@Uncle:
Ironically enough, finding the meaning of life for me is my meaning in life, if that makes any sense at all.
Zephos-esque: Incredibly stupid bullshit. Fucking retarded. Absolute horseshit.
Sea-esque: I think my opinion on this is a bit different.
Assuming that the meaning of life is to search for it. I am searching for the meaning of life. Therefore my life is meaningful. Thus I have found its meaning. Wait…then why the hell am I keeping searching for it if I already found it? So I stop searching for it. Therefore my life no longer has any meaning. Thus I should die.:ninja:
My conclusion: Searching for the meaning of life may be a part of its meaning.
But is that is what you end up doing in your life, then your life is meaningless.
However, I think if your research has some value for other researcher after your generation, you may have contributed something in finding the meaning of life. Therefore your life may have some meaning.
@Badass:
But, seriously, life is what you make of it. If you're just gonna sit around saying "there's no point in life" then what do you plan to do with your life that there isn't a point in?
Searching for a point.
Does my life have any point at all? I don't know. That is why I am searching for it. Nothing can be proved not to exist. Will humanity contribute any meaningful presennce to the universe at all? We have not yet be able to know. For I believe that humanity's perception in the future will be far beyond its current, which is beyond our comprehension.
The Age of the great Reptiles:
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Followed by the Age of Mammals
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The emergence of Man ||
If the time remaining to human life on Earth were equal to the 140 million years remaining on the line, it can easily be seen that the potential for human perception of the universe is so vast as to be incomprehensible. The human life that will exist on the Earth one hundred million years from the commencement of the 21st century, were it to survive that long, will evolve to such great intellectual capacity that it will exceed the imagination or comprehension of present human life. Humanity at present, on such a scale, is like an human infant. Its potential for learning is enormous and certainly vastly beyond its ability to comprehend. If humanity is given such longevity, humans will likely leave the planet Earth traveling to celestial bodies more distant than we can now imagine. And how human will affect the universe is beyond our current perception.
Until proved otherwise, humans species have achieved the perception that none other has, in this Earth, and maybe the whole universe.
I do believe that everything that exist has a point. So are human lives. Otherwise it wouldn't have existed. Its is just that I can't find it.
Or maybe that is just what I am telling to myself to feel relieved. The highest form of fear, by intellectual standard, is the fear that one's life has no meaning.
I am not sure if I have found it.
To me the meaning of my life is to keeping chasing a dream. When I accomplish my dream, I will find a new dream and continue to pursuit it (One Piece influenced? Yes.). The moments that I accomplish them will be the best moments of my life. However the chase itself is what meaningful. My dream, it has everything to do with my nature, my passion, my ego, my personal hobby. I want to reach the summit no one has ever reached. I want experience what no one has ever experienced, nor has been described in any soft of data. That is how I enjoy my life. That is how I kindle a meaning for it. By doing that I make my life a unique presence. So, "in some moment in the universe, there exists a guy named Sea who does that thing no one preceding him has ever done. That fact happened. It fucking happened, in the endless flow of time, and among countless events that has happened, emerge a special doing of that Sea guy." Is that a meaning?
@Cuddles:
Aye yai yai this is complicated.
So many right answers.
Not to mention that when I made such a contradictory answer, it made more sense in my head.
I'm an adult and I'm still trying to put together all the data I've got.
I could be old and I probably still couldn't figure things out.
Are there things worth dying for? Yes. But it better be pretty damn important. There's a fine line between noble and stupid for sacrificing yourself for the sake of 'romance.'
Rather than keep living in a circle of lives (you are born, grow up, fucking around, marry some one, give birth to some one, get old, and sick, and die, your children continue that circle) , I would choose to live a short moment of specialness. I would rather die a meaningful death than keep living a meaningless (and boring) life.
Wait. I am seriously discussing philosophy? In a manga forum? A One Piece one? Oh god, do I look like a nerd?