There is no meaning of life. We just exist, and die. And life goes on, and on, and on. For million, billion of years, etc etc etc.
We are just a speck of dust in the vast universe, in the grand scheme of things.
Of course, 90% (or 99%?) of people (human beings) will always try to find or give ‘meaning/purpose’ in their own insignificant lives, because the reason is simple: it’s survival instinct. Human beings (people) will (usually) try to keep living, keep surviving, no matter what. It’s evolutionary. It’s in human nature.
Even if it means people (humans) will create anything as their toxic positivity & optimism bias, especially in today’s world/era.
But it all still doesn’t make it true.
It’s just delusions, illusions, fantasy, wishful-thinking, & human’s futile hope, wishes, imaginations, dreams, expectations, theories, etc etc etc
But it’s not the harsh reality/truth/facts, because people don’t want to hear the harsh reality/truth/fact. People only want to hear good things only (most people), even if it’s in their own denial, ignorance, blind faith, naivety, simple-mindedness, & stupidity.
There is no meaning of life.
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I believe most people search for meaning and by extension go on to believe in various theologies to escape one dark reality. That we exist for a tiny blib and are then gone…it only sratches the surface. When this blib is to – under pain of death – be wasted on that which brings us closer to suffering and things our free will tries to avoid, the situation gets grim.
I think people would just live life and forget about a desperate search for meaning if we weren’t ransomed to slavery to be allowed to live in the first place. We waste our time in order to be allowed to have time that must be wasted. And so when subjected to a world which can be interpreted as the inverse of meaning we compensate by trying to find meaning, whatever that is.
A single life wasted on social obligation and making some CEO rich feels less of a ‘try not to kill yourself’ challenge when we entertain the possiblility of magic, deities, higher purpose, afterlife etc.
even if we live in a time before govt, rich ppl and corporations that steal everything from us, before “civilization”- we, as individuals, still did not have a purpose. as a collective species, our goal is to multiply. but to what end? all the organisms out there, their goal is to survive and to propagate. rinse and repeat. but to what end? only to have a stronger something rip you to shreds and eat you? all of life seem meaningless.
“The Meaning of Life is What You Make of it.” – Anonymous
*bling bling, clap clap*
Just fooling.. I don’t see a meaning either. Except breeding well, maybe. But even that, isn’t that the genes’ meaning programmed into us meat robots’? I guess the best we can do is stop asking why and just do the genes’ bidding.
meat robots. ha, i guess that’s exactly what our corporate overlords think of us.
even our genes meaning is ridiculous- so we live only to procreate, and then die. and for what? for our progeny to then live to procreate, and then die. just what is the point of it all? yes, i understand evolution and survival of the fittest. but to what end? nothing. it all comes to being the biggest, baddest strongest, only to get your head bitten off by something bigger badder and stronger. O_o
I feel like meaning in life is like science done in non competitive grants. As in I can understand how other people might believe in it, but it’s done after the fact isn’t it? Every time I hear someone talk about how they found worthwhile life, it’s not any inherent truth to the universe, it’s rationalization. We have to rationalize, because we’re tilting about with brains that evolved to survive living in caves and barely scraping by nutritionally. We’re way too well off for what we’re designed for, designer or not, a development process happened, and it didn’t anticipate refrigerators, televisions and computers.
maybe it’s unique, the grasping for meaning I’ve seen. The best example is when I came across software development modalities. Now that’s quite a bit of jargon for a bunch of BS that some people with PhDs did to justify the research grants they got. None of it is actually meaningful, or has any practical use. But somewhere a professor managed to keep his research grant another year (it’s computer science, almost certainly a “he”… and it’s academia. There’s a whole sexism rant there that we don’t have time for), and he got to feed his family on that money, so maybe that’s all the justification it needs?
Then university students are paid with grades and degrees to memorize this useless dreck.
I think the illusion is more persistant elsewhere, but everything is that meaningless. There’s money in it, pretending it matters. Look at religion!
Organic Life exists because non-organic life cannot create METHANE with any other process except the messy digestive systems of organic life.
So when the topic comes up I always automatically say I am processing carbon into methane as fast as organically possible and that is all the fulfillment or meaning we will ever get.
What happens after we die?
Lots of stuff it just doesn’t involve us
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