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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:11 PM Original message |
The question on the front page of my local weekly paper: What is the meaning of life? |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Send in this link... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. 42. |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I have always been fond of 42 |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. yeah, same here. My life would be meaningless w/o "42". |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. The actual question |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Well, to be slightly more accurate ... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. My bad, haven't read the Hitchhiker's series lately... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Well, as I say each time I leave the Sushi Bar with a full belly ... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. *hand to forehead* |
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brokensymmetry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. It all depends on the belief system. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Then basically life has no meaning |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Yes, and no |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. But for many, life IS valueless |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. At no point have I said |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. So, in other words, |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Didn't say that either |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 04:08 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I can't agree with you |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. And where did I say they were NOT |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-21-06 02:42 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I got your PM |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. if "life is meaningless", how do we "get on with our lives and give them meaning"? |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. The question has always implied |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Many years ago while in Hawaii I gazed up at the millions of |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. The only true immortality is in the memories of others |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
8. It would be nice if it were meaningless |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Randomness is so comforting, isn't it |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. The meaning of life is to grow and then be recycled in |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Works for me |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. Providing for other beings by eating, shitting and dying. |
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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
19. I Recently Discovered The Meaning of Life |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Natural selection |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. Only human arrogance demands there be one at all. |
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Kelvin Mace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-20-06 03:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. And arrogance |
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