what is the meaning of life?

Humour, dear sir, makes our lives more fun to live. Without it, it's a life without joy and laughter.

Count Tolstoy spent much of his later years searching for the meaning of his life, and to find the answer to life’s questions. For someone who had everything in life - fame, fortune, family, freedom - he wanted more; he wanted to know why. He studied all the sciences and philosophy, as well as the great religions of the world. He consulted the greatest teachers, scientists, philosophers and theologians, but he could find none to give any answer to the simple question of existence. All that anyone could tell him was that man and the universe exists, but that there was no explanation for it. No matter how he posed the question, it all came back to the point that life was meaningless; and he knew no more than he knew before. Then, in the end, he ceased to doubt, and took solace in the certain knowledge of his false beliefs. See Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings (1879-82).

In 1901, Tolstoy was excommunicated from the church by the Russian Synod and placed on a watch list of subversives by the Czar's government.

PS, Each individual seeks life's worth on their own terms. It's not something that can be found outside of one self. Tolstoy was seeking something he could never find, but in his quest to seek it, he learned much more about life than he realized.

I am getting old. Having lived this long, I think that I should have learned something about life that would be of some use. One lives and learns, and learns mostly to accept things for what they are. For many, it takes a long time to learn this simple lesson. “Too soon old, too late smart” - as the saying goes. Still, considering past mistakes, one should be glad not to be young and have to go through it all again.

Looking at our life if we were lucky enough to have experienced what we consider the richness of life, which to me are family, friends, world travel, good food and drinks, good books, satisfying job/career, a balance of sadness-happiness, and good health, and enjoying the arts, I believe are in fact the best it has to offer. I was one of the lucky few in our generation that enjoyed most of what I value.

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For me the meaning of life is good mexican food.

For me it's finding new and exciting ways to fool myself.

For me the meaning of life is bad mexican food.

The mexican food experience?
Around here it's a russian roulette.

JLN, Real Mexican food doesn't taste anything like what we eat in California.
Even the ceasar salad (*created in Mexico) is much different in Mexico than what is served in the rest of the world. I like the ceasar salad served outside of Mexico.

I was born in California and didn't leave til I was in my thirties. As I recall the best Mexican food is found in East L.A. (even better than much of Mexico).

best mexican food I've had was at a Japanese restaurant on the outskirts of Hermosillo Mexico (Hy 15)

Lots of small storefront places in LA, especially east LA, cook mexican food from specific locales the families were from .. so there's a wide variety .. well, we've talked about this before.

The Japanese are famous for copying and improving on other cultures.
Osso, talk about East L.A. Mexican food again, but this time slowly.

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I have been to the depths of thought , the place as Aristotle said ," circle within a circle for infinity "

what brought me back was the relisation that life , the Universe , was more than thought , it was also about experience

enjoy life to the fullest , where ever that takes you , hopefully to the good

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What is THE meaning of life? That's a poor question to ask. There are many meanings, and we make them up. Sometimes they're clever and sometimes they're dumb. Which is the following?
What is the meaning of a tree?

JLN, I didn't know I was the one who posed that question.