The Point of Life
Drake
Acolyte
Post what you think the point of life is or respond to someone else. I started off by quoting a post from the old totse to stimulate discussion. I'll try to post my take on the topic when I have more time.
“The point of life?
That's easy...
There's nothing to look forward to but years of disappointment, pain, heartache, despair and mindlessly slaving away as a mere pitiful cog in a machine designed to fulfill someone else’s agenda.
One third of your life spent sleeping, another third spent in a pecuniary rat race and all of it an oppressive manqué that is the embodiment of total futility.
Even though you are not worth loving, and are so eaten up by the caustic forces of life that you're incapable of truly loving anyone else - you'll find yourself beguiled by primitive hormonal impulses that lead you to marry someone who will despise you within a decade and together you make some ugly unimportant stupid whining little babies that will be every bit as much of a disappointment to you as you are to YOUR parents.
Arthritis, cancer, heart disease, impotency, lung disease, liver failure, gout, psoriasis, incontinence, depression, despair, aphasia losing your eyesight and hearing till finally senility makes you lose all cognitive control of your mind..
..but not your regrets.
No, not them...
Your regrets you keep with perfect crystal clarity until finally - after more heartache and pain than you can possibly yet imagine - death will take you and make you shit yourself in front of anyone left who might still harbor any feeling at all for your useless hulk of a life.
That's all there is.
Everything else is just part of the big lie.
Things don't get better.
Everyone you love will cause you pain.
All you aspire to will be denied.
Anything you accomplish will eventually fall into ruin.
All you are will be forgotten.
It all deteriorates and keeps getting worse as you sink ever deeper into an entropic quagmire from which only one possible escape is ever allowed.
The very best you can possibly hope for is that you get acclimated to all the bullshit just enough to keep on going through the mundane mediocrity that is your life without succumbing to opening up your wrists before the end of the ride.” Mizled.
Response to “Those who see the finer things in life are the happiest.”:
“In some ways perhaps, but conversely; that which is unseen is never coveted.
Acknowledgment of the finer things in life is, in some ways, a sort of surrendering to the desire to have that which is unobtainable - a first tentative step towards material discontent and spiritual longing.
Ignorance is said to be bliss, and the underlying truth of that dictum may be that the expectation of real happiness is the causitive agent of human discontent.”
“The point of life is to shamble through the shit and find the spots that don't seem quite so shitty to you.
Some people take comfort in believing in a happier afterlife, so that's always an option if you're gullible or easily self deluded.
Hedonistic excess and narcissistic debauchery is another viable option and a rather fun one at that...
Defining yourself by your social standing, your family or your job is still yet another avenue you can explore in your quest to assign validity and purpose to your life.
Whatever works for you.
There's no 'ONE' right answer, life's what happens to you while your busy making plans.
The 'Zero' option (the true answer that zero people are willing to accept) is accepting that life really has no point and that all attempts to attribute a point to life or a reason for it all is merely human vanity and the human egos attempt to validate it's own existence.” Mizled
“The point of life?
That's easy...
There's nothing to look forward to but years of disappointment, pain, heartache, despair and mindlessly slaving away as a mere pitiful cog in a machine designed to fulfill someone else’s agenda.
One third of your life spent sleeping, another third spent in a pecuniary rat race and all of it an oppressive manqué that is the embodiment of total futility.
Even though you are not worth loving, and are so eaten up by the caustic forces of life that you're incapable of truly loving anyone else - you'll find yourself beguiled by primitive hormonal impulses that lead you to marry someone who will despise you within a decade and together you make some ugly unimportant stupid whining little babies that will be every bit as much of a disappointment to you as you are to YOUR parents.
Arthritis, cancer, heart disease, impotency, lung disease, liver failure, gout, psoriasis, incontinence, depression, despair, aphasia losing your eyesight and hearing till finally senility makes you lose all cognitive control of your mind..
..but not your regrets.
No, not them...
Your regrets you keep with perfect crystal clarity until finally - after more heartache and pain than you can possibly yet imagine - death will take you and make you shit yourself in front of anyone left who might still harbor any feeling at all for your useless hulk of a life.
That's all there is.
Everything else is just part of the big lie.
Things don't get better.
Everyone you love will cause you pain.
All you aspire to will be denied.
Anything you accomplish will eventually fall into ruin.
All you are will be forgotten.
It all deteriorates and keeps getting worse as you sink ever deeper into an entropic quagmire from which only one possible escape is ever allowed.
The very best you can possibly hope for is that you get acclimated to all the bullshit just enough to keep on going through the mundane mediocrity that is your life without succumbing to opening up your wrists before the end of the ride.” Mizled.
Response to “Those who see the finer things in life are the happiest.”:
“In some ways perhaps, but conversely; that which is unseen is never coveted.
Acknowledgment of the finer things in life is, in some ways, a sort of surrendering to the desire to have that which is unobtainable - a first tentative step towards material discontent and spiritual longing.
Ignorance is said to be bliss, and the underlying truth of that dictum may be that the expectation of real happiness is the causitive agent of human discontent.”
“The point of life is to shamble through the shit and find the spots that don't seem quite so shitty to you.
Some people take comfort in believing in a happier afterlife, so that's always an option if you're gullible or easily self deluded.
Hedonistic excess and narcissistic debauchery is another viable option and a rather fun one at that...
Defining yourself by your social standing, your family or your job is still yet another avenue you can explore in your quest to assign validity and purpose to your life.
Whatever works for you.
There's no 'ONE' right answer, life's what happens to you while your busy making plans.
The 'Zero' option (the true answer that zero people are willing to accept) is accepting that life really has no point and that all attempts to attribute a point to life or a reason for it all is merely human vanity and the human egos attempt to validate it's own existence.” Mizled
Comments
It's fun. It's a game. It's a dance.
I'm here for one reason and one reason only, to experience as much of what this life has to offer as i can. i do this in hopes of finding out my purpose here before moving on if i'm allowed to. obviously if i didn't learn my purpose or the lesson i'm supposed to then i won't be allowed to move on and will be stuck here until i do.
i keep a positive energy about me in hopes of attracting the best things possible for me and the people around me. i feel like i'm on the right track because i've unraveled some pieces already. i'm far from done, but that's okay!
we all have the power to find our purpose and learn the lesson(s) we're here for, some people however see fit to just sit around wallowing in their own self pity... and they wonder why they think the things they do and are in the situations they are and feel the way they do!! they bring all of that to themselves by their attitudes/thoughts/actions.
i'm here to let you all know that listening to anything like what mizled said will most definitely bring you down.
listen to me and people like me and you will be much the happier for it. trust me, i wasn't always like this myself either!
i have laid down my very basic points, i'm just curious as to what your point in life is?
i'm not trying to be an asshole, this is just something i feel very strongly about. i've directed my life to coincide with what i believe i'm here for and i feel very blessed in being able to do and pursue that.
On a human scale though I am all for evolution and knowledge expansion, it is just that the meaning is arbitray. There is no 'point', but you can make better art if you are always trying to elevate your perspective.
I bet if half the wanna-be-cool teenagers had to assist a dying cancer patient for 6 months, they'd quit smoking.
Though some woman in france got to like 124 years old with 2 cigs a day. Wow :eek:
Me or OP?
OP
We are an accident formed billions of years ago when a bunch of atoms just so happened to collide the right way.
You believe in teh after life ?
Perhaps not everyone wants to live till the age where they can't control whether they shit their pants or not. Everyone's gonna die eventually.
IMO the point of life is just to have kids, have fun and leave a legacy.
Though whether or not you do that probably won't end up effecting much.
You gotta find you're own meaning, though, or you will likely end up alone, depressed, and a junkie/wino.
My purpose I believe is to win the lottery. It's a work in progress.
Not anymore, being sentient us humans have effectively ended our evolution by all but halting natural selection.
Honestly, this question just bugs me. Why does there have to be a point to life? Can't we simply sit back and try to enjoy it, experience everything it has to offer?