h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I don't get it.

How was replication practical for the very first living things?

I simply don't get it

And why do organisms have to die? I mean, why do they die by natural death? Its obvious that if some bigger organism eats you, you're done for.

The important question is: How come replication and death are practical to life?

the point of life is to eat and drink as much as you can, go and see as much of the world as you can and just be happy to be alive for the time you are here

you misspelled slartibartfast...but it's still your responsibility to tell people about this at school. I do it all the time, particularly to the teachers.




smileys are gay.

hi all
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i found this while on a lurk, hope noone minds me putting in my two pence.
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im 59 on the 30th this month, and the point is, there is no real point.
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you come into the world with nothing, and you will eave with nothing, what you do inbetween is down to yourself.
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we are given a time to be part of the human race,its only borrowed, as we know at anytime we can returned to the oblivion we came from.so in a nutshell
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we arive, we make a life, then its taken away at anytime without warning jim

my sister never like life and one suny day she comited suiside

I am sorry to hear that, felicien.
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Good to join in this conversation. I've read some of the responses to your initial question and was somewhat intrigued by the variety of answers - (i) the trivial but humorous - namely the "dot on the letter i" in the word life to the more spiritual namely "the Buddhist approach of life itself as the point of life." Then, the comment on the preposition used in the basic question changing the nuance was also interesting.

Some philosophers would cast doubts about the validity of such general questions and would call them meaningless ones in short. Questions like "What is the colour of your car?" can be answered swiftly and verified by the sense of sight if I'm in proximity to your car etc. But questions such as the point in life are huge sweeping ones indeed.

However, I do feel that human beings need to make sense of their lives, and such questions are worth asking on an existential level predominantly, rather than on a more intellectual level. There is an old saying which goes: "If you have a why you can put up with any how." Then Viktor Frankl's psychotherapeutic approach namely logotherapy has as its very basic axiom the fact that every human being needs a purpose or meaning in his or her life. Whether this makes sense intellectually or not is beside the point. What is at question here is the felt human need for meaning and purpose. This, then, is what I would see as the purpose in life - meeting our spiritual needs, meeting our quest to make some sense of our journey through what we experience as life.

Hence, all the great religions and all the "lesser" ones, too; all the various forms of new age spiritualism; all the complementary therapies and then even all the various philosophical approaches from humanism in all its varities to more esoteric spiritualisms form some sort of needed structure in fulfilling humankin'd needs. Whether they are right or wrong on an intellectual level is beside the point. Once they provide us with help to get through the day is all that matters!

hello!
i'm new member
where are you from

hello!
i'm new member
where are you from?

I too am a new member, and I want to know why no-one has answered with the most obvious of answers.... 42!

Traveller in Time on his head
"We probably overlooked the question

< <./>Welcome</.> > to the site "

the point in life is to make a change in the world

Traveller in Time confused
"The first next change in your world should be a welcome by an ACE. However, then they would probably wonder if you made any postings,

Just a moment. . . "

The point in life is that dot in the letter i ~ maybe a little litteral but it's as good an answer as any. Keep seeking after the truth and the truth will set you free. Consider this, how can a blind man see a tree? or, how could you hear the smell of a rose? Do you really think that our ability to think is the highest of all senses, and can solve the complexities of Life the Universe and Everything? Perhaps the answer you are seeking just simply can't be understood. What does belief mean if it doesn't mean "I don't know"? So your're really wasting you time trying to second guess the point. What is the opposite of life? You might think death, but death seems to me to be the opposite of birth. The point in life is to live (duh). :~) depression and soul searching are part of all part of living too, so be reassured. Variety is the spice of life, so maybe the point in life is not one single thing, but the infinate variety of possibilities life produces. What does music taste of?

What none of you seem to realize is that the person who started this entry is no longer here. Why?

They were asking "What is the point in Life" ?
Perhaps they killed themself because no-one came up with the answer they were hoping to hear.

Traveller in Time reading backlog
"Perhpas whil 'Mort' forgot the subject in her ACE greeting, perhaps as the Researcher forgot their login information, who knows ?

Thi sis wha twe call a one day stand, many Researchers sign up, post one or two times never to be seen again. We once had this researcher in our midst that became a legend on their own. A whole cult arose from the disappearance of this profet. More lattice has been sprayed in their holy name then on an average field.

We just do not know everything. "

Well really, TiT you should
How long have you been here now?

Perhaps he had been watching one of the Film Network films
That would explain it...

Traveller in Time on a text only browser
"Long enough to navigate 'blind', just tabbing over the pages. More exactly read the creation date of my Personal Space < U228046?skin=burnel >.
This is the Registration date for all Researchers between 13th October 2003 and 27th September 2006. Researchers below 500000 had to create their Personal Space manually after registration, Researchers after 27th September have to Sign-In to create their Personal Space. "