If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?
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I did it the other way around. Still hit me like a truck. Damn you Camus.
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Afraid? No, I'm male.
Disgusted by so much backwards dullness? Totally.
Baffled by the amount of people believing in imaginary sky-daddies because they're too weak to handle reality on their own? All the time.
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It's about control of the peasants. Like every other cult. "Study" harder
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I like laughing and having sex (which I definitely have a lot of all the time I swear)
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I forgot how good HxH is. Need to rewatch it again sometime.
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Curiosity.
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The point is whatever we choose for ourselves. Just because we eventually die doesn't mean living isn't worth it. I don't care that one day I'll eventually die, I enjoy living now.
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Good answer.
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Paraphrasing something I read somewhere "Do we open a book just to close it again?" That for me, it means that it is not merely for doing something that we exist, but to tell stories, to pass on knowledge, to keep rituals alive, to be a vessel for something beyond ourselves. The important part, same as books, is to tell stories. Everything sparks from there.
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Weak? Dull? Peasant?
Give me a break.
In your "reality", your life holds as much value as that of a lump of dog excrement.
And you have the nerve to call people "weak".
No wonder, atheists never created any civilisation. After all, what's the meaning of life, when it is all a giant accident? -
Somehow I'm not able to believe it.
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I fuck trust me
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Your single existence might be ephemeral, but humanity isn’t, your community isn’t, and possibly your family either
It is though. Life has existed on this planet for just under 4 Billion years and in that time over 99% of all species to have ever come into existence have gone extinct.
Your community & family are no less ephemeral than the life you yourself live, but you won't get to see any of that.
If we lose trust in our community or in humanity in general
I never had a reason to trust them to begin with, tbh.
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Existential crisis moment:
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Something doesn't have to exist forever to have meaning, that seems like a holdover from utopic afterlife religious indoctrination.
We can enjoy a movie or a lunch knowing it will end, I can pursue meaning and find multiple purposes throughout a lifetime.
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Why does there need to be a point?
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To enjoy the chemical pleasures that life has to offer, in its fullest.
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There is no point, you make it yourself. And plenty of people manage to catch a glimpse of happiness because there's plenty to be happy about.
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We're all just stories in the end.
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There is no point, we don't exist for a reason, we're just a thing that happened in the universe by random chance.
That's not an inherently bad thing though, heck, the concept of "bad" isn't even "real", it's just an invention we came up with.
But I digress. We must find out own purpose and meaning in life, it won't be handed to us. Think of the journey as a fun ride with no rules, there are no gods, the universe doesn't judge you, you are unique and weird and amazing and can interact with the universe in ways no gigantic star or powerful black hole ever could.
