Talk:Meaning of life/Archive 4

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philosophical perspective. As there is an entire section of this page devoted to Religious perspectives on the meaning of life, Theism does not necessarily need its own section; especially an entry that is only three sentences in length. If the sub-section is to remain I posit that it needs some expansion and should also be changed to read from :"Theists believe God created the universe and that God had a purpose in doing so. Theists also hold the view that humans find their meaning and purpose for life in God's purpose in creating. Theists further hold that if there were no God to give life ultimate meaning, value, and purpose, then life would be absurd." to "Theists believe a god created the universe and that a god had a purpose in doing so. Theists also hold the view that humans find their meaning and purpose for life in a god's purpose in creating. Theists further hold that if there were not a god to give life ultimate meaning, value, and purpose, then life would be absurd." This section is is not well sourced and is biased towards Judeo-Christian Theists in its current format, and should be made to read more inclusively of multiple theistic perspectives. Furthermore, it should have more citations added and be more developed to encompass the perspectives of multiple Theists, especially those views that truly did develop in the 20th century.

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the books/plays/etc actually say. Yes, we get it that you're all smart and stuff because you know it's not actually written in the books that way, but that's not really relevant in this case. In this case, we're dealing with popular culture and not a literary critique of Adams' work. Saying "Adams didn't mean this" so we can't put it in a section about what people believe simply doesn't fly. Now, if you'd like to help out with this article, perhaps you can shorten the Adams' paragraph and add a bit about this not being what Adams actually wrote.

3964:"Extrapolating the trajectory further would see the continued expansion of the scale of cooperative organisation out into the solar system and beyond. If the trajectory continued in this way, the scale of cooperative organisation would expand throughout the universe, comprised of living processes and intelligence from multiple origins. As it increased in intelligence and scale, its command over matter, energy and other resources would also expand, as would its power to achieve whatever objectives it chose." 93:"The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything", (to which the answer is "42"). The whole joke - and a critical plot element - is that the question is entirely unknown. Nowhere in the five books does it ever come close to saying what the actual question is. The mice simply make stuff up after Arthur escape, and once Arthur and Ford manage to actually get a read-out of the Earth computer program from Arthur's brain, the question is garbage because of the unexpected arrival the Golgafrinchams. 3100:) that discusses the meaning of life among African people, then please add it to the article, it would be a welcome addition. I don't believe the omission of Africa is intentional and does not imply that people in Africa have no notable meaning of life. Knowledge relies on reliable published sources and if there is no information on Africa in this article it means that it is not referenced in the sources. Hopefully there are some books or scholarly articles that deal with this issue. - cheers - 903:, not a popular vote or threatening people to throw them to the administrators. Did I get that wrong? In any case I have removed the text which you asked for to be removed, but let it be noted that I think it is bad form to threaten with administrative action like that, and the condescending remarks about me being a "foreigner" does little to help the mood here. I will let you know if I have any problem of connecting to "popular culture in English speaking countries". Oh... and for the record: 31: 607:"... people on the street..." Is not synth. It's not even close to synth. It's original research. But it illustrates the point. And the answer to your question is that it's commonly believed that this is what Adams wrote, and that's a fact validated by reliable sources. We also have a lot of religious stuff in here that one could argue also has no basis in reality - and yet it belongs here because we have reliable sources indicating that this is what some people believe. 4109:"This, to me, is a very attractive thought. It opens the possibility of life being truly without end. In this fantasy, life effectively hibernates at the end of each universe, its existence to be reconstructed in the next. Each successive universe is given its initiating parameters in the final act of the oB of the universe past. In this way, we might have an endless, continually varying succession of life-bearing universes. Reincarnations without end. 732:— that is reviewing the book — states that the author argues that "What's the meaning of life?" is a nonsensical question. It states: "That's why Douglas Adams' gag about the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything being 42 is so insightful. You can't expect to get a sensible answer unless you ask a sensible question". So this secondary source also does not seem to argue in favour of this section being in this wiki-article. 3785: 3634: 3543: 3453: 2978: 2826: 2412: 2327: 1871: 1531: 1423: 698: 693: 4244:(what does it mean, right, but I am not sure what the word "means" means there.) Technological singularity seems pretty wild and implausible to me as well, not least since Moore's law is running out of steam and improvements of chip technology are limited by atomic level and cannot exponentially grow for a whimsically chosen period of future, but producing and fine-tuning a new universe is on a whole different level of "wild". -- 1319:- The primary source and the secondary sources say that "The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe and Everything" — to which the answer is "Forty-Two" — is unknown, and thus is not defined as "What is the meaning of life" or anything near it. The only supportive argument so far has been "This is what people seem to think anyway". However... since any claim that is of the sort "That is what people think he meant" is either a 1302:- J-Star's arguments rely on the notion that Adams didn't mean what people think he meant. However, that is beside the point. The justification for inclusion in this article is that a great many people equate the number 42 with "the meaning of life" (and that information is sourced above). As a result, this article should include a brief paragraph explaining this phenomenon in the article's "Popular Culture" section. 3901:

idea, and these could be added. The text linking to Cameron misleadingly stated "to evolve" (whatever that means), so I changed it to something that Cameron actually says. This is not the same as "to reproduce" since it is the gene copy maximization (technically allele maximization), and one's genes are in relatives, closer or distant, and can be maximized without one's direct reproduction. --

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unclear how something within the universe could ever affect parameters of its physical laws. But it is there, in these sources. No petty goal indeed. I hesitate to add this to the page in the mainspace since it sounds so crazy, but there are other crazy items there such as to become immortal using scientific means. --

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and belief in a prophet after Mohammad. I would remove this reference and move it down to the Baha'i section which should also be placed outside Islam. It would be the same as quoting a Muslim source for Judaism or Christianity. The quote may be useful but the context is wrong and frankly disrespectful.

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Some objections and reservations to the ideas are available in the comments section of the Guardian article. Multiple comments echo the objection that there is no direction in evolution, a position held by Stephen Jay Gould. An obvious objection to Stewart is that expansion beyond the solar system is

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The last sentence in the Sufism paragraph of the Islamic section includes a link and reference to a Baha'i interpretation of a Hadith Qudsi. This is misinformation since there is a separate section on Baha'i below and Baha'i are considered heretical to Muslims and Muslim sufis for their central tenet

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Simmons actually asks "You ever wonder why we're here?", prompting Grif to agree that he's unsure of the meaning (or cause) of life, before Simmons clarifies that he meant "why are we out here, in this canyon?" The line is reoccurring, but as a running gag someone always misinterprets the question in

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The final entry prior to today's edits in the "Popular Opinions" section heading "Life is Bad" was properly cited, and represents an actual, factual view on this topic. Deleting this item from the range of expressions about this topic negates an aspect that makes this page interesting and exciting to

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His books are well known. The joke is even more famous - sourced. Now, do you have a source that says it's NOT well known? Pointing to the primary source and saying "that's not what he meant" is irrelevant. What is relevant is the popular perception - and the popular perception is quite clear. Please

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So I would argue that — yes — "Forty-Two" as "the answer" is a famous piece of popular culture and deserves to be mentioned on Knowledge. And so duly happens... on another Knowledge page. But it does not belong here — on the page "Meaning of Life" — because the whole joke is that Meaning of Life does

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really a Knowledge-credible source?! But in any case, I humour you and quickly find that some links even on the first page do not even contain the word "meaning". And some of them flatly contradict the statement, for instance: "Ahem. Strictly speaking, 42 is NOT the meaning of life. Rather, it is the

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happens. That question is not the one that gets sorted out because the answer is "Fourty-two" and so they need to build another computer - the Earth - to figure out what the actual question is. If the question had been "What is the meaning of life?" - or anything remotely close to it - then the whole

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The association between them is clear, however, and the sourcing is adequate. You have your own special interpretation, but it was put here for a reason (and not by me) - so its removal of your personal beliefs and personal "experience" is clearly against consensus. Start an RfC, or something - but

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To my mind, the above is a sheer wild fantasy, not even science-fiction; I have no idea what it means for a universe to produce another universe as long as causation is within a universe and we have never observed any other causation. And if we consider a universe to collapse and expand again, it is

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The Theism section listed in the Western Philosophical Perspectives below 20th Century Philosophies should be nested elsewhere. Theism is not a 20th century philosophy, as it originally developed sometime BCE several thousand years priors to the 20th century. Theism is also not exclusively a Western

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societies. I think both will provide an interesting read. In other to understand the meaning of life within the African context, one must look at African ethnic groups who have managed to preserve the traditional beliefs of their ancestors intact and unsyncretised despite the advance of Christianity

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in relation to 42. All three sources seem happy to take "Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything" as a simple synonym for "Question of the Meaning of Life". These sources seems enough to clarify that Adams was making a joke about the meaning of life. If we've got some counter-examples

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Given that if you ask people on the street about Douglas Adams and "the meaning of life", you'll invariably get the answer "42" ("I don't know"). As a result, it's clear and obvious that in popular culture, "42" is an (absurdest) answer to the meaning of life. It doesn't really matter if that's what

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Africans have no meaning of life like other advanced people. I just realized it after reading this article. Africa does not appear once. So the Masai and all those billions of people in Africa have no notable meaning of life. It never comes up. Again Africa is on the outside of higher philosophy. I

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as a "romp through space in search of the meaning of life" and compares Deep Thought's time-wasting and nonsensical "42" to people's own searches for the meaning of life; Baggini writes about "a race of beings fed up with bickering over the meaning of life decide to build a supercomputer to provide

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or something that needs a source... and then with the explanation that they have actually got it wrong. And since none of the sources that have been given so far even comes close to saying something to the effect of "A great many people think that is what Adams meant", then the section needs to go.

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I don't know what is. "Now, if you'd like to help out with this article, perhaps you can shorten the Adams' paragraph and add a bit about this not being what Adams actually wrote." Why would we want to have a section saying something to the effect of "Douglas Adams has in his book(s) something that

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Then show me the sources for that argument. The particular piece of popular culture we are talking about — i.e. Adams's work — do not say that. So you are talking about popular culture about another piece of popular culture that we know get it wrong. Badke does not say it. Baggini does not say it.

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Why would it offend a person who is willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; someone open to new ideas? Is that a typo or something? You did indeed say the word "liberal"... did you mean something else? A liberal is someone who would welcome additional material

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I partially agree although the popular views section of this article is hugely weighted to the positive views. This requires more balance, in my opinion, hence my edits. Antinatalism clearly has a place in this article as it argues for not starting lives, linking directly to the meaning of life'.

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The argument I'm making (and it is my own) is that in popular culture, "the meaning of life" and "42" go together. Your point is that it shouldn't. However, your point is irrelevant. In popular culture these go together, therefore we should acknowledge it here. I even provided a source that quite

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I have no idea how popular that is but it makes sense as something to fit under the head of "biological perfection", perhaps better than "live as long as possible" or the meaningless "live forever". It belongs to evolutionary ethics so maybe there are other sources to support the same or similar

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I've had this question for a while, but in reality there is no meaning in life. this section in particular "The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general" in reality just means the meaning of life

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It takes consensus, and you do not have it. Next, if you do not remove your threat to unilaterally remove the section, I'm going to bring up your behavior for comment on ANI. Your reliance on primary sources is entirely inappropriate. It doesn't matter what the book says. What matters is popular

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We may not now be able to answer the question 'what is the meaning of life' but in the future a meaning may well become apparent. Civilised mankind has existed for a very short time. Planet earth could potentially continue to support life for billions of years. In that time it is impossible to

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And , when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority." They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?" Allah said, "Indeed, I know that which you do not know."

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around "forty-two" and possible questions — is not a "reliable source" that says "it is commonly believed". And I must point out again that if this is your only way to link "forty-two" to "the meaning of life", then you need to bring that information in as well; that it is a commonly held

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The meaning of life is to give your life meaning doing that task already gives your life meaning. You were given meaning when you were born at that moment your meaning was to be born and the rest of your life was the meaning of your life from the very beginning.- A 12 year old said this!

4023:) by an author who does not appear to be otherwise notable by Knowledge standards. We would need a reliable independent secondary source to establish that his views are more worth including than any other David who has used the Internet to self-publish musings about the meaning of life. 4051:: "That is why self-published material such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs (as distinguished from newsblogs, above), content farms, Internet forum postings, and social media postings are largely not acceptable as sources." -- 96:

In my experience, the only people who ever say that "42" is the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life" is people who never actually read the book, watched the film, heard the radio theatre or in any other way partook of the forms that THHGTTG was ever published in.

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You mean because two people insist on putting the section back without any other argument than "there are sources" — one of which I have already discussed with and that exited the discussion without providing any further arguments in over two weeks — then the section must be

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So anyone that wants to keep this section in the article, I challenge with getting hold of this book, finding the page/chapter/essay in this book that tells us how that essay writer means that there is a connection between "The Meaning of Life" and "Forty-Two".

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If you were very blissful and ecstatic at this moment, would you think, “What is the purpose of life?” – No. Only when in some way, life has become burdensome, these questions arise: “To be or not to be?” “Is there a good enough purpose for me to exist?”

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conjecture what we may become and what we may come to understand. Therefore the purpose of our existence now is to do everything possible to make sure that the planet is nurtured, our civilisation is stable, and diverse life on earth is sustained.

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When Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he added a central joke which has become more famous over the years than the novel itself: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42."

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Yes, to be clear, I didn't mean to imply that it didn't belong in this article; I was just stating as an aside that there are various aspects to "meaning of life", and teleology is one of them. I probably said more than was relevant.

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He said, "O Adam, inform them of their names." And when he had informed them of their names, He said, "Did I not tell you that I know the unseen of the heavens and the earth? And I know what you reveal and what you have concealed."

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From a formatting point of view, the table seems very distracting, and adds a great deal of prominence to this one otherwise fairly subtle point. Tables often create accessibility issues, also. The place to discuss that might be

1372:- The Meaning of Life and Adams' answer of 42 have become intertwined over the years; despite the "question" in the original works not being written precisely as "What is the meaning of life?" Removal of the section is unsourced 3337:

provides some info about the Dogon perspective, but it is in snippets and I can't read it in full. I will buy the book for my own collection (if available) or borrow it from my library. In the meantime, if anyone has it, please

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and Islam. In other words, one must look at what their traditional beliefs/spirituality says about this topic free from any syncretism. These are just some of the groups I know of who have managed to preserve their way of life.

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But Satan caused them to slip out of it and removed them from that in which they had been. And We said, "Go down, , as enemies to one another, and you will have upon the earth a place of settlement and provision for a time."

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One can argue that philosophy encompasses metaphysics, thereby making direct mention of metaphysics redundant. One can also argue that replacing the concrete with the abstract is the hallmark of poor writing. "Philosophy" is

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goes on — on page 6, 7 and 8 — to conclude that the question is unknown. So this source also does not "take "Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything" as a simple synonym for "Question of the Meaning of

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the subject. I would not call that as having such a massive impact on popular culture that it makes it warranted to keep a section in Knowledge that claims a primary source says something that it clearly does not.

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are both also linked in the "See also" section of this article. By the way, teleology is more related to the sense of "meaning of life" as "purpose" rather than as "significance". (On this distinction, see, e.g.:

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clearly said that this little joke of Adams' is even more popular than his books. If you'd like to educate the English speaking public as to why this shouldn't be so, then please do so - but do it somewhere else.

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I have no problem with the content itself, or with the source, and have restored it in the past as mentioned above. My concern is that this is over-stating the prominence of this perspective as reflected by RS.

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This article could perhaps benefit from edits for clarity and punctuation. However, I myself know too little about the material to edit it without fear I might unwittingly damage the meaning being expressed.

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O people who wait in the shadow of Deep Thought… Honoured descendents of Vroomfondel and Majikthise, the greatest and most truly interesting pundits the universe has ever known… the time of waiting is over!

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support it, which means that the one that is pulling a WP:SYNTH is you in that you think you see this association. You cannot say that I am the one doing a SYNTH for pointing out that that question is

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culture - the heading for this section. As a foreigner, you may not be familiar with popular culture in English speaking countries, but a quick Google query shows the prevalence of this idea. To wit:

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and the two terms seem to be often used interchangeably, although the implied metaphorical meanings seem to be slightly different. I understand the implied meaning of "purpose of life" (what is it

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get resolved by the Deep Thought computer. If you want to make some kind of mention that people — through word of mouth and misunderstanding Adams's work and sloppy references to Adams's work in

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more mention, there the author says "...the Earth is actually a computer built to resolve help the meaning of life.". So not only do they not even mention "fourty-two", they even get it wrong.

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Very well then... if there are no further comments in two weeks — especially comments that verify that the essay collection actually support the section being here — then that section is gone.

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Whether this is popular I do not know but there are at least two people above who apparently independently published similar ideas and a third person is the author of the Wikiversity course.

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people. The book referenced is actually insightful and interesting, and provides a different perspective about existence that I have found fascinating. Please return that item to this page.

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You may also consider adding as a separate SECTION in contents -- 1000+ Interviews on the Meaning of Life -- which contains all the contributors in alphabetical order. Here is the page:

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I would note that this topic ("To help life produce another fine-tuned universe") and the previous one that you mentioned above ("To help life become as powerful as possible") are both

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flatly contradicts that "Fourty-Two" is an answer to "What is the meaning of life?". This then means that all secondary sources have their work cut out for them. So... what about them?

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Finally, the last source, a tertiary one this time: "The Anthology At The End Of The Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors On Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy".

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Never… never again will we wake up in the morning and think, "Who am I?". "What is my purpose in life?". "Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don’t get up and go to work?"

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Does that say that "The Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe and Everything" — to which the answer is "Forty-two" — is "What is the meaning of life?". No it does not. In fact, the

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And We said, "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat therefrom in abundance from wherever you will. But do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."

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I am sorry but I am very confused now. I just pointed out that the primary source do not support the section, and 2 or 3 of the secondary sources do not support it. The last one may

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popular media — sometimes mistake "What is The Meaning of Life?" for "The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything", then good luck in formulating that section.

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To love something bigger, greater, and beyond ourselves, something we did not create or have the power to create, something intangible and made holy by our very belief in it.

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say something slightly different about it, but no-one has read that source and said "Yeah, it does". If this is not enough to remove a section that is most likely

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consists of just existence, but in reality at the end of it all you die, therefore there will never be a meaning of life unless there is something beyond that.

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would like to remove the section noting Douglas Adams' book for the reasons he has noted above. Those who support his recommendation should do so by signifying

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And when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.

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from June 22. The entry does seem like a valid take on "the meaning of life" so should be debated on its own merits. Since the reference is a book titled "

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For today we will finally learn, once and for all, the plain and simple answer to all these nagging little problems of Life, the Universe, and Everything!

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You threatened to unilaterally remove the section in the article unless we didn't meet your demands. That's a threat. And, as I pointed out, it violates

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2020 regarding the Theism sub-section of 20th Century Philosphy nested beneath Western Philosophical Perspectives

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Finally "The Anthology At The End Of The Universe". Adam Roberts uses the sentence "Meaning of life" a lot in the essay "42". Apart from that it gets

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So essentially you are saying that are left with is to try to argue that Adam Robert's essay "42" is enough to include this section. Does that hold?

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The correct set of values in any evolved being is the one which will give its holder's genes the maximum advantage in terms of natural selection.

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And He taught Adam the names - all of them. Then He showed them to the angels and said, "Inform Me of the names of these, if you are truthful."

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Then Adam received from his Lord words, and He accepted his repentance. Indeed, it is He who is the Accepting of repentance, the Merciful.

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is Baggini presumably saying the same thing as in his book, that "42" is a good joke about the difficulty of phrasing the meaning of life. --

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This page is brilliant now -- one of the very best on Knowledge. A great starting point for many philosophical and scientific adventures!

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Baggini does have that particular sentence on page 3, yes, and then — on page 4 — says "Now they have the answer, they don't understand it

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So if you want to avoid a WP:SYNTH when you claim that "Fourty Two" is in any way connected to "The Meaning of life", the onus is on you.

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This is really beautiful now -- my favorite article on Knowledge. I love it how people can search for the meaning of life on here!

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They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise."

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Have you ever noticed that whenever you feel certain level of pleasantness within you, the need to have a meaning of life subsides.

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Ok, since people that seemingly never read the books are insisting on putting this section back... let's review the sources then:

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to get an answer to "What is the meaning of life?"... only to be completely disappointed because that is not the question.

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Seven-and-a-half million years our race has waited for this great and hopefully enlightening day. The day of The Answer!

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he also mentions meaning of life in Africa within the context of African proverbs and teachings especially among the

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wonder if the accusation of systemic racism applies here. Opps maybe I offended a liberal who can never be wrong. --

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Also I made no threats... you did. I quote: "Persist, and you'll be discussing your approach to editing on WP:ani".

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who created death and life to test you who is best in deed and He is Exalted in Might, the Forgiving. (Quran 67:2)

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Could you add This verses (about the meaning of the life, especially for human being perspective ) to the article.

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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the

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Then show us these "reliable sources". A Google Search is not that. One essay in one anthology — an essay that

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short but does point to some of the important African ideas that should be included in this article, such as

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Consider adding to "External Links" the largest Meaning of Life e-publication - www.ExcellenceReporter.com

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state that "Forty-Two" is not an answer to "What is the meaning of life". And then you try to point me to

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To serve humankind, to prepare to meet and become more like God, to choose good over evil, and have joy.

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which suggest that he was actually making a joke about something else, by all means wheel them out. --

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Correct, and that's the only book published by "Stephenson-Hockey Publishing". Case closed, I think!

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This question becomes more significant when there is a certain level of unpleasantness within you.

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The page currently contains a meaning of life/purpose of life by Donald Cameron from his book

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I assigned it to the stub class because while there is plenty of material here, it is a mess.

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And as I mentioned above: the whole joke to begin — in the radio theatre — is that people are

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go find something else to do with your time and stop making threats and wasting our time.

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relating to what you have said because it would broaden the perspective of the article.--

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is not related to 'The meaning of life', but people in general seem to believe he does"?

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Nobody, anywhere, said the "question" itself is verbatim, "What is the meaning of life?"

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Pardon me for being confused once again but I thought the key element of Knowledge was

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and thus failed to verify that the sources contain information relevant to the article.

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L’HERITAGE SPIRITUEL SEREER : VALEUR TRADITIONNELLE D’HIER, D’AUJOURD’HUI ET DE DEMAIN

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this journal article "Meaning in life within an African context: a mixed method study"

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https://web.archive.org/web/20070810173433/https://www.parapsych.org/papers/07.pdf

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Making life "omnipotent" is impossible so I read it as "as powerful as possible".

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The Purpose of Life: Human Purpose and Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective

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Thank you for your consideration. Let me know if you have any other questions.

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of Adams's work that "forty-two" is an answer to "what is the meaning of life".

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The Guardian article specifically points out that "The Ultimate Question" is

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westminster shorter catechism in modern english, Kelley and Rollinson 1986.

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https://excellencereporter.com/exclusive-interviews-on-the-meaning-of-life/

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So what kind of argument do you have to this staunchly restore the section?

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Thanks for pinging me. I think Indy beetle's article is a good start.

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do not support this section being in the article "Meaning of life"

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too big to get your mind around on the brisk orientation tour. —

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answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything".

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i.e. it should look like this: Meanings relating to religion

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as appropriate. Please briefly outline reasons as needed.

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Those who do not should either 393:plotline would have ended right there. 44:Do not edit the contents of this page. 3972:http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/ 3015:https://excellencereporter.com/about/ 2480:To glorify God and enjoy him forever. 2477:To love God and all of his creations. 2148:to let others know (documentation at 1724:to let others know (documentation at 1055:. But it does not belong on the page 4117:by John Stewart, 2010, guardian.com 3961:by John Stewart, 2010, guardian.com 3375:The following discussion is closed. 671:Fine, let's look at the sources then 25: 3332:The Substance of African Philosophy 2492:To obtain freedom. 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