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24 Sep 2007, 10:08 pm

What do you personally think the meaning of life is, if there is one?



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24 Sep 2007, 10:10 pm

42.



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24 Sep 2007, 10:24 pm

calandale wrote:
42.


It's pronounced like "going to death" in Japaneese, so do you mean the meaning of life is to die?

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24 Sep 2007, 11:20 pm

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24 Sep 2007, 11:49 pm

BeyondInfinity wrote:
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The number 23 is a discordianism reference, a neo-nazi symbol, or the name of a recent film starring Jim Carrey. I can’t decide which.

Does anyone have a real opinion about the topic or is everyone just going to post random numbers?

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25 Sep 2007, 1:50 am

To find your own.

There is no universal meaning.



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25 Sep 2007, 4:13 am

Flagg wrote:
To find your own.

There is no universal meaning.


By which he means,

7123.



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25 Sep 2007, 6:03 am

Meaning, IMO, is merely a word. Therefore, life can have none. Any meanings one attaches to existence comes from one's own thoughts or from one's understandings of what other persons (including prophets, messiahs, and gurus) have said.

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25 Sep 2007, 6:46 am

Meaning is a very tricky word. It can refer to how something fits into a system. Since life definitely exists its meaning probably indicates one of the possibilities of how basic elements can combine.



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25 Sep 2007, 6:56 am

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25 Sep 2007, 7:11 am

42 is the answer to the universe, not the meaning of life.


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25 Sep 2007, 9:03 am

postpaleo wrote:
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Thank you for getting us back on track.

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25 Sep 2007, 9:27 am

Please think nothing of it.


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25 Sep 2007, 9:52 am

*ahem*

4233.23



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25 Sep 2007, 10:23 am

*ahem*

Please think, "nothing", of it.


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