BS: meaning of life

Subject: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:55 AM

I want to prove one theory that is lingering in my mind for long. I believe most of the people are on the wrong path in life. If you don't agree please explain it lucidly.
Teacher

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Barry Finn
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:10 AM

Put this piece ,,,, down below. Can't these guests get it right.
Barry

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:58 AM

42

eric

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Little Robyn
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 03:51 AM

I was going to say that!
42!
Robyn

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Sooz
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:08 AM

6 x 9

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:12 AM

I could play my part in life a lot better if I had a copy of the script.

LTS

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: gnomad
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:22 AM

Teacher, are you certain they are on any path?

I've long thought most are simply adrift. Just once in a while we spot a clump of weeds towards which we paddle; sometimes we reach it, often we don't. When we do reach it the weed is seldom what we thought anyway.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: freda underhill
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:16 AM

"I believe most of the people are on the wrong path in life. "
I don't agree, teacher. Most people are doing just exactly what they are born to do, and choose to do. Even doing something "wrong" is an opportunity to learn and move on.

I am also distrustful of any philosophy, whether religious or secular, that has as one of its base suppositions the fact that "other" people are "wrong".

freda

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:23 AM

Sooz has found a DIFFERENT meaning to life- either SoixantexNeuf, or 54. (I don't believe in 54any more, 54's an illusion..)

As for our anonymous "philosopher", let's get this straight... YOU want to prove a theory, so you ask US to explain why it's wrong before you've even presented that proof? On second thoughts, PLEASE don't answer, just try to explain it to the nurse.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: *Laura*
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:38 AM

Liff.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: John O'L
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:44 AM

"Wrong"? What is this "wrong"?

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:05 AM

Catherine Harris will tell you what it is.
bin Laden will tell you what it is.
Jerry Falwell will tell you.

Why doesn't GUEST tell us. After all its
It's thread.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:15 AM

There's a meaning to all this? Coulda fooled me!

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:22 AM

It could be 101010

or 52

or 2A

But I doubt it.

DtG

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:24 AM

Incidentaly is a numbering system that uses base 7 known as septic?

:D

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:31 AM

Is one in base 6 know as sexy?

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:58 AM

Eat. Survive. Reproduce. And, if you're human, have fun while causing fun to be had.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 10:43 AM

How many times do you need telling, the meaning of life is 42

eric

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 10:53 AM

Wrong, DtG, 101010 is what dwarves sing. Try XLII or mubeta.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: mack/misophist
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:15 AM

If life is to have any meaning it must be imposed on it by the person living it; otherwise it has none at all.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:25 AM

blame it on the salmon mousse.

sIx

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:31 AM

It could be the lone ranger song as well, Paul

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Was it you who said there are only 10 kinds of people in the world? Those that understand binary and those that don't?

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Sooz
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:37 AM

42 may well be the answer to the ultimate question, but if you check your Douglas Adams carefully, the question was, "what is 6 x 9?"

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM

My eight year old used base seven to compute in terms of days of the week.
What day of the week is Thursday divided by Tuesday next?

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: JennyO
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM

...thereby confirming Arthur Dent's feeling that there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe. The trick is in knowing the question!

Actually, I think Slartibartfast had it right:

"Hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:43 PM

If there's a meaning, there must be a dictionary somewhere....

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:58 PM

So far all of you have proved my theory to be right, especially robert burk who can't think farther than his animalistic instinct.
I haven't found two people who had the same idea for life in this thread, except for those that say it is 42. Thank you for proving me right.
Teacher

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM

I have been collecting cartoons on "The Meaning of Life" for 40 years.....the whole POINT is that it is simply a pointless question.

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page1s.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page2s.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page3s.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page4s.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page5s.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/life/page6s.jpg

....maybe I'll scan the other 15-20 pages soon.

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 02:39 PM

(It all started with that Peanuts/Snoopy one on page 1.....I giggled for 2 days, then began a scrapbook)

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 02:40 PM

Spam spam and more spam

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:57 PM

So your point is to prove what is pointless? You got a point, but since there is a point in proving the pointless I can also make a point in proving the purpose as you define as pointlessness. You definition of the purpose of life is therefore pointlessness and therefore are on a wrong path for you contradict yourself. that is my point.
Teacher

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: bobad
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM

Meaning of life

Subject: RE: meaning of life
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 05:50 PM

I'll have spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam.

Sorry. Spam's off...

Subject: Lyr Add: GALAXY SONG (Eric Idle & John Du Prez)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:17 PM

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving...
and revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned...
...a sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral-arm, at 40,000 miles an hour...
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred-billion stars
It's a hundred-thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16-thousand light years thick...
...but out by us it's just 3-thousand light years wide
We're 30-thousand light years from galactic central point...
...we go round every two-hundred-million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know...
...12-million miles-a-minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space...
...'cos there's bugger-all down here on Earth.

Eric Idle

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: *Laura*
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:21 PM

42.
Liff.
42.
Liff.

42 Liff.

Liff 42.

Either way - that's what it means.....

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:27 PM

no need for astronomic statistic,Liz the Squeak, you did not tackle my theory, the answer was not given. despite all those numbers prove to me that most of the people are not on the wrong path.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: JennyO
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:55 PM

It all depends on how much meaning you choose to assign to it. You can waste an awful lot of time thinking about the meaning of life, which could be better spent just living it (a la Slartibartfast). Enjoy it while you've got it!

"An it harm none, do as ye will."

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:05 AM

No sermons please, prove that I'm incorrect.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:10 AM

Guest:

Who's to say which path is right? And who gave you ultimate authority in the matter? My answer was clearly feasible and may even be correct. Your's is a non sequitur. You, yourself, are rather less than a riddle wraped in an enigma, however.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:12 AM

yeh I'm definitely on the wrong path..,, I should have been one of those urbane aristocrats swapping pithy ripostes in exclusive salons like Oscar Wilde. I bet I would have had Lord Alfred Douglas and Queen Victoria pissing themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:44 AM

Imposition is ravaging of a free will, imposed purpose is purposless, my answer relavant your's rather vague and contradictional. Since you belive in it you are on the wrong path.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Bert
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 01:04 AM

Everything I needed to know, I learned on Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 07:23 AM

I almost didn't want to respond to this but as this is post number 43 when I looked at the forum it actually did read 'meaning of life 42'

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 07:37 AM

Christ, I have felt for a LONG time that m on the right path, & now you buggers come along & tell me I have been on the RIGHT path all along, & this is how its MEANT to be?

Well, its all a crock of sh*t......where do I go to get my money back?

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,Ian P
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 11:04 AM

GUEST said, "I believe most of the people are on the wrong path in life". When anyone claims that "most of the people" are anything I always want to know what research they have done and what is their evidence base. Otherwise we're all talking about nothing but one person's supposition based on ignorance. We are here, anyway. GUEST doesn't bother to say what s/he thinks the right path is, but only rejects what others say. Any fool or charlatan can do that. That's not profound thinking, it's just laziness.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 01:29 PM

Answer to Ian P.
you have done the same with me, likewise your thinking is not profound. By the way, my goal is not to prove that I have anything wise to say but simply to prove me that my understanding is wrong. I don't think it's wrong.You seem pretty sure your's is right.
Here is a short explanation to you.
By observing the nature you see the law of entropy, likewise by observing human behavior you you the law of deterioration, and the law of corruptness.Observe a baby and you will start seeing some erratic behavior right away. Most people flow with that nature but some of them choose a right course.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Kaleea
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 07:02 PM

uh, guest---which subject are we supposed to be cussing----OOPS! I mean discussing? The meaning of life? (a question?) or, most people, you believe, are on the wrong path in life. (a declaration)
Are they trespassing on your path? Are they on some other path which does not belong to them? Should they be on a street, road, or Route 66 (getting their kicks) instead? Perhaps it is you who is on the wrong path, and are being deluded into believing that you are the only one who is correct? Have you been watching too much Twilight Zone? Do you hear the voice of Rod Serling? (unplug that big box over there.)

As for the meaning of life, it's rather obvious. What it's all about is The Hokey Pokey!


   (and I have Hokey Pokey Elmo to prove it.)

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 08:20 PM

We can discuss both. i didn't say I was on the right path, I said I believe most of the people are on the wrong path. I don't know if you are one of the seldom ones on the right path. Considering that Elmo is your guide in life I would say you are on the wrong path. Or interstate highway.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Amos
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 09:02 PM

Guest:

ABsolutely, unequivocally, most people ARE on the wrong path. Only a small few of us know that there even IS a right path and fewer still are actually on it.

Please do not discuss this broadly in public. It's kind of secret.

A

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 09:30 PM

"No sermons please, prove that I'm incorrect.
Teacher"

It is usually considered that proofs of assertions are the responsibility of the assertor. No one is required to prove you are incorrect...YOU need to do more than just state an opinion and thus prove that you ARE correct.

BTW...it is a given in logic that from false premises, anything follows....I maintain that the premise "most of the people are on the wrong path in life" is a flawed and false premise that is both an "equivocation" and an example of "assuming the consequent" (that is, there must be a definitive *right path* to deviate from).

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: dianavan
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:23 AM

There are three kinds of students:

1. Those who cannot listen.

2. Those that listen but do not learn from it.

3. Those that listen and act upon it.

I think most of us fall into category 2.

So yes, I agree, most of us are not following the right path.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 01:03 AM

Bill D.
Listen to the sound voice of someone than thinks alike. Dianavan put it well.
I don't need to prove anything, I did not say that I want to prove my theory but rather put a challange to dispruve me. You haven't though.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,Ian P
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 05:32 AM

"Answer to Ian P. you have done the same with me, likewise your thinking is not profound." No I haven't, and you are disputing a claim I haven't made. I was answering your original post about your claim, not claiming anything myself. My post was an answer, not a proposition, a reply to a point, not a point in itself. But I know you'll just continue in the same vein, saying nothing in particular but just trying to wrong-foot others, so I won't bother wasting any more of my energy on this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 05:50 AM

I would be interested to hear your definition of "the wrong path" GUEST, teacher.

I maintain that "the wrong path" does not exist. Each person has their own path, the one that works for them in their present existence, each one different from somebody else's, but right for them.

Therefore I disagree with you because your whole premise is flawed.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 08:33 AM

Really you'd be better off being one of the ones who never listened in the first place. at least you wouldn't have wasted time listening.

And seeing as the odds are that you are going to be one of the supid ones, well the best option is to not even consider listening as an possible course of action.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:08 PM

Why am I reading this? I've got better things to do!

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 12:45 PM

no, 'Teacher'..JennyO put it correctly...you have challenged people to 'disprove' something that is not even stated in a way that allows proper definition. It's as if you wanted us to disprove the idea that strawberries taste better than chocolate.

'wrong path' is not a concept that conveys clear meaning in this case.

We can't 'disprove' your hypothesis because it is flawed in its construction.

That is the last I will say on the matter.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Peace
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 03:14 PM

Further to Bill's remark (one with which I agree), please define the 'right path', and that will allow discourse that makes sense.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,teacher
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 06:11 PM

I will tell you the right path as soon as I get some time, busy ight now but will be back soon. In the meantime don't assume you are on the right path.
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 01:26 AM

right path is the one that leads to righteousness, devoid of corruptness, harbors virtue, subdues immoral feelings and reactions, treats kindly, loves unreservedly, endures patiently, does not retribute, have controlled eyes, believes in chastity, forgives when mistreated , forgives an offense,does not pilfer, nor things malicious, does good deeds, does not omit goodness, avoids perfidity, embraces morality, bows to authority, suffers with the oppressed, joys with the joyous, it is notenvious, look for the prosperity of his neighbour. Accepts his own mortality, admits his own wrongfullness. And Bows to the creator,
Teacher

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 03:53 AM

Bows to the creator

Ah, that would be Rapaire then.

have controlled eyes

Is that you Cansouth? Done more blinking with your eyes lately? I guess not, since you have controlled them ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,Cool Hand Like
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 04:12 AM

I don't care, I've got my plastic Jesus.

Play it cool, Luke

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 04:44 AM

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends entirely on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 06:16 AM

Life is like a shit sandwich, the less bread you've got,,,,,,,,,the more shit you've got to eat.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 11:33 AM

Bows to the creator ...that would be towards Mecca? No? Gee, as soon as the creator waves to me and says..."Over here!" I'll mosey over, ask for I.D. and consider the idea.

I have been suspicious for a few posts now that 'teacher' was heading in that direction concerning 'right pathness'. There are a whole bunch of very nice virtues in that list- some that sound a lot like Bible school class when I was 9....but I see that 'morality' and 'chastity' and 'righteousness' are tossed in as if it is perfectly clear what they imply.

Then, "bows to authority" and "bows to creator" ....*sigh*.... Do I detect a link there?

I think 'Teacher' spelled his name wrong...'Preacher' would be closer....and we have had attempts at preaching before in this forum.
.... this is **NOT** the place for preaching.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 03:13 PM

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 04:32 AM

The twenty-sixfold path! Bit short on specifics, though. Given 25 years of folks following those wholesome precepts, they'll be killing others who don't. Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 04:39 AM

Always expect the worst... if the worst happens, you're prepared. If it doesn't happen, it's going to soon, so you'll be prepared.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 05:36 PM

twenty sixfold path, what!? Please explain

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:57 PM

to the moderator
this is rather boring please discontinue

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:00 PM

if you'd quit posting to it, it would slip off the bottom....



oops..

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:57 PM

Right path is as right path does, but the meaning of life is where you last left it.

A

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:41 AM

Or down the back of the sofa...

Except in our house. We have an odd dining room. It slopes down in one corner (slippage of foundations years ago, all safe but quirky), and in the opposite corner is the piano.

If you drop something on the floor, you would expect it to roll into the sloping corner.

It doesn't.

We have discovered that all pianos (or the heaviest piece of furniture) have a force field that attracts small items. These items are sucked under the piano and never seen again. I've seen a ping pong ball on it's way down the slope CHANGE DIRECTION and be drawn under the piano.

Never did find that ping pong ball.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 09:04 PM

Liz is on a funny streak. :O

I would prefer to say meaning within life.

If anyone looked at the Quantum meanings within ,that I posted last ,I am afraid that many people might think that the possiblilities I proclaimed are the sort only schizophrenics might encounter.

Knowing a new reality ain't easy until you try.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 12:24 PM

to make more life.

from a purely biological point of view.

and now our 20month old will be a big sister in 3months.
I wonder how shell take to that.
petr

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Old Guy
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 01:43 AM

Life is a bitch and then you die.

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 03:27 PM

Tom T. Hall says it's:
faster horses, younger women, older whiskey-- but maybe not in that order?
Bill D.--good hobby. And it has the advantage of helping light the path(s?) for others, because you SHARE so kindly.       Tw

Subject: RE: BS: meaning of life
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 04:10 PM

If Tom Hall says it is , then it must be so...for Tom.

Now, Old Guy has a much less cheerful attitude, and his "meaning of life" will also be a self-fulfilling process. His "life will be a bitch" and then he'll die, unless he shifts his own meaning of life equation summat.

Me, I believe it's an adventure. And then another adventure.

A