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245willow19

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purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling 1
#19024671 - 10/24/13 09:51 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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After sitting on a couch watching videos for hours...nothing makes sense anymore. Life is so confusing and random. I don't understand Family Guy or anything. What the fuck is it even about? I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking about if my life was played backward, would it make more sense? Why are we here? I feel like I am going insane...equality? I’m left just thinking of the future. Sometimes I feel revolution is what we need as humanity, sometimes I feel it’s pointless; not pointless to revolt in fear of being shut up or something. Pointless in the thought that life itself, this existence is meaningless, so why bother? Why even get up and do anything at all? Should just sleep our lives away. Then I get to thinking that this meaninglessness is great! It’s like a blank slate for us to develop our own meaning for our lives.
I am going to take some acid to try and unravel these thoughts or clear these haze which is my life. I don't understand what I am meant to do...if I go insane and jump off a bridge...then I was destined to jump. WE all have a purpose...my head is hot and my brain is overactive
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NetDiver
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Re: purpose of life? Ever overthink [Re: 245willow19]
#19024681 - 10/24/13 09:53 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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A great philosopher once said "the unexamined life is not worth living." Couldn't agree more.
Why are we here? Everyone has to figure that out for themselves.
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245willow19

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Re: purpose of life? Ever overthink [Re: NetDiver] 2
#19024703 - 10/24/13 09:58 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I often ponder why we mistreat each other...we are destined to do wrong. Our faults lead to our inevitable demise. Are we just here to fill the void? Damn...the more I think about it, the hopelessness and loneliness dominate...
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NetDiver
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Re: purpose of life? Ever overthink [Re: 245willow19]
#19024711 - 10/24/13 10:00 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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On the opposite side of things, though, sometimes you walk outside and it's sunny and warm with a light breeze, there's some music playing and everything is right with the world.
Sometimes things suck for no reason, sometimes they're awesome for no reason. 
Random acts of violence interspersed with random acts of kindness... I think it all pretty much evens out to neutral in the end.
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Re: purpose of life? Ever overthink [Re: 245willow19]
#19024732 - 10/24/13 10:04 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Life is surely pointless, but the fact that we exist and are conscious is pretty fucking incredible. It is somewhat liberating to know that there is no point, it means you can do what you like and there is no right or wrong way to live your life.
I love sleeping, dreaming is perhaps the most interesting and fascinating aspect of my life, don't knock the unconscious/subconscious world, it is amazing.
You can ascribe as much or as little meaning as you wish. I think that is kind of cool, though personally I find life utterly devoid of purpose or meaning. But fuck it, what else would you rather be doing than living? You have all eternity to be dead and devoid of awareness/meaning/vitality.
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245willow19

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Re: purpose of life? Ever overthink [Re: NetDiver]
#19024743 - 10/24/13 10:08 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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True. The universe generally knows how to balance things out. It's the cycle of life/balance. I DON'T believe when we die we go to heaven/nirvana/wherever...I believe the soul is recycled, wiped clean of memories and stuff and placed into another vessel/body. Is there god? I assume there is an overlord somewhere out there making sure everything runs smoothly and balances out
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nicechrisman
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: 245willow19]
#19024746 - 10/24/13 10:09 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Cosmic Love is absolutelely ruthless and highly indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not." John C. Lily
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: nicechrisman]
#19024860 - 10/24/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ― Joseph Campbell
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: SkeletalSpore]
#19024922 - 10/24/13 10:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
SkeletalSpore said: “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ― Joseph Campbell
that's a great fucking quote. i've been struggling to find meaning lately but i know it's up to me alone.
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Do the things you want to do while you're here Op, nothings stopping you. If everything is pointless and nothing matters why wouldn't you do it if you had the chance?
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: The Patient]
#19025077 - 10/24/13 11:27 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Take a road trip OP. Get the fuck outta dodge for a while and experience the unknown
-------------------- notapillow said: "you are going about this endeavor all wrong. clear your mind of useless fear and concern. buy the ticket, take the ride, and all that.... " ChrisWho said: "It's all about the journey, not the destination."
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: 245willow19]
#19025085 - 10/24/13 11:28 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You can sometimes find meaning in the smallest things, you can see everything has some sort of meaning behind it. As if you can just view these meaningful aspects of your life and acknowledge that it would not be incorrect to assert that it has some meaning to you. Sometimes you will view something in your life that appears to have lost its meaning, the meaning might just fall away from you for a moment, but after awhile you find that meaning once again.
I know sometimes I will think that my life has become worth nothing, as if I was just a piece of matter floating through space with nothing really making sense.
Its not that confusing if you try to center your thoughts on a different part of yourself, as if you don't dwell on the aspect that seems to portray some inner refusal to acknowledge your meaning, because you have that meaning deep inside you but you've forgotten it, you've let TV with its mindless propaganda brainwash you. Tv is the worst accessory implanted by the top of the culture in order to persuade you to abandon your roots to your true nature, for it will drain all the spiritual energy from your roots and leave you defenseless.
Tv makes you into a zombie whom cannot acknowledge the part of his life that is missing, that small part in yourself that cannot rid yourself of the thought that you have left the zoo, that you will return to the zoo in later years for the boys will be coming over, sometimes right when they get to the zoo they see them walking with some friends, but the friends always wear something that signifies some deep relationship with a tribe of Indians, as if he had purchased the clothes from a tribe in Indian last August and was trying to conceal the fact by wearing one which had a small tear on the top left. As if someone actually cut that hole themselves to trick ppl to think they are Indians when they are really German, as if every time someone examined his clothing they were put into a trance where they felt obligated to insert some abrupt comment about the attire in question. As if they were wishing to discover who first sent the clothes, as if the only think they wished to think of was these clothes. The clothes which dedicate such a beautiful message to the world as if you gain immense joy from ever having found the clothes, as if the world has become a place to rejoice in the wonder associated with clothing.
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: drkkenny]
#19025141 - 10/24/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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@drkKenny, where was that video in your sig filmed? It looks amazing. The girl in that looks so happy and full of life, kind of fits in with this thread quite nicely actually, the scenery and happy friends is pretty much all you need in life.
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: drkkenny]
#19025148 - 10/24/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Here, try some Alan Watts, always cheers me up
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: MisterSandman]
#19025164 - 10/24/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I ALREADY POSTED ALAN WATTS 
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: nicechrisman]
#19025190 - 10/24/13 11:46 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
nicechrisman said: I ALREADY POSTED ALAN WATTS 

WELL MINE IS BETTER
I didn't notice, Watts is the shit though, always makes me feel better when I'm blue
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: MisterSandman]
#19025195 - 10/24/13 11:47 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah his words really have a way of putting the human condition into perspective. I like to listen to him when I take a nap.
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: nicechrisman]
#19025235 - 10/24/13 11:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm the same way I can listen to him for awhile, I usually will listen to him before I go to sleep at night. Sometimes I will also try to persuade my friends to listen to him also, as if they will automatically wish to know more about Alan Watts for the sheer fact that I suggested it for I'm quite the most influential man in the 21st century. Indeed it is said that I influenced the Roman government to abandon all of their military tactics for a short duration until it was returned to their command, for indeed, they were the kind of people that would purposely persuade the government to refuse to acknowledge that they had their controls stolen from them by someone with much more power, someone that brimmed in power and thus was followed to derive the source of its power to harness it in direct proportion to the resembled power in themselves, the power which no longer has a foundation and abandons previous forms of its use, so, indeed, you would see that power quickly diminish from whatever elevated heights you might have placed it in without gaining permission for it to be acknowledged as yours, as if you didn't really own this power but merely saw a glimpse of its eternal glory, but which, indeed you would have to forget that you saw it reveal its splendid power which you no longer would be able to connect to yourself for it quickly left your vortex and returned to the planet Mars,
for indeed you might wish to visit someone who never wished for you to have come. For you might realize that someone actually did invite you but then quickly abandoned the offer and sent it to someone else instead. As if they only wanted you to see the invite but never to consider that it was really sent to you on purpose. As if you didn't want anyone to know that someone even sent you this invite and tried to conceal the fact by adopting some escape maneuver which doesn't really reveal the manner you first suggested that the invite was sent before you came home last night, for you would get it right before you returned and acknowledge its delights.
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: drkkenny]
#19025251 - 10/24/13 11:57 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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the point of life is to take mushrooms.
the point of life is to eat shrooms.
see, the point of life is to eat shrooms.
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Re: purpose of life? Meaningless or fulfilling [Re: ReefeRnShroomS]
#19025502 - 10/24/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Purpose of life? Well, imo: Life is a duty to fulfill the truth of the state of nothingness, by being the lie which gives nothingness meaning. That's why 'life is suffering' becauseit is inherently untrue. Nothingness exists. But it wouldn't be true unless there is a contrasting lie to hold it as such. We are that lie. Life began out of sacrificing truth, so that it could allow something else to be true. Thats why life is beautiful. Its romantically tragic. Volunteering away truth (by gaining life) as to secure the truth for that which has no life nor any way to gain life (nothingness). Life may be suffering, but life itself doesn't regret taking on the burdening of suffering (of falsehoods).
So in my opinion the meaning of life is to give. Life is the lie that gives truth its meaning.
Here's some poem that I wrote about a year ago on the topic, i feel like posting it (Male is associated with falsehood. Female with truth):
Without her, I would have never known But because of her, I know the truth She allows me everything, because in everything, I am She establishes me being, but in being, I be only a falsehood He gives me understanding But in understanding, I am no longer true Without him, the meaning of my existence would be just as void as the void of myself But because of him, the awareness of my non-being, takes nothingness away He makes nothingness, that which I exist as, something But me being something, I become him, and in him I do not exist
Edited by TheMule73 (10/24/13 12:53 PM)
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