This one's a classic question. What do you think is the meaning of life?

To live it to the fullest. Now, that may vary from person to person; many people are perfectly happy in their mundane lives, and some are not. Our purpose for being here is to live, and learn, and make merry, and be good people. Make a difference. That is the meaning of life to me.

Why do people think the Darwinist view is depressing? I don't understand, because I think it's very comforting and explains, well, everything.

And it has a classic answer; there is no meaning to life. But conscious people become nihilists because they ask for the meaning behind everything. Since this cannot be fullfilled homo sapiens spends it's time trying to overcome his surpluss of consciousness. The human being is a paradox in other words. It is trying to not be human.

Hello :)

"But this beckons the question: how did people come up with these questions in the first place? It would seem illogical to waste ones time thinking about things that have little to no value in terms of survival."

That's the definition of being human. We have a over-capacity, too much consciousness. But only nihilists suffer from it. The rest? Well, what is the size of the population again and how much cleavage have I seen on Facebook?

Your assumptions are totally wrong.
If this was a philosophical group, people would think instead of masturbate their own quasi intellect. You don't know how to categorise my philosophy because you haven't been trained to catogorise that particular philosophy.
Use your head, become a philosopher. If I wanted high school cliches I would ask Britney Spears.

If I wanted High School cliches, I could just as easily read your first post:

"And it has a classic answer; there is no meaning to life. But conscious people become nihilists because they ask for the meaning behind everything. Since this cannot be fullfilled homo sapiens spends it's time trying to overcome his surpluss of consciousness. The human being is a paradox in other words. It is trying to not be human."

Classic example! I've yet to see any originality from you on this thread, yet you accuse Martin of "not being trained to categorise your philosophy?". I beg your pardon, I've yet to come across this philosophy that you advertise, as it is directly at crossroads with the previously mentioned originality of yours. I do suggest you either:

A) learn not to attack people on such hefty basis.
B) stick to YOUR high school cliches, seems like you use your head the way Britney does.
C) do something productive like producing Swiss army-knives, I'm in need of one as it is.

Wouldn't it be ironic if the meaning of life was to ponder about the meaning of life?

In that case, as we've asked ourselves the question already, wouldn't that mean that there is no purpose for us anymore?

Haha, I think you just found it. The meaning of life is to (or attempt to) find the meaning of life.

What I find most interesting about all of this is that we have such close personal friends of Britney Spears in this group that they would be not only willing but able to ask her such questions.

what r u doing with the rest of us sad lonely men?

Uhm... well I'm here because I'm the girlfriend of the guy who started this group. Who, by the way, is obviously not lonely or sad.

Stick to the damn topic!!!! And Jani, use your damn admin rights.....
Meaning of life.... lets see, to live to the fullest, and then try to die happy... is there really more to it than that?

Listen... LIFE IS DEATH. To be this numb, caught up in a web of complete misunderstanding of our own existence esposes the very ignorance that brings us to our death. To know nothing of life, which you " existentialists" celebrate so lively, is the very reason you will live in an eternal loss of yourselves. You know no action, and you take to heart the stupidest of opinions. So that when I say "Fuck you all" you'll treat it as the realest thing that's ever happened to you. SO... Fuck You All. I'm waiting for you to include me among the mess of yourselves. Tell me something I don't already know. None of you are ofany help to anybody nor to yourselves. Especially when you talk of things you know nothing of and which you'll admit you know nothing of. God, meaning, life...you discuss these things because you obviously know nothing about them. You Bitch, "administrator" these are words you'll have to deserve once you read them. Fuck you most of all. Atheist!!!?? what a sad sad excuse to hold up all that you hold most dear. You're nothing but a belligerent fool. Just like me. You're wasting you're time writing essays. Go dig up someone else's talent in a grave somewhere. This is the last time I'm on this thing because no one has said anything. Congratulations!!!

If you are so very enlightened on such matters of "God,meaning,life..", I'd like to hear what you have to think. We existentialists don't claim to "know nothing of life", its quite simply our logical way of explaining our predicament. With the absence of a higher Creator, comes the nonexistence of intrinsic morals/values. So, when you say "fuck off", I'd say most of us really don't care. If you took the time to read Sartre or Camus(a little different than existentialism, yet closely related), you would know we aren't caught up in this "ignorance". In fact, it is quite the opposite. You are ignorant to believe that there isn't but one inevitable in this life, death. We existentialists have come to terms with that, and from there we have decided to make all we can of our limited existence. We are not "numb" nor are we all even "atheists". Please, get your facts straight before you come on this board. O yeah, and don't tell me to "Listen" and follow with a completely illogical statement. Life actually is not death(may be hard to believe), but all respect was lost right after that statement.