Purposeless Lives

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Why do many people complain about purposelessness, meaninglessness, and nihilism as if they have no value in life?

Because you don’t. Most people are accidents. Your procreation was unplanned by your parents. You have no great purpose in life. You have very little function. Very few people, if any, are bred for a specific purpose. But some are. A well bred soldier, makes a great soldier. A well bred doctor, makes a great doctor. A well bred leader, makes a great leader. One of the biggest problems of life and society is that purpose, meaning, and high value is rare. Most people use their own low value, to measure other low value. When they do this, the skewed results should be expected. Obvious people will complain about purposeless, meaningless, worthless lives when…their procreation, their conception, was purely accidentally. How many humans alive today are alive, solely, because their mother’s were drunk out of their minds? How many humans owe their entire miserable lives to alcohol? Too many.

The average life, defined by an average, has low value, purpose, function, meaning, and necessity because of how it was bred into existence to begin with.

High value, high purpose, high meaning, all these come from something beforehand. If you don’t have the lineage then it’s hard to compensate for something you’ve never been used to. When you are a walking genetic accident then it maybe inconceivable for you to even begin to imagine a “Purposeful” and “Meaningful” life. These notions will be foreign to you, incomprehensible, or worse, impossible for you. But just because your life is an accident, doesn’t mean it is for everybody else. Even base animals in the wild appease their sexual appetites and instinctive engage in the virility of life. If an animal can default to its instinct then can humans, too?

Perhaps the problem can be boiled down to a lack of foresight. Your conception was an accident, unexpected, because nobody saw your existence coming, and least of all you. So it’s no wonder why you believe that your consciousness is some god-given miracle. Or that your solipsism, you believe the universe revolves around your eyeballs and the universe caters to your desires, your moods.

All of this just reiterates my point and reminds everybody else of what you are, and what you share with the commonality. You are an accident. Your life has no purpose. Literally. Genetically.

Garbage Genes.

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Are you sure philosophy is the right pass time for you, Wizard. I see you as more of a colouring book and crayons type.

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Modern society is all about a centrally planned bureaucracy defining what purpose is for you on a cellular and individual level.

Creating purpose for ourselves is minimal if nonexistent. Modern society beyond a command structure of purpose is one devoid of authentic self creating purpose hence the feeling of purposelessness.

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I don’t see why you need to feel you have a purpose in order to live a satisfactory life. Satisfactory to yourself, that is.

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To have purpose of one’s own choosing or creation is satisfaction. What could be more satisfactory than that?

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Having Kate Winslet Creep into my bedroom in the middle of the night and waking up to find myself on the right end of a blow job would be but one thing.

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Granted :wink: , but you know what I mean.

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Hedonism is an answer

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Let’s extend my thesis.

Some of the most purposeful lives are embodied by Christians and Liberal Crusaders, who are born and indoctrinated with a very strict program. Fundamentalist Christians are literally born and reproduced to spread the Gospel and word of god. Liberal Crusaders are born and indoctrinated to spread their ideology and political power. This becomes very dangerous when peoples’ entire lives revolve around the premises of their programming. Generation after generation of this type of indoctrination leads to fanaticism.

So purpose, in itself, is neither good nor bad. Purpose revolves its context, what is deemed purposeful and which behaviors and goals are valuable to certain people.

Purposeness also has degree and variability. There is always a small degree of it. Even the sexual act can be considered purposeful in the context that males seek pleasure (Release/Ejaculation) in life. Contrarily, females seek hedonistic pleasures (drugs, food, attention-seeking behavior).

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It’s hard to say without knowing the question.

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Hairball, aren’t you something that cats cough up and regurgitate, retard?

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Harbal warned for personal attack. One day ban.

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OK, Wizard, let us accept your basic premise and I ask you,
now what? You have told us what the problem is, what is the
solution?

Kropotkin

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If somebody is born with a purposeful life then it’s advantageous to learn what this purpose is exactly, how to do it well, and complete it.

If somebody is born with a purposeless life then, if purpose is desired, one can be assigned by another to this person.

It’s obvious to me that every single individual alive treats humanity with different values, some people have little to no value to another, while others have high value.

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What I can sense is that you’re annoyed by people who ask such questions. I don’t believe you are sincerely interested in answering their questions. Rather, you just want them to shut up. So you’re trying to answer their questions with this aim in mind – to silence them – rather than because you truly care. As such, your answer may be useful to you, but it is likely incorrect.

And I do believe it is incorrect.

Who are you talking to anyways? And did these people ask for your help?

You are talking to imaginary people. Telling them what they should be doing. And doing so in a way that shows contempt. It’s not like you’re trying to help. Really, what you’re trying to do is to shut them up. And I despise this sort of behavior.

What’s the point of telling people what they should be doing without them ever asking to be told what they should be doing? That’s disrespectful. It’s bullying. You are trying to bypass their own voice with your own voice, and thus, you are trying to turn them into slaves.

What’s the purpose of such a behavior, Wizard?

What’s the point of trying to enslave people other than, well, to release some stress?

I find it hard to believe that the answer these people are looking for is that they are of no value, possessing garbage genes.

There are many reasons as to why people would claim that life is meaningless. One of them is that they are demoralized, which is to say, overwhelemed by the environment they live in. That’s one of the reasons. I believe there are many other reasons as well.

These people, for example, become demoralized not because they have no value, or because they possess garbage genes, but quite simply because their external circumstances are placing too much pressure on their minds. This need not mean they have garbage genes. And even if it does, I do not see how that resolves their problems.

Let’s be honest, Wizard. You are a bully. You are a typically suppressed individual who is motivated to get rid of accumulated stress by bullying people. You are our resident cyber-bully. You are not here to help anyone. You are here to bully people. By pretending you are trying to guide them. Or help them. This is what you do. This is your calling. You are a professional cyber-bully.

Thank you for listening.

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I cast more pearls before swine.

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You know how Nietzsche’s pearls are often called “aphorisms”? And how Satyr’s pearls are often call “satyricisms”? Well, I think your pearls should be called “narcissisms”.

You are too defensive of your own wisdom. Not a good thing. You come here and “shave your own so-called pearls into people’s face” and then get demoralized when they tell you you are not welcome.

You are not here to help, my friend. You are here to prove your worth. Or should I say value. That’s narcissism.

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I’m talking to you, whether your life is purposeful or a mere accident, whether you are well bred and your parents had plans and “ideas” for your existence, or not. Help you? Not necessarily, that depends on the person and the purpose, or purposelessness. I do not necessarily want to give purpose to any purposeless person, but, such a thing can occur. Because purpose is passed from one person to another. It may not be help, it maybe a hindrance. Great wisdom is purposeful, yet, a curse, a hindrance.

To see you for what you are inside your core.

To see through you, if possible. To witness and behold any given creature’s purpose, meaning, and value of life.

I didn’t cause any number of living creatures to be enslaved, but what is enslavement, except your or their Fate and Destiny? All things are beholden to distinct paths through space, time, and life. The nature of slavery is powerlessness. Those who complain about purposelessness and meaningless lives are those who have lost all hope and faith, lost willpower, when it comes to slavery and freedom. By describing such, you locate and identify it.

Everybody is a bully when you try to open them up and see what makes them tick. Everybody is defensive when it comes to essence and purpose of life. All organisms, down to every single cell, has willpower. Energy. Fight. Aggression, to live, to survive. All life is defined by this universal force. I am no different than them, or you.

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Yes, everybody is a bully when they try to interact with others in a way that others do not approve of, which includes telling them the truth. You, on the other hand, are not even telling the truth. But even if you did, that wouldn’t justify your actions.

Let me reiterate: you are a narcissist.