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So I live each day, work, pay bills, watch movies etc. But I always feel like I am doing all this stuff just to pass the time by, like reading a magazine in a doctors office while I wait.
I don't see any real meaning to life.
To go a little further in my explanation.
I see this world and everyone/everything in it as nothing more than a simulation game. Like we all just went to an amusement park called Earth and plugged into the game. While we are plugged in we live a meaningless simulation life as a human being, complete with all the feelings and emotions etc of a 'real' life. The game has no real purpose, just live and have fun, maybe fall in love etc until either the simulation completes a life cycle or the game ends your life with an event.
Its all meaningless and empty really. We end up getting joy from empty hollow things like being consumers, getting high, having sex and experiencing dramatic events.
Ever heard of the game the Sims? It's more exiteing than my real life. I can live out my wildest fantasies like have a job or house.
Since you have no life, you must live vicariously thru other people. So, do this. Become invisible, stalk interesting people and observe them having affairs, brokering power, and playing the chess game that determines the future of civilization.
Could you handle a billionaire's role in the game of life?
Could I handle a Billionaires role?
I'd only be more bored.
My problem is I truly see this world as a meaningless holding tank. Being a Billionaire would mean just more junk...maybe great for the average shallow minded fool. But I am not impressed by the material trappings of this world and the capitalistic mentality of buy, buy, buy.
Interesting people? There are none, just mindless, predictable fools...your power brokers and cheaters etc all fit this...
For Darwinian selection to work, unfit genes (like yours) must be excluded from future generations.
If you quit your job, isolate yourself from other people, become fat and sedentary, you will facilitate this process. And, the comfort of your mild depression will feel good.
Don't hold back - but a Tshirt advertising your enlightened goal and darwinate yourself today!
I think that's normal, modern life is pretty empty and alienating.
Believe it or not, the question of meaning in life has comparatively recently (30 years ago or so) become a subject of direct and serious discussion in philosophy and a lot of interesting ideas on what, if anything, makes life meaningful have come forth. The most popular theory amongst philosophers who have tackled the issue seems to be naturalistic hybrid objectivism, which proposes that subjective satisfaction with an objectively good and worthwhile pursuit (such as moral action, creativity, human relations, and knowledge) is what confers meaning onto life-- no supernatural entities required.
I believe that this position is correct, but the issue is that the way modern life is structured makes it difficult for anyone to obtain subjective satisfaction with their life-- most of it is spent working meaningless jobs cut off from any opportunity to create or feel like you're helping people.
Personally, I have found that smiling at and striking conversations with people and living life more "cinematically" has made my life much more meaningful.
Still doing all of this smiling, conversing, worth while pursuits, etc are all distractions. Its just doing different things to find clever ways to pass the time.
Ultimately a purely hedonistic lifestyle seems to be the answer. Live life full blast with a balance of pursuit of pure pleasure in every sense and moderation to prolong the experience.
Distractions from what? And in what way are worthwhile pursuits and conversation merely distractions, but pure hedonism isn't? I'm not saying that hedonism is necessarily bad or anything-- the famous Greek philosopher Epicurus laid out a life philosophy very similar to your own conception of the "answer"-- what I am trying to ask is how is hedonism not a distraction to you when you think the things I listed were?
I always found it better if life had no meaning. If there was a meaning and you managed to achieve that - then what?
Human creations have no meaning. We destroy everything we touch. We give meaning to racism, prejudice, hate and so on. We kill each other and any other life that we find. Some of us even feel good when we kill or hurt someone or something else. We ostracize others to give meaning to our meaningless lives. We think we are superior to all other life. Instead of developing a meaningful potential, we value money, competition, status, others opinions and so on. We pretend we are not evil by saying we are Christian, Muslim, Jewish etc. we are the evil on this planet. Until we get beyond the belief that materialism has meaning, our lives will forever be meaningless. Until we understand we are part and not the part our lives will forever be meaningless.
I am an observer in life not a doer. I wish I could turn invisible and go anywhere to watch people do whatever it is they do with their lives.
There is no "deeper meaning" behind life. All of us are simply in existence due to the collision of sperm cells with ovum cells. All of us will die, decompose and be forgotten over time.
that's what darwinist science teaches. you're only repeating secular biology teachers thoughts and attitudes.
Hey Steve-o. The phenomenon of life has more extensive meanings, with vast implications. For example, evolutionary pressure will eventually force life into all voids. There are a few other esoteric meanings, but I cannot share them here where the masses, with their poor judgement and ignorant ways might hear. I am sworn to the secrecy of one-in-a-thousand.
Life sucks unless you make it not suck.. Easy to say hard to do, of course. My life is lame because I don't see a point I'm doing things. I work, go home, just exist, work, go home.. It never ends. But I'm actually content with this for now.
Life is what you make of it nothing more. Sounds like you put very little into it so of course you won't get much or anything out of it.
I've never seen any meaning in life either. I just try to stay occupied and make the best of it.