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As with all reviews on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete overview of the book; rather, it is to examine how the book relates to the meaning of life. About the book: The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington is the print version of season one of his documentary TV show The Moaning of Life. In the series and in the book, Karl explores concepts such as Marriage, Happiness, Kids, Vocation and Money, and Death through the act o

As with all movies on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete synopsis of the film, but rather to document how the movie relates to the meaning of life. With that said, be forewarned, there are still spoilers ahead. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 comedy-drama film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The movie is about a negative assets manager at Life magazine that lives an uneventful life. He hasn't done anything remarkable, hasn't traveled, and is s

As with all movies on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete synopsis of the movie, but rather to document how the movie relates to the meaning of life. With that said, be forewarned, there are still spoilers ahead. Click is a 2006 comedy film directed by Frank Coraci, starting Adam Sandler as Michael, Kate Beckinsale as his wife Donna, and Christopher Walken as Morty—inventor of the infamous remote. What if you could skip all those moments in life that you don'

As with all movies on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete synopsis of the film, but rather to document how the movie relates to the meaning of life. With that said, be forewarned, there are still spoilers ahead. Soul is an animated film about the purpose of life (about living life), that was produced by Pixar and released by Disney in 2020. The story revolves around two characters. The first, Joe Gardner, a middle-aged middle school music teacher. The second,

As with all reviews on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete overview of the book; rather, it is to examine how the book relates to the meaning of life. Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American theoretical physicist from Harvard University recently published a book titled, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. In the book he goes on to hypothesize that Oumuamua (an unidentified interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2017),

Questions of Perspective is a book by Daniel Maunz that was released May 14, 2020. Daniel reached out to endev42 for a review back in February of 2020. Due to work, reading backlogs, and all the other unimportant necessities that make up life, time just didn't permit us to get to it. However, the book has been taking the internet by storm. Glowing reviews can be found on IndieReader, Goodreads, Amazon, and even independent blogs like Amanja Reads Too Much—a blogging site that

In season two, episode one of the TV series St. Elsewhere, a show from the 1980s, the topic of meaning arises a couple of different times. The topic first arises when Dr. Mark Craig (played by William Daniels), the chief of surgery, requests to do a heart transplant for an ailing patient. Either the operation is done, or the patient dies. However, the problem is that the hospital is undergoing budget cuts, and a heart transplant is quite expensive. So Dr. Craig threatens to r

As with all reviews on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete overview of the book; rather, it is to examine how the book relates to the meaning of life. Before the Incal is a dark science fiction comic book series written by Alexandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Zoran Janjetov. The series was released between 1988-1995, and issues in the series include: With that said, we once again find ourselves in the #Jodoverse, and, as such, we can ask ourselves, will we

As with all movies on this website, our goal is not to provide a complete synopsis of the film, but rather to document how the movie relates to the meaning of life. With that said, be forewarned, there are still spoilers ahead. The Final Cut is a science fiction movie which was released in 2004, written and directed by Omar Naim, starring Robin Williams as Alan Hakman, and Mira Sorvino as Delila. Williams plays a "cutter," whose job is to take the best memories of a person's

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. - Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 1988 Stephen Hawking is one of the most notable and memorable scientists of the last several decades. Born in Oxford, England, in 1942, he overcame a lot—WWII, Lou Gehrig's disease, Britain's dark and gloomy weather, endless arrays of doctors forecasting his early demise since 1963, 30+ years of Dr. Who, the