I don't understand life..can you explain please..The Lounge Knows..thank you..

[Stuart G]

[Newest Reality]

1. You are born,

or so they told you. Then, you die.

In between those two seeming events, things happen that you consider good or bad or neutral.

Before you were "born" there seems to be a big empty memory hole for most and one can assume that the same might apply to after being "dead".

However the above is all abstract depictions based on conceptualized versions of potentially actual experiences, so your subjective experience may vary.

[noamnety]

2. first you are born and defenseless

and have no teeth.

Then your teeth grow in and you can have carrot cake.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Then you lose your teeth and have to eat pudding in the home.

[BlueJazz]

3. If your species reproduces, you are, most probably, life. If you can eat chocolate, life is good.

[Wounded Bear]

4. You're born, life sucks, then you die.....

Pretty simple, really.

[goodthanksandyou]

5. You are born, you poop a few ten thousands of times, then you stop pooping and die.

[otherone]

6. 42

[RILib]

26. my thought exactly.

[Paulie]

7. You are born

Find LoLcats and the tubes. Then the DU lounge. Time stops.

[LiberalEsto]

8. We live to serve Dog(s)

and Kittehs.

[Neoma]

9. You make up a meaning for what life is for and go with it.

There's two separate things in life. The part where you do what was planned. Then there's the part where "shit happens." Shake it all together and whatever happens makes who you are.

[Paulie]

11. Life is a martini

[olddots]

10. Life is a box of chocolates

chocolate boogers

[krispos42]

12. You're born

You eat food. You grow up.

At some point you begin to feel guilty over the environmental damage your lifestyle causes.

It bothers you vaguely for the rest of your life.

You die at the age of 95, shot to death in the bed of a 24-year-old lingerie model, by her jealous boyfriend, after yet another round of incredible sex.¹

You find out who was right about the afterlife, if any.





¹That's my plan; yours may vary according to circumstances beyond your control

[Ron Obvious]

13. Life is a "to do" list..

Life is a to-do list.
That's always growing longer..
Some days you make some progress...
But you never catch up...
Other people keep shoving things on to the list...
The more interesting your life becomes, the longer the list grows...
Just being aware of the long list of things that need to be done stresses you out..
And so you do other stuff to unwind...
And the list grows longer still...
You never catch up...
And then you die.

Sorry, I just hate having to do my taxes.

[pinboy3niner]

14. It beats the alternative

Make the best of it.

[NNadir]

15. Jeder Mensch ist nicht nur selber, er ist auch der einmalige, ganz besondere, in jedem Fall...

...wichtige und merkwüdige Punkt, wo die Erscheinungen der Welt sich kreuzen, nur einmal so und nie wieder. Darum ist jedes Menschen Geschichte wichtig, ewig, göttlich, darum ist jeder Mensch, solonge er irgend lebt und Willen der Nature erfüllt, wunderbar and jeder Aufmerksamkeit würtig. In jedem ist der Geist Gestalt geworden, in jedem leidet die Kreatur, in jedem wird ein Erlöser gekreuzigt.

It's from the prologue of Herman Hesse's Demian, and since reading it and translating it, I have tried to live my life with this in mind.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. Life is a journey

from innocence to wisdom. There are 10s of thousands of roads to travel and millions of possibilities. Your choices will determine your final destination.... How you handle both the good and bad choices will determine how much wisdom you gain along the way.

[rug]

17. I laugh, therefore I am.

[In_The_Wind]

18. There's isn't much to explain .........

When you go with the flow ... life is easy, few mistakes, lots of acquaintances. Nothing noteworthy. A slug.

By the converse type of behavior: going against the wind takes skill, tacking cross the currents, accomplishing many potentially great things. An eagle soaring through the clouds.

[Aristus]

19. Life......

...don't talk to me about life...

[Bucky]

23. no

Shit, it's like you're picking Will Smith over Robert Conrad. What's the matter with you?

[pinboy3niner]

20. I'm sorry...

[Loryn]

21. You have fun for 30 or so years ~

Shit happens, but you go on.

Sometime about 45/50 insurance becomes extremely important. High school kids, look like children. This is also true of doctors and cops. You put on make-up, and look great. You put on glasses, and are deeply disturbed.

You find yourself saying "when I was a girl...."

You become a Sunday driver, and are no longer able to drive at night.

You fear the next years will be filled with even more aches and pains than you currently experience. To avoid this you go to yoga. You don't care if you look stupid.

Not caring that you look stupid is a gift. You are glad you are old

[Bucky]

22. In fact, life is a broccoli eating contest, but they don't tell you that.

When you die and go to heaven, St. Peter doesn't review a video of all you sins with you. He just has a big ledger with your name and a list of all the times you could have eaten broccoli but didn't. Then yall watch a video, and it's on BetaMax because that's where they've all gone and not because "VCR had better marketing" or some crap like that, and you and St. Peter watch you turning your nose up at broccoli when you were like 3 or 4 years old and you mom was only worried about your vitamin intake, and then when you get to the part where you gag on the first forkfull and throw the plate of broccoli onto the floor and scream "I want cake!" St. Peter says, "You know what, I'm not gonna sit through this shit any longer; you know what you did." and he turns the BetaMax off and kicks your ass down to hell.

That is the point in life. You should have listened to your mother.

[Fearless]

24. Hmmm...

No really. What IS life? Not your life and my life, but life in general. What is the determining factor between life and non-life? And I'm not talking in a pro-choice / anti-abortion argument. I mean what constitutes something living. Near as I can see, life as I define it seems to be the point when someone or something realizes that it's alive. Think about it. There was a point where you weren't alive. Focus on memories you have from long ago. Think back as far as you can to your earliest memories. And try to push back just one more day into your past. Just one more memory further. Are you really alive before you remember?

Take for instance a video recording of you as a baby. Coo coo... yes very cute. But is that you? Think about you and everything that makes you... you. Focus on you, the you that's inside your body. Your mind, your heart, your soul. What ever you call it. Focus on that point. Take it in. Everything that is "you". Focus on it.

And watch that video. Watch that baby. Is it you? Can you find yourself in them? They become you, but you're nothing like them. And everything that they are has changed. Granted they become you, and you are identical genetically, but nothing that makes you ALIVE is the same. The voice in your head that's always with you. That's all that life is to you.

People are only able to comprehend based on their own experiences. Everyone knows the voice in their head. That is their life. Everyone else has one, but we can't begin to imagine how different they are from ourselves or how similar. I believe that you are alive from the furthest time in the past that you can currently remember and you will be until that voice stops speaking.

This leads perhaps to a lot of ethical life questions, but none of them are relevant. It also seems very self-centered, and it is, but it's not a bad thing. Self-centered is not selfish. Selfish is favoring yourself over others. Self-centered is a starting point for recognizing sentience.

Who are you? You're the voice in your head that's been there from the beginning and will be there until the end. The rest is irrelevant.

I think, therefore I am.


http://unwilling-dystopia.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-life-and-who-are-you.html

[sarge43]

25. DNA's method of making more DNA

We're the medium, not the message.

[magical thyme]

27. "you're born, you die,

and everything in between is just filler."

thank you Lou Grant.

[talkingmime]

28. Life's a bitch and then you die.

[Arugula Latte]

29. The meaning of life is cats. You're welcome.

[Stuart G]

32. Cats?

What kind of cats?..some cats, big cats..like tigers..or just cats????

[Arugula Latte]

33. Just ... cats. All of them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. Purebred dogs have no souls.

However, assuming you are not a purebred dog, you have a soul. You can rest easy.

Unless you happen to be a purebred dog.