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Beauty Pageant Host: What is the meaning of life for you?
Beauty Pageant Contestant: For me, the meaning of life is eating as much chocolate I want.

Jori wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:06 am Beauty Pageant Host: What is the meaning of life for you?
Beauty Pageant Contestant: For me, the meaning of life is eating as much chocolate I want.

No one can speak of the meaning of life, because no one created life. The universe created us, and it doesn't come with a users guide that only it authored. When someone answers that question they only speak of that which they desire, their subjective response based upon that moment in time.

The meaning of 'Life' is living; being alive.

There is, literally, no purpose in making living, and being alive, worse. So, the purpose of 'Life', Itself, is to make living, being alive better.

And, the purpose of, and for, you human beings is to teach, and learn, and in that order.

A new born human baby teaches more about life, and living, and about what is Right, and Wrong, in Life. If only you adult human beings would just stop, and listen and learn, then you, also, would understand, and know, more, and better.

The meaning of life is to give it meaning.

No one is obligated. The universe owes you nothing.

Jori wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:06 am Beauty Pageant Host: What is the meaning of life for you?
Beauty Pageant Contestant: For me, the meaning of life is eating as much chocolate I want.

It is an oxymoron and an illiterate statement. Life is a relative difference, and thus not predicable of. It is always about what we make of our own life. It is what we mean, not a non animate relative difference.

I once was talking to a lady, who always brought up food. I would never think of coming between a woman and a ham sandwich, or chocolate.

Thus, some people worship the Goodyear Blimp in mysterious ways.

Boss, its de plane, its de plane!
That is not a plane, you fool, that is an asteroid.

If you were contestants in some kind of pageant or contest and you answered like that, I wonder how the judges would react?

Jori wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 2:21 am If you were contestants in some kind of pageant or contest and you answered like that, I wonder how the judges would react?

If I were a contestant at some kind of pageant or contest, I would not have to say a word, as my work is not only posted for world wide download.

To date, not one has even tried to find fault with my work, as every bit of my work is demonstrated by two mathematical programs.

Phil8659 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 3:45 am To date, not one has even tried to find fault with my work, as every bit of my work is demonstrated by two mathematical programs.

To find fault in some thing requires a knowledge of that thing's purpose. As of 'now' I, still, 'currently' have absolutely no idea nor clue as to the purpose of 'your work'.

I will, again, ask you, 'Is there any purpose to 'your work'?

If yes, then what is the purpose, to your work, exactly?

Freedom means no purpose for creation, if so obligation and fulfillment and that is limiting. Absence of external coercion is Liberty. Pragmatism is the American philosophy meaning, "Does it work." Is there a God, yes that is in a Deist belief. God created the world, then left it who is very powerful, knowledgeable, etc..

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am Freedom means no purpose for creation,

But, you could have [the] 'freedom' to learn, and to teach, absolutely any and every thing, and, there, still, be purpose for creation. That purpose being, to learn, and to teach.

Having the ability to learn, understand, and reason absolutely any and every thing is what you human beings have, and which, by the way, naturally separates you from every other animal on earth.

Just maybe the purpose of 'life', itself, is to making living; being alive better. And, the purpose of you human beings is to learn, and to teach, how to make life, living, and being alive, better for every one.

Just some thing to think about, and ponder over.

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am if so obligation and fulfillment and that is limiting.

If the ability, and freedom, to always be able to keep learning more, and/or anew, remains, then there is no limiting nor limitation.

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am Absence of external coercion is Liberty.

There is no external coercion, at all, in having the ability, and the freedom, to just keep on learning, more and more.

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am Pragmatism is the American philosophy meaning, "Does it work." Is there a God, yes that is in a Deist belief. God created the world, then left it who is very powerful, knowledgeable, etc..

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am Freedom means no purpose for creation, if so obligation and fulfillment and that is limiting. Absence of external coercion is Liberty. Pragmatism is the American philosophy meaning, "Does it work." Is there a God, yes that is in a Deist belief. God created the world, then left it who is very powerful, knowledgeable, etc..

What a bunch of fucking rubbish!
"That which has a function, exists for its function." Aristotle repeating Plato
Like the toaster's function is to make toast.
The function of a car is transportation.
The function of a receiver is to receive radio waves and turn them into sound identical to the broadcast sound.

Our function is that of a life support system. Therefore, as written, freedom from extinction, very Darwinian.

Phil8659 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:35 pm

puto wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:02 am Freedom means no purpose for creation, if so obligation and fulfillment and that is limiting. Absence of external coercion is Liberty. Pragmatism is the American philosophy meaning, "Does it work." Is there a God, yes that is in a Deist belief. God created the world, then left it who is very powerful, knowledgeable, etc..

What a bunch of fucking rubbish!
"That which has a function, exists for its function." Aristotle repeating Plato
Like the toaster's function is to make toast.
The function of a car is transportation.
The function of a receiver is to receive radio waves and turn them into sound identical to the broadcast sound.

Our function is that of a life support system. Therefore, as written, freedom from extinction, very Darwinian.

1. Who and/or what is the 'our' word, here, referring to exactly?

2. Who and/or what is 'our function' a, supposed, life support system for, exactly?

You are supposed to know logic? Phil8659

puto wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 12:04 pm You are supposed to know logic? Phil8659

Instead of running your mouth like a tiny bopper, show a flaw in the logic. Show the standard by which information is processed, you can even use my work on the Internet Archive to do it.

Or, are you in bed with that illiterate sociopath, who absolutely cannot read the back of a cereal box?

Or, you can claim as Age does, his inability to use a dictionary.

All you do is put others down to make yourself look better.