Originally posted by AcId
You touched my tra-la-la.....my ding ding dong
HAHA!!!!!1
Meaning of life... ah yes. I believe Monty Python has it all sorted out.
Society has conditioned me to do the rat race. Why do I participate? I haven't quite found the answer to that one. I do, however, like the Nihilist approach ie Big Lebowski. We could create a small controlled experiment (ie, The Giver) and develop different mini-societies of Nihilists, agnostics, religious nuts, chicken wing worshipers, etc... The world we live in is developed in such a way that it drives you to ask unanswerable questions. Pondering these questions results in the realization that there is a large rift between philosophical questions and 'the real world.' They can be melded into one and the same... the 'real' and the mystical/philosophical/spiritual. Read Quantum Psychology or Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.
At the moment I don't think I'm in a position where I "MUST KNOW OR I WILL SLIT MY WRISTS!!" If something wants to contact me or give me a hint, by all means go for it. I'm not done exploring what's out there yet. Once I feel like it, I'll move on. Consider it a quasi-startrek-ish approach to things. Picard had it right. "We strive to bettah ourselves."