FIRST I only contact person with a Profile and Photos. As my user name says, my name is Margot Chick. Nobody should die without trying skinny-dipping. It's a wonderful feeling, an entirely different experience from swimming in a costume. And sunbathing without clothes on a beautiful beach is a delightful experience. If you've never tried naturism before, just imagine stepping out of your clothes and feeling the sun warm your whole body as the gentle sea breeze caresses your skin. Then swim in the warm sea. Afterwards, no clumsy changing behind a towel. And no wet costume to carry or travel in. Once you've tried it you'll never look back. Nonetheless, some who have never tried naturism may feel that they would be too embarrassed to take off all their clothes in a public place like a beach. Many first-timers do feel self-conscious for a while. But it always wears off quickly and they come to realise that nothing could be more natural and comfortable than sunbathing and swimming naked. And that makes practical sense, when you think about it. A costume doesn't help with swimming - actually it gets in the way. Nor does it keep you warm on the beach - it just leaves you with white bits. And the present fashion on many textile beaches that men wear long "swim shorts" that flap damply around the knees when the wearer has been swimming is a strong argument for finding the nearest naturist beach and stripping off altogether. There's another reason for favouring naturist beaches. Naturists are generally speaking thinking people rather than conformists. Consequently they are generally courteous, respectful and friendly. Naturist beaches are mostly peaceful places, mercifully devoid of "ghetto-blasters", noisy ball games, shouting and screaming and other unpleasant aspects of an increasing number of popular non-naturist beaches. They are ideal places to relax.
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The meaning of life is...
I am convinced that living organisms have a meaning of life. It's an odd statement to say that life has 'a' meaning because there are many ways to quantify what such a meaning might be. For example, one could claim the meaning of their life is: to be an excellent musician, a painter, a poet, a mathematician, a doctor, or a world-class astronomer. However, I think that there is much more to the meaning of life than what one sees as their unique purpose, or impetus, which drives their goals in life toward some particular destination. I think that if life does have an inherent meaning, it should have been the same since the origin of life as we know it. This means that the most primitive of life forms have a life-meaning that is the same as more evolved life forms such as plants, zebras and humans. If I'm correct, the most primitive forms of life are thought to be originating out of a biochemical 'soup' of nutrients and some chemical similar to DNA. I am proposing that the meaning of this soup and proto-DNA is the same as our own meaning. This puts all life on equal footing: no living thing means "more", "less", "better" or "worse" than any other. I think that the meaning of life is really something fundamental, inherent and inescapable: a part of what we call physical reality. 'Happiness' or 'self-actualization' seem (to me) to be imprecise. It feels like humans just conjured up these theories, and they apply exclusively to us, the 'higher form of life'. I believe there is something deeper to know about what it means to be alive. I want to know why we are here! why is life - in general - continuing, and why did it start? What purpose does it have? I have found one explanation that appears particularly convincing, and I found it in physics. Simply put: The meaning of one's life is to sustain one's low-entropy (highly ordered) physical configuration. Is this correct? can one's purpose be "to achieve and sustain low-entropy"? Or is the only meaning of life the philosophical one? to be a 'self-actualized' person, by using virtues, ethics, morals and such? Or if not philosophical or psychological, what type of question is it? and what type of answer should it have? Margot_Chick