Some people need to have meaning for there insignificant lives. Me? I'm just happy to be here.
It is hard to be motivated without one?
It is hard to be motivated without one?
Can't you have a superficial purpose?
It's like when you're playing a video game and you want to beat it because that's the purpose of it. But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make a difference if you beat it or not because in the end, it doesn't matter but you can still enjoy it.
Nice analogy.
Are you sure you're not an S type? Both this thread and your sig is very Se-esque thinking.
Not if you find something you care about.
Can't you have a superficial purpose?
It's like when you're playing a video game and you want to beat it because that's the purpose of it. But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make a difference if you beat it or not because in the end, it doesn't matter but you can still enjoy it.
I'm so immature, I laughed at the thought of being pooped into existence. The cosmos really had to go!
My grown up answer is that I don't think life has to have a purpose. I think it's pretty nihilist to say the meaning of life is to live. Simply put, we are alive so our only true "destiny" is to live and then die. For some people that works absolutely fine and they are able to live happily with the thought.
Could be. I've always been under the impression that to a nihilist there is no meaning to life, be it internal or external, and we're simply alive because we are. To that extent, the only purpose of life is to live and then die seeing as the basics of life encompasses those two stages.From what I've gathered, that's existentialist.
Could be. I've always been under the impression that to a nihilist there is no meaning to life, be it internal or external, and we're simply alive because we are. To that extent, the only purpose of life is to live and then die seeing as the basics of life encompasses those two stages.
I always thought that existentialism is the belief that life has no given meaning/purpose, but we can find one for ourselves. I could see though how "the only meaning of life is to live" could be existentialism though.
Nihilists believe that only things that serve a logical purpose should be allowed to survive. Therefore no art.
This is why I was rather taken aback when you hinted at being a nihilist earlier in this thread.
Art is perfectly logical. Idiots dismiss emotion as separate from humanity.