The Meaning of Life

This is a big switch for me. I usually do silly or somewhat amusing posts (it's subjective I suppose). I'm not even sure why I'm writing about this. I took a seminar in the summer of 2001 with a group called Landmark Education. They are, according to some, a cult of sorts. I will say I agree. The group came out of EST and claim to offer ways to get more out of life and understand the meaning, etc. Dana and I were having some problems and in my efforts to bridge the gap that was growing, I thought that trying to find some meaning to my life might help. She is one who questions that issue with her own life (which I think is great) but I rarely/never gave it a thought. So I found myself in the World Trade Center going every week to the semiar (at $500) I put about 1/2 of my effort into it which was my choice. I guess I should have played at 100% but that was then, now I'm doing therapy and I'm 100% invested in it but that's another post (or not) I don't even remember all of the things that were required of me but it did involve looking at different aspects of your life and building on making them better. Sounds like a plan, right? A big thing they were selling was that you will find out what the meaning of life was. As always, there were some out there who dove right in and really seemed to get a lot out of the seminar. I think some of these people are lifers who go from cult to cult searching for answers to the meaning or purpose in life. On a side note, this group was lead by a guy who looked like Gene Hackman. After a few weeks of the seminar, they dropped the bomb as to the meaning of life.

"The meaning to life is that life is empty and meaningless and it's meanless that life is empty and meaningless"

Pretty profound huh? My first reaction was like...okaaaaayyyyy. I mean, I guess it could very well be that. Who knows what the meaning of life really is? I didn't get a handbook when I was born. There are all sorts of groups, people, religions that tell us what the meaning of life is, but since when do they haveall of the answers? Did they get the handbook? I don't know myself what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is if any. I do try to live my life in a way that does no harm to others, I try to leave things a little better than I find them and I try to be part of the solution, not part of the problem (as I see it).
On a side note, I was supposed to go to the World Trade Center on Sept 12th, 2001. I didn't make it that day. The group met a month or two later at another site. One thing that was discussed was the events of 9/11. They asked "what happened on 9/11?" Their reply was "that 2 planes flew into the Twin Towers and people died"