#meaningoflife — Public Fediverse posts

🎩✨ Oh, Brad Feld, the aging philosopher of Labor Day, has discovered the meaning of life at 60: it's a text message from Amy. Meanwhile, the internet collectively rolls its eyes at this groundbreaking realization that time passes. 🕰️🙄
https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ #BradFeld #MeaningOfLife #TextMessage #AgingPhilosopher #LaborDay #HackerNews #ngated

Moon eclipse Aug 28

was the conclusion of Lion's Gate Portal and Eclipse season periods. It was an express way to face and accept oneself as a whole. An opportunity to level up, to
go on to create meaningfully and with higher guidance. Otherwise you stay lost on the level-of-emotions, where you will deal with your emotional baggage (or karma) for another round.

#astrology #eclipse2026 #MoonEclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #growth #purpose #lionsgate #lionsgateportal

A quotation from Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.
 
[Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage auf dieser Erde. Jeder von uns erscheint da unfreiwillig und ungebeten zu kurzem Aufenthalt, ohne zu wissen, warum und wozu. Im täglichen Leben fühlen wir nur, dass der Mensch um anderer willen da ist, solcher, die wir lieben, und zahlreicher anderer, ihm Schicksalsverbundener Wesen.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1932-09), “My Credo [Mein Glaubensbekenntnis]”

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/201/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #charity #connections #life #lifetime #meaningoflife #others #purpose #service #sympathy

August 12 solar eclipse slams you with inescapable reality. It dumps your inner darkness right in your face pressing you to see your true self directly reflected in your surroundings. Will you continue wading the bogs of accumulated karma, or will you leave those petty struggles behind and welcome clarity?

#astrology #eclipse2026 #solareclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #philosophy #growth #purpose

Theodicy, or vindication of God, or karma, or whatever you want to call it, feel like a lazy excuse for life's suffering. It minimizes the pain and fails to acknowledge the hardships. In a way, it's like lying to oneself, which makes it harder to see suffering for what it is. #LiveTrue #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife 📸 Floranz Neculai/Wiki Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

I came across this definition of Aristotle's eudaimonia, or "flourishing," while reading MIT professor Kieran Setiya's "Life is Hard". If you could choose any life to live, what would it look like? I think of a life without financial stress, but is that meaningful enough? #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife

🤖😂 Oh, the "AI Situation" - where software developers ponder the meaning of life through context windows and compression! 🧠💥 It's like watching someone explain how to teach a goldfish to do calculus - both time-consuming and utterly pointless. 📈🐠
https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ #AI #Situation #SoftwareDevelopment #MeaningOfLife #ContextWindows #Compression #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 2 “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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A quotation from Homer

And, oh! whate’er Heaven destined to betide,
   Let neither flattery soothe, nor pity hide.
Prepared I stand: he was but born to try
   The lot of man; to suffer, and to die.
 
[πέρι γάρ μιν ὀιζυρὸν τέκε μήτηρ.
μηδέ τί μ᾽ αἰδόμενος μειλίσσεο μηδ᾽ ἐλεαίρων,
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ μοι κατάλεξον ὃπως ἤντησας ὀπωπῆς.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 3, l. 96ff (3.96) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725), l. 114ff]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49946/

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The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything will always be 42 no matter what your LLM tells you.

If only the Golgafrinchans hadn’t displaced our planet's original cavemen, it might have turned out to be something else.

#ai #llm #meaningoflife #HHGTTG

A quotation from Lincoln

How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1850-09?) to William H. Herndon

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7296…

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A quotation from Arendt

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/

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#meaningoflife

A quotation from Richard Feynman

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Interview (1959-05-01) by Bill Stout, Viewpoint, KNXT radio

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5462…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardfeynman #feynman #agnosticism #cosmos #evil #existence #God #good #goodandevil #meaningoflife #morality #moralityplay #purpose #reality #religion #universe

A quotation from Josh Billings

Life aint mutch more than a farce enny how, but it iz quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well ackted.
 
[Life ain’t much more than a farce anyhow, but it is quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well-acted.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-02 (1877 ed.

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84919/

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A quotation from Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 75 (3.14.75) (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11110/

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A quotation from Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5258…

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A quotation from Euripides

MESSENGER:       I have not now first learn’d that all
   Th’ affairs of mortal men are a mere shadow:
   Nor would I fear to say that those, who most
   Boast of their wisdom and their deep research,
   The widest in the paths of folly stray.
   No mortal man is happy: if the tide
   Of wealth flows in upon him, one may be
   More fortunate than others, happy never.
 
[ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ: τὰ θνητὰ δ᾽ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον ἡγοῦμαι σκιάν,
   οὐδ᾽ ἂν τρέσας εἴποιμι τοὺς σοφοὺς βροτῶν
   δοκοῦντας εἶναι καὶ μεριμνητὰς λόγων
   τούτους μεγίστην μωρίαν ὀφλισκάνειν.
   θνητῶν γὰρ οὐδείς ἐστιν εὐδαίμων ἀνήρ:
   ὄλβου δ᾽ ἐπιρρυέντος εὐτυχέστερος
   ἄλλου γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἄλλος, εὐδαίμων δ᾽ ἂν οὔ.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1224ff (431 BC) [tr. Potter (1814)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84868/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #meaningoflife #folly #fortune #happiness #humancondition #life #living #luck #pessimism #philosophers #prosperity #shadow #unhappiness #wealth #wisdom

I am in a Mood to Blame God

God, you, you, you,

If the meaning of life

Was to go in search of you

Why create the women

And let all hell loose

You, you, you, you God

You are a sly guy

Who has fun and mirth

At our expense.

Thaddeus Metz has revised his excellent SEP-entry on The Meaning of Life,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

Hyödynsin aikanaan artikkelia kotisivujeni asiaan?-sivun puolivälin paikkeilla, https://www.lupposofi.com/asiaan/

#sep #life #meaning #meaningOfLife #filosofia #philosophy #etiikka #ethics #moralPhilosophy #kuolema #death #afterlife #existentialism #love #friendship #value #arvo #significance #political #politicalPhilosophy #wellbeing #mortalityAndMeaning #psychology #sociology

Modern World Needs Older Myths

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/modern-world-needs-older-myths/

A quotation from Robin Williams

Death is Nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready.”

Robin Williams (1951-2014) American comedian and actor
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/williams-robin/84569…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robinwilliams #afterlife #death #meaningoflife #mortality #waiting

A quotation from Steinbeck

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I just choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to our world.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952)

More about this quote: wist.info/steinbeck-john/84523…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #death #deathbed #humannature #loneliness #love #meaningoflife #mementomori #mortality #passing

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…

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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Life is a shadowy, strange, and winding road on which we travel for a little way — a few short steps — just from the cradle, with its lullaby of love, to the low and quiet way-side inn, where all at last must sleep, and where the only salutation is — Good-night.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

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Godless Notions: Functionality Over Faith

Atheists are looking at how religious practices offer benefits like community and meaning, even without faith. Learn about this functional view of religion.

#Atheism, #FunctionalReligion, #Philosophy, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife

https://newsletter.tf/atheists-explore-religion-functional-benefits-beyond-faith/

New thinking shows atheists are examining religious practices not for faith, but for their practical benefits. This is a shift from traditional views on religion.

#Atheism, #FunctionalReligion, #Philosophy, #Secularism, #MeaningOfLife
https://newsletter.tf/atheists-explore-religion-functional-benefits-beyond-faith/