# Question on the meaning of Life

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 21, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-meaning-of-life/536933 "2010-04-21T23:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-meaning-of-life/536933/161 "2010-04-24T02:09:34Z")

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The meaning of life is: “Life” is God having fun being different things and doing different things as different selves.

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> Alright, so basically lets pretend for a moment, that I have some magical power, and posses the uncanny ability to do anything I want. Now, I tell you that you need to go take some time, and come up with, either on paper or just in your head, the greatest world or existence you can think off, and I’ll send you there for a month, or a year even. It can be anything, you have all the sex or drugs you want, you can be invincible, or perhaps even ask to be granted pleasures you could never have imagined in your human form; anything you want. Create your ‘heaven’. Now, as mentioned, I’m gonna send you there, but only on the condition that after this time period is over, you will be forced to return back your life here, with no memory of what has happened. Now, would you accept my offer? I’m sure most of you would. I’m sure I would.
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> Yet you see, with the condition being that you would have no memory of it when you return, means that it may, theoretically, have already happened too you.

You describe this as if it is a hypothetical. I consider it to be the truth.

[del]I have been different people in the past. I will be yet other people in the future[/del]

No, that’s not quite it. That imposes too much of a linear time element on the situation. I can get us closer to the truth of the matter by saying that I have been (and will be) YOU even though you and I are contemporaries. I will be / have been absolutely everyone, eventually. And everyTHING. Not limited to human or intelligently cognizant existence.

So yes I accept your offer 🙂

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