What is the meaning of life?

09 Dec. 2009 04:23am

Originally Posted by C0FFINCASE

I think its survival. Survival entails pleasure, knowledge, and virtue. The pursuit of a single one of these leaves the person unhappy and lacking something. Celebrities turn to drugs and crime despite the constant pleasure, we've all met the miserable professor that hates every thing and only cares about knowing things, and if you pursue virtue for for virtue then you never have any pleasure or pain. The reason these are cited individually is because parts of something are often mistaken for the whole in terms of logical reasoning.
I'm with the Greeks everything in moderation. You live to live and one day die. During that time you should experience the gambit of things you can as long as you don't interfere with anyone else doing the same. This of course often entail the continuation of our species. I believe virtue is necessary because its the only thing that separates from beasts. Unfortunately the practice of virtue is in decline.

I disagree with religion saying God is the reason for life. If God is the reason for life ,what is God's? Another God? Is there to be some chain of never ending God's? An if God's reason for life is internal then there is no reason your can't be.

If you read the bible life was suppose to be eternal. when Adam and eve were placed in the garden. They disobeyed god when he said don't eat the forbidden fruit because Lucifer tempted them to eat it. which they did and god banished them. I forgot but also on one verse there was a guy who lived for 980 years. So basically those two screwed us over.

**C0FFINCASE** · 09 Dec. 2009 04:19pm

Originally Posted by Rape

If you read the bible life was suppose to be eternal. when Adam and eve were placed in the garden. They disobeyed god when he said don't eat the forbidden fruit because Lucifer tempted them to eat it. which they did and god banished them. I forgot but also on one verse there was a guy who lived for 980 years. So basically those two screwed us over.

Ok, Genesis is not literal. There is like no christian religion left that thinks it is so I'm not sure what faith you're following. The Roman Catholic Church says its only there to illustrate the point that God created the world and human. Adam and Eve aren't really just symbolic of the human race. The snake was just temptation. The ages in the Bible are known not to be literal. They measured years differently back then(lunar calendar; its easy to see 980 moons) because they only lived to be about what we call 30ish today. If you made it to 40 you were ancient.

09 Dec. 2009 06:17pm

Not everyone is... uhh... hard to say this without being insulting. Not everyone doesn't take the Bible literally. >_>
For whatever reason. Faith, I'm sure.

**C0FFINCASE** · 09 Dec. 2009 06:34pm

Originally Posted by GAMEchief

Not everyone is... uhh... hard to say this without being insulting. Not everyone doesn't take the Bible literally. >_>
For whatever reason. Faith, I'm sure.

Not all people but there are few "religions" left with the literal view, while there are still numerous cults that still say their interpretation is literal.
Main stream Christianity no longer holds a literal views any more though. I'm assuming he's main stream something.

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