Originally posted by invigorate“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
I saw some someone say it another thread it was to procreate.
But there must be more to it than that.
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
Originally posted by JS357“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple."
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
Indeed, but one thing is necessary for life to continue. All life continues via some form of procreation. If not, that form of life becomes extinct.
Our strongest instincts are survival and procreation. All the other stuff we learn or discover.
Originally posted by rwingettCheck out population growth figures. Human population is only growing in the third world, probably where it can be afforded the least, and where it is also the cheapest. A lot of Western cultures are at reproduction rates less than two, purely voluntarily.
With a population projected to top at least 11 billion, I'd say we could do with a little less procreating. Whoever said that was the point of life is a fool.