what is the meaning of life?

Precisely! c.i.

It's silly because of all of those ill-fated food metaphors!
THEY HURT MY BRAIN.
Not that I cared to listen to their voices. It started with the nice meaningful paragraphs from people of various Greek named stereotypes. Then that damned canoli showed it's face and I got confused.

I wrote what I thought were the main theories but it was quickly overlooked because it was in the middle of a quick conversation.
Hard to reply to something as bland as that anyway......

NNY, c.i. responded -- I don't know about anyone else, but my brain was hurting too bad to think about anything but canoli . (Must remember to exercise more) So now that I've had time to rest, here is what I think of your summary of meanings:


To be happy -- I like that one except that it then makes me have to analyze the meaning of "happy" (which makes me grouchy)

Religion or lack thereof -- That could be good except that then I have to ask why god won't just tell me why I'm here and ease my pain -- I tried athiesm but it ended up being too self-destructive in my little mind

Eye of the beholder -- that's the easiest and (I think) most logical

There is none, sad, depressed, etc -- Poor NNY! (I hope that changes for you)

To make a dent in others lives -- I like that one too. Even if they are dead and their skin is rotting off, you have to think about the "mutual dent" -- aren't you kind of happy that you knew that person and had (hopefully) good times with them and that they made a dent in your life, even if they can't make any new ones?

Eureka factor -- Those happen too often only to prove themselves wrong a few years down the road. And like c.i. said, sometimes the "Eureka Factor" can cause them to end it.

Yes I saw C.I.'s but I didn't want to just talk about the damned canolis...again, so I added it. Thanks for responding. That was...considerate?!

Has anyone ever read a "mini" comic known as Wobbly Headed Bob? He is too intelligent and is forced to bear the burdens of so many others.He has quotes such as,"Agonizing is the pain of knowledge." and, "Futility, the deluded collective surpress my message. I have grown so weary of this crusade in vain, ignorance prevails." He is forever depressed at the futility of everything, yet he states his mind is not in the position to be ready to say he knows whats going on and end his life. He is past that he states, He must stay alive for all these futile reasons, just in case there is a higher knowledge. It's a great comic.

If God is real he is a bully with a magnifying glass standing over the pile of ants.. why'd I put that?

I really diminish My chances of being taken seriously when I refer to comics as well... reference. Oh well, later days.

I din't see the "Answer" to the question posted in what I browsed through, so this may be waaaay late to the thread as my contribution, but the answer is 42.

perhaps wobbly headed bob truly does not believe that life is futile and our journey in vain. There is a difference between belief of speech and belief of conviction. Until our actions follow our speech our faith is dead. So if wobbly bob truly believed that everything is meaningless, then why is he still around. There is much meaning in life weather we can articulate what that meaning is or not life has meaning. That is why we are all still around. Sticks & Stones

Not knowing what it "means" doesn't change the fact that you're here. Get used to it, live your life -- you'll die someday, there's no point in rushing toward it. Consider the lilies...

s&s, WELCOME to A2K. c.i.

How very nice, Patio . . . i eschew religion for all of the evils which it entails, but i love good "word-crafting" from any source . . .

. . . for they neither toil nor spin, and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed such as one of these . . .

or another source, albeit a fatuously adolescent one

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

Yes, and let's descend a little further on the cultural scale:

Caesars don't fear the Reaper
Nor do the wind and the sun and rain
We can be like they are, come on baby, take my hand . . .

Life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone

(oops, wrong direction in tone and in culture...)

the obvious attitude of a young man . . . one who wishes us well enough to hope that we will all have little pink houses . . .

Sit in that pink house and think about Diane's knees, old man...

And a heart attack at a relatively young age...shouldn't that dude quit smoking already?

The answer will not be found in any book. c.i.

Dear Stones and Sticks,

How is it possible to be a living nihilist without being a total contradiction to your philosophy in whole? I am a huge contradiction for I am yet to Kill myself! Yet I believe it ever so strongly! W.H.B. believes it is futile, truly, simple characters have only one main intention for expression. But in this philosophy he re itterates over and over that he must suffer the torture just in case for this eureaka factor that will never come to see existence. Not so simple and yet so..

Tear

NNY ~ please tell me you're NOT going to kill yourself.....I'm all a'worry here in Florida.

Suicide? To insecure about what people will think about of me If I die.

There should be a smiley for sarcasm, that way no one would reply to tell me what's wrong with that sentence.

Not at any current time no. I have to keep that living contradiction through the torture thing alive. Yes. Besides, what would my world I have created be without me?

Didn't mean to imply anything ~ other than what I read and concieved in my own mind.

I worry.

Life is short. While you're here, you should make the most of it. And why not choose to be happy while you're here?