As I am being tormented over the question on the meaning of life, I heard a program on NPR introducing the newly invented piccolo-violin. The violin is made in a quarter size and sounds an octave higher than the conventional violin. As if the frequency of violin is not high enough to make us violinists a neurotic lot, some bored physicist has to invent this little piercing thing to further poke our nerves. The principal second violinist of Oregon Symphony did a demonstration on it with Paganini’s Witch’s Dance. Perfect, the witch, the physicist, Paganini, and the piccolo-violin, I see Mephistopheles laughing in the shadow. When the violinist hit the last note on the radio, ouch! I almost drove off the road. Now the meaning and the folly of life are blurred before me.
- Re: The Meaning of Lifeposted on 04/02/2005
Maybe the meaning of life is to explore the world as much as one likes, and the meaning of life for the rest of us is to smile at what other people find amusing or are passionate about in life. - posted on 04/03/2005
It is difficult to define the meaning of life. In modern times people tend to think of life as absurd. Life itself is insignificant but human beings impose significance upon it. Life is meaningless like maggots squirming in a latrine bucket.
Don’t pretend to be of deep thinking. If one, who witnessed people jumping out of Twin Towers on September 11, still tries to find the meaning of that jumping, he must be naive or insane. Jumping out of Twin Towers to death on the beautiful morning reflects the meaningless and absurdness of life. Latest example is the judicial murder of Terri Schiavo who was euthanized under court's order.
- posted on 04/03/2005
This thread reminded me an old book: "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy"
There is a famous line in that book: "The Ultimate Answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything".
Here is a little sound bite from BBC:
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and Everything.
To this end they built an incredibly powerful computer, Deep Thought. After the great computer programme had run (a very quick seven and a half million years) the answer was announced.
The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is...
(You're not going to like it...)
Is...
42
Which suggests that what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'.
It has been shown that there is an answer. It was computed by Deep Thought, but really didn't seem to provide , well... an answer.
The great computer kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question.
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