Why anything?

[Easykill]

Life has whatever meaning you give it, so if you're too lazy to come up with one, then there are no reasons why, and as a response, everything they see is twisted into something less than awesome. I've decided my reason for existence is to have fun, and if it's not, screw that. That is my why, it's because it sounds like it might be fun, or it's the easiest way to open up more opportunities for fun.

 

[Jamanticus]

We are on a rock, spinning at thousands of miles an hour through nothingness around a ball of burning gas. Water vapour flies through the skies above us. Another giant rock loops around our rock every day. Continually, we release energy using some of the millions of individual parts of our body by burning it. We crush the very items of being; we explore the galaxy. Each individual pinprick of light in the sky is its own burning ball of gas, with its own rocks spinning around it. Some have two of these flaming balls rotating around each other. There are points with infinite gravity, and particles that pass through things without being seen.

Why do I get up in the morning? Because there's so much to see.

This. Although it would be better to actually be doing the exploring than sitting here doind mundane things......

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

To enjoy myself. Why? Because it makes me happy. Why? Because I'm enjoying myself. Why?

Well, you see where I'm going with this. Yes, the pointlessness of all life in the long run ("nihilism, woo!" I say, my voice spitting sarcasm like snake's venom) is not a stranger to me, so I may as well simply enjoy myself and work in a way to make myself feel better while I'm alive.

You are an absurdist.

You absurd, absurd man.

 

[Amnestic]

To enjoy myself. Why? Because it makes me happy. Why? Because I'm enjoying myself. Why?

Well, you see where I'm going with this. Yes, the pointlessness of all life in the long run ("nihilism, woo!" I say, my voice spitting sarcasm like snake's venom) is not a stranger to me, so I may as well simply enjoy myself and work in a way to make myself feel better while I'm alive.

You are an absurdist.

You absurd, absurd man.

Please elaborate.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

Please elaborate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

 

[Amnestic]

Please elaborate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

I suppose to an extent that's true. However perhaps rather than me "stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe ultimately fail" I should rather state that my efforts to find meaning in the universe have failed, and I'm fine with that. Perhaps humanity does have meaning, I couldn't tell you. I might have meaning, again though, I couldn't tell you. Any real search I've had for this "meaning of life" has come up dry and tired, and so I've resigned myself, gladly, to instead searching to live a fulfilled life and die at the end of it knowing that I had fun, a good time and (hopefully, one day) left a good life for my kids.

So perhaps I'm not absurdist, after all, could I not state that my meaning in the universe is simply to enjoy myself and work to fulfil some personally set standards?

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I do things to benefit me, as I am actually rather selfish, self preservation baby...f*ck yeah.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

So perhaps I'm not absurdist, after all, could I not state that my meaning in the universe is simply to enjoy myself and work to fulfil some personally set standards?

That is absurdism. Finding and enjoying arbitrary goals in the face of universal indifference.

The classic example by Camus himself is of Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill. Rather then be saddened by his task, he finds his own pleasure in the boulder rolling down every time, laughing as he goes to catch it.

 

[Rune342]

To be remembered. People do there best and live their lives in the hopes that they will have done something worth remembering, that people will remember them years after they die.

 

[WhitemageofDOOM]

The meaning of life is to create meaning. The only meaning that exists is the meaning we create.

But life is not a search for meaning, the why of life is life. Living is the goal unto itself. Not your life of course, your just a random byproduct of life, your individual existence is irrelevant.

 

[Uncompetative]

I continue to live for two reasons:

1. I generally enjoy it.

2. I know I will die soon enough, so I may as well wait.

Obviously, if I contracted a horrible incurable/terminal illness then I would not wait for natural causes, but engineer my demise.

 

[PurpleRain]

Copy and pasted from the global warming thread.

That's taking th lazy way out... good job.

Why? To enjoy another persons warmth. I like that one.

 

[bodyklok]

I do things because I need closure, just saying nothing means anything won't make a difference to me I still have to make up for alot of the things I have done and I still need to fulfill the promises I have made myself. So yeah I need to get my goals done thats about it thats all I want to do if I can do that then I'm happy.

 

[Amnestic]

So perhaps I'm not absurdist, after all, could I not state that my meaning in the universe is simply to enjoy myself and work to fulfil some personally set standards?

That is absurdism. Finding and enjoying arbitrary goals in the face of universal indifference.

The classic example by Camus himself is of Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill. Rather then be saddened by his task, he finds his own pleasure in the boulder rolling down every time, laughing as he goes to catch it.

Guess I'm an absurdist then. Awesome, learn something new every day.

 

[Jamanticus]

So perhaps I'm not absurdist, after all, could I not state that my meaning in the universe is simply to enjoy myself and work to fulfil some personally set standards?

That is absurdism. Finding and enjoying arbitrary goals in the face of universal indifference.

The classic example by Camus himself is of Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill. Rather then be saddened by his task, he finds his own pleasure in the boulder rolling down every time, laughing as he goes to catch it.

Guess I'm an absurdist then. Awesome, learn something new every day.

Wasn't Slartibartfast from Hitchhiker's Guide also an absurdist?

That's pretty cool, although I'm not an absurdist myself (or, I won't be until I finally finish doing the things I think I have to do)

 

[stompy]

Why? Hmm... I suppose it's all the fault of that stupid voice at the back of my head... stupid voice, telling me to do things. I swear, it's in league with my stomach too.

 

[Uncompetative]

So perhaps I'm not absurdist, after all, could I not state that my meaning in the universe is simply to enjoy myself and work to fulfil some personally set standards?

That is absurdism. Finding and enjoying arbitrary goals in the face of universal indifference.

The classic example by Camus himself is of Sisyphus forever pushing a boulder up a hill. Rather then be saddened by his task, he finds his own pleasure in the boulder rolling down every time, laughing as he goes to catch it.

I'm not sure I can agree with Camus. My understanding of the Myth of Sisyphus is that it is intended as a form of parable or coded subtext in which the necessity of Death is proven by suggesting that the alternative (eternal life) may be a fate worse than Death.

You don't have to be rolling rocks to have a torturous afterlife, for me any afterlife would pall in time.

I would meet everyone in Heaven. I would say everything I could say to them and them to me. Engineered bliss would only mean that I was no longer myself. Only reincarnation is viable as you forget your previous lives with each rebirth, but I don't believe in that either.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

(eternal life) may be a fate worse than Death.

But that's retarded.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Crap, if I start thinking about this stuff again I'm going to kill myself. I'm still only 15, and I've been here often enough to know that I should probably stay away. Goodbye.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I used to get asked by a friend's parent, why I played video games so much, as they just seem like a waste of time when I could be learning, or creating something, or being productive in some way.

This will sound selfish on a global level, but I feel I've only got one shot at it, so shouldn't I try to enjoy it as much as I can? Damned if we don't all pay thru the nose for every moment of free time with the time we spend at work, and then again to get things to entertain us in our free time. Why shouldn't we just have fun when we can?

(Note: just realised, I took about a hundred words to essentially repeat 'why not', doh)