<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Redblueflare:
Pardon me, but who exactly is Neil? And please say that it isn't you. :D <hr></blockquote>

you don't know Neil?!?!?! you must learn!! THIS IS NEIL!!!! http://www.freakygamers.com/smilies/...d/vambunny.gif
Neil is my little evil bunny friend and he thinks he rules all. ouch Neil don't bite me! sorry what I ment to say was Neil is my little evil bunny friend that DOES rule all. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: Drake ]</p>

Keats wrote in Ode on a Grecian Urn (I prefer Chinese porcelain, actually :D ):

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." -- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Make your life a pursuit of beautiful things -- not just in the narrow sense of the fine arts, but also in the more important sense of developing your inner beauty. That, for me, would suffice as the meaning of life. (You might also like to look at the Religion II thread started by Cerek.)

If you think that your own happiness is the meaning (or possibly purpose) of your life then it is entirely external to society. What I mean is that as far as the rest of the world goes, if you achieve your aim then you might as well not have existed. I don't know if that is my purpose. I think this question is what makes me beleive in god - there is no answer to be found in humanity for definite. But if no one knows then - Why? Why everything, why anything... sorry, this is rambling a bit. Hope some of that made sense...

The meaning of your life is what you (and others) give to it.
The meaning of life in general is to remain alive.

Or, in any case, that's what makes sense to me.

The meaning of life is to let you know the inevitability of your death.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by AzRaeL StoRmBlaDe:
The meaning of life is to let you know the inevitability of your death.<hr></blockquote>


Now that's a gloomy thought...

The meaning of life is: state of living beings, characterized by growth, repoduction and reponse to stimuli.

The meaning of life is to live life to the fullest.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by K T Ong:
Keats wrote in Ode on a Grecian Urn (I prefer Chinese porcelain, actually :D ):

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." -- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Make your life a pursuit of beautiful things -- not just in the narrow sense of the fine arts, but also in the more important sense of developing your inner beauty. That, for me, would suffice as the meaning of life. (You might also like to look at the Religion II thread started by Cerek.)<hr></blockquote>


Great post, K T Ong, and I love that quote...
However... Whoooooooooooooaaaaaaaa!! You put the quotation marks in!! LOL LOL
Litereary critics have bashed eachother's heads in with big dictionaries over those two silly quotation marks :D
(...) a friend to man, to whom thou sayest:
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty.(") That is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know(")

Where do they go? Finding that out is the meaning of my life, heh.

meaning of life??... that is the question ... but for me to live is how the way you wish to live it.