Because the world is just awesome.
I thought that was going to be a link to the Lego Movie song.
And get that sex change operation you always wanted!
No they don’t.
That still doesn’t take away the absurdity of life. Regardless of how you dress it up it’s just eat, action, pleasure, repeat. You can try to clutch meaning and purpose like they’re life rafts but everything we do just boils down to the same mechanics. Without some outside force, life is meaningless and purposeless. Creating meaning is, ironically, the most meaningless thing one can do. It’s like deluding yourself.
Obviously a great many people strongly disagree with you on that point, but you refuse to see it.
And yet they haven’t been able to counter it. You can disagree with it all you want but unless you can counter it your words are but air.
As are yours.
You’re crowd-sourcing something only you can answer and then dismissing everything as not being worthy of you. This is bordering on trolling if you are not willing to see any promise in a single word said to you.
The problem, it seems, lies in you, not in us.
Because you guys haven’t been able to counter by point that life just boils down to pleasure impulses. That giving meaning to yourself is the most meaningless thing you can do. Why live at because of the meanings everyone else handed down? If everyone believes the illusion does that make it real?
You can’t give anything meaning, you just craft an illusion. Everything (even giving meaning) is hollow. The actions of a doll acting on a chemical reward system. Without something higher than man to give purpose, we are but dolls. So far nothing I have seen here can overwrite that.
Then we’re done here?
http://www.rationality.net/meaning.htm
I’m still seeking an answer but the last segments of this do nullify your attempts at meaning.
What is there to counter? I’m pretty sure a lot of people have agreed with this point. But so fucking what?
And what about the link I gave? The last paragraph about other human perspectives prettt much counters meaning.
Well I agree with you in a sense life is meaningless there is no point. But life, especially in a prosperous country in modern times is pretty enjoyable, I don’t feel like there has to be a reason for me to exist, I feel good for the most part: physically, mentally, etc. there are shitty things sometimes but the pros outweigh the cons at this point in time. The desire to survive is strong, even when its not logical, maybe its all just evolution and also the fear of death. I’m working with cancer patients right now and for some of these people I don’t see what keeps them going, but they keep on trucking. I think hope is an element, maybe even in just the little things. I mean once you kill yourself or something that’s it as far as anyone knows, you can’t hit the reset button, you might as well try and find something that makes you happy. Happiness doesn’t always equal something logical or rational, but it sure feels good even if its illusion.
OP - just before you smash that next bug, consider:
What, exactly makes your life fundamentally different that the bug’s life?
It isn’t. You have a large enough brain to realize the limits of life.
That is the big difference.
The Big Question: “What is the Meaning of Life?” has been kicking around for a few millennia now.
Still hasn’t been answered.
If you thought a quick question on a message board was going to get it answered, Sorry.
That is beyond the capabilities of this or any other message board.
You might ask IBM to put this one up to Watson.
Just make sure there is a “Reset” button on Watson…
That seems rather hollow though. It’s very very disheartening also. I’m just living from one good feeling to the next?
Pretty much, why do you need anything more? Anything people do, say they volunteer at soup kitchens, donate blood they do it because in some way it makes them happy.
Why do you keep looking to others to give you answers? IMO, you’ll find the reason for life within yourself. If you have to ask other people to give your life meaning, you’ll never find the answer. Everyone has to find his or her own.
I can’t believe the Internet masses, which have been wrong before, can’t solve this question about my self for me, despite them constantly telling me they cant.