wondering how a red rose "looks" to a person who was born blind.)
Life just is. Full stop.

I don't know. Just a thought.

When I started the thread I never thought I was going to be told the meaning of life (besides 42).

In a round about way we agree. The only reason I asked the questions is because I like asking questions and I have a romanticism of death. For whatever reason this thread went far from where it was meant to be.

 

[TickTockMan]

That's fine. Just so long as you don't elevate death over life.

Nothing can hurt us when we are dead. I think I did years ago.

 

[TickTockMan]

Yes, but nothing can bring us joy when we are dead either.
And, more importantly, we cannot help others when we are dead.
We cannot create anything new that will make the world a better place when we are dead.

Once you're dead, you will never, ever discover anything new, never compose a new song, never tell a new fairy tale, never create a new culinary treat, never make up a new joke, never solve a mathematical or logics problem that has eluded all thinkers before you, never think a previously unthought thought, never invent anything, never discover anything. Never have any chance of understanding why life is so special.
Ever.

Seems like a fair trade off to me.

 

[rareboy]

I have a romanticism of death.(sic)

If you want to romanticize death, write poetry.

But trust me. Death is not romantic.

And you can't be a romantic and declare an existential crisis over the meaning of life. That makes you a poseur.

 

[kallipolis]

In life we are dying to live for our life's worth, so that we may face death, assured that our time has been worth our while.

 

[kallipolis]

A grave stone epitaph:

Where you are now I once was.

Make hay while the sun shines,

For no man has time enough to waste,

That death should hold its breath,

So that we may waste our time,

Waiting at death's door.

 

[Telstra]

That's fine. Just so long as you don't elevate death over life.

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did the band wrote the words themselves or they were from the bible ?

 

[kallipolis]

^

Ecclesiastes 3


A Time for Everything

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

 

[Telstra]

ahh ok, words from the bible made into a rock song.
It was a nice song. Should remake the song to make it more modern.

 

[voyager1994]

The point to life is to share it with people you know, you care about, and you love. The point to life is to share it with people who know you, who care about you, and who love you. The point to life is what makes you who you are.

 

[kallipolis]

Who, being loved, is poor?

~Oscar Wilde

 

[TickTockMan]

1) But trust me. Death is not romantic.

2) And you can't be a romantic and declare an existential crisis over the meaning of life. That makes you a poseur.

1) Why? How do you know?

2) Why? Why do you get to make the rules?

 

[amapornfreak]

life is what you make it...if you want it to suck and be terrible and want others to make you feel bad....then eventually you will get that wish....If you want happiness and cheeseburgers...then you will get that...(must work for these things..belive it or not you worked to be sad or cryptic) Be happy....here a dancing banana

 

[rareboy]

1) Why? How do you know?

2) Why? Why do you get to make the rules?

1. Yes

2. A true existential crisis precludes a romantic viewpoint. What you are doing smacks of a hollow artistic conceit of the 19th century English poets and German composers.

Romanticizing death is the core of most world religions for about 4000 years. I've seen enough of it and been there myself. It is anything but romantic.

 

[TickTockMan]

1. Yes

2. A true existential crisis precludes a romantic viewpoint. What you are doing smacks of a hollow artistic conceit of the 19th century English poets and German composers.

Romanticizing death is the core of most world religions for about 4000 years. I've seen enough of it and been there myself. It is anything but romantic.

# 1 answered nothing

# 2; It is good to know that you know all. It must be nice to know how and what others are allowed to feel.

 

[belamy]

x...........................

 

[belamy]

Are you speechless (finally) ?
Or is that just a kilroy was here?

No: that's what my teacher of technical drawing in high school taught me to draw and call a point.

 

[belamy]

. <------ I thought that was a point?

That's a bullring.

A point is the intersection spot of two lines.

 

[belamy]

Perhaps I read too much into it. I was thinking that where we are, is the existential spot of our life, and what happens at said spot is dependent on our behaviour thereon.

Maybe I just need some tea.