meaning to life

if you don’t make up some meaning to your life and act on it-------you are lost baby

You’re a nihilist.

Did not see that coming. :smiley:

can you explain about nihilism…I am a dummy…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

are you a nihilist…

Seriously?

If you have understood any of my posts, then you would not ask that. Unless I’m playing a role at ILP. In which case, why would I drop my mask now? :evilfun:

I thought I could change your thinking some…by dazzling you with my brilliance…
so what is the exact god plan for you…and don’t tell me to look in the bible

If you are a “lost baby”, you think that you have to make up some meaning for your life and act one it.

you will probably end up being useless to others

Why would I have to know that? Objective meaning, purpose, value and morality exist even if I am in a vegetative state. That’s why it’s objective… it doesn’t depend on me knowing or thinking anything.

Why do you need to be useful to anybody?

you don’t have to be…I think you would be out of work and selling drugs

You only have to work if you want to fit into ‘common’ society. It’s possible for you to abandon it, go off and not be useful to anybody. Become homeless, a hobo, a monk, live in the wild…

absolutely…no argument…
whatever floats YOUR boat

Objectively speaking, for the survival of the species. Being useless to others I think is being quite nihilistic. I wonder if we can actually be useless to others while at the same time being useful to ourselves.
Is the sun stingy? Does it keep all of its light and warmth for itself? No, it shines on us and everything else, causing things to grow, giving off light.
Even the birds are useful with their chirping in the springing - helping along the trees to bud.
The rain causes things to grow.

Life does have objective and valued meaning. You can see it in nature without your own subjective or emotional perspective.

Eat
Defecate
Urinate
Reproduce

…Repeat…

you seem happy

Always am, don’t you know?

I wouldn’t say “lost”, but certainly missing out on a fuller life. It’s just like being a reader. If you don’t read books you are not lost, per se, but you live a more mundane life away from the heights that are possible to a human life.

Actually I do not see any discrepancy in being a nihilist an exhorting a conscious attempt at creating self-meaning, which obviously is not there in-itself but must be willed. That otherwise one’s life is “lost”…that is a statement that goes beyond nihilism.