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What is the answer to life?

Wouldn't the purpose be to unravel this enigma? To unravel reality and see it eye to eye? That's the way we're headed (excluding all the bad stuff that's happening now).
 
I think the process of figuring it out.. is more important than actually figuring it out. Kind of the --journey.. not the destination. But that's me..I like having the meaning of life being unknown, unprovable.. but also searching for that which we cannot fully answer.
 
maybe in this case the question is more important than the answer?

like a guy who writes better than i do once said:

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

-ken kesey
 
I wondered the same thing, and felt the same way. Life seemed like a joke, pointless, and ultimately endless. I wanted to know the answer, too, but after a while I realized I didn't know the question, so I made my own meaning - What is the point of living? To keep going until I die. Now I'm wondering, what is the point of dying? I'll just wait and see :)

I believe from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (maybe another book):
"All the mysteries of existance can be made clear by examining the behavior of leaves on a tree. When there is a true understanding of everything a leaf accomplishes in it's environment, you will find yourself existing just as the leaf does. Feel the wind as it tosses your hair, now don't you feel just like the leaf? Only the Deathless is beyond feeling."

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"David Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion.

i strongly believe in this theory alone so i dont think i need to read on."

I agree 100%. I may not be in the same room as you, but what separates us? Between you and I, there is an enormous stretch of matter, our energy ultimately reaches each other regardless of what we do. All things interconnected, I can reach out, and touch the whole of existance. God? The same way that all my particles compose me, I feel like I compose a universal "being". Like Red_Haze signature, I believe we are all God.


edit: fuq, I have a real problem with getting off topic 8)
 
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its not our job to understand life
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it's not your preoccupation and you're lucky
some people are really happy enjoying life and not worrying about the rest
other people can't
and i mean it : they can't. the turmoil is inherently inside and they can't ignore it
i tell myself "just enjoy life and be fine" and i can't help but think "but what's the point about enjoying it? who put me here to enjoy it. what's the difference in the long run if my life was nice or not?..."

i still have the philosophy that since we're here, let's try to have it nice and make it nice to others, but i certainly won't set my mind on "its not our job to understand life"

please let your mice out, you wouldn't want to spend your life in prison. obviously they don't like it either
 
i tell myself "just enjoy life and be fine" and i can't help but think "but what's the point about enjoying it? who put me here to enjoy it. what's the difference in the long run if my life was nice or not?..."
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I was like this for about 2 years, and I ultimately realized that you can't think your way out of the box like western schools train you to do. You can, however, experience your way out. If you observe the nature of language and thought long enough, you gradually come to notice that thoughts are limited in time and bound to language, and cannot capture the infinite. You can gradually learn to stop letting your thoughts define you. You'll notice the "make a difference" meme at some point. You'll be a lot happier once you delete that damn thing.
 
Whire Rabbit said:
Damn, really interesting stuff indeed! Is there an online publication of his works anywhere?
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Get "Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot (which is sited in that link beneath the essay). It follows this line of thinking, and is based on Bohm's (a protege of Einstein and a quantum physicist) holographic principles and Karl Pribram (a neurophysiologist).

These two doctors arrived at their theories independantly while working in two very different directions (as you can see by their fields of choice). Yet they both came up with the holographic model to explain many phenomenon that standard science in quantum physics and neurophysiology could not.

The book is well worth the read.
 
I agree. Quite frankly, I think language is a distraction. The truth to me would seem deeper than language itself. That would seem impossible to some people. But I meditate, and I feel, and I accept.
 
the answer to life.. is living life...

to find happiness

to find love

to find progression

of self - unified

(reproduction)

and everything else.. . well it falls in between the lines...

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chaos- upper left quadrant
life - upper right quadrant
order - lower left quadrant
death - lower right

and repeat

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[dude...... it's the matrix]

so build your own...
 
the answer to life being happyness would be more of an opinion id think.

personally i think the answer to my life is to go my own way, lead my own path and do what i say is right no matter what anyone else says because i know we all have the same degree of stupidity in certain aspects of our minds this is why there is no perfect man but only perfectionizing of mans qualities and this perfectionaizing can be done by any human being alive, yes that means you.

i dont think looking for happyness is the right thing to do since iv realized i never really know what i want and what is good for me.instead i try and give out happyness to whoever isnt looking for it and this is an honest and simple joy.no money involved no sex involved no drugs involved just pure human love and goodhearted emotion which isnt always coming back to me but thats only because people are stupid and they dont know what the fuck to do with themselves so they waste there time with pointless little mindgames.

the answer to life, my life at the moment anyways is to give more than i take.this way i know there will trully be a benefit from me being here rather than just another mouth to feed, another number.
 
Originally posted by killarava2day
This question assumes life is a question...


exactly.

i've been feeling for some time that i'd like a basic understanding of string theory, m-theory, etc.

i've read a couple of very basic books which cover this area and, while some of the concepts are challenging, they've given me some perspective on concepts like time, etc. this, in turn, helps me look at something as thought-provoking as "what is the answer to life?" from a totally different angle.

alasdair
 
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