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What is the "key"
Just a simple questions...
What is the "key" to life?
What are we living for?
What is the purpose that we are living?
list your opinions here
I believe the key to life is to learn. But not by learning just academic-wise, you have you experience things. By this I mean activities that you've never done. In other words, trying new experiences and such. The more we experience, the more we understand, and then the more we'll know.
What is the "key" to life?
What are we living for?
What is the purpose that we are living?
list your opinions here
I believe the key to life is to learn. But not by learning just academic-wise, you have you experience things. By this I mean activities that you've never done. In other words, trying new experiences and such. The more we experience, the more we understand, and then the more we'll know.
Theres no key to life its just a concept. Thats why you have to create your key of living. My key is art, learning and experiencing.
How can it mean anything to me. If I really don't feel anything at all?
Why does there have to be one meaning? The world is full of many things and infinite ways to see them. The purpose of life depends on each person, and each one if told to their very last detail would be every so different because we are but a collection of many experiences and interactions that form up our own beliefs and thus give us all a different meaning of life. While our general ideas maybe the same, there is no way to say that there is just one meaning to life.
It is understandable to ask these questions, we are all alone most of the time. Secluded in our own heads thinking to ourselves and wondering is this world be for anything.
There are 2 types of people, Those who live for the future and those who live for the present. (Heroes) Those 2 can combine in different proportions but you cannot be entirely both. Living for the future requires that you look into the future and the past. Happiness requires you live for the moment. If we are just looking for a meaning to life, let me remind you that there is nothing time cannot erase from our minds and our world. It is infinite, we are just a blip on the screen.
It is understandable to ask these questions, we are all alone most of the time. Secluded in our own heads thinking to ourselves and wondering is this world be for anything.
There are 2 types of people, Those who live for the future and those who live for the present. (Heroes) Those 2 can combine in different proportions but you cannot be entirely both. Living for the future requires that you look into the future and the past. Happiness requires you live for the moment. If we are just looking for a meaning to life, let me remind you that there is nothing time cannot erase from our minds and our world. It is infinite, we are just a blip on the screen.
On the Gates to Hell inscribed-
Through me you enter into the city of woes
Through me you enter into eternal pain,
Through me you enter the population of loss.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
~Dante's Inferno
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.~Ernest Hemingway
Key in life is to open lock doors...
haha... kidding...
the knowledge is the key...
knowledge only makes us better...
but gaining fortunes gonna makes us lives in nightmare...
scared of robbery and being killed by someone who after our fortune...
that's it from me...
haha... kidding...
the knowledge is the key...
knowledge only makes us better...
but gaining fortunes gonna makes us lives in nightmare...
scared of robbery and being killed by someone who after our fortune...
that's it from me...
I beg to differ. As they say ignorance is bliss. Being Too knowledgeable can create issues and if you were that knowledgeable then you would know the meaning to life. Funny spirals we live in.
I don't understand what the second part of your post has to do with anything.
Don't give me this bs about having poetic taste and reading into things. If you want to say something say it dam it. An Explination would be nice. Or a comment about the post before you too. Don't post in go. Discuss. Prove that you are right.
I don't understand what the second part of your post has to do with anything.
Don't give me this bs about having poetic taste and reading into things. If you want to say something say it dam it. An Explination would be nice. Or a comment about the post before you too. Don't post in go. Discuss. Prove that you are right.
On the Gates to Hell inscribed-
Through me you enter into the city of woes
Through me you enter into eternal pain,
Through me you enter the population of loss.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
~Dante's Inferno
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.~Ernest Hemingway
Fine...
my point is...
gaining knowledge is better than gaining fortune...
back to the topic...
knowledge is priceless...
without knowledge we can can't even do a thing... so, I think the key of life is knowledge...
my point is...
gaining knowledge is better than gaining fortune...
back to the topic...
knowledge is priceless...
without knowledge we can can't even do a thing... so, I think the key of life is knowledge...
Knowledge is useless without discernment. if your going to take that road at least say wisdom.
That depends on what you consider the key, if your goal in life it's to achieve happiness, I would say the shortest way is not knowledge.
There's a line by Gustave Flaubert that says:
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Of course that's not always true, there are lots of wise people who are happy, but I think it applies in most of the cases. For example my grandfather, he has some kind of disease and his memory is all messed up, and he's happy, sometimes he tells me that he's travelled to Alaska by foot and stuff like that, he can't distinguish dream from reality. Besides that (which is relatively recent) he's always been selfish, he simply doesn't care if he leaves all dirty and a mess and my mom has to clean it up. But he's happy.
There's a line by Gustave Flaubert that says:
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Of course that's not always true, there are lots of wise people who are happy, but I think it applies in most of the cases. For example my grandfather, he has some kind of disease and his memory is all messed up, and he's happy, sometimes he tells me that he's travelled to Alaska by foot and stuff like that, he can't distinguish dream from reality. Besides that (which is relatively recent) he's always been selfish, he simply doesn't care if he leaves all dirty and a mess and my mom has to clean it up. But he's happy.
"You're the same as us. We have no past, no future. We live in the moment. That's our only purpose."
According to Gustave's theory there should be a lot of happy people in the world.
Damoser, to say 'a lot' would be a bit of an understatement. A more precise phrase would be, 'the vast majority' (above 99%) of the earth's population consists of such people.
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Life's key to me is to realize the unity of all things and immerse yourself in existence. The buddhists call it "nirvana" but that isn't quite it. I can't express it with words, for it is only a thought. Heaven is not a place you go, it is a state you must reach. Even as I try to explain it, all I do is vaguely refer to "it". Those who are truly wise know that talk is useless. Even actions are meaningless. It is the way you accept things that truly matters. I wish I could become one with every person so they could finally be truly free. Here, ask WHY you do anything. Every step and action you take, ask WHY.And even when your superego blinds you, open your eyes. Even when you are sure the path you are taking is perfect, question it. WHY do we want to be happy? WHY do we avoid angst? WHY are we individuals? WHY are there civilizational standards? Very few of you, if any, will understand what I am saying til you are on you deathbed. Become free from yourselves! Please! This is the core of philosophy! This is the core of Life! This is the core of existence.
To me, contentment is the goal (or key) to life.
people who want to gain knowledge, feel happy/content when they do.
wisdom, art, learning, experience, fortune, fame... once achieved brings about happiness and contentment to that person.
...whoa... that's way too deep for me...
people who want to gain knowledge, feel happy/content when they do.
wisdom, art, learning, experience, fortune, fame... once achieved brings about happiness and contentment to that person.
BringerLife's key to me is to realize the unity of all things and immerse yourself in existence.
...whoa... that's way too deep for me...
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I therefore take his stand.
There is no such thing as a meaning to life.
Because we can't possibly declare at this point or any other, we share a common objective, therefore not the same idealogy, and therefore impossible to declare a common goal.
- If you believe, God is the answer and goal
- If you don't, life is the answer and goal (living it materialistically)
- If you don't agree with both, then answer is up to you
I therefore take his stand.
There is no such thing as a meaning to life.
Because we can't possibly declare at this point or any other, we share a common objective, therefore not the same idealogy, and therefore impossible to declare a common goal.
- If you believe, God is the answer and goal
- If you don't, life is the answer and goal (living it materialistically)
- If you don't agree with both, then answer is up to you
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Concerning the happiness/stupidity subject, I have to say that happiness isn't or shouldn't be a goal in life, rather something that comes along. The reason for this is that happiness is not based on how many things you have but on what do you expect (from yourself), and we have many examples in history of misunderstood men that were considered crazy in their times and are now called geniuses, that weren't happy no matter if they achieved far greater than many people could ever dream of, and we also have men that are happy even when they have achieved nothing.
About what Bringer said I must say I agree almost 100%, and as you said it cannot be described by words, but at least I understand what you're trying to say, for I would consider that as the key in life, something I would describe as feeling god without believing in it, achieve that kind of enlightenment that religious (and wise, religious alone is not enough) people seem to have but without god in the way, canalize that feeling towards god in humanity, in nature and all the things that makes this universe what it is.
About what Bringer said I must say I agree almost 100%, and as you said it cannot be described by words, but at least I understand what you're trying to say, for I would consider that as the key in life, something I would describe as feeling god without believing in it, achieve that kind of enlightenment that religious (and wise, religious alone is not enough) people seem to have but without god in the way, canalize that feeling towards god in humanity, in nature and all the things that makes this universe what it is.
"You're the same as us. We have no past, no future. We live in the moment. That's our only purpose."
Well, then obviously you are one of those who live for the future. One who is obsessed about the past and the future. What will we mean in the long run? How will people remember us. Sure, there are other things instead of happiness. What makes us rich and wealthy? It is not the money we have, but it is the number of items that we have. But it seems that you cannot have both. Einstein the world recognized genius, after being famous, lost his family and became woefully unhappy.
I think that if we can't express things in words, then we need to create more words.
I think that if we can't express things in words, then we need to create more words.
On the Gates to Hell inscribed-
Through me you enter into the city of woes
Through me you enter into eternal pain,
Through me you enter the population of loss.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
~Dante's Inferno
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.~Ernest Hemingway