CSM London/Performance 2007
What is the meaning of life? There are numerous different answers! The most important thing is that you have really been searching for answers or enjoy. The following examples may give you some extra ideas:
Survival and temporal success
To help others reach their full potential while sharing the joy of being and creating.
To live every day like it is your last and to do your best at everything that comes before you
To be always satisfied
To live, go to school, work, and die
To participate in natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
To advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future of intelligent life
To compete or co-operate with others
To destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
To gain and exercise power
To leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
CSM London/Installation 2007To sleep
To ensure that all others after you remember your name.
To prepare for death
To spend life in the pursuit of happiness, maybe not to obtain it, but to pursue it relentlessly.
To produce offspring through sexual reproduction (alike to participating in evolution)
To protect and preserve one's kin, clan, or tribe (akin to participating in evolution)
To seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
To observe the ultimate fate of humanity to the furthest possible extent
To seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
To survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)
To attempt to have many sexual conquests (as in Arthur Schopenhauer's will to procreate)
To find and take over all free space in this "game" called life
To seek and find beauty
To kill or be killed
To live it. To simply keep functioning. This applies to everything. That includes songs stuck in your head to rocks. Everything has a bit of life in it. - Prof. E.C.D. (This cancels all others except the one directly below)
No point. Since having a point is a condition of living human consciousness. Animals do not need a point to live or exist. It is more of an affliction of consciousness that there are such things as points, a negative side to evolutionary development for lack of better words.
However, nobody really knows the true meaning of our presence on this earth. Although all these may seem like great reasons for living, the true purpose of us living is not known, and possibly never will be.
CSM London/Installation 2007Wisdom and knowledge
To master and know as many things as possible
To be without questions, or to keep asking questions
To expand one's perception of the world
To explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
To learn from one's own and others' mistakes
To seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
To understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
To lead the world towards a desired situation
To satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life
To enjoy all the enjoyable things one really want and available in the world and filled with joy in inner through out the journey of life
CSM London/Installation 2007
Ethical
To express compassion
To follow the "Golden Rule"
To give and receive love
To work for justice and freedom
To live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
To protect humanity, or more generally the environment
To serve others, or do good deeds
To leave the world in a better condition than when you came into it
To live an honorable life and die an honorable death
CSM London/Video Installation 2007
To master and know as many things as possible
To be without questions, or to keep asking questions
To expand one's perception of the world
To explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
To learn from one's own and others' mistakes
To seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
To understand and be mindful of creation or the cosmos
To lead the world towards a desired situation
To satisfy the natural curiosity felt by humans about life
To enjoy all the enjoyable things one really want and available in the world and filled with joy in inner through out the journey of life
CSM London/Installation 2007To express compassion
To follow the "Golden Rule"
To give and receive love
To work for justice and freedom
To live in peace with yourself and each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
To protect humanity, or more generally the environment
To serve others, or do good deeds
To leave the world in a better condition than when you came into it
To live an honorable life and die an honorable death
CSM London/Video Installation 2007Religious and spiritual
To find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
To achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
To achieve enlightenment and inner peace
To become like God, or divine
To glorify God, and enjoy Him forever
To experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
To experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
To be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
To produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
To reach Heaven in the afterlife
To seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
To turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
To understand and follow the "Word of God"
To discover who you are
To resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
To prepare for the meeting with God
CSM London/Video Installation 2007
Philosophical
To give life meaning
To participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
To find the meaning of life
To achieve self-actualization
All possible meanings have some validity (see existentialism)
Life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
To die
To simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
Nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
Whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
There is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
Life may actually not exist, or may be illusory (see solipsism or nihilism)
To contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"
Other
To find and follow an artistic passion
To contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
To find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
To participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
To make conformists' lives miserable (see nonconformist)
To make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)
That it ends.
To be Tuna Eduardo
Footnote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
To find perfect love and a complete expression of one's humanness in a relationship with God
To achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
To achieve enlightenment and inner peace
To become like God, or divine
To glorify God, and enjoy Him forever
To experience personal justice (i.e. to be rewarded for goodness)
To experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. to seek objectivity)
To be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
To produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
To reach Heaven in the afterlife
To seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
To turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment, and atonement
To understand and follow the "Word of God"
To discover who you are
To resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
To prepare for the meeting with God
CSM London/Video Installation 2007To give life meaning
To participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
To find the meaning of life
To achieve self-actualization
All possible meanings have some validity (see existentialism)
Life in itself has no meaning, for its purpose is an opportunity to create that meaning, therefore:
To die
To simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
Nature taking its course (the wheel of time keeps on turning)
Whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
There is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
Life may actually not exist, or may be illusory (see solipsism or nihilism)
To contemplate "the meaning of the end of life"
Other
To find and follow an artistic passion
To contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
To find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
To participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
To make conformists' lives miserable (see nonconformist)
To make life as difficult as possible for others (i.e. to compete)
That it ends.
To be Tuna Eduardo
Footnote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life
1 comment:
your blog is so good......
Post a Comment