I’m a very realistic logical thinking person so naturally I think — Mtl4life098
I feel my issues and lack of self worth or drive for more or better or happiness all stem from being young and thinking hard about death. — Mtl4life098
:death: :flower:There is no future but the present. — 180 Proof
And so we feel "nothing matters, nothing ever done, said, made, or valued matters" ... until experience compels us to reflect, recognizing that 'if "nothing matters", then "nothing matters" also does not matter'. :smirk:I feel my issues and lack of self worth or drive for more or better or happiness all stem from being young and thinking hard about death. Like really dwelling on the fact that it’ll all just be over and everything and anything we’ve done gone and eventually forgotten. I feel it’s always been in the back of my head and holding me down. — Mtl4life098
Defiance ("To be" – without ready-made purpose (i.e. create 'eternity')) or denial (i.e. "not to be" – without ready-made purpose (i.e. waste/kill 'time')).So I ask you.....what do you think? Is there an actual purpose or point to life or living?
Or a social worker, a judge, or a parole officer. Or a mob boss. To name a few.A question that might be helpful at this juncture is: would you rather have a purpose that you decided for yourself than have a purpose assigned to you by someone else, a god perhaps? — TheMadFool
That's not true, though. It is, for example, not solely within the power of the individual to become a billionaire, a president of a country, or the one who cured cancer.If the former then you're completely free to choose whatever you want to do with your life and that would be your purpose.
Is there an actual purpose or point to life or living? — Mtl4life098
That's not true, though. It is, for example, not solely within the power of the individual to become a billionaire, a president of a country, or the one who cured cancer. — baker
Is there an actual purpose or point to life or living? — Mtl4life098
A good idea indeed but...wait... isn't he now asking for help from others in order to improve himself? — Rafaelsanchez53
OK, one won't find the solution but could at least start to figure out how to tackle this kind of problems by discussing about them with others, I guess we both agree about this and I also share with you the good intentions. Your reasoning is of course correct but in the real world we both know the fate of saying to people "don't do this, do the opposite". — Rafaelsanchez53
Your last equation doesn't work in real life, I can eat chocolate, have sex, have a drink... and get lots and lots of pleasure with little or no effort. — Rafaelsanchez53
I think the great challenge for each of us is to use what gifts we do possess for the collective good, — Pantagruel
I'm not unfamiliar with sensual pleasures, they eventually wear thin. — Pantagruel
200 years of capitalism suggests otherwise. The repeated, and often genocidal failures of communism, suggests otherwise. Man tends his own garden best. In 1776, Adam Smith explained that the self interested actions of rational economic actors are coordinated "as if by an invisible hand" - not by some conscious intention to serve the common good. — counterpunch
to learn, to teach, to love, and to be loved — Pfhorrest
I feel my issues and lack of self worth or drive for more or better or happiness all stem from being young and thinking hard about death. — Mtl4life098
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