Zone1 So I've discovered the meaning of life

[JGalt]

Life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes.

And that's pretty much all it is.

 

[Hafar1014]

Life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes.

And that's pretty much all it is.

The meaning of life is life with meaning that you define

 

[JGalt]

The meaning of life is life with meaning that you define

Trying to define life with meaning is just another endless process. People try material goods, sex, love, drugs, alcohol, religion, all in an endless repetitive process to try to give some meaning to their lives.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[rightwinger]

Life sucks and then you die

 

[Hafar1014]

Trying to define life with meaning is just another endless process. People try material goods, sex, love, drugs, alcohol, religion, all in an endless repetitive process to try to give some meaning to their lives.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

If your life has no meaning youre going to experience severe despair and depression when you get older.

 

[JGalt]

If your life has no meaning youre going to experience severe despair and depression when you get older.

But life does have meaning, because I've figured out what it means.

It's no longer a mystery to me.

 

[ding]

The meaning of life is life with meaning that you define

That's as idiotic as moral relativity.

 

[Hafar1014]

Life sucks and then you die

Your life sucks

 

[ding]

Life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes.

And that's pretty much all it is.

The meaning of life is to pass it down.

 

[ding]

Life sucks and then you die

Life is sometimes unfair. Expect to make sacrifices. The trick is to find joy and happiness in your sacrifices.

 

[Hafar1014]

That's as idiotic as moral relativity.

His famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, tells the story of how he survived the Holocaust by finding personal meaning in the experience, which gave him the will to live through it. He went on to later establish a new school of existential therapy called logotherapy, based in the premise that man’s underlying motivator in life is a “will to meaning,” even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Frankl pointed to research indicating a strong relationship between “meaninglessness” and criminal behaviors, addictions and depression. Without meaning, people fill the void with hedonistic pleasures, power, materialism, hatred, boredom, or neurotic obsessions and compulsions. Some may also strive for Suprameaning, the ultimate meaning in life, a spiritual kind of meaning that depends solely on a greater power outside of personal or external control.

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

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Happiness and Meaning: The Bottom Line​

While Frankl rarely touches on the topic of the pursuit of happiness, he is very concerned with satisfaction and fulfillment in life. We can see this in his preoccupation with addressing depression, anxiety and meaninglessness. (Frankl 1992, p. 143).

In the pursuit of meaning, Frankl recommends three different kinds of experience: through deeds, the experience of values through some kind of medium (beauty through art, love through a relationship, etc.) or suffering. While the third is not necessarily in the absence of the first two, within Frankl’s frame of thought, suffering became an option through which to find meaning and experience values in life in the absence of the other two opportunities (Frankl 1992, p. 118).

Frankl famously stated that: “Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.” Though for Frankl, joy could never be an end to itself, it was an important byproduct of finding meaning in life. He points to studies where there is marked difference in life spans between “trained, tasked animals,” i.e., animals with a purpose, than “taskless, jobless animals.” And yet it is not enough simply to have something to do, rather what counts is the “manner in which one does the work” (Frankl 1986, p. 125)

 

[JGalt]

The meaning of life is to pass it down.

Ok.

 

[Lockback]

Life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes.

And that's pretty much all it is.

Can't argue with you on that.

 

[ding]

Ok.

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Think about it. Life is a continuous unbroken chain. But hey, if you want to believe that life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes, and that's pretty much all it is, don't let me stop you from suffering.

 

[BothWings]

Until a soul finally reaches enlightenment and is released from Samsara, anyway....

 

[JGalt]

Think about it. Life is a continuous unbroken chain. But hey, if you want to believe that life is a seemingly endless series of repetitive processes, and that's pretty much all it is, don't let me stop you from suffering.

Did I condemn those processes? No, those are what we do, there's no "suffering" involved. We get up in the morning, clean up the cat poop on the floor, feed the cats, wash our hands, and commence to make breakfast while watching the news or posting on USMB.

These things we do seemingly forever, until we die. And they're all "procedures."

 

[ding]

Did I condemn those processes? No, those are what we do, there's no "suffering" involved. We get up in the morning, clean up the cat poop on the floor, feed the cats, wash our hands, and commence to make breakfast while watching the news or posting on USMB.

These things we do seemingly forever, until we die. And they're all "procedures."

My bad. It just seemed that way to me. I guess it was your emoji that you used.

 

[JGalt]

My bad. It just seemed that way to me. I guess it was your emoji that you used.

The only emoji I've used in this thread is that LMAO one.

I'm laughing my ass off because I've finally discovered the meaning of life.

Or it could be because of the three shots of vodka I had this morning. But I can afford to do that because, well, being retired and only working part-time, it's my prerogative.

 

[JGalt]

I am not proceeding to make breakfast, which in itself, consists of many processes: Wash the peppers and onions, chop the peppers and onions, fry the peppers and onions, chop thye potatoes from last night's dinner, add the potatoes from last night's dinner...

Next I will proceed to open the new roll of sausage in the fridge, slice the sausage into patties, fry the sausage patties, put them in the oven with the biscuits to keep them warm....all processes.

Then I shall proceed to crack the eggs, scramble the eggs, season the eggs, mix the peppers and onions with the eggs.... all a seemingly never-ending string of processes that go on, an on, and on...

 

[rightwinger]