The Meaning of Life

Of course not.... then we're eating, shitting, sleeping animals. As a human, to even believe that "I think therefore I am" is in itself a contradiction... because that is an ideology that, if assumed, makes the assumer discontent without it.

In other words, if you say "I think therefore I am" you are concluding that you have an answer to life, and this answer is that there is no answer. That cannot be. The only true way of being that way is to have no answer at all... which, by definition, leaves the possibility for an answer to exist.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

Hi Decius,
I think 'I think therefore I am" is just concluding that to be aware of the fact that you are alive is enough. That is the only meaning of life that is really relevant. I'm here, I exist, I know I exist because I think I exist . Life is whatever I make of it. If life is crap then its crap, I can choose to change it or not. Whatever! Therefore the meaning of life is just to live! Yes?

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

the meaning of life is what your inner soul feeds it to be or what your soul precieves it to be, as like material man preceive what god to be

"Thy Lovest Soul"

Is it OK just to be alive? is that enough, or should our lives serve some purpose?

Of course it is in the nature of all living things to want to serve some useful purpose...
even a dung-beetle does so!

What ultimate purpose would give you enough meaning in life?

whether you have meaning in your life is up to you as an individual, and to me is irrelivant in so much as the meaning of life in general as in all life I think is just to live and carry on life, our individual life meaning or life's journey is a by-product of the whole as it were.

""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""

I think that before you can Understand the meaning of life.
You need to understand that word first.
Life, to this day I dont think most people get what it means exactly to be alive. However once You understand this, life.
The answer will be staring you in the face.

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I think any life is the same person. Every insect, animal, human etc. We are all the same soul just trying to fulfill our needs/wants. Only through harmony will we achieve an everlasting peace.

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Although I still believe what I said before, that we're all the same essence just molded by our own unique circumstance, this still does not properly answer "The Meaning of Life." Simply, shouldn't the meaning of a human's life be to become an excellent human? Is not the blacksmith's purpose and meaning only to make the best possible works of metal? The meaning of an ant to serve the queen, the purpose of the queen to continue the race.

But what does it mean to be an excellent human? Is it to be a happy human? Is it to be a powerful human?

These structures of government that man has so cleverly devised say a lot about man's nature and his view of his nature. The american government was based on the idea that man is a selfish creature who strives only to accumulate and would be happiest in doing so. Socialists (although only a theoretical concept of government as no true socialist society has ever existed) belileve that humans are inherently social and would be happier in a society that made everybody equal.

What makes an ant an excellet ant? One that gathers most for the queen. What makes a human an excellent human? That depends on what you think humans inherently strive to be.

"I try my best to be just like I am but everybody wants you to be just like them."