There is no meaning to life and to bother trying to come up with one is silly.

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This is what I came to believe life is about, and when I came across this I just smiled and nodded:

Cool Story

In a nutshell, when you die, you meet your maker. He explains that in the universe, there is only him and I. That he set us (I/me and you/me and we are all together) loose to see what we do. The earth may be a training ground, a simulator for the afterlife. But we make it only once we've run through all the instances of humanity. What's after that I don't dare fathom. The author of the story in the link concludes that it's a training ground to be a 'god' for the next round so he can retire. He says there are others like him 'far away' and it would be too hard to explain ... so that's why I'm leaving that lie and waiting.

But we're supposed to learn that every good thing you've ever done you've done for yourself and every bad thing you've ever done you've done to yourself as well.

Ties into karma, what goes around comes around, circle of life, and all sorts.

This is pretty much what I've come to conclude. I feel no need to be of a particular faith. I think it's missing the point and is focusing on the wrong things. Or for church. If it's community you need, find a hobby, friends, heck, I dunno. If you feel compelled to donate to God, donate to a homeless shelter... Tangent, sorry.

Thoughts?

"Cool Story" indeed

Some people use church for all of those things you listed because a church community provides that as well as their message of like minded individuals. People subscribe to a religion to give their life some sort of meaning/purpose and hope that there is something after they pass away. It also gives them something to have faith in and they are weak so they need to be around other people that have stronger levels of faith than themselves.

I guess that's getting a bit off topic but yeah if you want to continue this line of topic, we should probably head over to one of the religious threads with it

Nah I'm cool, we can just stay on topic here...

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As a biologist, I'd say if life is "about" anything, it's about raising your fitness which is almost the same as having offspring and taking care of your closest family. Going back through generations for billions of years, that's what our ancestors did and we wouldn't have been here if they hadn't.

As a more subjective comment on what I want from life, I want to be happy :)

That is where I used to be. I used to go around (about 2 or 3 years ago) and just ask everyone I met what makes them happy. Most of the responses are "hanging out with friends"--the most interesting response I ever got was "really good art."

Double post, I know. I am terrible about that.

I just wanted to say **** taxes. It's amazing how much money disappears in taxes--I can barely handle it.

What isn't life?

I'm deep.

erm **** taxes but the same taxes you are paying goes to some of the services that i bet you are using every single day.

those services aren't going to pay for themselves