What if you found out your purpose in life was meaningless?

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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There is no meaning to life, life just is. It exists, you exist, we exist just because. Because of the natural interactions between chemicals over time. Your life began just like it'll end, in the sea of oblivion. The chemical reactions that make up your body, mind, and consciousness will eventually cease and you won't exist, as you. What you're made of will still exist, but you won't. Wrap your head around that.

How does that make you feel, and why?
 
New Age United

New Age United

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I am becoming more and more nihilistic in my beliefs and it is actually coming as quite a relief. It is primitive thinking that has the need and desire for purpose and meaning; all my life I was searching for the meaning of life and until a few years ago it never occurred to me that life could be absolutely meaningless. Now that I have deduced that in fact it very well may be, It is liberating, it gives me the freedom to enjoy life rather than chasing dead ends around in my mind.
 
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BrewerT

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New Age United said:
I am becoming more and more nihilistic in my beliefs and it is actually coming as quite a relief. It is primitive thinking that has the need and desire for purpose and meaning; all my life I was searching for the meaning of life and until a few years ago it never occurred to me that life could be absolutely meaningless. Now that I have deduced that in fact it very well may be, It is liberating, it gives me the freedom to enjoy life rather than chasing dead ends around in my mind.
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Amen!
 
Cheesy Bo' Greesy

Cheesy Bo' Greesy

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I wouldnt call it meaningless however I also wouldnt call it as obnoxiously important as some extremely disconnected/overly egotistical individuals seem to perceive their existence as being.

Truth is we are a tiny speck in a phenomenally vast universe. We come and then go about as quickly as a soil microbe ... In the grand scheme of things we are but an infinitesimal, split second, spark.

So make the very best of it!

Remember: cool is for fools but sincere knowledge, in ALL of its forms, promotes freedom.
 
Heisenberg

Heisenberg

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I agree with your premise. I don't agree with your conclusion. Those things do not indicate that life has no meaning, but rather that meaning dies with you like everything else. Meaning is just another part of your identity. In the same way that your preferences, your tastes for foods, your favorite songs, your pet peeves, are part of your identity. You've always known that those things will die when you die. If that hasn't ever bothered you, then it shouldn't bother you that meaning dies as well. Meaning is finite, but not non-existent.

Also like your preferences, some of the stuff that means something to you is going to mean something to other people as well. If your accomplishments and actions and the way you live your life means something to you, chances are that they are always going to mean something to someone.
 
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3GT

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I grew up atheistic thinking there was no meaning to life and it was horrible I felt cheated to be conscious of my own experience yet be told I wasn't aloud to stay for long, then you're NOTHING. I think it's just the same as how religions where used for control, now atheism/nihilism is used to create a religion of the self/capitalism.

I believe we have nothing to do but love, experience, play or whatever we want to do with no seriousness about ourselves at all. Were the dancing loving jesters of the universe here to love :D

Maybe I've tripped way too hard! This shit is way more than just some random nihilistic bullshit haha take a look around!
 
New Age United

New Age United

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3GT said:
I grew up atheistic thinking there was no meaning to life and it was horrible I felt cheated to be conscious of my own experience yet be told I wasn't aloud to stay for long, then you're NOTHING. I think it's just the same as how religions where used for control, now atheism/nihilism is used to create a religion of the self/capitalism.

I believe we have nothing to do but love, experience, play or whatever we want to do with no seriousness about ourselves at all. Were the dancing loving jesters of the universe here to love :D

Maybe I've tripped way too hard! This shit is way more than just some random nihilistic bullshit haha take a look around!
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And what exactly should I be looking for? Can you explain to me how you are able to see meaning? I mean can you actually see it in the visual sense? I am looking around; I see beauty everywhere I look but no meaning whatsoever. Does meaning not require thought? Can't I construct and apply whatever meaning I like to something, anything, and therefore is it not just a figment of my imagination?
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best

And always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing

why does there have to be meaning to life? isn't the joy you get out of it enough to give it meaning? maybe the point to life is just trying to get it right....
 
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3GT

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That's the problem with science being the new religion..

We need a new religion! Its called Human.
New Age United said:
And what exactly should I be looking for? Can you explain to me how you are able to see meaning? I mean can you actually see it in the visual sense? I am looking around; I see beauty everywhere I look but no meaning whatsoever. Does meaning not require thought? Can't I construct and apply whatever meaning I like to something, anything, and therefore is it not just a figment of my imagination?
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Everything, stair at dirt for all it matters "god" is everywhere/all. I can see meaning in experiencing anything. You can definitely assign meaning to anything you like and that will be true to your experience, not that you can't be deceived! Hell only exists in our minds and we create it, becausd were taught to not see meaning in everything from the second were born and language is used to trap our soul deep in our subconscious.
 
cat of curiosity

cat of curiosity

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3GT said:
That's the problem with science being the new religion..

We need a new religion! Its called Human.

Everything, stair at dirt for all it matters "god" is everywhere/all. I can see meaning in experiencing anything. You can definitely assign meaning to anything you like and that will be true to your experience, not that you can't be deceived! Hell only exists in our minds and we create it, becausd were taught to not see meaning in everything from the second were born and language is used to trap our soul deep in our subconscious.
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what strain are you growing?
 
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