What is life's meaning?

 

Sales PITCH:

Make a MOVIE with me

Let’s not just talk and meditate, let’s ACT NOW- TOGETHER!

What is the meaning of life?

Why are we all here?

Is there purpose to our existence at all?

Human beings have been asking these questions since the beginning of time.  

Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning,  says, 

“The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.”  

We all search for meaning and find different ways to execute it. 

 Victor Frankl said :

 “Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”

In other words, we all owe it to each other to find these answers out for ourselves collectively and individually. 

For as Derek Sivers writes in “Anything You Want,”-

“Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big ideas.”

Victor wrote Man’s Search for Meaning originally in German in 1946 and that book alone has sold more than 12 million copies. 




 All this nice stuff about the meaning of life was actually a shameless pitch for money to make a movie by a new technique called crowdfunding.  Movies are not easy to finance and so every possible source of funds needs to be explored.  This may be an attractive offer.  Few details are offered here other than the great success Dr. Frankl achieved selling his book.  In fact, Victor has become somewhat of an Internet darling in the last few years and you will see his name invoked in all sorts of places.  

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Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others

In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.

Neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl pioneered an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the human search for meaning.



by yecto on Sep 20, 2007
 

Conference in Toronto with students for search for meaning.

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Caveat Emptor:  

Having had some experience with film funding during my years in the investment business, it is well-known that the complicated contracts encountered in the film industry require a sophisticated investor's knowledge and experience, not to mention accountants and lawyers.

My comments are in no way a judgement of the investment quality or worthiness of this offer of which the details are unknown to me..  

My years in this business are long ago and change is the only certainty in life and the business of money...but common sense and caution must always prevail...

Remember Warren Buffet's two part maxim is "one, don't lose money and two, don't forget number one" ... 

Even better is the sage advice of Mark Twain, "Its not the return on my money that worries me.  It is the return of my money..."

Also this offer is probably off the table by now because the article is dated.  My interest was in the references to Victor Frankl ...and in discussing crowdfunding as a new unregulated area for "sharp" people to seek to acquire the  savings of usually small and unsophisticated investors and their families.  

In this case, the money was raised and they are happy to report developments on the site.  Will the film be completed with no new money and will the product sell?  Will investors be compensated in dollar terms or satisfaction points?  Time will tell.




To find out more on the crowdfunding page:

http://www.indiegogo.com/lifemeanswhat?a=639881



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