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Why Live a life?
#11
RE: Why Live a life?
I don't even like the question, because it presupposes that there is an objective to our existence. We aren't tools or cars or toasters or chairs, we're humans, and there's nobody that can define what our 'purpose' is. It'd be like someone choosing your major for you in college or telling you what kind of movies you like. Your meaning can be derived from just about anything, as long as you aren't hurting other people to get it.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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#12
RE: Why Live a life?
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: I dont mean that i dont want to live. I mean why do we live? Whats the meaning of living. We are living for so long nothing has been changed. The world is certainly not being made better place to live when i last checked.
We live for our friends, family ? then what they will also eventually die. If even if we become successful scientist or businessman then what? Why are we surviving, bound to natural selection and all those stuff.
Cockroaches and crocodiles are far more primitive than humans. Even now they are where they were 100 millions years ago. They are surviving as well.
We humans have just adapted to survive effectively. But why? Nothing will change if human population increase.

The only reason I can come up with is human extinction or end of world due to overpopulation and over utilization of resource.

Life doesn't have to have a meaning however, humans like to think it does.

Which would make the better question, why do we think life has to have a meaning?

MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci

"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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#13
RE: Why Live a life?
Why do people atheist or theist try to insert a hidden meaning or "altruistic" meaning to life? You simply do because we evolved to strive to survive. Why do you go to a movie or sporting event knowing it will end? Why do you go to a music concert knowing it will end? If we didn't evolve to survive we wouldn't look both ways when crossing a street. You live because you do. It isn't about a deep meaning as much as it is about what you do between birth and death.
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#14
RE: Why Live a life?
Thank you guys!
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#15
RE: Why Live a life?
(July 17, 2014 at 9:24 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I don't even like the question, because it presupposes that there is an objective to our existence.

Yes.

Along with the quesion why, which always pre-supposes a reason.
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#16
RE: Why Live a life?
(July 17, 2014 at 9:24 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Your meaning can be derived from just about anything, as long as you aren't hurting other people to get it.
Hey..hey! Don't you limit his options for purpose and meaning...


I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#17
RE: Why Live a life?
Ideally you would choose something constructive, but I do realize not everyone chooses a healthy meaning of life.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#18
RE: Why Live a life?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2tQ75pTD0


We live, not for the reasons in our head, but for the feelings in our breast. We live because it's what we do.

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#19
RE: Why Live a life?
(July 17, 2014 at 6:13 am)intellectual atheist Wrote: The world is certainly not being made better place to live when i last checked.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places. Thinking

As for me... I'm living this life to be kind and loving to the best of my ability. I spend this life seeing the good, and striving to support and expand that good. For me, this life is a beautiful thing. Cheers Cheers!
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#20
RE: Why Live a life?
If someone put a gun to your head, the question would be answered.
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