What is the meaning of life?

Oh, Fermi paradox discussion.

I don't buy into the utopic paceful aliens theory either, and quite honestly find it easier to believe they'd fuck our shit up instead of sharing their knowledge. Stephen Hawkins once said:

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
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If you wanna look at it in another way, think of the people who live in suburban areas around forests. These people aren't inherently "bad", most of them would probably never go out of their way to harm animals, and yet their very own existence and need for housing is detrimental for the wildlife. Planets such as the earth are relatively scarce, so a super advanced alien race might find it easier to extract goods from here than in any other place in the milky way. And that wouldn't be good for us, wouldn't it?
 
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My argument stemmed from the path of least resistance. Sure, you could easily destroy humans and take Earth. But why even bother? Just take any one of the billions of planets without a belligerent species.

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If you wanna look at it in another way, think of the people who live in suburban areas around forests. These people aren't inherently "bad", most of them would probably never go out of their way to harm animals, and yet their very own existence and need for housing is detrimental for the wildlife. Planets such as the earth are relatively scarce, so a super advanced alien race might find it easier to extract goods from here than in any other place in the milky way. And that wouldn't be good for us, wouldn't it?
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I again point out that there is nothing special about Earth that would make it more attractive to invade. If you have the ability to travel faster than light, then you surely could also terraform a planet? You're probably also just a computer by now, quite frankly. You don't need food.

The only reason an alien species would harm humans is if they were maleficent beings. We have no reason to assume that... they could simply be ignorant of our existence, or apathetic.
 
Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
 
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What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything? According to the best and most accurate book in the world, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the answer is 42
 
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Well, Rare Earth hypothesis is just that, a hypothesis. Mars came SO CLOSE to supporting life and that's practically right next door. We don't know what's out there, otherwise we wouldn't want to go.
 
This is the true meaning of life:

To eat, drink, shit, piss, sleep and fuck.
Those 6 things are the only things we MUST do in order to stay alive ourselves and create the future generations. Everything else is just killing time between birth and death.

Yes, life is that meaningless.
 
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Well, let's start with the meaning of meaning.

This is the one people are using when the ask about the meaning of life:
noun. important or worthwhile quality; purpose.

Purpose. Important or worthwhile quality. These are things that do not exist objectively, only subjectively, a thing has a purpose to another thing.

So, from whose perspective are you asking for the purpose of life? The theoretical creator of life? Some random examples of life (AKA us)?

To me, the purpose of my life is to keep being alive while being as comfortable as possible. As long as I am alive and fairly comfortable my life is worthwhile to me. In the pursuit of comfort I do the various things that people are supposed to do.

If you're looking for objective purpose I don't think you'll find it. Except in the most mundane possible sense, where you could say the purpose of life was to continue the causal reality that preceded it, but that's not satisfying in any way.
 
I used to wonder why it is that this generation is so miserably unhappy. Now I know it's because we assume we know things we logically cannot know.

What is the meaning of life? Damned if I know, but I know what I should be doing with it and what kind of person I should be at the end of it. I'm sure it'll make more sense in the post-game analysis.
 
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I used to wonder why it is that this generation is so miserably unhappy. Now I know it's because we assume we know things we logically cannot know.
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I blame social media. When the entire world is the audience to your every move, it's hard not to get stressed out.
 
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I used to wonder why it is that this generation is so miserably unhappy. Now I know it's because we assume we know things we logically cannot know.

What is the meaning of life? Damned if I know, but I know what I should be doing with it and what kind of person I should be at the end of it. I'm sure it'll make more sense in the post-game analysis.
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Yeah. People only started asking about the meaning of life this generation. Good point.
 
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The meaning of life is to drive troons to suicide by shitposting on the Internet.
 
I also think you choose your own meaning for your life.
 
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To quote the great philosopher, Ice Cube.....

Life ain’t nothing but bitches and money.

I don’t have either. My life has no meaning.
 
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