I have almost finished my degree in computer science, and soon the Real Word awaits. I still have no idea what I'd like to be doing with my life. So, for those who have been able to find meaning and fulfillment in their jobs: how did you do it? [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2008 - 27 answers

What is Soundgarden's song Room A Thousand Years Wide about? [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Sermon Illustration (preferably a movie) for questioning the meaning/purpose of life, or the idea of having a "new life" or renewed spirit. [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2007 - 8 answers

Lady Li posted a question (2 below this one) searching for this quote... "Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count." How do I become one of those people who count?
posted on Jun 15, 2007 - 35 answers

I'm unhappy with my job, it's affect on my life, and where it's taking me. How do I find out what it is I really want in life and start doing it? [more inside]
posted on Apr 24, 2007 - 21 answers

A year or so ago, a popular meme circulating via email was an illustration of how the brain can read through text with egregious typos. It was a passage rife with reversed, ommitted, or superfluous letters, but was perfectly readable. Can anyone come up with it? Thanmks!
posted on Apr 16, 2007 - 16 answers

How does one live a meaningful life in a world that one has come to believe is meaningless? [more inside]
posted on Mar 3, 2007 - 82 answers

A paraphrased quote: 'As one creates (writes?), it's meaning is known to only two - himself and God. When one finishes, the meaning is only known to God.' So, where did this quote derive from? Who originally said it? [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2007 - 5 answers

What exactly did Doc Brown mean in this Back to the Future II clip? [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2006 - 37 answers

What are the lyrics of the Metric song Police and the Private about? Drug addiction? Prostitution? Post-9/11 security? I have listened to it 50 times and it's driving me completely nuts; I can't figure it out. The last lines seems to undo the above meanings.
posted on Nov 23, 2006 - 2 answers

what can bring meaning to my life? (long story inside) [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2006 - 69 answers

What is the secret meaning of the triple T's of phi sigma kappa? Picture: http://www.gmuphisig.org/images/triple_t.jpg [more inside]
posted on Sep 10, 2006 - 48 answers

Is there a single word which means "negatively defined" (or "defined by its opposite" or "defined by not being other things" or "defined by the absence of something")? In English if you can manage (I cannot think of one), but maybe in another language? German perhaps?
posted on Apr 7, 2006 - 22 answers

What is the word for...when someone speaks in a different accent or tone to depict the fact that they are not totally committed to what they are saying (either for amusement or fear of reprisal)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2006 - 20 answers

Does anyone know the origin of the phrases 'after the jump' or 'more after the jump'? [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2006 - 12 answers

A few years ago I got a yen to rent "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins". It was the middle of the day and the middle of the week, and the Blockbuster was empty. I was at the cash paying for the movie when someone else walked in and asked the cashier: "Do you guys have Remo Williams?" What are the chances of such a coincidence happening? [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2005 - 37 answers

Does anyone know what Pearl Jam's "Daughter" song is about? I love their "Jeremy" song, and this one, too... but I can't parse the lyrics on "Daughter" for the life of me.
posted on Sep 27, 2005 - 19 answers

What is a 'moment of (something) zen'? I keep seeing this (on blogs in particular) and I don't know what it means. [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2005 - 17 answers

This post had me wondering: Is there a difference between progressive and liberal? Is it a difference in kind, in degree, or some of each? Is it a case of using one word because the opposition uses the other perjoratively? Started to ask this in that thread, then realized it would derail the discussion...
posted on May 28, 2005 - 12 answers

Does anyone know what the song "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush is about?
posted on Mar 25, 2005 - 2 answers

Yesterday's Get Fuzzy comic strip appeared in my newspaper with one balloon smudged, one completely blank and a head-scratching graphic in the last frame. I assumed print problems, until I looked at the online version which displays exactly the same way. I looked at the previous few days' strips, and it still makes no sense. Is it an in-joke? Does anyone have enlightenment to share?
posted on Feb 23, 2005 - 14 answers

What does "krelboyne" mean? The smart kids in the gifted class on the show Malcolm in the Middle are called that. I've googled to no avail. [more, in the middle]
posted on Feb 1, 2005 - 8 answers

[OffensiveSlangFilter] What exactly does "shay," as in "shay whitey," mean? From whence does it come?
posted on Jan 25, 2005 - 7 answers

Do you know what you want out of life? How do you know? How did you figure it out? What tools and techniques are available to figure out the meaning of your life?
posted on Dec 11, 2003 - 29 answers