I believe that the only thing that is even remotely important is acquiring salvation because you're eternally f***ed forever if after-lives are real.

(also the video posted by pokeraz)

The meaning of life is to make it to the end.

maybe abiogenesis occurring in the brain.

God and family

How do we figure out which faith to follow to acquire salvation?

You jumped right over the more important question in this context....You need to aquire salvation?

I think thinking there is a meaning to life is what needs elaborated upon

The pervasive need to justify our own existence is a rather peculiar and unifying trait amongst us humans. It's almost a curse of higher level thinking.

One can only long for blissful ignorance.

So that when the end comes, whether it be: sudden or prolonged; painful or peaceful; catastrophic or mundane; individual or collective, you're content with your story.

That's why there's always time for redemption. And that time is now.

Live in a harmonious state of Dao and same difference.

life is short, painful, and always ends badly.

Enjoy it while you can.

Is that a threat?

riches and bitches

He's trying to manipulate you.

you're losing this interaction jish, you need to assert dominance and control the narrative, send him a dick pic asap to show him you are not a man to be trifled with

We're just living one of many simulations in a brute force attempt to discover the perfect egg recipe.

Legit good stuff

Why does it always end badly? There is quite an interesting and meaningful field about "good deaths" and "bad deaths." I'm sure you are just alluding kind of glibly to "it always ends in death, and that is bad," but why is death bad? It isn't. Try a little thought experiment about living trillions of centuries bed-ridden with dementia, etc. etc., which is what eternal life after age 100 years would be, and you will change real quick about death being bad. It is a friend. And good and wise deaths recognize and accept that it is part of life. So unless one is trying to cancel aging and injury and decline along with death, which means just having a fantasy, the way we deal with death says a lot about what we are learning in life. That great old saying about "Death is as welcome after a life fully lived but now over as sleep is after a day fully lived and over." Something like that, my version. Death does not mean life ended badly, it means it ended.

Yeah, maybe rocks don't need to be saved from being rocks, and humans don't need to be saved from being human. Quite a bill of good sold initially in very ignorant, superstitious, crazy times ... caught on, got embedded into culture and indoctrinated into minds, etc. There are thousands of these different religions being sold to thousands of different cultures. Hello. Maybe, just maybe we can see outside of that.

The meaning of life is to try to figure out how life may survive when the universe ends. ****.

Question: Osho, Nothing to do, nowhere to go. You say it so clearly. Yet I wonder, what are we doing here?



Answer: "I wonder too, because we are not really doing anything here. That's what we are doing, we are learning how to be in a state of non-doing - wu-wei."

You can close this thread, I am finding most of these answers boring tbh

We find our own meaning ... thru expression of aptitudes, loves, values. It's kind of contingent. For instance, Viktor Frankl found great meaning in helping holocaust victims ... no WWII, no holocaust and obviously that wouldn't have been one of his purposes. Some find meaning in medicine and a life of healing the sick ... no sick, no treatment needed. It's about an application of aptitudes and values to the environment.