Our reason for being is to become.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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I agree with this and would like to open it out a little. To evolve morally we need to be as free as possible, freedom of the press and other media, open government and justiciary, freedom of speech and of assembly. Freedom from repression and from state rule by terror.Freedom to help others to be free from poverty,ignorance, repression and terror.Our reason for being is to become.
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The argument is not logically sound. If a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan can cause a tornado in Kansas, our actions can make a difference, too. I'm not sure what you mean by "true" difference -- but any difference is a true difference. it does not logically follow that because we cannot do everything, we cannot do anything; nor that because we haven't the power or skill to dramatically alter the world, we haven't the power or skill to alter it.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?
Here's a paragraph about the idealisic Dorothea, who wants to "make a true difference", but whose life goes in a different direction than she planned. It's the last paragraph of George Eliot's "Middlemarch", one of the cannonical novels of the English language:
(Cyrus, legend has it, divided a river into small channels so his army could cross.)Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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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?
This post seems like depression gone awry and a cry for help. This poster has not posted anywhere since. If you return, please seek medical attention. Let us know how you are.
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The meaning of life may not be immediately apparent, but it's out there. If nothing else, the meaning of life is called into being when people search for it. Life resists death. It resist entropy. It resists nihilism. It resists the thermodynamic inevitability of a universe coming to rest, cooling off, and falling apart.Spiral Out wrote: Meaning is not inherent to life itself.
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perceptually, yes.Theophane wrote:
The meaning of life may not be immediately apparent, but it's out there. If nothing else, the meaning of life is called into being when people search for it. Life resists death. It resist entropy. It resists nihilism. It resists the thermodynamic inevitability of a universe coming to rest, cooling off, and falling apart.
practically, no.
meaning can be thought to be found and then lost from that thought. if meaning comes from a place where questions only come, and answers never are found, then to say that we can locate meaning would be a stretch.
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I suspect that you don't want life to have meaning.HIHIHIHIHI wrote: meaning can be thought to be found and then lost from that thought. if meaning comes from a place where questions only come, and answers never are found, then to say that we can locate meaning would be a stretch.
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