QOTD #42: What is the answer to life...?

What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

 

Well, it's nothing very special. Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

But, seriously, I'm influenced by Buddhist philosophy, which suggests that all phenomena and experiences are ultimately unsatisfying and so we should let go of our craving/clinging to what is pleasurable and our aversion to what is unpleasant.

 

Note the number in the title. I've been looking forward to this one for a while.

 

Actually, it's easy...

• Survive
• Experience

BTW, Mother Nature would like you to kick out a kid or two to propagate the species (and it would help to raise them too...)
But if you don't, oh well. Have fun.

There is no meaning but what you give yourself.

Even though you are tiny in relative comparison to Space & Time and any other dimension they can come up with (or are unaware of...)
First, you're alive. (AND for some time!!)
2nd, you're not a cell...or a germ... You're actually a complex organism.
3rd, most of us are self-aware.
4th, some of us are intelligent to a certain extent (and can DO things!!)
etc and so on...

Think about it, you likely do more in one morning than a mountain does in a millennium. (wake, digest, walk, breathe, fart, shower, think about bills, have emotions, etc...)

As I state in my signature, there are 2 things that affect you and you affect...your:

• Sphere of Awareness
• Sphere of Influence

What you're aware of helps you understand what's happening. (but sorry, it can still happen to you even if you're NOT aware of it. The Universe doesn't care.)
But what you can influence, either by doing or saying or convincing or organizing or taking, etc and so on... You can affect things in return.
Yet still, there are limits...even for the most powerful or talented of us.

It's your choice how much to partake and/or particpate.
It's your choice how to react. (other than what your body and physics allows that is)

The "good" and "bad"...well, that's just so all of us can get along and live together and get better than just ourselves.
But if you don't... Well, there may be consequences and some may be pissed at you. Just saying.

So, stay alive. (because if you don't...then the point is moot)
And try to absorb some things. (again, if you don't...the point is moot)

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Does that help??

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BTW, I'm reading the Hitchhiker's series again at this moment...so this question is a nice "in-sync" moment.
And what he was trying to say so intelligently and humorously...

It ALL doesn't make sense...at the size and scope and complexity of it all...it's NOT supposed to make sense.
Beings don't make sense either. (ex: yourself or other people)
BUT
You can try to make sense of it, in a relative manner, and it can help you make a better life for yourself.
But don't drive yourself crazy (and everyone around you) trying to make sense of it ALL.

Make sense??

**sometimes I think I'm a weird combo of Arthur Dent & Zaphod Beeblebrox (Ford Prefect is just too much of a hoopy frood for me to compare myself with)
...And of course, I'm always in love with Trillian.

C'est la vie. (such is life...)

 

This is why I like you so much. Let's be besties.

Serious answer: I don't think there is one. Life isn't a question, it's an experience. You decide its purpose as you go along.

 

I'll be disappointed if someone doesn't at least acknowledge my reference.

 

Sorry, I was looking for my fish.

 

Well, if you're going MP-MOL philosophy on us...then I prefer this theory...



What was that about hats again??

"squirrel!"