quote:Well, it's Monday again What's the meaning of life? Three academics have analyzed 238 quotations from 195 people from Rousseau to Bob Dylan for a clue. The Top 10: - Life is to be enjoyed. (17 per cent of the sample) - We are here to love and help others. (13 per cent) - It is a mystery. (13) - There is no cosmic meaning. (11) - We are here to serve or worship God. (11) - Life is a struggle. (8) - We must make a contribution to society. (6) - Our mission in life is to seek wisdom/truth, and to become self-actualized. (6) - We must create meaning for ourselves. (5) - Life is absurd or a joke. (4) Source: Journal of Humanistic Psychology
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nonsuch
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posted 18 August 2003 07:57 PM
Did they really? How absurd! 42 is the best answer i've encountered so far. Of course, finding the right question is going to take $32,900,270,000 and 567,231 years, but what the hell, we're worth it! Aren't we?
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'lance
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posted 18 August 2003 08:02 PM
I'm surprised the Glob didn't insert some version of "we must make buttloads of money" or however they'd put it -- "maximize utility," maybe.
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scrabble
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posted 19 August 2003 03:56 AM
So, if someone ran your posts through the same analysis, what would they come up with?
Mine would probably be: - We are here to cause maximum embarrassment to 'lance - Words are good - All hail skdadl - Life is weird - DrConway is a smartypants
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Michelle
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posted 19 August 2003 07:51 AM
Hee. I was just thinking that it would probably take a research team of 5 people to analyze my posts, considering how many of them there are.
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