If nothing happens after we die, what's the point of it all?
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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.
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Just for the sake of the thought you'd actually be willing to talk about this (which i highly doubt, as your nick already hints at):
YOU assume life has no meaning because it's an accident. Why does it even HAVE to have a meaning? Why can't it just be? So your brain can make "sense" of it all?
Also no one's life holds any intrinsic value at all. And only because you joined some cult and follow some abitrary rules (that the next cult of the same flavour does totally different, so who's "right" to begin with?) doesn't give your life value. To this planet you're as valuable as a leaf or said excrement. Which is, in fact, way more useful for nature than YOU are or ever will be.Weak? Yeah of course. How else would you call it when someone needs someone else to tell them what to think, do or believe? If that's not the weakest form someone could assume, then I have no idea what "weak" even is.
Also, I'm no atheist, but thanks for assuming
PS: I find it really funny, that you use the word "reality" while you also believe in tons of unproovable fairy-tales from times long gone. Even with a mythical creator of all and everything that actually cares about wether you (and millions of others) pray or abuse your wife correctly. Exactly what every omnipotent being would totally love to.
Anyhow, more than likely i'm wasting my time here. Luckily I have so much of it
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Everything happens after you die. Who told you nothing does?
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Enjoy the ride.
There is no point. The point is that you experienced life at all, the most rarest thing in this universe perhaps. Most people don’t even stop to think how amazing that is. Going outside and smelling fresh air, drinking water, laughing, crying.
