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skittles2004 wrote: what's the meaning of life?? i've had this question for sometime now! I mean some people never find it. Some people find it in religion, there kids, and when there about ready to die! I dont know if i'll ever find the meaning of life but i just was to know who here thinks they know the meaning of life? I mean do you ever fear that you are never going to find it?? That scares me!


Life's what you make it. It's your birth, through to your death. It's what you choose to do in between that is "life". It is learning, failing, loving, searching, hating, struggling, triumphing it's all things. It's your place your own special place of existence.

Great question, Skittles!

To understand life, you have to remember that we are a small planet far out in the arm of a galaxy, whirling around with billions of other galaxies.

So why did the Creator (fill in the name of your deity here) make the Universe?

Well, scientists all agree that where ever the conditions exists, life will come into being. They also concur that the probability of there being life-giving planets is gigantic. There are literally billions of planets like Earth, just in our own galaxy.

And where life exists, the forces of evolution will eventually create intelligence. Intelligence is the single best survival trait. It's far better than long fangs, or strong muscles.

So life will always develop and will always become intelligent.

Therefore the purpose of the Universe is to create intelligence.

But why?

I believe, and the Bible seems to support me, that the Creator made life so that He, Himself could experience the Universe through us. The Bible says that God is in the rocks and the tress and is universal and omniscient. In other words, everything you think, see, hear, and feel...he feels too.

Perhaps that's why life is so precious and suicide is considered so great a crime by religion, especially Christianity.

So here's a tip, if you want to make God happy, be happy yourself. Live a ling and fruitful life, enjoy every second and fill your life with expereinces and adventures. If I'm right, you will have fulfilled your purpose in life.

If I'm wrong, you still will have had a blast of a time while you were here!

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skittles2004 wrote: I've just always heard that life is

Birth, school, college, work, marriage and then death!
hey, kiddo! you forgot about TAXES!

Close, Skittles. The quote you're looking for is from Sweeney Agonistes by T S Eliot:



Birth, and copulation, and death.

That's all the facts when it comes to brass tacks:

Birth, and copulation, and death.

I've been born, and once is enough.

You don't remember, but I remember.

Once is enough.

Nah, I don't want to know the meaning of life. And I wouldn't be so bold as to ask why we are here. I know that there is a purpose for my being. I don't want to even know what that purpose is. I want to know when and Know that I will recognize it when it comes.

The thing that bugs me late at night is, "what if I missed it?"

It's Forty-two

The other bit from the Eliot, since it's so applicable and it's not on the Internet anywhere:



DORIS: That's not life; that's no life Why I'd just as soon be dead.

SWEENEY: That's what life is. Just is

DORIS: What is? What's that life is?

SWEENEY: Life is death. I knew a man once did a girl in -

DORIS: Oh, Mr. Sweeney, please don't talk, I cut the cards before you came And I drew the coffin

SWARTS: You drew the coffin?

DORIS : I drew the COFFIN very last card.

I don't care for such conversation A woman runs a terrible risk.

SNOW: Let Mr. Sweeney continue his story. I assure you, Sir, we are very interested.

SWEENEY: I knew a man once did a girl in Any man might do a girl in Any man has to, needs to, wants to Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.

Well he kept her there in a bath With a gallon of lysol in a bath

SWARTS : These fellows always get pinched in the end.

SNOW: Excuse me, they don't all get pinched in the end. What about them bones on Epsom Heath? I seen that in the papers You seen it in the papers They don't all get pinched in the end.

DORIS : A woman runs a terrible risk.

SNOW: Let Mr. Sweeney continue his story.

SWEENEY: This one didn't get pinched in the end But that's another story too. This went on for a couple of months

Nobody came And nobody went

But he took in the milk and he paid the rent.

SWARTS: What did he do? All that time, what did he do?

SWEENEY: What did he do ! what did he do?

That don't apply.

Talk to live men about what they do.

He used to come and see me sometimes I'd give him a drink and cheer him up.

DORIS : Cheer him up?

DUSTY : Cheer him up?

SWEENEY: Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.

But here's what I was going to say.

He didn't know if he was alive and the girl was dead

He didn't know if the girl was alive and he was dead

He didn't know if they were both alive or both were dead

If he was alive then the milkman wasn't and the rent-collector wasn't

And if they were alive then he was dead.

There wasn't any joint

There wasn't any joint

For when you're alone

When you're alone like he was alone

You're either or neither

I tell you again it don't apply

Death or life or life or death

Death is life and life is death

I gotta use words when I talk to you

But if you understand or if you don't

That's nothing to me and nothing to you

We all gotta do what we gotta do

We're gona sit here and drink this booze

We're gona sit here and have a tune

We're gona stay and we're gona go

And somebody's gotta pay the rent

The meaning of life, eh, Skittles? For me, it's love hard, work hard, play hard. Do everything. Try everything. See all you can. Take risks. Enjoy it.

skittles2004 wrote: what's the meaning of life?? !


Tsk, Tsk, Skittles! Don't you remember? I already taught you the answer to this question in night school!

Here it is again:

George Gray

I have studied many times

The marble that was chiseled for me--

A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.

In truth it pictures not my destination

But my life.

For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;

Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;

Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.

Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.

And now I know that we must lift the sail

And catch the winds of destiny

Wherever they drive the boat.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,

But life without meaning is torture

Of restlessness and vague desire--

It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

It is bizarre that you should ask What is the Meaning of Life today, as I was just thinking about it earlier today (probably because there have been 2 deaths in my extended family over the last 2 weeks) Whilst unfortunately I couldn`t come up with a good answer, I did at least FEEL that it`s pointless working 5 days a week 50 weeks a year and then retiriing, becoming ill and dying and that if it were EVER possible I would try to modify that lifestyle and try and travel a bit more and do a few more interesting things. Good luck!

Well I have rediscovered it here on Forum Garden. All human life is here, and some are good friends.

Life is like the game of monopoly. Ive instinctively known that since I was about 12 years old. It just came to me one day. You go around the board hoping you dont land on the wrong square. You try to use your instincts as you juggle the little houses and your pile of money. You pray you dont land on go to jail. If you do.. you hope to pick a get out free card. If you get wiped out.... a couple of days later someone suggests playing again and you get a fresh start.

Get on with the life you have and make the best of it. Be good to your neighbours. But don't always turn the other cheek or he/she will walk all over you.