Less seriously, there are some hedonistic pleasures, like 4) Good music (for me punk, bebop, singer/songwriters) 5) Good food (for me salmon sashimi, cheese, the occasional syrah) 6) women (Indian, Persian, Ethiopian, Celtic redheads)
Also, I think the right religion might be Soto Zen, but it seems like the Quakers have a better social structure. I think Pantheism or Panentheism might be the correct view of God/"the divine." I think the correct ideology might be some kind of green/eco social libertarianism.
dumb basic philo question. no objective meaning. but the meaning of life is what you make of it blah blah
Mason Ortiz
The meaning of life is to be happy. What makes you happy varies wildly from person to person. Sometimes being happy in the grand sense will mean being unhappy in the smaller sense, like working a job you hate to fund a lifestyle that makes you happy.
Find what makes you happy, figure out what you need to do to live a life where you can spend as much time as possible being happy doing those things, implement plan to be happy.
Aiden Brown
That's the existentialist take, but it seems like we're hardwired to value certain things in general, which we find fulfillment in.
I think that's good advice, to figure out and conceptualize a good life for one's self.
David Myers
The meaning of existence is to complete God. Everything is for God’s glory. We can ignore that, and be concerned with our own pleasures, or focus on God.
Jonathan Lopez
Read Proust, I heard he wrote a book on it or something.
Eli Watson
Passing on your genes to the next generation, duh
Chase Davis
I've been meaning to read that, actually, but I hear it's incredibly long...
Do you really need one? Seriously, what's so bad about just living for the sake of living? Life is too short and delicate to waste pondering its meaning. Like even if it has no meaning, fuck that. You're not contractually obligated to care. Fuck the universe, be happy just to spite its meaninglessness.
I think there's something to appreciating existing, but I do think striving to create, have relationships, and all that is worthwhile. Since you post Camus, he argued that the meaning of life was in the very struggle of creating meaning. It's that whole process that was meaningful to him.
Mason Richardson
Yeah, and I'm kinda just taking the whole "should you kill yourself" thing he focused on and saying that you don't actually need to find or create meaning, you can just accept the universe as it is and be happy with it. Because why not just be happy?
Zachary Hernandez
Again, I think it's important to appreciate existence and be in the moment. But I've seen how dissatisfied the people who never pursue their dreams wind up. Why not pursue what you want in life, and pursue your interests?
I think there's a middle ground. Don't lose yourself doing a job you hate for the status or money. Don't lock yourself in a life you think you should want. But also don't let your doubts hold you back.
Be honest with yourself about how happy and fulfilled you are living how you are, and if you find yourself unhappy, change your life.
I know way more unhappy people who were afraid to pursue their dreams, than ones who regret what they did.
Julian Reyes
If you're a pantheist and accept God as the entirety of the universe, of which you are a part, you're fulfilling your purpose simply by existing. The events that occur to you are part of the great workings of the universe--- minute, trivial, forgettable, less than a grain of sand on the beach of the cosmos, lasting not even a blink of the cosmic eye-- yet imperative to the whole, imperative to God. You can meditate on that while you go through life.
Angel Perry
>Why not pursue what you want in life, and pursue your interests? Sorry, maybe I'm being obtuse. I agree with that statement. If the universe is meaningless, there's no reason NOT to follow your dreams.
Dominic Brooks
I agree that we're part of the greater whole, but I actually think this makes what we do NOT trivial. Yes, we're a tiny speck in the universe that only exists for a moment. But the only thing we're significant to is ourselves and the people and things around us, which means that everything we do is significant because we and the people around us are the judges of what is significant. The fact that we don't mean anything to a giant gas cloud millions of miles away is completely irrelevant.
Benjamin Reyes
Hmm, well then it seems like we're just taking opposite approaches to arrive at the same conclusion
Joshua Richardson
You must be over 18 to post here.
Jayden Wood
Nothing or everything. Nobody knows and this is a useless question.
Henry Taylor
keep whining Actually don't. I started this thread because I was interested in other people's perspectives. You're just really whiny.
Mason Carter
bump
not to be really douchey, but I'm 29 and I'm finishing up my Master's at a decent university, so try to be a little less condescending.
