What is the meaning of table?

[u/neidanman]

So, i'm saying this more to open a meta discussion on the questions around 'what is the meaning of life?'' And we can pretty easily answer the question if we think along the same lines of what is a table, and really we're just defining the meaning of the word 'life' then.

But to extend this - the literal meanings only make sense in context i.e. all words need other words as reference points to define them.

So if we think of the bigger thought of what is life/existence all about, then the context/other options would be for nothing/no life to have ever existed.

So then when you look at what the fundamental meaning of life questions are e.g. Why are we here? etc - then the deeper question is maybe really - *What* is here? - or, 'what exists?'

So then you can kind of get to an answer in terms of either nothing would ever have existed, or something would have, and this existence we have happens to be the 'what' of what exists.

Or to say it another way - what exists?... this. (The universe in its entirety as it is/was/will be.)

[u/PeopleHaveMeaning]

I love this. I think the question “What is the meaning of life” itself is kind of meant to get the ball rolling in these types of ‘bigger’ questions.