Is there any meaning to life? or is it really just nothing?

[lekatt]

@Mijin

This makes the common presumption that meaning and what makes you happy are the same. That if someone says they don’t think life has meaning they must be unhappy.

I think “Why am I here?”, “What should I do with my life?” and “What makes me happy?” are three separate questions, though there is a little overlap between the last two.

And, if the truth is unpleasant, it is nonetheless in my nature to recognise it. I couldn’t delude myself that it’s not true even if I wanted to.

Well it was just a suggestion. I don’t think all of life is unpleasant for anyone, I hope not. Lincoln said “People are just about as happy as they want to be.”

I believe you make your own happiness, that is what I think.

[PBear42]

olivesmarch24, as a long-time lurker and sometimes poster on the SDMB, I’d like to say that I found your posts in this thread some of the most interesting and insightful I’ve seen. I don’t agree with everything you said, but agree with most and see wisdom and common sense even on the points where we disagree. And I wholeheartedly agree that the OP’s conflating existentialism with religion is absurd. To use his metaphor, like defining a tail as a leg.