so liek wat u guise think iz meaning of lief? 42? lol
but seriously what is the meaning to life? recently was reading Tolstoy's confessions for the sake of sating knowledge and it also happens to be one of sources I am using for my PHL 430 class.
anyway Tolstoy proposes that everyone asks the question what is the meaning of life? these questions drive us to the edge of course many of you are younger and don't have to deal with ideas of death etc.
finally he proposes that the meaning to life is indeed faith, which is why we see many people turn to religion and faith as to provide meaning to existence
if you find no meaning in life then i ask you the same thing, what prevents you from just killing yourself right now?
You want to know the one thing that keeps me from killing myself? It's simple really. The only reason I don't kill myself is because I see those who kill themselves to escape worldly problems as weak. They are cowardly, weak human beings, and I hold nothing but contempt for them. That is the only thing that keeps me from loading up a shotgun, placing the barrel under my chin, and pulling the trigger. Because I think that you should at least live the entirety of your human existance. If you are to weak to do that, sure, go ahead, kill yourself. I would much rather see you giving the mortuary director a source of income rather than see you be a spineless sniveling wimp.
I also don't see anything such as "attempted suicide." You either have the tiny balls to kill yourself, or you are too ***** to even accomplish that and you say "I tried to kill myself. Give me attention because I have problems."
the meaning of life is that it is a gateway to the afterlife and that depending on a persons behavior in this world is how he gets rewarded in the next.
I am going to go back to my original post. Assume we are animals just like every other living thing on the planet. They don't have a point to life besides survival. Why should we be any different? I think the way our brains handle reality may make it difficult to understand some things and we make it 100x more complex than it ought to be? I would say life is pretty pointless, but I would not go and kill myself just because I think that, that was a pretty terrible way to put it. I still want to have fun and laugh and love and all the good stuff while I still can!
The only reason I don't kill myself is because I see those who kill themselves to escape worldly problems as weak
so your meaning would derive from looking down upon those who resort to the weakness of taking their own life and by extension you would live for the sake of living through life as an experience
Strange considering how so many of our youth are complete jerks.
But they do eventually become mature, that is after all the process of growing up.
@OP
I can see how people would see the need for faith to provide a reason to our existence. However in my opinion, there isn't a meaning to our lives, we are born, we exist, and eventually, we die. The only reason we even question our existence is because a hundred million years ago, we won the evolution lottery. It was nothing but chance, it could've happened to apes just as easily, and we would be the ones swinging in the tree branches and hurling feces.
That aside, the meaning of life, is something we as individuals have to create, I don't believe that there is any set purpose for our selves. It is our actions in the insignificant amount of time we live, that provide us with a reason for our existence.
and we would be the ones swinging in the tree branches and hurling feces.
I can imagine people who would do that kind of thing.
But I do agree with the rest of your post. Personally I had hopes and dreams. Ambitions and ideologies since I was little, and the fact that I won't live forever didnt change that for me at all. I see no problem with that, infact if anything it only makes my limited time here on earth more valuable. Everyone just remember your childhood, your childish ambitions and dreams for the future. There really is no need to overthink it and cloud your judgement with fear. Really if you must find meaning in everything, then everything ultimately becomes meaningless. Just enjoy the ride.
I can imagine people who would do that kind of thing.
...Are they drunk or sober? You can't blame them for actions caused by intoxication.
Exactly, although methinks you stated it better than I ever could. Essentially yes, a person is nothing but the sum of their memories, ambitions, dreams, etc. Those things are what give meaning to my life.
so your meaning would derive from looking down upon those who resort to the weakness of taking their own life and by extension you would live for the sake of living through life as an experience
Exactly. It was nice of you to put it into concice wording.
Why not live life as an experience? It is the only one you will ever have, so enjoy it.
The meaning of my life is what i plan on doing with it. I plan on helping others because i know i'm very fortunate while others are suffering. So my plan is to be a scientist make alot of money off of benefical inventions and then donate most of riches to charity.
