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).