What is the meaning of life? - Page 2

Dis · March 23, 2002, 03:29

what's this crap doing here.

back to civ3-general you go.

err wait, I don't have the ability to do that... yet.

Ethelred · March 23, 2002, 03:40

Considering that yesterday you had a thread deleted just as was about to reply to it I suspect you may never have such godlike powers.

Did you learn who snipped the thread? The reason was obvious. Feeling better today? You seemed a bit over the edge.

Perhaps a true understanding of the importance of 42 might help.

Sorry I can't help with that. Adams had at least one more Hitchhiker book to write. Cosmic censorship perhaps.

John Paul Jones · March 23, 2002, 03:51

I once knew a man who discovered the true meaning of 42 - but he disapeared in a puff of logic immediately thereafter.

N35t0r · March 23, 2002, 03:53

And how did the Aztec Empire end up?

N35t0r · March 23, 2002, 04:06

Quote:

Originally posted by John Paul Jones
I once knew a man who discovered the true meaning of 42 - but he disapeared in a puff of logic immediately thereafter.

Actually, a theory says that if the meaning of life is understood by someone, it is immediaetly replaced by something more bizzarre.

Another theory states that it has already happened.

Ethelred · March 23, 2002, 04:54

Quote:

Originally posted by HsFB
And how did the Aztec Empire end up?

Destroyed by Small pox. Mostly.

That was the secret weapon that Cortez didn't even know he had. Small pox killed more Amerinds than anything else. I really don't think wearing sandals and counting to twenty had much to do with that.

They thought the meaning of life was blood. Lots of it. Made the sun come up.

I think 42 is a much better answer. At least no one I ever heard of wants to kill people over it.

N35t0r · March 23, 2002, 05:25

I know about the Aztecs!!! It was a rhetorical question!!!!!

And what about my AZ theory?

Adalbertus · March 23, 2002, 05:30

Eat 42 bananas.

Heavens, I'm over it.

Long ago I had a lecture on nuclear detection techniques. In the last lesson of the series, the lecturer left the field, and told a bit about cosmic theories. I hope I recall everything correctly.
Thus he spake:
There is a (in a suitable system of dimensions) dimensionless number in electromagnetic theory with the value 1/137, called the Fine Structure Constant. For the weak and strong interaction there are similar numbers. Now, their value depends on the density, and therefore on the size of the universe. There was a time short after Big Bang, where due to the density the electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction were so intimately coupled that the three Fine Structure Constants took the same value, which is 42. "But what was the question?"

Last minute of the last lecture of the year.

Ethelred · March 23, 2002, 05:36

Quote:

Originally posted by HsFB
I know about the Aztecs!!! It was a rhetorical question!!!!!

And what about my AZ theory?

I am really good at rhetoric. Thank you for your question.

As for your AZ theory I think you will have to expand on it a bit. Perhaps if you ran it through a Matrix expansion and then divided by Arthur Dent.

Caesar the Great · March 23, 2002, 10:17

...your lack of banana options disturbs me....

March 23, 2002, 10:26

The meaning of life is to procreate and spread the seed.

Stefu · March 23, 2002, 10:34

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Doesn't 42 factor in there somewhere?

KILL! DEATH! SERIOUS DISMEMBERMENT!

No matter how fun that 42 thing originally was, it's been so goddamn horribly overdone that anyone who answers question "What is the meaning of life" with 42 should be charged as participant in crime against humanity. No matter whether they are janitors or presidents or Firaxis big kahunas, if they continue beating this already-to-death-beaten joke to death, they should be ceremonically disembowelled with rusty spoon. NOW.

I mean it.

Ethelred · March 23, 2002, 10:39

All your base are belong to us.

Simon Darkshade · March 23, 2002, 10:46

I've always liked this little explanation from Macbeth:

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

It doth appeal to me, and my situation. I will always have a soft spot for the quote of Genghis Khan, but that is not strictly about the meaning of life, but rather the greatest joy a man can have...

Thrawn05 · March 23, 2002, 11:08

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Originally posted by Ethelred
All your base are belong to us.

O' Com'on, that's wrose then not having a banana option!

Ethelred · March 23, 2002, 11:28

It was specially written as a counter irritant to the extended rant that preceeded it.

It has no other meaning and certainly nothing to do with the meaning of life.

So if some people here absolutely MUST have a serious answer then:

The meaning of life is the making of more life.

If life doesn't make more life than life ends.

So it is its own meaning.

Only inteligence worries about the meaning of life. Life exists and the maintenance of its existance is its only verifiable meaning. All other claims as to the meaning of life is mere speculation on top of speculation that there is a meaning to find in the first place.

There, is that relevant and meaningfull enough for you.

Wraith · March 23, 2002, 11:29

--"I've always liked this little explanation from Macbeth:"

I like that one, too.

Wraith
"The meaning of life is that it stops."
--Franz Kafka

SlowwHand · March 23, 2002, 11:33

42 is also a game played with dominos.

Cybergod · March 23, 2002, 19:17

What if life, universe and everything was just an infinely better version of "The Sims", played by God for his personnal entertainment?

Or what if YOU, yes you reading these very words are just a brain in a tank, involved in some bizzare and unethical experiment by Provost Zakharov and all of your life has been a simulation?

Or what if this is all a dream and you'll be awake from it in 5 minutes?

Or what if...

Thoth · March 23, 2002, 22:48

Quote:

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
I *was* pretty upset when my idea to include the Vogons as the 17th civ was rejected...

Dan

How about including them in 1.18f?

Imran Siddiqui · March 24, 2002, 00:20

Quote:

No matter how fun that 42 thing originally was, it's been so goddamn horribly overdone that anyone who answers question "What is the meaning of life" with 42 should be charged as participant in crime against humanity.

42

*runs*

boann · March 24, 2002, 11:32

The Secret of Life
(Gretchen Peters)

Couple of guys sittin' around drinkin'
Down at the Starlight Bar
One of 'em says, "You know I've been thinking"
Other one says, "That won't get you too far"
He says, "This is your life, and welcome to it
It's just workin' and drinkin' and dreams
Ad on TV says ‘Just Do It’
Hell if I know what that means"

The secret of life is a good cup of coffee
The secret of life is keep your eye on the ball
The secret of life is a beautiful woman
And Marilyn stares down from the barroom wall

"You and me, we're just a couple of zeros
Just a couple of down-and-outs
But movie stars and football heroes
What have they got to be unhappy about?"
So they turn to the bartender, "Sam, what do you think?
What's the key that unlocks that door?"
Sam don't say nothin', just wipes off the bar
And he pours them a couple more

'Cause the secret of life is in Sam's martinis
The secret of life is in Marilyn's eyes
The secret of life is in Monday Night Football
Rolling Stones records and Mom's apple pie

Sam looks up from his Sunday paper
Says, "Boys, you're on the wrong track
"The secret of life is there ain't no secret
And you don't get your money back"

Hey

The secret of life is gettin’ up early
The secret of life is stayin' up late
The secret of life is try not to hurry
But don't wait
Don't wait

The secret of life is a good cup of coffee
The secret of life is keep your eye on the ball
The secret of life is to find the right woman
The secret of life is nothin' at all
Oh, it's nothin' at all
The secret of life

Couple of guys sittin' around drinkin'
Down at the Starlight Bar
One of 'em says, "You know I've been thinking"
Other one says, "That won't get you too far"
"That won't get you too far"

Adalbertus · March 24, 2002, 12:10

43

Cafe 43
Cologne, Weyertal 43.
Not too far from the Uni.
Best wishes to Mahmud if you come along.

Sirotnikov · March 24, 2002, 17:16

Quote:

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
Doesn't 42 factor in there somewhere?
Dan

I knew it

Sooner or later - everybody get drawn to the OT

I voted for the third option, seeing how it is "funny".

However being a born Civer, it was extremely hard to ignore the first option.

Sirotnikov · March 24, 2002, 17:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Quote:

No matter how fun that 42 thing originally was, it's been so goddamn horribly overdone that anyone who answers question "What is the meaning of life" with 42 should be charged as participant in crime against humanity.

42

*runs*

Good.

Now you're no better than Sharon