Define what's life

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

Well, this thread is about whatever you think about life. I always wonder what is it, why we have to try and try and try and to achieve things that after we achieve, they don't matter anymore.
Where is this leading? All we do is just trying. Trying at kindergarten, elemntary,school and university etc! We plan our future like everything is going to be perfect! But lot of times nothing goes the way we planned! I feel helpless and confused and angry why is all these have to be like this.(planning and working hard for it, but never goes the way u plan or u desire it to be) In these kind of circumstances how u react towards the situation, how u try to handle it and what role do u take to this play called life.




P.S. if u think this thread sucks dont bother to type any lame comment,also if u cant keep ur comment leave it to the flamers section.....

thanx
waiting 4 responces

[Anonymouse]

Well, since you rarely make threads, I like to make your threading experience a nice one.

With that said, what is life? Well, I think that's exactly, we really dont know, that is why we all these things, learn, school, labor, family, to give it meaning, otherwise its an existential paradox.

[Tramanian]

"Existence is identity, consciousness is identification."

Human life is consciousness, and as humans it is our job to perceive or identify existence by using a valid epistemological philosophy.

The point of our lives is our own sustainance and growth, or our own well being.

The way to achieve this is to desire rational goals, and to persue them by using our minds in the way that nature or the law of identity prescribes we use them - logic and reason.

You say the schooling that you've done doesn't matter anymore? Have you considered that you wouldn't be able to get on the internet and ask these questions had you not learned to read?

There are no worthless goals save for those which are self-destructive. Anything achieved that benefits your life is a worthwhile goal, although it may not be the most fulfilling.

To be fulfilled you must figure out what you love to do and you must figure out how to do it. If you love to paint, then figure out how to make a living out of it, if you love computers, figure out how to make a faster computer and build it.

To be fulfilled, you must think. The mind is man's only means of survival.

[anileve]

Originally posted by Tramanian "Existence is identity, consciousness is identification."

Human life is consciousness, and as humans it is our job to perceive or identify existence by using a valid epistemological philosophy.

The point of our lives is our own sustainance and growth, or our own well being.

The way to achieve this is to desire rational goals, and to persue them by using our minds in the way that nature or the law of identity prescribes we use them - logic and reason.

You say the schooling that you've done doesn't matter anymore? Have you considered that you wouldn't be able to get on the internet and ask these questions had you not learned to read?

There are no worthless goals save for those which are self-destructive. Anything achieved that benefits your life is a worthwhile goal, although it may not be the most fulfilling.

To be fulfilled you must figure out what you love to do and you must figure out how to do it. If you love to paint, then figure out how to make a living out of it, if you love computers, figure out how to make a faster computer and build it.

To be fulfilled, you must think. The mind is man's only means of survival.

You are my new role model!

As far as my interpretation of life, well life is like a game of chess and we are merely chess pieces, acting our role to reach a certain goal, the purpose is self fulfillment what ever it might be. I personally like the horse, it's so ambiguous you never know when it sneaks up on you in a very indirect way.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by Tramanian "Existence is identity, consciousness is identification."

Human life is consciousness, and as humans it is our job to perceive or identify existence by using a valid epistemological philosophy.

The point of our lives is our own sustainance and growth, or our own well being.

The way to achieve this is to desire rational goals, and to persue them by using our minds in the way that nature or the law of identity prescribes we use them - logic and reason.

You say the schooling that you've done doesn't matter anymore? Have you considered that you wouldn't be able to get on the internet and ask these questions had you not learned to read?

There are no worthless goals save for those which are self-destructive. Anything achieved that benefits your life is a worthwhile goal, although it may not be the most fulfilling.

To be fulfilled you must figure out what you love to do and you must figure out how to do it. If you love to paint, then figure out how to make a living out of it, if you love computers, figure out how to make a faster computer and build it.

To be fulfilled, you must think. The mind is man's only means of survival.

The mind may be a means of survival, it may also be a tool for knowledge and wisdom, etc., it is also a prison.

The difference between an animal and a human is that while the initial is spared the knowledge of death, humans live with it a whole lifetime with death haunting their dreams, and due to that all that we do is a move against death and one for immortality.

And if anyone were to speculate the full condition of this paradox would go insane. To quote Pascal, "Men are so necessarily mad that to not be mad would amount to another form of madness". Mad because everything that we do as humans is an attempt to deny this grotesque animalistic fate.

The paradox is that man is both a part of nature and he is outside of the realm of nature. He is a worm and a food for worms. Man can place himself outside of nature by being up in the stars, yet at the same time occupying an animal body, because he aches and bleeds and xxxxs like an animal and his body will decay and die. So there is a sense of duality. He is a creature with a name, a history, a life, a spirit, yet an animal nonetheless.

His mind can go into spaces outside time contemplate about the atom and existence and infinity, and look at his own planet from outside, sort of like a mini god, yet nonetheless doomed to death. That is the existential paradox and why I believe the mind is also a prison.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

GReat responces! thanx guys, u helped me figure out what I am going to do.........................