Meaning of Life?

This cracked me up: FAQ About the Meaning of Life. As if anyone can say the true meaning of life - if there is one true meaning beyond what’s true for each individual being.

I couldn’t disagree more with this, taken from the site:

Living solely for happiness - avarice - is wrong. Not in the moral sense - many great things have been achieved through greed. I am speaking here not only of the “base” desires that led to the invention of fire, but more refined desires, such as the desire for freedom, the desire for knowledge, even the desire for higher intelligence. Not even superintelligence is an end in itself. The only reason to do a thing is because it is right. There is no end which we ought to pursue even if we knew it to be wrong. Living for happiness is wrong in the logical sense - whether avarice walks paths that are noble or mean, it is a sign of a disorganized philosophy. Goals have to be justified.

The reason I disagree is that I don’t believe in an inherent right and wrong. I believe beings (people) make up what is right or wrong and it is through agreement that these are reinforced.

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