<p>eleventychar</p>
<p>From wikipedia: </p>
<p>“Life is a characteristic of organisms that exhibit certain biological processes such as chemical reactions or other events that results in a transformation. Living organisms are capable of growth and reproduction, some can communicate and many can adapt to their environment through changes originating internally.[1] A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy.[2][3] In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form”</p>
<p>Nice question.</p>
<p>I think that at this point in time, there is no know reason to live. Well, I mean a logical one… You can surely say “I want to do something for humanity”, or “I want to find medicines for this and that illnesses”, but considering that in the end we all die, it is about as useful as constructing some building for ~80 years, for it to fall apart in the end. But I think there is a reason to live - you will die in the end anyway, and you can use your lifetime to try to find something truly global, outside of our trivial everyday worries, that will be interesting enough to live for, that will actually last, as opposed to everything we do in our lives. So far all we do is spin around the Sun, and achieve something within borders of our own society (college, work, money (useless paper) etc.). I wouldn’t even call this a life - it is rather a slow death, that lasts about 80 years.</p>
<p>I think its clear all three of you are virgins.</p>
<p>42</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Fact: Virgins can detect other virgins.</p>
<p>i am so goddamn hungry right now and there’s nothing to eat but fruitloops and the dining halls are closed and i’m not wandering the streets of NYC at 1 in the morning to look for food when i have to finish my effing paper…sorry i’m cranky and procrastinating. :(</p>
<p>The Bible tells the purpose of man, and Christian theologians have agreed for a very long time on what that purpose is.</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Thus, the Westminster Larger Catechism says in the first question, “What is the chief and highest end of man?” The answer: “Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”</p>
<p>[Reformed</a> Answers: What is the Purpose of Man?](<a href=“Q&A: What is the Purpose of Man?”>Q&A: What is the Purpose of Man?)</p>
<p>this thread wins.</p>
<p>OperaDad, with all due respect, quoting a book that could have been edited 3492134789435 times since it’s original was published (if it was), is pointless.</p>
<p>^epic win.</p>
<p>And about the meaning of life: it’s obviously 42.</p>
<p>Oh, now I see why OperaDad was having such a hard time with that universe thread: he’s deeply religious.</p>
<p>hectic cannons of minutes that would shoot you someday unless you reject being shooted at and shoot yourself.(all right,i just made my first post,so yes)</p>
<p>OperaDad is a godly ■■■■■</p>
<p>punintended</p>
<p>Anyways the meaning of life is doing whatever will make you happy, after all you only live once amirite</p>
<p>There is no meaning to life, just do whatever the f makes you happy like this guy said or do whatever you want to do. Anyways, in the end in a few million (billion?) years when the sun blows up the human race will be dead anyways (well, unless they expanded but w/e) so none of our accomplishments will really matter in the end.</p>
<p>Here’s a tidbit that’s interesting: the Koran has never been edited since it was first revealed, whereas the Bible has been edited several times through the ages.</p>
<p>In Islam, Adam and Eve sinned, God expelled them, they begged for his forgiveness, and God was so merciful that he forgave, so he wanted to test humanity to see if they can live in this world which is why he kept them on Earth as a test, otherwise God would have re-admitted Adam and Eve, but he chose not to do that in order to reach a greater Goal.</p>
<p>That seems interesting if you ask me, but I know there’s more to it</p>
<p>Oh, so if a fairy tale doesn’t change over time, that makes it true? Weird.</p>
<p>I believe life is a journey of transcendence and change. Transcendence, because we gradually become less superficial and more individualist and unique as we grow older and acquire wisdom. Change, because each and every person changes the outcome of the future- Chaos Theory at work. And because transcendent ideals and wisdom can be transferred among, and ultimately down through, a generation.</p>
<p>I guess then it can be argued that life isn’t about life - it’s about life after death. The life of a future society, future individuals, and posterity after the death of the single individual. Legacy from life.</p>
<p>Again, you guys are all friggin socialists. I guess it’s part of being raised in a society where any thought about one’s self over society is considered evil.</p>
<p>…shocking. The “republican-word-of-the-day” is now being applied to such a superficial thread as this? And FYI, caring more about other people than yourself isn’t socialist (that doesn’t even make sense), it’s humanitarian. It’s what Jesus taught.</p>