What is The Meaning of Life?

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In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you. And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. You can seek explanations of the natural world through science, and insight into the human condition through the arts and humanities. You can make the most of your capacity for pleasure and satisfaction, which allowed your ancestors to thrive and thereby allowed you to exist. You can appreciate the beauty and richness of the natural and cultural world. As the heir to billions of years of life perpetuating itself, you can perpetuate life in turn. You have been endowed with a sense of sympathy—the ability to like, love, respect, help, and show kindness—and you can enjoy the gift of mutual benevolence with friends, family, and colleagues. And because reason tells you that none of this is particular to you, you have the responsibility to provide to others what you expect for yourself. You can foster the welfare of other sentient beings by enhancing life, health, knowledge, freedom, abundance, safety, beauty, and peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress.


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Looks like X = F (ood)

The basic meaning of life for Fido!

edit; come to think of it me too :cool:
Right both times, and the wild variety provide more power. Some Fido's are great mole catchers too like this one who was at least 25 on the photo, shortly before he died.
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Взрослые взрослые.

Взрослые взрослые не означают, что они что-то понимают.

Например - Взрослые взрослые
могут искренне заблуждаться, полагая, что их потомки были обезьянами.
Другими словами, если вам удастся полностью одобрить бога, они начнут поклоняться вам.

To disprove god one must become god. There's no other way. In other words If you success fully disapproved god they will start worshipping you.

These words reminded me of a quote by Cicero-"A slave dreams not of his freedom, but of his slaves.
If you think in terms of slavery and parasitism, you would be right.
I was talking about the alternative. An alternative to slavery and parasitism of any kind: any kind, any denomination, any religion, any ideology, etc., etc., etc.

PS: Unfortunately, only a very few individuals can think about this...
 
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To disprove dog one must become dog. There's no other way. In other words If you success fully disapproved dog they will start worshipping you.
That has some truth. However on old saying emphasized, "love enters via the stomach". It's applies to birds as well. The befriended dove on my knee wanted a feather adjusted, and after a good meal the turnstone in the background was reading a paper.
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In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you. And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have the potential to flourish. You can refine your faculty of reason itself by learning and debating. You can seek explanations of the natural world through science, and insight into the human condition through the arts and humanities. You can make the most of your capacity for pleasure and satisfaction, which allowed your ancestors to thrive and thereby allowed you to exist. You can appreciate the beauty and richness of the natural and cultural world. As the heir to billions of years of life perpetuating itself, you can perpetuate life in turn. You have been endowed with a sense of sympathy—the ability to like, love, respect, help, and show kindness—and you can enjoy the gift of mutual benevolence with friends, family, and colleagues. And because reason tells you that none of this is particular to you, you have the responsibility to provide to others what you expect for yourself. You can foster the welfare of other sentient beings by enhancing life, health, knowledge, freedom, abundance, safety, beauty, and peace. History shows that when we sympathize with others and apply our ingenuity to improving the human condition, we can make progress in doing so, and you can help to continue that progress.


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Yea put a fullbridge rectifier to rectify nature's disabilities. Make it better. But better is subjective. Better for housefly is more shiat