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What is the meaning of life?
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Is there a meaning for life, especially for your own life? Why are you alive?
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Does your life have a purpose outside of converting oxygen into carbon dioxide?
I'm expecting answers like maximizing utility, making others' lives better, or not making others' lives worse, etc. But do try to go deeper than that and explain why that is your meaning, your purpose (i.e., how did you arrive at that conclusion?).
Admiring in advance the every ounce of fortitude you're going to summon for this thread.
As an atheist I don't see any reason for "should". It just is what it is, there is no point complaining or indeed worrying to deeply about it.
I hope I haven't come across as complaining or worrying, if that's what you are implying.
What motivates you to do whatever you do, if there is no greater goal or meaning? Do you merely seek to maximize your own pleasure? (I don't mean that in a derogatory way.)
Do you have any guiding principles in your life, and if you do, from where are they derived?
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Comfortable?
Comfortable purposelessness? Aimless content? Wandering for the sake of wandering? It seems sad to me.
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Yes.
If it's arbitrary, then it hardly seems solid enough to be life's purpose.
You should love the Bible, because it talks about you often.
Pr 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pr 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
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Too bad so many Foolish Mockers have invaded this Forum.
2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
As an atheist I don't see any reason for "should". It just is what it is, there is no point complaining or indeed worrying to deeply about it.
I hope I haven't come across as complaining or worrying, if that's what you are implying.
What motivates you to do whatever you do, if there is no greater goal or meaning? Do you merely seek to maximize your own pleasure? (I don't mean that in a derogatory way.)
Do you have any guiding principles in your life, and if you do, from where are they derived?
No I don’t think you are complaining or worrying.
I am probably motivated by the fact that I am here as much as anything, so I may as well try to find myself a purpose, but I don’t feel as if I should or must have one or that I have failed.
My guiding principal is that I don’t know the ultimate answers and probably never will, so why suppose or make any answers up just to have answers, simply remain optimistically seeking even if ultimately unknowing.
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Comfortable?
Comfortable purposelessness? Aimless content? Wandering for the sake of wandering? It seems sad to me.
Yes in a way why not? I want to be comfortable; I don’t want power or wealth I want to be healthy and comfortable, which is a challenge in itself as you get older.
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Originally Posted by Newman
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Yes.
If it's arbitrary, then it hardly seems solid enough to be life's purpose.
I don’t really need a life’s purpose tbh, just my quest to be comfortable perhaps.
If a god has a different purpose in mind then he will know where to find me and whatever it is should be made rather clearer.
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