[Detomah]

I don't for one moment pretend to myself that I or any other human is so self important as to believe that our existance and life has any more meaning than any other living entity on this planet.

So with that...

The meaning of life in my mind is that there is actually no meaning of life, the thought that there is, is nothing more than a human thought, provoked by the instinctive fear of being insignificant and virtually worthless creatures. As purpose is a simple in-built instinctive instruction for us to pro-create, everything else is a thought process developed by man as man has developed from one generation to the next.

Life is nothing more than a simple journey from A to B via C, which goes like so:

A = Birth
B = Death
C = Decisions and actions taken en-route from A to B.

Everything else about humans and human thought is basically either man made, man developed, man invented or thought fabricated.

The way I see it, humans are nothing more than a parasite attached to our host, the planet Earth and humans are the worst kind of parasite there is, as we are doing more damage to our host than virtually any other parasite we know of.

I could imagine in my thoughts seeing a number of different simple ways to look at this sort of thing though:

1. The meaning of life is to ensure the continuity of the species.
2. The meaning of life is to learn and pass forward knowledge and learning through each generation of the species.
3. The meaning of life is to live.

To me, the simple fact is, is that no matter which way I try to look at it, there is no meaning. Humans exist as a result of evolution and some stupidly lucky chain of events and conditions on the surface of the planet earth. If the events and conditions had been any other way, life could just as easily been extinguished within the first few moments, or even never have happened at all. Humans have reached the top of the food chain due to evolution, there is absolutely no guarentee at all to ensure we will stay there though (except for the fact aht what ever does knock us off the top is almost certainly going to be smaller than humans, as we've wiped out anything bigger than us that has been seen as a threat) and humans certainly don't have any kind of divine right to exist or any of that crap. We are all here by luck and that luck could run out any any time by any number of events.

As someone once said: From the top, the only way is down.