What is the meaning of life. I'm 30, male successful, and have earned enough $ to live happily until my death

Question

Africa is a pure example of how humans are disgusting, and on the same-level as cockroaches. Is "being human" all about survival, reproduction, and depleting all valuable resources which satisfy "utility equations" as defined by other humans.

If those starving populations were given a stable government with $3billion in oil revenue--would they not just deplete it optimally?

Why don't enough mad scientists who think the way I do, do something about the problem.

We need to get involved, join cancer-research, habitat for humanities. Big brother big sister. Ymca. D.A.R.E. (keeping children off drugs) and finally get together to stop global warming.

Why can't we just leave Iraq and appease the "powerhungry 1%" who want to rule, for the benefit of peace for the 99%.

Even when Sadam Husabin who lead Iraq, at least their was peace and no road-side-bombs or I.E.D.s

Why can't the 6 billion of us just agree to disagree but shed no blood. Let society quarrel but w/o violence

Answer 1

"...Even when Sadam Husabin who lead Iraq, at least their was peace and no road-side-bombs or I.E.D.s..."

WHAT ???!!!
Since you don't even know his correct name, it doesn't surprise me that you are ignorant enough to make a statement like that.
PEACE ???!!!
I think you should crawl back under that rock that you've been hiding under.

Iraq under Saddam Hussein was notorious for high levels of torture and mass murder.
Secret police, torture, murders, targeted assassinations, chemical weapons, and the destruction of wetlands (more specifically, the destruction of the food sources of rival groups) were some of the methods Saddam Hussein used to maintain control. The total number of deaths related to torture and murder during this period are unknown, as are the reports of human rights violations. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued regular reports of widespread imprisonment and torture.

Amnesty International report:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE140082001?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIESIRAQ?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIESIRAQ

You are wasting my time...

Answer 2

You've written a lot, some of which I agree with and other parts I strongly disagree with.

The value of a resource is determined by humans, as value is an entirely human concept and resources only have value in relation to us. Value is either determined by individual buyers & sellers (market economy) or by a group of ignorant political appointees (socialism or communism).

Humans are indeed just another animal, though I like to think we're a little bit above roaches. I truly hope you don't think of just Africans that way. There are people of all races and all nationalities who can be either great minds or human scum. For the most part, many humans are still ruled by their emotions, and rational thought is the exception rather than the rule. Not unlike many animals. What sets us apart from the lower animals though is that we have potential. Some of us actually put that potential to use.

Why don't enough "mad scientists" do something about the world's problems? In a word, politics. No I don't just mean Bush either. Politics is inherently inefficient, irrational, dogmatic, and prone to corruption (not to mention the prevailing political winds), yet for some reason most people still insist on looking to these lumbering, parasitic institutions to solve all their problems. I'm all for people joining NGO's like Nature Conservancy, YMCA, Hab. for Humanity, etc. These orgs are far more efficient than gov't ever could be, and their efforts are directed squarely at the problems they were formed to tackle.

I agree that invading Iraq was wrong, but I disagree about Hussein. There was no peace for any of his political enemies, whom he had killed, or for any disfavored minorities, whom he genocided with chemical weapons. His "peace" was the peace of a brutal police state. Whatever you think of our involvement in Iraq (which I would probably agree with), don't be deluded that Hussein was a benevolent, peace-loving leader.

Some of your views make you sound like a libertarian. As I am one myself, you can take that as a compliment. :) Libertarians are firm believers in the no-harm principle, which means that people should be free to live their lives however they wish so long as they do no harm to the body, property or liberties of another. We can disagree without resorting to violence. Libertarians also believe in a strict non-interventionist foreign policy, i.e. that U.S. troops should be here defending America and not stationed in nearly every other country pissing people off with military adventurism and political imperialism.

I hope it's of some solace that there are always others out there who think as you do.

Answer 3

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
— George Sand

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
— Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
— The 14th Dalai Lama

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness
— Spanish Proverb

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley

Enthusiasm moves the world.
— Arthur James Balfour

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803-1882) .

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
— Confucius

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
— Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 BCE)

Answer 4

I don't take issue with anything you said except your next-to-last statement. No one, however powerful a tyrant he may be, has the right to torture his own people. (Or any people for that matter, but especially his own.) Things like that have got to be stopped. To ignore them in the name of "peace" is a crime against humanity. I don't imagine for a moment that the family and friends of his victims had a moment's peace once their loved ones were taken from them.

Answer 5

I don't understand. If people are cockroaches, why get involved to help them? Or are you advocating getting involved to exterminate the cockroaches? Or are you advocating getting involved because helping cockroaches makes you feel good about yourself which in turn gives some make believe meaning to your life.

No way I interpret your sentences makes sense to me.

Answer 6

the meaning of life is all relative, just like the meaning of anything. the meaning of hot is completely based on individual perception, the meaning of god is completely based on individual perception, and the meaning of love again is based on individual perception. dont ask yourself what the meaning of life is, better yet ask yourself what is life meant to be? at the end of the road what do you want to turn around and see? a trail of worthless breadcrumbs or a yellow brick road dotted with memories and success. personally, i think the meaning of life is to simply discover what life is meant to be, and i think that life should be serving others, loving others, helping others, etc..

Answer 7

did you just say that there was peace in iraq??
did you forget that saddam was torturing his own citizens?
have you talked with any soldier who has gone there? i have, and they say that the population is much freer since saddam has been gone. their economy is improving.
i'm not saying that the war was ever perfect, or that we handled it the best way possible, but i believe it was right.

Answer 8

Because they think they're right, and they feel it is their duty that other peole think it's right so they force it upoun them. And greed

And as to the meaning of life, as some Buddhists monks would say, "this pot holds 2 pints of water." :)

Answer 9

u can take your blindfold off anytime. u need to open your eyes to reality and stop hiding behind your ****** up views.

Answer 10

"Thou hypocrite!"