Are happy people just distracted? Does it help to have be married with kids and a dog so you can be distracted by them for the rest of your life? I mean it’s all pointless. What’s the meaning of life? I mean what’s the point? Is it just to find happiness in a good meal?
i would avoid the getting married and having kids part. i think those people mostly just fight and clean up the kids shit and fart in front of each other.
also the dog. you basically just pay money for a thing to tear shit up and take shits in your house.
there are a lot of ways to find happiness. just go around doing stuff until some of it makes you happy then keep doing that same stuff. take naps, eat good food, go places that are fun or that you have not been to before and have an adventure. get your blood flowing and such. watch bad things happen to stupid people and laugh. step on a bug. just try different stuff until something makes you laugh and then keep doing that.
Live on the edge & do self=other.
See Ecclesiastes for a science experiment that tested every other attempt to find meaning.
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Lol @ all Mr R’s replies… 
Ok but then you get old and die. And you’re forgotten. And no one cares about you or thinks about you ever again. So again, what’s the point of doing anything to improve yourself or your life?
because it might feel good if it doesnt feel good then dont do it
Day in and day out of feeling good by drinking a nice cup of coffee or watching something funny. All the while knowing , you’re just gonna end up dead. What’s the point.
everything in the world is temporary, maybe the point is to understand that and live with it
I understand it. And live with it. But tell me why I shouldn’t become completely selfish and only care about myself? Why should I recycle or help someone ever?
this is exactly what you should do. if you want to help someone then go for it but dont do it if it doesnt feel good
Life is suffering. It’s bills and work and seeing people suffer and being tired and doing things you don’t want to do. Every day.
No, life is doing what seems meaningful (in line with self=other) despite that, even in the absence of feelings. The feelings will follow. That kind of life never ends even if you die.
Don’t take my word for it, but also don’t knock what you’ve never even tried.
Tell that to an abused housewife that can’t escape her husband because she and her kids will be out on the streets so she spends every day putting up with him and cleaning and cooking for him and being miserable. Or to someone who is homeless on the streets in freezing cold weather.
somewhere in a prison cell a person is laughing uncontrollably, and somewhere in a mansion someone is crying uncontrollably. 90% of the life you live will come as a direct result of how you feel about who and where you are in the world. dont let anyone tell you how to feel.
PhilosophyGirl, if she has no other family, tell her to get into a shelter & follow the program. If she lives where 2-1-1 works, they can help, if her thinking is too disorganized to Google it.
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Just because you die doesn’t mean your life is meaningless.
I’m on an antidepressant.
I feel a lot of meaning each day.
If I was off the antidepressant,
I would feel life is terrible and also meaningless.
How we see the world is based on our brain chemistry.
Objectively speaking:
the world simply is.
Meanings can be added or taken away.
Would you say meaning/value can increase over time? Or is it just something we failed to recognize at first, and our recognition grew?
For example, do we fail to recognize every person is an end/value… or is it because we forget to add value to them imaginatively, or succeed in taking their value away?