The meaning of life

[The Blaatschapen]

Hey! I pay taxes, I don't cheat on that certainty in my life.

2 out of 3 is a win in my book.

I've never been a person to want it all

[Internationalist Bastard]

There is none, you gotta find one

Why? Can't you just live without a purpose?

You can but I’ve been in that void for so long I can’t see how someone can do and be healthy

[Ethel mermania]

Why? Can't you just live without a purpose?

You can but I’ve been in that void for so long I can’t see how someone can do and be healthy

If you make up a purpose there is still no purpose, you are just clinging to a fiction.

[Jraden]

The meaning of life is to watch every single MCU movie.

[Internationalist Bastard]

You can but I’ve been in that void for so long I can’t see how someone can do and be healthy

If you make up a purpose there is still no purpose, you are just clinging to a fiction.

Yup, but it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless and how badly I crave an end

[Ethel mermania]

If you make up a purpose there is still no purpose, you are just clinging to a fiction.

Yup, but it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless and how badly I crave an end

Tbh, it is what most people do.

[Jraden]

Real talk, the real meaning of life is to laugh at a bunch of depressed, nihilist losers online.

[Internationalist Bastard]

Yup, but it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless and how badly I crave an end

Tbh, it is what most people do.

Most people are suicidal?

[Internationalist Bastard]

Real talk, the real meaning of life is to laugh at a bunch of depressed, nihilist losers online.

Glad I bring some joy

[Ethel mermania]

Tbh, it is what most people do.

Most people are suicidal?

I wish. But I meant this part of what you said

"...it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless..."

[Internationalist Bastard]

Most people are suicidal?

I wish. But I meant this part of what you said

"...it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless..."

I don’t know how most people can do that then

[The Blaatschapen]

I wish. But I meant this part of what you said

"...it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless..."

I don’t know how most people can do that then

Escapism.

Or, as we call it in modern day parlance : Netflix and chill.

[Internationalist Bastard]

I don’t know how most people can do that then

Escapism.

Or, as we call it in modern day parlance : Netflix and chill.

Escapism has never worked for me

[The Earth Systems Alliance]

If you make up a purpose there is still no purpose, you are just clinging to a fiction.

Yup, but it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless and how badly I crave an end

Not all is meaningless. You make someone crack a smile, well you have done something. We live in hard times, financially and maybe culturally. But it's up to us to fix this bloody mess, we are the ones living in it.

[Earthbound Immortal Squad]

That is a question which will probably never have a definitive answer and that's probably for the best too.

[The Blaatschapen]

Escapism.

Or, as we call it in modern day parlance : Netflix and chill.

Escapism has never worked for me

I can't help there.
sorry

[Internationalist Bastard]

Yup, but it’s more comforting than my normal day to day thinking of everything being meaningless and how badly I crave an end

Not all is meaningless. You make someone crack a smile, well you have done something. We live in hard times, financially and maybe culturally. But it's up to us to fix this bloody mess, we are the ones living in it.

Nah, human happiness is a fleeting, impermanent concept that is so insignificant we often have to trick ourselves to be happy in order to feel it

[Kubumba Tribe]

https://legacy.quran.com/57/20

Um... Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone? A single tear has rolled down my cheek.

What does that have to do with my post?

https://legacy.quran.com/57/20

"Mama ooohhhh didn't mean to make you cry.
Lay down your life and submit to Allah."

Is my favourite Queen lyric.

1: did she really say that?
2: what does that have to do with my post?

[Internationalist Bastard]

Escapism has never worked for me

I can't help there.
sorry

Eh
I’ve hit a point where I just know I’ll never be happy, but I won’t kill myself, so I just kinda coast

[Valgora]

Um... Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone? A single tear has rolled down my cheek.

What does that have to do with my post?

"Mama ooohhhh didn't mean to make you cry.
Lay down your life and submit to Allah."

Is my favourite Queen lyric.

1: did she really say that?
2: what does that have to do with my post?

Do you know who Queen is?

[The South Falls]

By the way, this was obligatory.

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Open your eyes, look up to the skies, and seee

[Valgora]

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Open your eyes, look up to the skies, and seee

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy

[The Blaatschapen]

I can't help there.
sorry

Eh
I’ve hit a point where I just know I’ll never be happy, but I won’t kill myself, so I just kinda coast

That's okay too

[Beylik of Tunis]

It's the question isn't it? What is the meaning of life?

I have been thinking about it a lot. And I think I know the answer. It's different for everyone. But for me, it's to be happy as possible all the time and to make everyone around you as happy as possible.

It works for both theistic and non theistic points of view.

If there isn't a god, and the only thing after death is just an endless stream of nothing, then you might as well have as much fun and happiness as possible.

You won't be here in the world forever, so make the most of it while you can.

If there is a god, and after death is endless paradise, then making the children of god happy is only a positive thing.

Making others happy can be as simple as cheering them up when they feel blue, to giving a starving man food.

Christianity says that "Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God."

Loving our neighbor and loving god and all his creations can be interpreted as making others happy.

In either event, that is what life means to me.

It only makes a positive impact in the world.

But what does life mean to you? Has my way of looking at things changed your mind?

Why ask this question to begin with? We assume it’s timeless, that it is, as you put it, THE question, but its a surprisingly recent question. We can assume that in the present there is something absent which causes us to ask this question, something people in the past had that we don’t. You can say religion, but maybe it’s more due to the fact that survival was the meaning of life, whereas in today’s consumer society everything seems laid out for us. And that is it, the meaning of life is to survive, some of us get bored because survival is not a day to day struggle and then start asking questions like ‘what is the meaning of life?’ Because we like to think life has some higher enlightened/civilized/artsy purpose and we’re afraid that it doesn’t why? Because it’s boring.


How is it that you can interpret the Christian imperative to love thy neighbor as equating to making everyone happy? A parent might punish a child for playing with a loaded weapon, but this certainly isn’t making the child happy. Does that mean that the parent, concerned for the child’s welfare, is not loving?

[Sovaal]

Reproduction.