If nothing we do matters, the only thing that mattes is what we do.

Also, peanut bumer? P tasty, imo.

literally those exact words

dont worry xylon soon youll realize that good and evil are made up constructs and that smoking is bad too! you are on the road to adulthood – good luck!

-nana

edit: also remember to brush your teeth, your parents werent just trying to mean to you after all LOL! Log in to see images! nanalatinojesus gets you JUSTICE IN YOUR FORUMS edited this message on 06/30/2009 4:27AM

Why does there need to be a particular point to it all? Expecting there to be some grand overarching purpose to human life is practically religious… actually pretty directly religious – if you believe in a god and an afterlife then the purpose of life is to please the former to get into the best version of the latter.

Believing in neither, you get to make up your own purpose. Find something that seems worthwhile, and do it. Some people pump their effort into acgreat timesulating nice stuff, others put it into meeting cool people or doing things that will last after they die, or helping people who need help… there’s all kinds of things you can do that aren’t pointless.

So yeah, in summary it’s kinda daft to expect there to be a single “big important reason” for us to be here, but being alive is a lot more fun than the alternative, and if you can find something you like doing while you’re here then all to the better.

you ought to look into existentialism. hell, existentialism even works with religion (see tolsoy). religion isn’t inherently bad. all religions are not christianity, and tell you the purpose of life is the afterlife. religion is a natural reaction to the the fact that as humans we can imagion a great deal, and the fact that we often imagion more than what there is. it is only because you believed in santa claus for example, that when you find that he isn’t real you feel lose. but what lose was there? you had no santa cluase to loose. if belief in an afterlife brings you peace than by all means believe away. but know that you may be wrong, you may be right but if your wrong than you loose nothing. and if your right there probably isn’t one single corect religion, that would violate logic, so be respectful about it.

but than again lets say there is a god. or gods, doesn’t really matter. at the end of the day there is no solid reason for existing. there is no reason something is inherently better than nothing. and because god(s) thought it would be cool to make some life doesn’t mean life has meaning. even that is an existential choice. just ask lucifarians, or whatever there called. people who believe in the christian god, but believe he is an evil tyrant and that the angel lucifer is a noble freedom fighter. they choose to rebel against the god they claim gave them existance. so therefore meaning still does not come from divine sources, but rather ourself and our own choice.

Xylon Posted:

The average human is given but twenty-five thousand or so days. In that time we are born, are raised, learn, grow, feel and eventually die. When I stop to consider how many I have already wasted with frivolous pursuits and then consider all the ones I intend to waste in the future. It seems that I am given about seventy years to experience whatever I can. After that, nothing is guaranteed. Rest bumured, no one who you have ever met has been dead longer than an hour, and even still no two people who have survived clinical death given the exact same account.

The more I think about it, I find it depressing. It is Santa Claus all over again, first there is no Santa and now there is no afterlife. If anyone tells me peanut bumer is a delusion, I am flat out going berserk.

But Seriously, What is the point of living to be good or evil when death is an eventuality and short of a few stray pieces of dogreat timesentation? all of us will be dead and forgotten in less than a hundred years.

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