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What's the most important thing in the world?

Nothing is important, but anything can have value.

Love is what i value the most.
 
Water - consciousness was a good answer but I choose to discount it as along with the other non corporeal answers
 
the most important thing in this world, as well as the whole universe and all other worlds, lifetimes, times and places, is most definitely the Self. To become self realized is of the highest and most absolute. If you have realized and conquered your own self, than you have a victory of which nobody can take from you, not heaven or hell, angels or demons. This is the teaching of the Buddha. It is important not just for victory, but for all of the universe, for if one were to become self realized, he would attain unity with the universe and would see all beings in his own self, as well as his own self in all beings.

Perhaps an even higher platform than self-realization would be the level of Bhaktivedante- one who realizes bhakti or unlimited, selfless devotion for the lord to be the highest and most absolute level of understanding ever achievable now and forever.
 
Depends what/who to. Probably nothing. Or contact other people... We're social animals. We'd be nothing if we were truly isolated and didn't have relationships with others (be it good or bad!), which also incorporates love and friendship etc. :)
 
L2R said:
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awww you fucking asshole

we are trying to... arrrr

ok you win the tread ; )
 
The most important thing in the world is myself. Without it, nothing else matters.
 
L2R said:
metalicious :)
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meta- & ortho-, there are two senses in my comment; that the sense is most "important" by qualia; what it is, it is obviously the most for it is the determining factor of what that is. Yet also may be taken in the meta- sense, in that we may apply importance to it (but do not usually, for it is the subject of our use for it); which would make it it's own object and so be the less true variant of the statement.
 
Legerity said:
I would say nothing is really ultimately important. I mean, something can feel important to me but that is very subjective.

I think we just create meaning as we go along and fool ourselves into thinking that any experience means anything beyond the experience itself.

There's nothing inherently important about human life over other life forms. It may be our instinct to survive, but the rest of the planet would probably be happier if we ceased to exist and stopped butchering it. And the majority of species do go extinct (99.9% over time?). Maybe we shouldn't be so confident, eh? ;)
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B9 said:
Water - consciousness was a good answer but I choose to discount it as along with the other non corporeal answers
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Both of these answers are valid in my opinion as water is essential for the evolution (at least as we understand it) of life, and "important" is an entirely subjective value judgement.

The biological conditions that allow life to occur are essential on the macro level - obviously, without this scenario there would be no experience to validate as important. If we take the necessary conditions of life as given, as a place to begin from, then I would say that language is the most "important" "thing" when it comes to human experience.

Without language there would be no way of qualifying what is and what isn't "important" to me/you/her/him/them/us.
 
ninjadanslarbretabar said:
awww you fucking asshole

we are trying to... arrrr

ok you win the tread ; )
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Nagelfar said:
meta- & ortho-, there are two senses in my comment; that the sense is most "important" by qualia; what it is, it is obviously the most for it is the determining factor of what that is. Yet also may be taken in the meta- sense, in that we may apply importance to it (but do not usually, for it is the subject of our use for it); which would make it it's own object and so be the less true variant of the statement.
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well derrrrr, fred:p
 
Termino said:
ME

I'm the center of (my) universe!
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High Yogi said:
the most important thing in this world, as well as the whole universe and all other worlds, lifetimes, times and places, is most definitely the Self. To become self realized is of the highest and most absolute. If you have realized and conquered your own self, than you have a victory of which nobody can take from you, not heaven or hell, angels or demons. This is the teaching of the Buddha. It is important not just for victory, but for all of the universe, for if one were to become self realized, he would attain unity with the universe and would see all beings in his own self, as well as his own self in all beings.

Perhaps an even higher platform than self-realization would be the level of Bhaktivedante- one who realizes bhakti or unlimited, selfless devotion for the lord to be the highest and most absolute level of understanding ever achievable now and forever.
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moonyham said:
The most important thing in the world is myself. Without it, nothing else matters.
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+1. I hope that everyone realizes that you are the most important thing to you. Nothing is more important than being here. When we proclaim something as being more important than our current existence in this present moment, we line ourselves up for a whole spew of problems.
 
^so, there is no cause worthy of self sacrifice?
 
Freedom. Self is nothing without an expanse of freedom to grow into.
 
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