The Meaning of Life

My opponent gave some cute quotes and failed to justify them meaning they really do not assist his/her case whatsoever.I easily can give this quotes and utterly destroy your entire case and since your petty tactics took to be as they were I SHALL!Most were taken from here: http://www.goodreads.com...“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus http://www.goodreads.com...The justification for this is simple, searching for a meaning of life (which I think doesn't exist) will mean you, up until your death, waste time and mental energy that could have been spent on actually doing something in ignorance of whether or not life has meaning. For example, instead of thinking 'oh is there a meaning of life?' one could think 'can I find the sequence to prime numbers?' or 'how would I go about finding the cure to leukemia/leukaemia?'. You aren't doing anything with your life searching for a non existent concept (the meaning of life).“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness.And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely."Everything must have a purpose?" asked God."Certainly," said man."Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.And He went away.” ― Kurt Vonnegut http://www.goodreads.com..., Cat’s Cradle http://www.goodreads.com...For the more agnostic/atheist of readers this makes a satirical humorous read, for the religious this probably explains the reasoning behind religion in the first place in a very true and philosophically intellectual sense. In essence, this is stating that the only meaning of life decipherable from a God-believer's standpoint is that he made a creature so intelligent that it would question the reason for its intelligence in the first place. However, this is a very stupid meaning of life which makes no sense because it is using circular logic in that the meaning of life is the search for it, which if reversed is exactly the same and circular logic is very stupid.“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” ― Mark Haddon http://www.goodreads.com..., The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.goodreads.com... THE BEST CRIME-RELATED FICTIONAL WORK EVER! Not only is this from, quite literally, the best work of crime-related fiction I have ever read (which probably is made more awesome in that the main character and I share the same mental disorder) but also comes the issue that this quote is very true. While it was hypocritical of me, in my justification of the first quote, to offer reasoning that suggested questioning the sequence behind prime numbers instead of the meaning of life, it is also a very true thing to say that while both are virtually impossible to find (I would like to say ABSOLUTELY impossible in regards to the meaning of life) the finding of prime numbers, which merely are an absence of any pattern whatsoever, would ultimately (as pointless as the search would be) result in far more useful information than a meaning of life, which quite frankly does nothing at all in assisting one's ability to live it.“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”― Joseph Campbell http://www.goodreads.com...Pretty straightforward. The only purpose we have in life is what we do for other forms of life isn't it... Pointless to question the meaning when you are one form of it.“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?” ― Kurt Vonnegut [same link as before], Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons http://www.goodreads.com...I am a fan of Plato's ideas of non-economic communism and his republic where parental individual methods of upbringing should not be limitations to a child's success. However, he (as many philosophers have done) seems to adding some hidden value to the 'meaning of life' and seems to think people in areas of expertise other than philosophy are inferior in some sense. Needless to say that Plato never found any meaning of life whatsoever, just as his master Socrates failed to do. The reason is simple, there is no meaning of life and no matter how smart you are you just won't find it because that would be like Super Mario suddenly developing a consciousness of his own and understanding the game's script intellectually and fully understanding his purpose is to entertain those controlling him (which he can find no evidence to prove). We are all pawns in this chess-board named the Earth, in the grandmaster tournament named the universe. It is pretty pathetic to say "Oh but being happy or being in love matters and that is hwy we are alive" when in reality we are no more alive than a blob of bacteria, which willingly kill themselves instantaneously for the sake of making two copies of themselves (so essentially their 'meaning of life' is to destroy oneself to then multiply which is even more pointless than two being having sex to make a new unexpected one...).A final quote that really sealed the deal for me on the matter is this one:"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." ~Lillian Dickson http://www.quotegarden.com...http://www.icwhp.org...Now not to be racist or sexist but for some reason a random Taiwanese woman, raised in Canada, who helped impoverished children (predominantly those in Taiwan) to be educated would somehow come up with the most mind-blowing philosophical quote of all time but let me just explain the real significance this quote had on me when I read it.If we consider the vast field of rationality, philosophy and any intellectual, theoretical questioning to be in the category of these matters and then we consider to be an ECONOMY in which life is but merely one concern, or one COIN, then we can see how this analogy could work and language is the CURRENCY.HOWEVER, when trying to make an economical understanding of a coin in and of itself you will be totally lost if you try to give it value/meaning/purpose in and of itself just like trying to understand life is pointless and stupid. The coin, like life, is merely on entity/concept among the vast abyss of the economy of philosophical ideas. Life is merely a means to an end... To enable consciousness for the mere purpose of enabling reasoning to occur... Or perhaps it for an economy of pure competition where only the forms of life in the most well-suited bodies should survive... How can we really determine life's meaning without understanding that it is merely relative to what the economy of the entire rationality and reasoning behind philosophy itself in the first place? Life is merely a copper coin on its own... It only has a value to those in the economy of rational reasoning... It is in and of itself rather pointless is it not? Ah... I don't know I think this is my best shot at converting you to nihilism...