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I think life has no intrinsic meaning or value. the universe is so big and so is his history, our existence has no purpose and we are a little tiny point compared to everything. We're here just humans with no answers to big questions and we have this 100 years to live and we're expired. feel free to share your thoughts with me so we can discuss them.
Being happy and having fun is my purpose. Also now raising my kids to have a good life is really important to me. To have fun usually requires financial stability for us privileged Americans. So to me making good money and my kids making good money is important so we can have boats, motorcycles, and go on vacations and just live life to its fullest before we check out. Getting rich is my purpose at this very moment and then when I'm older hopefully ill be able to have more fun and enjoy it.
Life/existence is all about 'recycling'. Pure intangible spiritual energy producing atoms, then molecules, then matter, then microbes, then organisms, and more and more complex ecosystems.
Now, consider that all this product of said source energy is all supposed to go back to that original state of existence before another similar cycle of events begins.
Bringing all this into account, you'll realize you are only a minute bit of this existence (the universe and beyond,) and might think you don't matter. But the truth is you do matter, a lot, because you are part of this cycle.
Think of it this way. Life mutates to eventually fill all voids. Humans have finally achieved a level of intelligence to be the agents in this propagation of life into the heavens. Just to start, you could cook up some extremophile green bacteria that would survive in the cool cloud tops of Venus. This is not an easy task, but in fifty years or so, our nearest sister planet could look green in the night sky. COSMIC GRAFFITI, man.
I'm only just getting started here. Go to the Virtual Astrobiology Society on Facebook. These guys have big plans for the next million years of our Milky Way galaxy. Unlike you, they are taking the best shot they have got at touching eternity.
I suggest checking out Isaac Arthur on YouTube. He's a physicist and futurist dedicated to producing videos on the future of the galaxy, humanity, AI, extraterrestrials, and how the universe will likely be at various stages in the future. It's along the lines of what you described.
As a futurist myself, I believe it's entirely possible to eventually transcend suffering and even death. I think it's possible to master physics and mathematics to such an extent that science is essentially an already-written book and that what we do with technology becomes essentially an art.
I see room for an amazing future. That said, I'm still essentially a nihilist in the technical sense. I don't believe life has a "meaning" or "purpose" inherent to it, but that doesn't mean that we can't find our own purposes and have a blast.
Also, existentialism is absolute nonsense. You do not and cannot give something meaning just because you personally think it's meaningful. Nihilism argues that there is no objective meaning. that's it and that is very much a fact.
I've been a nihilist for so many years and it honestly made me a lot happier. There is no purpose and doing something you personally like or want to do in your life is not purpose. The universe is still meaningless. Your personal "purpose" is not going to change that. What you think of the universe is meaningless. Once you understand that, everything becomes a lot easier. Just do what you want (as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else).:)
Yeah of course it doesn't, you have to create your own meaning. It's apparently too hard for many people to take any responsibility and understand this.
I think that sometimes but I at least try to be positive even when I feel that there is no point. Its why I picked up some hobbies that I enjoy.
Eh, I think just figuring out how to make your life the best it can be for you is what's important. I've never really searched for a bigger meaning, to be honest.