i have to disagree with you here, thats your opinion. many people would say that the purpose of life is to show everyone the way to their gods kingdom or whatever. if this answer is so obvious, then why doesnt everyone just go have kids all the time? why have a career if all there is to life is to reproduce? why worry about anything but passing on your genes? i think that if there was one easy, simple answer, then everyone would agree and adhere to it. thats the whole purpose to this thread, to hear what other people think, because its obvious that there isnt just one easy answer.
Hmmm, why live... There's that old fear... death. Why am I afraid of it? Because there may be something I could do to gain more universal favor. Gaining favor as energy yeilding choices. What can I do? Your deepest question can always be deformed and criticized, masqueraded as another thing... I guess what I'm trying to say is... You're posting this deep question, this fundamental question in the "Mind Fuck" section. What does that say about the responses you're seeking? If that came off as cynical, sorry man... I don't apologize for it's meaning though.... If you think - it's easy to ask, but do you Really want to know? Would you change if you knew there was a chance it would have a permanent(as in universal time, real, permanent... or does this concept not settle?) effect on your being? I ask myself these things as I grapple with them.... I personally wouldn't start a thread on a forum on the internet with expectations of coming any closer to an answer of any kind...
we are all just a single thought the universe is having, and since the universe cant ever forget anything......................... I dont realy know if thats true, i just use it to console myself
i dont think its possible for the human psyche to know or understand anything about the afterlife. think about it, how long humans have been here on earth questioning this same thing, probably from the very beginning of out existence...and still no real concrete answers. there have only been ideas. people use these ideads (for an example i'll use going to heaven or hell) to create their own answers to ease their mind from thinking about the afterlife. we will always wonder about this and get no answers. its human nature to seek an answer though and due to our defective minds it simply cannot happen, we will never have the answer. and if death is really just nothingness then there isn't even an answer after we die, no realization whatsoever. so in this case there is no meaning to life or the afterlife. so i say don't even question the meaning of life or the afterlife, just live. survival is the chemistry of all living things but then again it's also our nature to question things. i think all people are defective in the way that our mind contradicts itself...everyone is fucked up...and now my brain hurts from thinking too much. so what i'm trying to say is we'll never have the answer in this state of consciousness, we'll have to wait and see what happens when life is over. i'm going to enjoy life as much as i can, as hard as it is, because i may never feel these things ever again. everyone wants to be happy, we work and go through all kinds of pain and hardships in hopes of finding something that makes us happy. but no one can be happy forever, something always happens...this proves that life is pointless, you can never achieve what you really want to and then you die. life is good sometimes and it sucks sometimes, just ride it out and see what happens. fuck thinking about it and fuck trying to find an answer cuz it won't happen...fuck life. i sound like i'm rambling and not making much sense so i'll shut up now
there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. And it makes me wonder. LZ
Sometimes I think about this kind of stuff too, but mine's more like "the world would be fine without me. maybe even better because we're overpopulated, anyway." Not that I don't love life, I really do, but I know that it would be ok if I died and why not do it just to find out what happens. But I know I don't have the strength to kill myself.
Hmm...but your death IS an asset. to the earth, other animals, everything. you never simply cease to exist. your body is still here and is used up by whomever needs it....
Anything is possible and the meaning of life is to live and do exactly what you're doing, whatever that may be. Because, think about it, if this wasn't our purpose, than we simply WOULD NOT be doing it.
well heres what i think if we knew what would happen next then life's game board if would be like using loaded dice in a crap game. we could cheat out life man, and if we didnt like this life and say we do get reincarnated then we can skip alot of praise and pain. i am against pain having go thorough it but i think life needs pain becuase if there was no pain the we would all be perfect, happy, little families in the little house on the praire it is just that pain is too much in lives. If you want to know what happens next go for it all i am saying is live life to the fullest until we are on our death beds and final hours. i mean i also think about it but i but i can wait to live life and not end it so soon to find out somehting that we could forget by being reincarnated.
Reality is in the now. Nothing is real other than right now. The past is an illusion. The future is a mystery. Hang on to as many nows as you can. They are all you have.
ive not once but quite a few times tried mah hands at that. am still alive not coz of nething else but the simple fact that mebee i got too lucky...but wht i did get reminded of readin this was the times when i do pot n i begin to feel like everytrip is a combination of different life cycles...n that life is juss abt tending towards greater venturing...mebee coz i havent lived enuf n i havent seen enuf that the idea of seein it all eludes me. i have a 22 yr ole friend who on the eve of his birfday tole me that he'd seen enuf n there was nothin left to experience...the things that i reminded him of seemed too trivial... but to reach a stage wherein u feel like there is nothin more do...no material purpose to solve existing...u muss find beauty in the smallest grain of sand...not foh the sake of purgin the sin ull commit by killin urself...but by realizing what u may miss on if u do. its an analogy i can draw. there is never a book that i read cover to cover. coz as i read...i form a picture in mah head...n by the time i near the end am too scared of shattering mah illusion so i leave it unfinished...kill the story so i can eternalize it mah way...consequent to this ive still never read cover to cover but sumthing tells me am missin owt...
