There is no meaning to life
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Regarding the meaning of life, I believe in God so meaning is clear.
Apologies if that sounds trite it is not meant to be, I just accept some dimensions are beyond our understanding. I applaud your deconstructive stance, guess I am too afraid to look too deep
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Living more time wouldn't change anything. And you don't really care about that, you just want something for real life, something you care about, you suffer, and you ask youself why should you keep suffering. Maybe facing the true problem would be better, and the true problem is never being a mortal.Alphabravo123 wrote:Nothing we do matters at all. Our short physical existences are but a micro fraction of the blink of an eye in the face of time. Therefore, no emotion or action can make any true difference, seeing as our society will last at the most only a few million years. Our corpses will have turned to ash, disintegrated, and have been reabsorbed and redistributed by the universe myriads of times, and any insignificant deed will be forgotten. In light of this knowledge, I implore you, what reason is there to exist at all? How can we justify our lives when they are so inconsequential in vast scope of this entire metaphysical plane?
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Moreover, meaninglessness is fun! The best things are meaningless: music, juggling, games. Life becomes a game rather than a chore when we accept that it is meaningless.
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Numerous spiritual heroes of Hermann Hesse novels would agree :)BelieveNothing wrote:All i want to say is "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom".
In a nutshell: Pious beginnings, restlessness, rebellion, life experience, hardship, realisation that fun doesn't last, then a return to piety, but this time the hero is happy with the quiet life because he got the FOMO out of his system.
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A few million years of this society (good god, I hope not...unless we actually start teaching kids about paths to enlightenment and such)? I think you meant our "species" did you not?Alphabravo123 wrote:Therefore, no emotion or action can make any true difference, seeing as our society will last at the most only a few million years.
I have yet to figure out a "reason" for existence, but I do accept that I am "here" for the time being and maybe my entire "purpose" is to figure out my own "reason".Alphabravo123 wrote:...what reason is there to exist at all? How can we justify our lives when they are so inconsequential in vast scope of this entire metaphysical plane?
And I guess that is the problem...no one can tell me what my "reason" or "purpose" is. I have to figure it out and struggle with it on my own...although I hope I will always have people around to seek answers with as well.
As for "justifying" my life...I see no reason to "justify" anything. It just "is".
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First you have to be interested enough to read things that are both difficult and insightful. The way you frame your concerns suggests you have not read philosophers who could actually say something interesting about justifying our Being here. It all goes to what you have read. Buber? Levinas? Kierkegaard? Schelling? Fichte? So many hugely important philosophers on this, but do your thoughts head in the direction of the themes they lay out for us? Have you read any Ralph Waldo Emerson? Thoreau? How about Wordsworth? Or Emily Dickinson? Walt Whitman?AlphaBravo123:
Nothing we do matters at all. Our short physical existences are but a micro fraction of the blink of an eye in the face of time. Therefore, no emotion or action can make any true difference, seeing as our society will last at the most only a few million years. Our corpses will have turned to ash, disintegrated, and have been reabsorbed and redistributed by the universe myriads of times, and any insignificant deed will be forgotten. In light of this knowledge, I implore you, what reason is there to exist at all? How can we justify our lives when they are so inconsequential in vast scope of this entire metaphysical plane?
There's an ocean of response to your question. Go swimming.
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"Nothing we do matters at all. Our short physical existences are but a micro fraction of the blink of an eye in the face of time. Therefore, no emotion or action can make any true difference, seeing as our society will last at the most only a few million years. Our corpses will have turned to ash, disintegrated, and have been reabsorbed and redistributed by the universe myriads of times, and any insignificant deed will be forgotten. In light of this knowledge, I implore you, what reason is there to exist at all? How can we justify our lives when they are so inconsequential in vast scope of this entire metaphysical plane?"
To say that nothing we do matters at all, is true in one sense, but false in another. Beethoven wrote music, but he is now long dead, so for him personally, it does not matter that he wrote music. However, I enjoy listening to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, so it matters to me that he wrote music and perhaps to someone else 100 years from now.
Time, is a human concept which simply does not exist in nature. All there ever has been and all there ever will be is the present moment, which we call "now". It does not arrive, nor does it depart, it is eternally "here".
It matters not, how long the dinosaur's wandered the earth or how long humanity will survive. Even the Sun itself will die, completely engulfing the Earth during it's death, leaving the planet a scorched rock floating through space.
We are here and it is now, that's all we will ever need to know.
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A difficult thing to grasp, given that the present moment never actually shows up. Even as you put it down in print, there is no outside of time. A very unusual piece of metaphysics, this "here and now."Present Awareness:
Time, is a human concept which simply does not exist in nature. All there ever has been and all there ever will be is the present moment, which we call "now". It does not arrive, nor does it depart, it is eternally "here".
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Re: There is no meaning to life
we all beings of any kind
are sort of prisoners of infinity
via its by-product
its recursive quality
let's call it
the all or change
or the indefinite
Which is
self-annihilating
not to counterpose
infinity itself
in so doing
letting beings
each other appear
and disappear
like equations
life are given
and superficial noise
in the silence of zero
which all self-annihilating
relative numbers
lets contingently be
As I see it
the inclusive view
is terrible
pure tragedy
Yet
to be able to make
human choices
I believe
is better than
e.g. animals' ones
because
human intelligence
with time
can make
less afflicted
areas of the all
available
for a while at least
In conclusion
my current best judgement
runs as follows
Think positive
or you'll suffer
more
That's our meaning
what else
?!?
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