# Meaning of Life **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388 "2015-12-04T04:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/21 "2015-12-04T18:03:44Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is life just a game where we make up the rules, while searching for something to say? It’s a Board Game, invented by Milton Bradley in 1860 and revised a century later > **[The Game Of Life](http://www.boardgamecentral.com/games/life.html)** > > This classic family board game has been loved by generations. Will you go bankrupt, or earn millions in stock and real estate? Play the game and find out! > **[The Game of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Life)** > > The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a board game originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life, the first ever board game for his own company, the Milton Bradley Company. The game simulates a person's travels through their life, from early adulthood to retirement, with college if necessary, jobs, marriage, and possible children along the way. Up to six players, depending on the version, can participate in a single game. Variations of the game accommodat Th... The Rules are already made up, but people frequently ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/22 "2015-12-04T18:07:21Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > The meaning of life should be custom-tailored to each individual, by each individual and for just that individual. > > In an ideal world, there are 6-7 billion meanings of life… give or take for those too young, etc, to tailor the meaning to themselves. > > . This. Your life has whatever meaning you ascribe to it. No more, no less. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/23 "2015-12-04T18:15:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is life just a game where we make up the rules, while searching for something to say? > [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s a Board Game, invented by Milton Bradley in 1860 and revised a century later [Woosh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DA2MKuI6fs)! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/24 "2015-12-04T18:27:49Z")
Keep fucking that chicken! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/25 "2015-12-04T18:28:56Z")
Life is a sitcom where 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999…% of us are background characters that aren’t even in the background. What we do doesn’t matter and nobody gives a shit about us, give or take about 100 years. And that is why I do whatever the fuck I want and the rest of the world can go fuck itself with a cactus. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/26 "2015-12-04T18:34:33Z")
> [@pianodave](#): > > What’s the meaning of life? [The Meaning Of Life](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/27 "2015-12-04T18:35:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Woosh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DA2MKuI6fs)! Well, that sums it up right there. _The salmon mousse!_ ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/28 "2015-12-04T19:06:29Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Someone once said – I know it only from a quote by Robert Heinlein – that the only two occupations worth a damn are the creation of beauty and the discovery of truth. Art and Science. > > I disagree, and think there are lots of other occupations that are worthwhile: the supporting infrastructure that make Art and Science possible! The Artists and Scientists need us to bake bread, survey for roads, run the electric generators, put roofs on houses, and so on: all the thousand little tasks that are necessary for a civilization rich enough to be able to afford Artists and Scientists. > > For most of us, today, that is the Purpose of Life: maintaining Civilization, so that Beauty and Truth may be created and shared. > > Also looking at porn on the internet. Haha, I like this! I study something someone chose to call ArtScience! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388/29 "2015-12-04T19:08:27Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Woosh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DA2MKuI6fs)! Double Whoosh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meaning-of-life/739388.md?page=1)