The meaning of life

There is only one thing we all share in life. Death. No matter what you do in life you are going to die. So does it matter what we do in life we are all going to die. I think so. It's the same reason while some people decide to end their life while they are suffering. It's a lot better to feel good then to feel bad. The only feelings we feel should be good since they are the only ones we will ever feel. The meaning of life is to sit at a meal with a bunch of friends and family and tell all the stories you have. To me this is the most fun because everyone you care about is laughing and have a good time. We should feel a need to propel our future children and their children. We should want everyone to have the best time on earth.

Crime and Punishment

           Does the punishment ever fit the crime? Is the punishment itself a disguised crime? What I want you to think about right now is the death penalty. Let's say you have a guy, Jimmy Joe Bob, who goes and kills someone. The cops, thinking that killing another human is wrong, go do their thing and arrest Jimmy Joe Bob for murder. Now at court, Jimmy Joe Bob is sentenced to penalty by death. Now let's go back to why you arrested Jimmy Joe Bob in the first place. You thought killing someone was wrong so now you are going to kill someone who killed someone. Are you doing it right? Is this a moral action? If you let Jimmy Joe Bob go then people will think you can just get away with killing anyone. If you kill Jimmy Joe Bob, you are acting against your own morals. Is there a system that can evenly balance out crime and punishment?
           Let's now take a look at Candide. Candide decides to go for a walk while in an army he was practically forced into and chooses the punishment of running the gauntlet thirty-six times. This seems to me like a case of ridiculous consequence for something not serious at all. Candide did something he didn't even know was wrong and was punished with almost death. It seems to me that all crime and punishment can be put onto a scale. In the middle of the scale we have what the crime was, the left we have no punishment, and the right we have the most severe punishment. If you tip too far left, people might perform unjust actions because they know the punishment isn't severe enough. If you go too far to the right then very minor offenses will be punished severely. If you are in the middle you are causing the same punishment to a man who committed a crime you thought was unjust.

What do we really know?

What do we really know? Suppose our life was just a bunch of frames like in a movie. Now let's assume that the arrow of time is encoded in each frame. Now let's say we scrambled these frames so that they no longer are in what we perceive to be an order. At each frame all you know is what you've just done according to the arrow of time and where you are about to go according to the same arrow. If we were then to play that scrambled movie, would we experience life in the same way? How would you know you haven't just done to a future frame and back if the only thing you can perceive is your current frame and its past experiences. The only thing we actually know for a fact is that we exist in a place. We could be in a computer game from some other location and dimension but all we know is what we can do inside our mind.