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This is a bit depressing but I don't see any real meaning to life. We run around all our lives to acumulate crap we don't need when all we do is die. What is the point
Dude, relgion is bullshit, just another umbrella for people to hide un der when the going gets rough! Go to a party get wasted and have fun
Life has lost its meaning for me a long time ago... But I found a weird solution... I told to myself that since I don't have anything to live for, I should try help the ones that do have goals in life to achieve them, since I wouldn't lose anything anyway.
Chickie can you do me a favour and watch the movie: Zeitgeist Addendum. This movie has made me see the world from a point of view that most of us don't see in our day to day lives. Most of us are in a box that blinds us to the real happenings of our world. Let me know what you think
BOY I have done drugs. I used to drink and party with some hard stuff. I quit drinking a year ago (on May 28) cause I found it just got in the way of everything.
Ok how is it that someone who is handicapped, blind, and/or has some major tragedy happen to them can find meaning and is grateful for whatever blessings they have in their life, and yet so many healthy people who can function normally are depressed and don't see the meaning to life? The meaning of life is in how we treat other people- in the relationships in our life that matter and trying to make a difference in this world. In finding joy in the many wonderful things in life- is life painful, sad, horrible, sometimes, yes, but it's up to us as human beings to overcome the darkness and find light and create light wherever possible. I am Jewish, and my faith gives me faith in Gd and gives me purpose and meaning each day- I encourage you to find that meaning and not to give up hope that there IS an ultimate meaning to your life and humaniity and life as a whole
Listen, their is a meaning to life it's just one you probably aren't looking for. And that is to procreate and spread your genetic makeup.
Give or take we are all going to die in about 80 yrs old. *considering that you are probably around my age or younger*.
Knowing that, you have about 40~50 yrs of life that will be somewhat enjoyable *youth, girls, fun* but you will be working for the better part of it *multiply the avg amount of hours a week versus the amount of leisure time you have, and extrapolate that by 40~50 yrs and you'll see what I mean*.
If you understand the point I'm getting at then you will quickly realize that their isn't much to life, so you're right. However, about the ONLY other thing you can do other than procreate is to get yourself in the history books, you know like Napoleon, Hitler, Albert Einstein, etc.
Do something amazing, and why not? Life is like a video game score, get the highest score possible before it's game over. And more importantly DO WHAT YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT. But seriously, be as ambitious as you can until you are stopped. That's all there is to life, make babies and basically try to rule the world until you are assassinated so you can be remembered forever. I'm being serious.
Nothing lasts forever... though you can easily concive it. You don't need to do anything but live. We are an accident, life is what you would call a gift. Accept it and do with it as you wish.
The point and anser I have made for myself is that we continue for the human race. For the children. To live happy lives while building a good life for the future. Also as a game. A game to gain information and build what you can from the found information. A quest...
You may well get a different anser though. Don't be suprised if the anser changes every now and then.
Thanks Rose you truly made sence. It just bums me out how the world has the potential to feed, cloth, house, and provide real solutions for everyone on the planet and yet there are those who intetionally hold these nessesities back. The world has the ability to create heaven but instead we reward hell. What does that say about us.
I think like this sometimes too, I wonder why we bother to do anything when we just die but to me there's two reasons for it.
Firstly, it would be boring to just do nothing until we meet our maker, pop our clogs etc. and secondly, because even if we die in the end, why not live life anyway and have fun while doing it.
Although if you really feel like down about this and stuff, talking to someone will help a lot. :)
What is heaven? What do we do with eternity? Seems kinda pointless to go on forever. There would have to be an end. Again what's the point of existance?
Hey god is a cop out for those that don't have anything else to cling to!!
Yea I know what you mean... often when I get pissed of or really sad I just start to think there is not point in life. Why go to college? Why should I get good grades in school? Why Should I do anything?
The point of your life is whatever you make it. I like to have a religious sense of morality and consciousness but I'm not religious. Have fun, give it a go as long as you can. And always remember, nobody really cares unless something is in it for them or it's part of their routine.
I find solace in the idea that life has no point. If there's no point, we can just sit back and enjoy the ride.
I know exactly how you feel. What is the point to life??? I get up every day, go to work. I come home, get some work done around the house, then get ready for the next day, then go to bed. I then get up the next morning and repeat everything. This happens every day, and has been like this for over 10 years now. I sometimes work 2 jobs, which makes my life feel even less meaningful. So we slave away every day... and for what? Nothing. Bills pile up, crap happens, etc. So what's the point? That's my question as well. WHAT IS THE POINT OF LIFE?!?!?!?!?!
I fcking hate it.
Jean Paul sarte? Is that his name?
If there's no meaning to life, you make a meaning for yourself.
Options!
1) Create a why
2) Research a why
3) Settle with the fact that even though you're not around to see it, you actions have meaning. Everything you do affects future generations, for better or worse.
Regardless of what you believe, do as Zander said, be ambitions. (I think he forgot what morals are :P )
Either Zander is right or totally wrong, and it's up to all of you to either prove him wrong or right. That's the main goal in life.
Yeah , find God (: and also I felt the same way like life has no meaning and asking myself why I'm here and so on ... But I think to set a goal for yourself later In life helps , like my dream is to own hundreds of acres and grow lots and lots of grapes to have my own winery one day , and with God's help I know I can do it ! So set a goal for yourself (:
There is a point to life. I once asked the same question and I now know the answer. To know the answer is easy, just ask. When you go to bed tonight pray to god or who ever you pray to or you can meditate and from deep within your heart ask to know the truth about life and about everything. If you truly mean it, you truly will find your answer.
I will tell you what life is for anywho, you should do the excercise above to see for yourself though. Life is school for your soul. It's just like being in high school. One year you learn spanish, maybe the next year italian, and the next algebra. Life is about learning different life lessons. That person that got in a car accident and can no longer walk, its not a freak accident or because god punished them. It happened because that person was supposed to learn how to live like that. The homeless person who lives in the alley, they live that way to learn something out of it. Some people never get to have a relationship, its not a coincidence that they never had a partner, its so they can learn a lesson. Many people do not believe in reincarnation but it does in fact exist and is very real. Everytime you die, you don't die, only the physical body you are in dies but your soul continues into a new body to learn new lessons. And everytime you are born you have a new life plan which you ( your soul creates before you are born) ever heard of deja vu? that's because you are remembering that very moment. You feel like its already happened because you are remembering you set this up for yourself. You don't have to believe me, but I only speak the truth. I was my great grandmother in my last life. =0)