> I'm wondering, what does life mean to you
people? What keeps you going? What is important?
>
> I'm asking this in all seriousness, so, please,
no silly responses. Light-hearted is okay, but
don't say anything like "doughnuts."

This may be a tad contraversial, but in all
seriousness, I think that life, for humans,
plants, animals, bacteria and viruses, exists for
us to reproduce. I've been thinking about this
for some time now, in a sort of philosophical way,
and I have come up with a theorem that most of
what we do in life is in order for us to copulate,
or for bacteria to divide, or for viruses to
inject their RNA into the nucleus of a host cell
and create many new viruses.

Here's my thinking: I, and you guys, etc. and all
of the animals and plants etc. are still alive
because we are fit enough, and we carry beneficial
traits in our genes. The reason we were put here
in the first place was for us to continue the
human species, or impala species, or rhododendron
species, or whatever applies.

I realise that that was not very articulate, but
it's difficult for me to explain what I'm
thinking. I hope you get what I'm trying to say.

Finchplucker