The Meaning of Life. Does life make sense?

There is no evidence for what you are saying.

No wonder that you think in the following way:

Sorry, but I think that you are hostile to life, sick of life, depressed, suicidal.

Of course, each and every life makes sense. It has purpose and goals too.

Now, for the answers of all whats which you asked, one needs to write a long book at least. Yes, i can briefly address your last question about the methodology of interpreting the life. Let me try.

To interpret or understand the meaning of life, one has to understand the life in the first place. All life forms are three layered entities. Simply put, we can name those as short term outer layer, medium term intermediate layer and lastly a very long term or perhaps everlasting inner layer. In other words, we can also say that every life form around us is not a single life but an amalgamation of three different life forms. Now, every layer of life has different purpose and goals which may or may not align.

with love,
sanjay

How could something be taken apart and then put back together again, without all of the pieces.
Well, it could be but what then would that be called. Incomplete reality?

All we see of reality is what we want to see or what appears to be seen or what is still in the process of evolution.
Can we see it as it actually is to be seen in its totality?

I don’t know if that made sense. I’m just rambling along.

I could explain, but its situational by context and I really dont feel like explaining it to somebody; anybody; who should be able to understand perfectly fine exactly what was meant and continues on in false philosophical discussion of vagueness and ambiguity that are now mementos of a recent past that will not be carrying on prominently into the future.

Welcome back again, Zinnat.

Which purpose and which goal does each of the three layers have according to you?

Thanks for welcome.

As i said before, the details of answers may be quite long, very very long. Having said that, the broad methodology of knowing the details can be described briefly.

Although there may be some rare exceptions, but as thumb rule the purpose of the outermost and intermediate layers used to be almost the same. And, that is to take a serious note of one’s circumstances and and try to honestly react to those to the best of his/her abilities. That is all. Nothing much else is required and we are almost done with the purpose and goal of above mentioned two layers. But, that applies to human life forms only. All other life forms need not to make any such conscious effort. They just have to live their lives and their purpose would be fulfilled automatically.

But, the goal of the innermost layer is entirely different, which is go forever beyond to the matrix of two outer layers. More often than not, or if anyone seriously tries to achieving the goal of the innermost layer, that goal comes in the way of fulfilling the purpose of two other layers. This contradiction is the very puzzle of human life. One more very important point is worth mentioning here. Humans have to fulfill the purpose of two outer layers at any cost. They cannot bypass that and carry on addressing the purpose of the innermost layer only. That is precisely why such a balanced approach is required in human life, where one can address both of the purposes according to one’s circumstances and wisdom/abilities.

One can also carry on addressing the purpose of two outer layers only. There is no apparent/immediate problem in that either. A human life can be lived or passed successfully only with that. But, the reality is that in the end each and everyone has to achieve the goal of their innermost layer also. That is the one and only ultimate goal, while all other goals are intermediate only.

Having said that, one also cannot jump the gun while addressing this ultimate goal. That is not the way to do it. It is a very slow and grinding process, which takes its own course and time. And, while calculating this time, the span of a human life is very minuscule. The ideal way is to first recognize, accept and remember this reality always and put some effort into it whatever more or less time one can spare from addressing the other goals. But, one must remember that there would be no immediate returns or achievements in this process. It would take years or rather decades to take one step in that journey.

As far i am able to understand about all this from my long personal experience and also looking at various other people, perhaps journey towards this third goal is not meant for everyone, or rather everyone is not ready for it. Although all are eligible but not ready enough to step in. I am not sure but perhaps that readiness comes only after achieving some goals of prescribed for two outer layers. However, there is no harm in initiating the process for anyone at any time. It also looks to me that when becomes ready enough to step in, he/she is shown the way in one way or other.

with love,
sanjay

Life isn’t chaotic.

Are you saying that there is merely one goal actually, so that this one is the goal of all three layers?

Arminius,

Go through my post again.

The ultimate goal is meant for the innermost layer only but as that layer is everlasting thus its goal becomes a kind of binding to other two layers also. But, one has to achieve the goals of two outer layers in the first place before attempting for the ultimate one. One cannot go directly at the third stage, as i said before, no bypassing.

Let me put in another way to explain my point. Say, a 6-7 years child’s ultimate goal is to becoming an expert surgeon. We all know that he has to study a lot of medical science before that. And, even before studying medical sciences, he would have to acquire many other basic knowledge or skills like and reading, writing and so forth. Surgery is not merely a knife-work. It takes more that two decades of hard effort in studying to know how to operate a patient.

Now, a child may ask why he cannot become a surgeon merely by learning knife skills. Why he would have to even learn reading or writing in the first place!

with love,
sanjay

Está bien !

Well, i had to google to understand its meaning.

with love,
sanjay

Define life as YOU mean it then.

Sorry. Conceptually, I have already “been in Spain” where I am going to spent my next holidays.

Biophysicists have commented that living things function on negative entropy. According to them, life is a member of the class of phenomena that are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form.

“Negative entropy” can also be interpreted as “negative chaos”.

Never mind. Enjoy your holidays.

with love,
sanjay

Kathrina,

You couldn’t define what you meant by Life in your own words?!

Spoken in Merriam-Webster/s terms, do you think that those human beings who have experienced Hurricanes Harvey and Irma would say that Life ~~ their Life ~~ has not become chaotic?
How would you measure things about now ~~ entropy or negative entropy?

Unless you see life from rose-colored glasses, you will see that Life IS chaotic, may be chaotic, can easily turn chaotic, life DOES turn on a dime.

You’ll find my own words below the Merriam-Webster quote. Please read it (again).

I was referring to thermodynamics.

I know this - it was self-explanatory.

But does that mean that Human life is not chaotic?

But the thread is: The Meaning of Life. Does life make sense.

It was ALSO addressing human beings.

Thank you.

This universe seems to require life.