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Pastimes : What is the meaning of life? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon K. who wrote (82)	9/25/1999 4:45:00 AM
From: Jon K.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 141

**** SUMMARY - THE MEANING OF LIFE ******* 1 Be Excellent to each other - Jorj (My purpose in life is to have more happiness than unhappiness, more joy than anger and to contribute more happiness in other people's lives than unhappiness.) recommend watching the movie "Magnificent Obsession" 2. skipping a stone,looking at a sunset, accomplishing something, teaching, dreaming,,,, we can find meaning in our tears and our joys andin our spiritual lives. -AntMan 3. "if you meet the Budda on the road...Kill Him!" , the message here is that what you seek cannot be taught. It must be learned. - Raybert we must live our lives in preparation 4. Life doesn't have to have meaning--it is just a happy event--a carnival ride. - Mike 5 "perfect spike" in volleyball. - Tony My girlfriend and volleyball, and more volleyball <g> 6 "Do something where you feel you make a difference." This puts a passion in your life. - like "digging up new dinosaur bones" - Druss 7 finds Christ. - Monu 8 To strive to be better Tomorrow than I was yesterday, this is the meaning of Today. - John 9. The meaning of life is to cherish creation, uphold human dignity, and contribute to the ongoing communities to which one belongs.... Neocon 10 I don't think there is a meaning of life, period. But, there is a goal....HAPPINESS! The best way to be happy is to have a purpose. The best purpose is to do something with your life that benefits others as well as yourself - LG ******* To sum it up: Find Christ or Buddha, Don't worry, Be happy, Help others.

To: Jon K. who wrote (82)	9/25/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: MSB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 141

Jon, With all due respect to your suggestion, had I wanted to do so, I would have a long time ago. I just don't think it would go over. Now, with this type of subject, the personal success of a thread wouldn't matter by the number of posts it had gotten, but I would be personally dismayed to relate a few memorable experiences only to come to a later conclusion that mine and perhaps a miniscule amount of others had been posted. I would think, "Why the hell did I bother to go to all of the trouble?!?" SI is, unfortunately, very cliquish. I know (and I doubt very strongly that anyone can prove me wrong) that there are those who will post to a thread based on who else is posting to it, and for the same reason, avoid posting to it because of who is posting to it. Because of the above, I seriously doubt that a thread could be a successful colage of interesting personal moments from the lives of others because of such juvinile thinking. Admittedly, I will purposely avoid threads when I see certain posters have posted to them, so I'm not trying to suggest I'm above such thinking. But I'd love to be proven wrong. Mike Brains don't mean shit once it is realized everybody is at any moment five seconds from being dead