The whole point of that, is it's the journey to find the answer, that has meaning, rather than the answer. The fact that they built a robot supercomputer to tell them the answer, then after several generations it told them it couldn't tell them, but it could design a computer that could, so they made that, that's more interesting than 42.
The journey to make a decent speaker is more important than the finished result; if it wasn't, we'd just buy a finished pair.
I had a death experience in 2009. Would take too many words to talk about it here, but if anyone is interested, I can message you privately.
I know. In my spare time I do woodworking using mostly hand tools to build furniture and a variety of other things. And I repair as much as things as possible. Both electrical/electronic devices as well as things which are broken mechanically, instead of replacing. And that is aside building speakers and other audio equipment like analog active crossovers etc. All cost a lot of time, actually a disproportionate amount of time. The reward is profound satisfaction to have created something myself which lasts a hundred years or longer (furniture), or being smarter than manufacturers which design their stuff for planned wear and breakage. Or knowing exactly what I have instead of tightly glued speakers without specification or a PCB with a hundred SMD components.
Nevertheless the meaning of life, the universe and everything still is 42. Although for some generations the goal in life was to find the answer. Mind you, 42 is not just the answer to the meaning if life. It includes the meaning of the universe and everything.
That's what I meant by 'you have to invent it'.
You have to find something that gives meaning to you.
If you can't find any, what are you living for?
After all, we're all the senseless product of random evolution.
No purpose, no goal except the ones we make for ourselves.
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Not meaning of life related per say, but had a thought yesterday. Does anyone else experience the increased pace of time as they age? The logic to me is that each moment is compared by our brains to our entire life history which is longer with each subsequent moment. If so, wouldn't a logarithmic scale fro our lifespan seem more apt that an arithmetic one? So if we live to say 80 years old, then maybe midlife is really 20 years old!? 🤔😳
Sure as hell. Going faster every year.
See when you are 10 years old, one year is 10% of your life. When you are 70, one year is 1.4% of your life.
Even the days pass by faster and faster. Remember how long one day could drag along? Now when I get up I make plans for the day, and it is over before I know it.
I think it's down to when you're young, you have new experiences every day - most days are different and you are constantly learning.; when you get older, the days roll by, much like groundhog day, there's nothing to differentiate one day from another, or week, or year. There's nothing new to remember, no new experiences, new feelings, no more books/music/films to discover.
Part of what you are putting forward is the question if the Universe has purpose if we aren't there to observe it? Certainly it would continue to exist and operate in the various ways which it does. One notion out there is that the Universe is a projection of the mind of the Divine, done so out of compassion to aid various beings in their pursuit of freedom from the cycle of births. If one such being achieves freedom, the Universe ceases to exist for them, but not for others. In a sense the question of does the Universe have meaning if we aren't there to observe it is like asking does another person have meaning if we aren't there to observe them, they of-course do.
If you, the reader, were the Devine..... (or a small part of it) what would you do with your "time" ?
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As I said, you have to invent a meaning. Yours is one of the many floating around.
In my view, religion is an 'invention' because the senseless of it all would be unbearable.
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the don't think the seeker on an authentic path has to invent anything, it is to know the truth of oneself, through direct experience.....else it's book knowledge, theory, opinion or blind faith.... etc, all useful... up to a point.
Would someone rather read about a holiday destination, or go there to experience it for themselves. I don't look for people to say what it's like, I'm interested in people teaching how to get there for oneself. Most are not ready to put this higher up their priority list. Disease, near death and suffering tends to help though. I needed 2 out of those 3.
Good teachers are scarce though, and it's my understanding the true teachings are not written down, although what's written might be helpful, but just because a student thinks they are ready, does not mean they are, just like any apprenticeship really, so a teach desides, that's why it's not written down.
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Would someone rather read about a holiday destination, or go there to experience it for themselves. I don't look for people to say what it's like, I'm interested in people teaching how to get there for oneself. Most are not ready to put this higher up their priority list. Disease, near death and suffering tends to help though. I needed 2 out of those 3.
Good teachers are scarce though, and it's my understanding the true teachings are not written down, although what's written might be helpful, but just because a student thinks they are ready, does not mean they are, just like any apprenticeship really, so a teach desides, that's why it's not written down.
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In fact, if you think about it, religions are historically the first manifestations of conspiracy theories.
They tick all the boxes.
Jan
They tick all the boxes.
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