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Subject: Existential Inquery
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: imstanny-ga
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Posted: 22 Sep 2004 22:04 PDT
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Question ID: 405136
What is the meaning of life?
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Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: archae0pteryx-ga on 22 Sep 2004 22:26 PDT
 
Well, somebody outbid you by one cent to ask this only a couple of weeks ago:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=399926

Archae0pteryx
Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: pinkfreud-ga on 22 Sep 2004 22:31 PDT
 
This matter is often discussed on Google Answers:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=399926
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=325417
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=139239
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=95936
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=269968
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=99493
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=75873
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=13017

My own opinion is that meaning is like juicy bits of fruit suspended
in the wobbly Jell-O of life. The fun is in poking around hunting for
a cherry. If someone just throws a bunch of fruit cocktail on a plate,
and you don't have to go fishing with your spoon, well, that's not
nearly as enjoyable. Which is why I never attempt to give any kind of
in-depth answer to this kind of question. Go on: find your cherries.
Don't wait for someone else to tell you where they are.
Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: platonist-ga on 23 Sep 2004 07:28 PDT
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1308219,00.html
Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: pugwashjw-ga on 24 Sep 2004 05:19 PDT
 
MY ANSWER IS IN THERE SOMEWHERE!
Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: shalmaneezer-ga on 29 Sep 2004 14:20 PDT
 
You do the Hokey-Pokey and you turn yourself about.  That's what it's all about.
Subject: Re: Existential Inquery
From: pinkfreud-ga on 29 Sep 2004 14:35 PDT
 
Here's an excerpt from an entertaining sermon on the hokey-pokey theory of life:

"Note that the song and dance asks us to counterbalance each move we
make with the right or the left, with its opposite. If we put our left
leg in and shake it all about, then we are asked to put our right leg
in and shake it all about. The hokey pokey is teaching us to seek
harmony and balance in our lives. Don?t become one-sided or lopsided
in your approach to living or in your view of the world. You know the
expression??on the one hand, on the other hand.? It means, take into
consideration the opposite truth, the other point of view, to the one
you hold. During presidential campaigns keep that in mind as you hear
the various candidates spout their favorite proposals. Consider that
political wisdom probably lies somewhere in the middle between Bush
and Gore, between democratic plan and republican proposal. Listen to
both sides and weigh the evidence. Where does the truth lie?

Consider also that the Hokey Pokey asks us, after we have balanced
both right and left, and put our whole selves in, to then turn
ourselves around?that?s what it?s all about. To turn yourself around
has religious overtones of the concept of repentance. Repentance means
to cease faulty thinking and behavior, to turn yourself around, and
head in a new direction, one that will engage your whole self and lead
to health and healing and wholeness. That is certainly the emphasis in
the A.A. Twelve-Step Program. The apostle Paul put it this way: 'Be
transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you may know the good,
acceptable and perfect will of God.'

The challenge to renew out minds fits in with the wisdom of the Hokey
Pokey. One of the actions we are asked to perform is to put our head
in and out and shake it all about. That gets both the left side and
right side of the head moving in and out and the blood flowing to both
sides of the brain. Don?t use only one half of your brain. Be
whole-brained."

http://personal.tmlp.com/hayesboh/uu/sermons/sep2400.htm

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