What is the meaning of life? Perhaps it's utterly post-modernistic in that it has no meaning or that the meaning was but one creative moment that washes into the sea of time like footprints on the beach? If anything, and I must talk from a purely subjective standpoint, I truely believe that I am the punchline to some great cosmic joke that I lack the capability of 'getting' because my mind is too small.
Of course people have thier own theories, God and creation, some great universal force, pure science and some even odder ones that I don't dare to even imagine. Lets face it... all crap! I mean if we believe in a world of opposites then we must believe that people/deeds/events are either basically good or basically evil, this is so misconcieved because we have lots of 'good' people running around out there doing 'evil' things. I fail to be able to rationalise that at all.
I've not led a blameless life by any stretch of the imagination but I've never done anything 'cruel' or 'evil' to another living creature, so why is it that I have such a shitty life where people are mean to me for no apparent reason. I guess a lot of people can't resist the temptation of taking advantage of me because of my limited, immediate mental capacities but that makes them basically bad but really they are good people. Gah! Now my head is spinning!
Thanks for bearing with me through that, I've no idea what I wrote and if you did then you're much smarter than me.
KsanUK
lol, I credit you with a very high chance of being right on that score, but I doubt you're alone. The whole species is probably in there with you
But for that to be the case... there would need to be some higher power at work in order to have started the jibe and that's something I can't quite conceive.
I don't think there is an answer, not because of the limitations of being able to comprehend the purpose but simply, because there is none. Thats amusing in itself, we're all searching for the 'key' to life when we should just accept things just are.
Of course, that almost rules out any possibility of reincarnation (because that too requires some higher 'energy' at play) but I do sometimes wonder if what we suffer in this life is a reflection of our behaviour in a previous life.
In which case... be good!
Then again what if we're not all interconnected and we just repeat over and over in our own timeframes? What if I've been me 100's of times before... The you don't exist and I'm just writing this to a figment of my existence alone. Actually maybe thats just crap heehee.
If you want a brain-hurter I find thinking about what the entirity of existence exists in a good pickler. Basically, the doughnut theory of the big-bang... every thing expands until it ends back up in the centre, compresses and 'bang!', expands again - in what does this 'doughnut' exist...??? (Ouch)
Then again, Douglas Adams might have been passing on some infinite insight disguised as a joke and the answer really is 42.
Oh, and if you're really really good you might come back as a pornstar!