Riddle me this...

pacifier

...what is life?

You are all a bunch of creative thinking artistic people so surely you can answer this question to your own satisfaction in poetry form, etc. Me, this type of question is sending me crazy recently so I would love to hear/see some answers. What are we? What is existance? What's the point? Is there a point? The first question holds all these questions and many, many more, so if you all want to share your take on the topic I'd be grateful.

chadwick

pacifier wrote:

...what is life?

You are all a bunch of creative thinking artistic people so surely you can answer this question to your own satisfaction in poetry form, etc. Me, this type of question is sending me crazy recently so I would love to hear/see some answers. What are we? What is existance? What's the point? Is there a point? The first question holds all these questions and many, many more, so if you all want to share your take on the topic I'd be grateful.

it would take more life times to answer your question
than lives that were ever born and died.
perhaps then it would not even be solved.
yet the answer is probably not as difficult as we believe it to be.
and yet it is extremely huge.
love has a huge part.

pacifier

chadwick wrote:

it would take more life times to answer your question
than lives that were ever born and died.
perhaps then it would not even be solved.
yet the answer is probably not as difficult as we believe it to be.
and yet it is extremely huge.
love has a huge part.

very nice. you've summarised how i feel.

now what is it to be? what are we? feel like a hamster on a wheel going round in circles. every answer is a question

cory

pacifier wrote:

...what is life?

The opposite of death


Anyway, that's as deep as I'll go. Wanna hear a dick or a fart joke?

deadnote

well, we are responsible for taking care of our families

catefrances

life is what you make it.

Bangers_n_mash

pacifier wrote:

...what is life?

You are all a bunch of creative thinking artistic people so surely you can answer this question to your own satisfaction in poetry form, etc. Me, this type of question is sending me crazy recently so I would love to hear/see some answers. What are we? What is existance? What's the point? Is there a point? The first question holds all these questions and many, many more, so if you all want to share your take on the topic I'd be grateful.

Life is living. So quit your thinking and get on with it!

Seriously.

FinsburyParkCarrots

According to Peter Cook, it was raspberry jam. According to Dudley Moore, it was raspberry jam, up the arse. Depends on your philosophical take on the importance of raspberry jam in life, really.

Jamal

Life's the time we spend out here
the time we wait for death to come
our fear of death drives us in life
towards life

Yet, we judge the one thing we don't know
yes, the opposite of life
the only thing you never come back from
maybe death is better than life

life is peanut butter and jelly
love it or hate it, there's no inbetween

justam

Wake up in the morning, do some stuff until you fall asleep at night.
Over and over again until one morning you don't wake up.
Probably there's more meaning, but that's the bare bones of it. :eek:

depopulationINC

I believe the point of life is to improve that of anothers.

justam

depopulationINC wrote:

I believe the point of life is to improve that of anothers.

That's a big thought. I like it!

chadwick

depopulationINC wrote:

I believe the point of life is to improve that of anothers.

yes it is.

pacifier

depopulationINC wrote:

I believe the point of life is to improve that of anothers.

favourite answer so far. I hope that is what my life is doing.

pacifier

cory wrote:

The opposite of death


Anyway, that's as deep as I'll go. Wanna hear a dick or a fart joke?

no. not a huge fan of the dick and fart jokes, but thanks for offering

yeah, I guess life is the opposite of death, if you're not one you're the other aren't you, but what is it that deterines life or lack of death?

pacifier

deadnote wrote:

well, we are responsible for taking care of our families

is that what you think life is, or is for? So what about those individuals that dont take care of their families or dont have a family to care for, are they alive, are their lives worthless?

pacifier

catefrances wrote:

life is what you make it.

Very true

Iwas kind of hoping for a few more poetic responses though, being the poetry section and all. Do you have a poem to share, even if you wrote it ages ago?

pacifier

Bangers'n'mash wrote:

Life is living. So quit your thinking and get on with it!

Seriously.

thanks, but I am multi-tasking. I am thinking and questioning life while all the time living my life as well.

mmm, now your user name has made me hungry

pacifier

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

According to Peter Cook, it was raspberry jam. According to Dudley Moore, it was raspberry jam, up the arse. Depends on your philosophical take on the importance of raspberry jam in life, really.

What if I place more importance on my grandmother's grape jam and don't really care much at all for raspberry jam? I'm stuffed, aren't I?

pacifier

Jamal wrote:

Life's the time we spend out here
the time we wait for death to come
our fear of death drives us in life
towards life

Yet, we judge the one thing we don't know
yes, the opposite of life
the only thing you never come back from
maybe death is better than life

life is peanut butter and jelly
love it or hate it, there's no inbetween

Thank you for putting your thoughts down in poetry.

Peanut butter and jelly sounds too weird to me. I don't understand the americans' attraction to this odd combination. Give me good old vegemite any time

pacifier

just so I don't skip over the whole relevent content of your poem, yeah, who knows, maybe death is better, but I think I can wait to find out

I don't really have a fear of death (well I never used to before I had a husband and family to look after and love), but I always did have a fear of living forever. Am I the odd one out or is this a common fear???

pacifier

justam wrote:

Wake up in the morning, do some stuff until you fall asleep at night.
Over and over again until one morning you don't wake up.
Probably there's more meaning, but that's the bare bones of it. :eek:

Sometimes that's all it feels like, and maybe that's all it is. Who knows. Well that's all my baby knows and she seems pretty happy with it.

Jamal

Just for the record, I'm not an American, but I know most people here are, so I kind of projected their image onto me.

And no, you're not alone, I want to die before life has taken all the best from me.

yellowbird

Lucy: Why do you think we're put here on earth, Charlie Brown?

Charlie Brown: To make others happy.

Lucy: I don't think I'M making anyone happy...
Of course, nobody's making me happy either...

SOMEBODY'S NOT DOING HIS JOB!!!

share

adam to atom

we are a field
we are a-glow
we are a spark - that turns to thought

we touch with flesh
we touch with breath
a wave sent out, an energy prone

we're here to learn
we're here to share
enhance this world
we love, we hate

we bend and break
we spread our wings
we yield and die
yet still go on

for all our energy
and family and friends
we are all one - yet so alone

Jeanie

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

BinFrog

Life is.

pacifier

Jamal wrote:

Just for the record, I'm not an American, but I know most people here are, so I kind of projected their image onto me.

And no, you're not alone, I want to die before life has taken all the best from me.

oh yeah, sorry, I would have noticed that if I took the time to look. Just read the jelly and peanut butter bit and assumed. Never heard of anyone but americans liking that combination or calling jam jelly.

Hmm, that's not exactly what I meant, I don't want to die before I get old, I'm fine with getting old and past my prime. I don't know, it's the thought of FOREVER that scares me. That is one concept that I am still yet to comprehend.

pacifier

share wrote:

adam to atom

we are a field
we are a-glow
we are a spark - that turns to thought

we touch with flesh
we touch with breath
a wave sent out, an energy prone

we're here to learn
we're here to share
enhance this world
we love, we hate

we bend and break
we spread our wings
we yield and die
yet still go on

for all our energy
and family and friends
we are all one - yet so alone

Did you write that? I like it. nice

chadwick

life is you. (all life forms)
life is me. (all life forms)
life is alive. (to share)
life is dieing. (to move on)
life is yours. (for others)
life is mine. (for others)
life isn't yours. (it is everyones)
life isn't mine. (it is everyones)
life is light-years in the future. (ours)
life is light-years in the present. (ours)
life is light-years in the past. (ours)
life is not a clock on your kitchen wall. (remove it)
life is not an alarm-clock on your night-stand at 4am. (remove it)
life is not 24 hrs, repeated. (burn your calendars)
life is beautiful like endless fields of wild-flowers a woman lays in for the sun.
life is ugly from hate, murder, and rape.
life is full of joy and pain.
life is empty. (black-hole void)
life is hungry for answers. (internal library)
life is starving and sick.
life grows above and below.
life shrinks.
life is the stormy skies filled with lightening and thunder. (let is pour out)
life is deep blue skies fulla birds and tree-tops.
life is the driest desert in your eyes.
life is only the smallest ocean. (our personal fluids)
life touches beyond stars. (our dreams)
life is only that.
life is more than that.
life produces life.
life has no way of ever ending.
but i must end this now, it would be never-ending if i didn't.
the end. (never)

Jamal

pacifier wrote:

Hmm, that's not exactly what I meant, I don't want to die before I get old, I'm fine with getting old and past my prime. I don't know, it's the thought of FOREVER that scares me. That is one concept that I am still yet to comprehend.

Ohh, I see...

Well, forever is past all comprehension of the human brain...
so is 'infinite' !

and both poem posters above : nice !